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Security forces eliminated 31 Maoists in a major encounter at Indravati National Park's tiger reserve in Chhattisgarh.

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Then, one of our FPV drones made the last shot and killed him.' This gruesome episode is consistent with many other reports suggesting the North Koreans were ill-prepared for the hell they were ...

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US forces have shot down around 480 Houthi drones. The Houthis have claimed that their attacks on civilian and merchant ships are in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. After Israel and Hamas ...

Ukraine claimed on Friday that its forces carried out a pre-dawn drone attack on the Lukoil-Volgograd oil refinery in Russia's Volgograd region, which caught fire, disrupting a key fuel site used ...

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The Rostov region saw the most activity, with 25 drones shot down, followed by eight in Volgograd, six in Kursk, four in Yaroslavl, and two each in Krasnodar, Belgorod, and Voronezh. In the Rostov ...

Russia launched an attack on Ukraine using 102 Shahed-type strike drones and various decoy UAVs on the night of 30-31 January 2025. Ukrainian air defence shot down 59 of them. Ukraine's air defence, ...