In the absence of accurate information about Russia’s Yamantau Mountain base, lurid claims of alien activity have sprung up—inadvertently helping to better protect the facility’s actual secrets. The recent news broken by Ross Coulthart at NewsNation ...

Russia’s ⁠Ministry of Defence says its forces have taken full control of the Luhansk region in ⁠eastern Ukraine, suggesting they have wrested control of an area that had remained ⁠beyond their grasp since the beginning of their 2022 invasion.

According to RM’s measurements using ISW data, from April 1, 2025, to March 31, 2026, Russia captured 1,927 square miles (about half the size of Hawaii’s Big Island)—about 0.8% of Ukraine’s total territory of 233,062 square miles at the time of its independence in 1991.