Ukraine conflict

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A journalist has posted a photo on social media of what experts say is the first confirmed loss in the Ukraine war of one of Russia's most advanced tanks.

Ukrainian war reporter Andriy Tsaplienko posted on Facebook an image of him standing in front of the knocked-out T-90M in the eastern Kharkiv region.

"Here's a fresh Russian tank...to improve your mood," he wrote, according to a translation. "It's hot, it's smokin' hot."

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aiwan has opted out of purchasing anti-submarine helicopters from the United States because they are too expensive, its defence minister said Thursday.

The island was planning to buy up to 12 Seahawk choppers but the deal has been scrapped as Taipei prioritises lower cost, more mobile weaponry to counter any threat from China.

Local media reported earlier this year that the sale could fall through after Washington concluded the helicopters were not the best bet for Taiwan's "asymmetric warfare" needs.

Taiwan has shifted to a "porcupine" strategy that seeks to equip the island to repel an attack from a far larger Chinese military.

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On Friday, the Armed Forces of Ukraine said it had reclaimed five areas in the Kharkiv region—Oleksandrivka, Fedorivka, Ukrainka, Shestakovo, and Peremoha—in addition to part of the Cherkaski Tyshky village.

A day earlier, Jeremy Fleming, who heads Britain's GCHQ, the U.K.'s intelligence, cyber, and security agency, said that Russian soldiers sabotaged their equipment and shot down one of their aircraft as part of their refusals to take orders from the Kremlin

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Russian oligarch Alexander Subbotin died under mysterious circumstances at the house of a shaman over the weekend, according to Russian media.

Subbotin, the former top manager of Russian energy company Lukoil, is the latest of several Russian oligarchs to die in a suspicious manner amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Subbotin joins a growing list of Russian oligarchs who have died since the invasion began at the end of February. Oligarchs have been targeted by Western sanctions, while others have spoken out against the war.

The body of Sergey Protosenya, who worked as a top manager at another Russian energy company Novatek, was found hanged in the garden of a rented villa in Spain on April 22. His wife and daughter were found dead in their beds with stab wounds. Authorities were investigating whether or not he hanged himself or if the crime scene was made to resemble a murder-suicide.

One day earlier, Vladislav Avaev, the former vice president of bank Gazprombank, was found dead in his apartment in Moscow, along with his wife and daughter. Investigators believe he shot his family before killing himself, as the apartment was locked from the inside.

Gazprom's Deputy General Director of the Unified Settlement Center (UCC) for Corporate Security, Alexander Tyulyakov was found dead in a cottage near St. Petersburg on February 25.

On March 24, Vasily Melnikov, who worked for medical firm MedStorm, was reported to have died in his apartment alongside his wife and two sons. Investigators concluded Melnikov stabbed his family before turning on himself, but a Ukrainian outlet suggested that he could have had a confrontation with a former business partner.

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