Ukraine is claiming that it may have destroyed Vladimir Putin’s special ‘parade boat’ which he uses to inspect his naval fleets (Putin pictured on board the Raptor-class patrol vessel in St Petersburg in 2020) Ukraine has destroyed Vladimir Putin’s special ‘parade boat’ which he uses to inspect his naval fleets, its forces have claimed. A white-coloured Raptor-class... 

Ukraine may have shot another Russian warship overnight with an MP saying one of Putin’s state-of-the-art frigates is ‘in trouble’ in the Black Sea. Oleksiy Goncharenko, head of the council of Odesa which houses Ukraine’s largest naval base, identified the vessel on his Telegram channel this morning as the Admiral Makarov – a $500million frigate that was only commissioned... 

It’s almost the New Year, and while 2016 doesn’t come coated with the same doomsday paranoia that accompanied 2012, it never hurts to be prepared. A new year means another 365 days (in 2016’s case, 366) which, if you are inclined to be fatalistic, could lead to humanity’s doom. In the event of a catastrophic meteor collision, suffocating nuclear winter, or solar storm capable of knocking...