invasion
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Ratcliffe also discussed re-energizing talks with Ukraine to end Russia’s invasion, U.S. and European officials said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Koval was born and raised in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital city, and her father is a drone operator fighting against Russia’s four-year invasion of the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Even though “war” is somewhat metaphorical here, it has always been waged like one, with military-grade equipment used to police neighborhoods, support clandestine spying operations and aid in the invasion of cities.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026
Since the full-scale invasion, even more territory has been subjected to the same.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Whispers of a secret invasion force were getting louder, a reporter pointed out.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
Sequoia’s Mineral King Valley has become such a hot spot for marmot car invasions that the National Park Service warns “You Are Entering Marmot Country.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Castro is remembered by supporters as having guided Cuba through multiple crises -- US-backed invasions, embargoes, assassination plots and the intense hardship caused by the collapse of Cuba's main ally and benefactor, the Soviet Union.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion in 2022, following his covert invasions of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and eastern regions in 2014, Russian forces have captured roughly 12% of Ukraine’s territory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
Kagan insists that the Fourth Amendment cannot be defeated by slicing invasions of privacy into pieces small enough to appear constitutionally insignificant.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
One of the mounds at Cahokia is believe to be the largest earthwork in the Americas to have been built before the European invasions.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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