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The Irish Sun
22-04-2025
- The Irish Sun
The European resort sunshine spot with year-round good weather and spa city, €1.80 pints and Ryanair flights from €25
IF you're looking for a relaxing getaway this summer, look no further than Slovakia. Located in the Trnava Region in the western part of the country is a gorgeous spa town. 8 Spa city in Piestany Credit: Alamy 8 Travertine lake with hot thermal water in spa city Credit: Alamy 8 The area is a hotspot in Slovakia Credit: Alamy The thermal resort of Piešťany is highly regarded as one of the hotspots in It's the most visited thermal resort in the country, and has a stunning picturesque landscape. Its location allows for ideal natural conditions for year-round recreation. And it's temperate climate means that the READ MORE IN TRAVEL In the resort part of the town, mineral water springs and healing mud deposits are located on the streets. It is home to many prestigious hotels and spas, with gorgeous architecture. There's a Thermal Park with stunning gardens, paths, and outdoor thermal swimming pools. Here you can find a stunning park, and a lake with water lilies which is home to different fish including a rare African Victoria Regia. Most read in City If you're looking for a And for history buffs, there is a range of museums to spend time in. VARIETY OF MUSEUMS You can head to Winterova Street, which is the main historical zone in the town. Visit the Museum of Military History, which is housed in the old military building at Piestany airport. Opened in 2004, it focuses on aircraft and vehicles used in the Czechoslovak army between 1945 and 1992. It has almost 10,000 items on show, including MiG-29s, MiG-21s, MiG-23s, different Sukhoi aircrafts along with T-34, T-55 and T-72 tanks. The Balneological Museum is the largest and most popular in the town, and has been open since 1928. The building is made in a Classical style with walkways and picturesque statues. Inside, you can see samples of the flora and fauna of the area, folk life, clothing and embroidery, archaeological finds and the reconstruction of the old peasant house of Piestany. ARTISTIC BRIDGE Here, you can also see an exhibition on German composer Ludwig van Beethoven, who visited the resort. Or head to see Colonnade Bridge, which reaches over the Vah river, connecting the town to the Spa Island. It is the longest covered bridge in Slovakia and has many precious art objects. The Eko Park features many zoo animals, restaurants and activities - making it the perfect day out for the little ones. On the slope of the mountains in the resort is Povazhsky Inovec, a curious karst cave - a recognized natural monument. Many archaeological discoveries were made inside the cave, which showed traces of ancient settlements. Ryanair offers flights to Bratislava from €25, which takes approximately two hours and 40 minutes. From here, it's a 50 minute journey to the town. 8 The Colonnade bridge to spa island Credit: Alamy 8 The place is perfect for relaxing Credit: Alamy 8 Visitors can get a pint from €1.80 Credit: Alamy 8 The year-round good weather allows for recreation at any time Credit: Alamy 8 There are a number of prestigious hotels and spas Credit: Alamy
Forbes
09-04-2025
- Politics
- Forbes
Busting A Russian Bunker, A Ukrainian Jet Buried An Artillery Staff
The Ukrainian attack on the Russian command bunker on April 7. Lobbing a precision-guided bomb from potentially tens of miles away, a Ukrainian air force fighter—possibly an upgraded Mikoyan MiG-29—hammered a Russian bunker in southern Ukraine's Kherson Oblast on Monday. As many as 30 Russians from the command staff of the 81st Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment died, according to the Ukrainian general staff in Kyiv. In the aftermath of the daylight raid, a Ukrainian drone observed the survivors of the attack digging through the rubble with their hands. It was at least the second bunker-busting raid the Ukrainian air force has conducted in recent days. On March 31, one of the supersonic MiG-29s hurled a boutique, American-made GBU-62 glide bomb at a former Soviet air-defense bunker—also in Kherson—that was occupied by a Russian command group. A successful attack on a command bunker 'minuses the high-ranking officer corps along with equipment,' one Ukrainian blogger explained. 'Such strikes deprive enemy forces of clear control, and also significantly demoralize the military unit.' It's not for no reason the Ukrainian air force went after the 81st Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment's command bunker. The regiment, part of the 70th Motorized Rifle Division—itself part of the 18th Combined Arms Army—lends critical heavy firepower to Russian forces on the left bank of the wide Dnipro River threading through Kherson. A Russian command bunker explodes on March 31. Twenty-eight months after a swift Ukrainian offensive liberated much of Kherson, Russian troops may be plotting a new offensive of their own. When NPR visited a Ukrainian artillery battery on the right bank of the Dnipro recently, the Ukrainian gunners worried aloud about possible Russian mobilization in the area. One gunner claimed he welcomed a Russian attack across the Dnipro. 'We look forward to the Russians trying to attack us,' he told NPR. 'It would give us a chance to destroy more of them.' But Ukrainian troops are thin on the ground in Kherson as the general staff in Kyiv concentrates its best heavy forces in the east, where the Ukrainians are finally reversing some recent gains by increasingly weary Russian field armies. The Ukrainian marine corps' 34th, 39th and 40th Coastal Defense Brigades—new units largely equipped with light vehicles that are suitable for operations on muddy terrain—anchor Ukrainian defenses in Kherson. But they're outnumbered by a dozen or more Russian regiments and brigades. Blowing up command bunkers and burying the officers in the rubble can offset the Russians' manpower advantage—by depriving that manpower of leadership.
Yahoo
25-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Poland prepares 46th package of military aid to Ukraine worth €200 million
Polish Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz has said that Poland is preparing the 46th package of military assistance to Ukraine for €200 million. Source: Kosiniak-Kamysz on Tuesday, 25 February, at the opening of a conference in the Senate on the occasion of the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, as reported by Interia TV channel Details: Kosiniak-Kamysz noted that the country's aid to Ukraine "is sometimes more than some European countries have donated during the entire war". "This is the 46th contribution, and we will continue to help, I would like to say that. We will train the Ukrainian military, and we have fulfilled this mission. Out of 80-90,000 soldiers trained by the EU countries, Poland has trained about a third – 28,000 soldiers. We are ready to continue training on our territory. We are a leader in this area," he stressed. Kosiniak-Kamysz stressed that Poland "is a leader of assistance" when it comes to military support for Kyiv. "I remember those meetings of the National Security Council, I was in the opposition at the time, but there was a commonality of action between the opposition and the government. And no one had any doubts that the equipment should be given. When some people took their time and were thinking about what to give and looked at their warehouses, tanks, heavy equipment and ammunition were already coming from Poland. We gave everything we could," he said. Background: In July 2024, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that Poland might consider giving Ukraine additional Soviet-model fighter jets if it could find a replacement for them together with its allies. Kosiniak-Kamysz later rejected Zelenskyy's calls to speed up the delivery of MiG-29s to Ukraine, citing the same argument. Polish Chargé d'Affaires to Ukraine Piotr Łukasiewicz said that MiGs could be transferred to Ukraine if Poland "filled the gaps" created by the supply of these aircraft to Kyiv. In the autumn, the Ukrainian side repeatedly called on Poland to give it Soviet-made MiG-29 fighters, but Warsaw explained that it could not do so in order not to weaken its own defence. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
