Ukraine blindsided Moscow by pouring thousands of troops into the western Russian region of Kursk last week. The surprise operation has given Ukraine its biggest battlefield gains since 2022 after months on the back foot. Kyiv’s account jarred with the picture painted by Russia where Major General Apti Alaudinov said Ukraine’s troops had been halted. […]
“The actions of the Ukrainian army pose a direct threat” to the Kursk nuclear power plant in western Russia near the Ukraine border, state news agencies cited Rosatom as saying, adding: “At the moment there is a real danger of strikes and provocations by the Ukrainian army.” Moscow has launched a “counter-terror operation” in three […]
“Two Ukrainian missiles were shot down by air defence systems in the Kursk region”, regional governor Alexei Smirnov wrote on Telegram’s social media channel, adding that three drones were also destroyed. On Tuesday, Moscow’s defence ministry said it had rushed its troops and aviation units to the border in Kursk after a morning raid by […]
F-16s, built by Lockheed Martin(LMT.N), opened a new tab and have been on Ukraine’s wish list for a long time because of their destructive power and global availability. The fighter jet has a 20mm cannon and can carry bombs, rockets, and missiles. “F-16s in Ukraine. Another impossible thing turned out to be possible,” Lithuanian Foreign […]
Ukraine hopes a rollout of AI-enabled drones across the front line will help it overcome increasing signal jamming by the Russians as well as enable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to work in larger groups. AI drone development in Ukraine is broadly split between visual systems helping identify targets and fly drones into them, terrain mapping […]
A Russian missile landed near an administrative building and a bus stop in the town of Myrnohrad, northwest of the Russian-held city of Donetsk, killing four people and injuring 10. Donetsk region Governor Vadym Filashkin posted images from the impact sites showing badly damaged building facades and a bus with shattered windows. There was also […]
A statement said the Sukhoi-34 jet crashed in a mountainous zone and added that there was no damage on the ground. It did not specify when the accident happened. It said a technical problem appeared to have caused the crash adding that an investigation had been launched to ascertain the reason behind the accident. North […]
The meeting was their first face-to-face encounter since Zelenskiy visited Washington in December when the two pressed Republicans to overcome opposition in their party to more support for Ukraine. They will meet again next week at a G7 summit in Italy, as rich Western nations discuss using Russian assets frozen after the Ukraine invasion to […]
Putin, whose forces have been making advances in eastern Ukraine in recent months, said he did not see the conditions for the use of such weapons and requested that people stop discussing the nuclear topic. However, Putin, who leads the world’s biggest nuclear power, said he did not rule out changes to Russia’s nuclear doctrine, […]
Pakistan is among the countries from the so-called Global South invited to the Ukraine Peace Summit to be held in Switzerland on June 15 and 16. Islamabad was extended an invitation for the first time to such an international conference on the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch confirmed at the weekly briefing […]
