US official says Biden and Xi have reached agreements to curb illicit fentanyl production, reopen military ties
WOODSIDE, Calif. (AP) — US official says Biden and Xi have reached agreements to curb illicit fentanyl production, reopen military ties.
WOODSIDE, Calif. (AP) — US official says Biden and Xi have reached agreements to curb illicit fentanyl production, reopen military ties.
One Rosgvardia (Russian National Guard) soldier has been confirmed dead and two other injured after an explosion at a military training range in Ryazan Oblast, Russia's Investigative Committee (IC) reported via Telegram on Dec. 7.
The pro-Ukrainian Atesh partisan movement in Crimea has reported that it uncovered a “hidden” Russian military headquarters in the occupied Crimean city of Yevpatoriya, sharing photos and videos of the discovery on Telegram on Dec. 6.
A video of a pleasant Christmas “greeting" from Ukraine to Russia has been circulating on social media, showing a combat helicopter piloted by "St. Nicholas the Wonderworker" firing a salvo of rockets at the enemy.
The Russian Su-24M was readying to bombard Odesa when it was shot down by an antiaircraft missile near Snake Island, Ukraine said.
Russia is accused of killing its soldiers who try to surrender. Ukrainian officials now say it's using drones to kill wounded to stop it happening.
Chinese warships have docked for the first time at Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base, which is undergoing a Chinese-funded upgrade that has drawn concerns from the United States over its potential role in expanding China’s overseas military footprint.
The U.S. Defense Department, in collaboration with industry partners, has supplied Ukraine with technologies for the production of FrankenSAM hybrid air defense system components, the White House stated in a press release on Dec. 6.
The Chinese military is escalating its slow-motion invasion of the South China Sea, including large parts of the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone. And that’s having some unintended consequences for the Chinese Communist Party.
The mother of a Ukrainian soldier executed by his Russian captors came face-to-face with him again when his life-like statue was unveiled on Wednesday.
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European Union countries have placed orders for only 60,000 artillery shells under an EU scheme to help get 1 million rounds of ammunition to Ukraine by next spring, according to people familiar with the figures. The scheme was a centrepiece of an EU initiative to ramp up the supply of vital 155mm artillery shells to Ukraine, allowing countries to place orders with industry through contracts negotiated by the bloc's European Defence Agency (EDA). The broader initiative, launched in March, offered various schemes to get 1 million shells and missiles to Ukraine within a year for the war against Russia's invasion.
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Ukraine's latest list of U.S. weapons it says it needs to fight the Russian military includes sophisticated air defense systems, F-18 "Hornet" fighter jets, drones, Apache and Blackhawk helicopters, according to documents seen by Reuters. Officials from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense presented a "list of armaments to meet the needs of defense forces of Ukraine" during a closed-door session of a conference in Washington on Wednesday attended by government officials and defense industry executives. The comprehensive list included weapons Ukraine already has in stock like Abrams tanks and 155 millimeter artillery, as well some weaponry such as F-16s, drones and long-range ATACMS missiles that it has asked for in the past.
The Day of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Dec. 6 is a double holiday, which is marked in Ukraine both on the anniversary of the adoption of the law on the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and in honor of the events of 1919, when the first independent Ukrainian state led an ultimately unsuccessful struggle against Bolshevik Russia.
Russia’s got a big new nuclear-powered submarine armed with long-range hypersonic missiles.
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops battled Hamas militants Wednesday in the center of the Gaza Strip's second-largest city, the military said. The ground offensive has sent tens of thousands of Palestinians fleeing to the territory's southernmost edge and prevented aid groups from delivering food, water and other supplies. Two months into the war, Israel's offensive into southern Gaza was bringing to Khan Younis the same fierce urban fighting and intensified bombardment that obliterated muc
A renegade Ukrainian lawmaker who fled to Russia shortly after Moscow's invasion was found dead on Wednesday near Moscow. The Ukrainian military intelligence lauded the killing, warning that other “traitors of Ukraine” would share the same fate. Illia Kyva, 46, a former member of Ukraine's parliament who had called for Kyiv to surrender when Russian troops invaded the country in February 2022, was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head in a cottage village near Moscow.
When the U.S. military took the extraordinary step of grounding its entire fleet of V-22 Ospreys this week, it wasn’t reacting just to the recent deadly crash of the aircraft off the coast of Japan. The Osprey takes off and lands like a helicopter but can tilt its propellers horizontally to fly like an airplane. The U.S. Marine Corps, which operates the vast majority of the Ospreys in service, calls it a “game-changing assault support platform."
The situation at the front raises many questions, namely what will happen next and whether the war has really reached a stalemate. More and more Western media and analysts say the counteroffensive has fizzled out and Ukraine needs a major shift in strategy to get a second wind.
Charities and NGOs supplying military aid to Ukraine's armed forces are facing delays of several weeks to critical supplies of drones, electronics and pickup trucks due to border protests by Polish truckers, three industry sources told Reuters. Thousands of trucks carrying commercial goods have been backed up for weeks at Poland's border crossings with Ukraine because of the protests, which began on Nov. 6. Kyiv says the volume of wartime traffic makes a truck permit system impracticable.