Yahoo News 'Kamikaze drone' destroys Russian surveillance tower
Intelligence forces of the special unit "KRAKEN" destroyed the autonomous observation tower "Grenadier" in the Bryansk region with the help of a kamikaze drone. Source: Kraken Regiment
Intelligence forces of the special unit "KRAKEN" destroyed the autonomous observation tower "Grenadier" in the Bryansk region with the help of a kamikaze drone. Source: Kraken Regiment
During the Gulf War, the M1A1 Abrams ripped apart old Soviet-era tanks like the ones Russia keeps sending into combat in Ukraine.
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(Sputnik/Vladimir Astapkovich/Kremlin via Reuters via third party)Russia has taken Soviet-era tanks from the 1940s and 1950s out of storage for its war in Ukraine in the latest sign that the invasion is floundering, according to researchers from the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT).The weapons, T-54 tanks and either late T-54 or early T-55 tanks, are being sent on a train westward from Russia's Far East, according to photographs the CIT shared Wednesday. The trains are traveling from the 1295th
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Russia would bomb any country that detains Vladimir Putin using the International Criminal Court arrest warrant, Russia's ex-president Dmitry Medvedev has warned.
Sources suggest Russia may be running out of ammunition or they may be directing their attacks elsewhere, such as Avdiivka.
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Here's all the latest development from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Relations between China and Russia “are at their highest point in history” ,according to the communique from their two presidents in Moscow yesterday. To make the point, the briefing at the end of the two-day state visit of China’s president to Moscow stressed the countries ‘are not in a military political alliance.’ Put bluntly, Russia’s immediate need is help to fight the war in Ukraine, now in stalemate.
A Pentagon spokesperson told reporters that the US will continue to operate its surveillance drones in international airspace over the Black Sea.
Duels between submarines were rare during World War II because of the difficulty of finding and attacking another sub.
Russia is unable to deliver vital defence supplies it had committed to India's military because of the war in Ukraine, the Indian Air Force (IAF) says. New Delhi has been worried that Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 could affect military supplies from India's largest source of defence equipment.
The news comes after two Russian Su-27 fighter jets aggressively approached and then clipped an American MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Black Sea.
UK government leaders appealed Wednesday for relatives of one of the country's last black veterans of World War II to come forward after he died alone and apparently childless.Brown died alone in his flat in London at the end of last year, and appeals have gone out for any surviving relatives in Jamaica or elsewhere to attend his funeral next week.
A senior judge has called for evidence relating to allegations of unlawful activity by British armed forces in Afghanistan from anyone - including the Taliban. Sir Charles Haddon-Cave, who is chairing an independent inquiry, said his team will "do everything in our power to facilitate the receiving and hearing of evidence".
The Patriot missile system, which the soldiers are being trained for, is useful for defending population centres and critical infrastructure.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday that he visited military positions near the frontline town of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, as a Russian strike battered a residential building leaving dozens injured.At least one person was killed and 32 more injured in the block of flats in Zaporizhzhia, a city near the frontline, just before Zelensky announced his visit to the front, the mayor said.And officials announced the death toll from a separate overnight drone attack by Russia on a school south of the capital Kyiv had risen to seven, with another nine injured.During the visit to the front near Bakhmut -- the longest and bloodiest battle of Russia's invasion -- Zelensky recognised the troops had a "difficult" task."I am honoured to be here today to award our heroes. To shake hands and thank them for protecting the sovereignty of our country."Video released by Zelensky's office showed him meeting servicemen in a warehouse and handing out state decorations.Russian and Ukrainian forces have invested heavily in the battle for Bakhmut, even though analysts say the city carries little strategic value.Kyiv says the battle for the industrial town, which had a pre-war population of around 80,000 people, is key to holding back Russian forces along the entire eastern front.- 'Bestial savagery' -In a separate post, Zelensky said he also visited troops being treated for frontline injuries, and video showed him touring a hospital with doctors and greeting recovering soldiers.The Ukrainian leader visited Bakhmut late last year, just ahead of a historic trip to the United States, his first trip abroad since the start of Russia's invasion last February.But Russian forces have posted steady gains towards capturing Bakhmut in the months since.An aide to the Russian-appointed head of the eastern Donetsk region in Ukraine said Wednesday that Russian forces were close to cutting off Ukraine road links to the city."We can say that the city is practically blocked," the aide, Yan Gagin, said in comments carried by Russian news agencies.Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, which claims to be spearheading Moscow's offensive for the town, said this week that his forces control some 70 percent of Bakhmut.Zelensky also distributed images of the strike on Zaporizhzhia, showing a projectile smashing into the residential building and a large plume of black smoke rising over a building.The emergency services said 32 people were injured by the Russian missile that hit two nine-story buildings.Zelensky described the attack as "bestial savagery" and said Russia was seeking "to destroy our cities, our state, our people".- 'Serious' escalation -Artem Mayboroda, a 16-year-old resident, told AFP he began dressing when the strikes shook his sixth-floor apartment."Everything began to crumble and fall, and then I had to somehow go downstairs. I had to kick down one door with my foot and went down through the ruins. There is no apartment, no balcony, nothing. The fire reached our apartment," he said. That attack came hours after seven people were left dead in a Russian drone attack on a school about 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of Kyiv.An ambulance driver called to the scene was among those killed, the office of Ukraine's prosecutor general said.And meanwhile Moscow said it had "repelled" a Ukrainian drone attack on the port of Sevastopol in the Crimean peninsula that was annexed by Russia in 2014.The peninsula, seized by Russia from Ukraine in 2014, is home to Moscow's Black Sea Fleet and has been hit by a series of drone attacks since Russia invaded Ukraine.Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said two women, who shot down two of the three drones, would be awarded and given cash bonuses.Also in Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned Britain against supplying Ukraine with armour-piercing ammunition containing depleted uranium."This is a step towards a further escalation, and a serious one at that," Lavrov said.Britain's junior defence minister Annabel Goldie indicated this week that London would be providing the munitions alongside a squadron of Challenger 2 battle tanks to Ukraine.bur/yad
STORY: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited his troops near the frontline city of Bakhmut on Wednesday, the ongoing battle for the city being one of the bloodiest of the war.Footage released by the president's office shows him handing out medals and visiting wounded in the Donetsk region, where Bakhmut is located. He's telling the troops that they're there to protect the land for their children and later, in the hospital, "good luck, boys."Zelenskiy's visit came after a swarm of Russian drones hit Ukrainian cities including the capital overnight, said by Ukraine's military to include Iranian-built suicide drones.And in a tweet, Zelenskiy apparently referenced Chinese President Xi Jinping's recent visit to Moscow, saying: Every time someone tries to hear the word 'peace' in Moscow, another order is given there for such criminal strikes."And, video obtained by Reuters shows the moment a missile hits apartments in the city of Zaporizhzhia the following morning. Reuters verified the footage and witnessed the afternmath. Local authorities there say at least one person was killed and 25 wounded.Meanwhile, the British government is rejecting accusations from Moscow that ammunition it has given Ukraine made from depleted uranium risks raising the nuclear stakes in the war.Depleted uranium shells are used by many militaries including Russia to penetrate armor such as tanks. The UK doesn't consider it nuclear armament, but the dust it creates does pose a risk to people wherever the shells land after being fired.