SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says it’ll suspend a peace deal with North Korea to punish it for the trash-carrying balloon launches.
Ukraine is now able to strike military targets in Russia using Western-supplied weapons. One commander said Ukraine had destroyed columns of troops.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. and Russian defense chiefs spoke by telephone on Tuesday in rare communication between the two powers and with tensions rising after Moscow blamed Washington for a deadly Ukraine attack over the weekend on the Russian-annexed Crimea. The two sides gave widely divergent accounts of the conversation - the first one between U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Russia's new Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, who replaced Sergei Shoigu in May.
The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the American ambassador on Monday to protest what it says was the use of U.S.-made advanced missiles in a Ukrainian attack on Russian-annexed Crimea that reportedly killed four people and wounded more than 150. Washington “has effectively become a party” to the war on Ukraine’s side, the ministry said in a statement, adding, “Retaliatory measures will certainly follow.” The Associated Press could not independently verify Russia's claims about the missiles used.
Warrants come as Russia has again stepped up its long-range assault on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure
A British Army soldier destroyed a £35,000 shower block when he ploughed into it in his car following a race around the military base with a colleague, a court martial heard.
Two people jumped to their deaths from the top floors of a burning building linked to the production of Russian weaponry, and at least six others have died in the fire, state-owned Tass news agency reported.
Failure of latest show of force comes after North Korea struck a mutual defence treaty with Russia
Both Russia and Ukraine have relied on electronic warfare tools and tactics to defeat weapons like drones and precision-guided munitions.
A defence spokesperson said Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has sparked an impulse among Poles to defend their country.
Delhi has neither confirmed nor denied whether it is supplying weapons to Israel amid its war in Gaza
The state security service (SBU) said last month that it had caught two guard service colonels accused of cooperating with Russia to plot the assassination of the Ukrainian president, military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov and other officials
With assault rifles laid out before them, the young Polish men and women kneel on the grass and follow orders on how to pack their survival kits. Many at the training in eastern Poland are new high school graduates, with the men's heads freshly shaven and the women's hair tied back. The military introduced the program in a search for recruits as Poland expands its 198,000-member army in the face of renewed Russian aggression in the region, including neighboring Ukraine.
80 Filipino soldiers were given medals after a clash last week with China's coast guard, who came at them with weapons, according to the Philippines.
Senior Biden administration officials on Monday conveyed a mixed message about negotiations with Beijing to ban the use of artificial intelligence in both American and Chinese nuclear arsenals. The US had sought "a strategic dialogue with China for years on nuclear matters", according to US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, who depicted Beijing as reluctant to proceed with negotiations to limit its arsenal. That said, China "may be prepared to talk about other issues around nuclear issues
9,000 troops from 20 NATO countries conducted extensive military exercises in the Baltic Sea region, with Sweden participating as a full NATO member for the first time.
I for one will not be celebrating Julian Assange’s plea deal. Assange is no hero to me and to many other veterans in this country, and the US, who fought in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere to protect our democracy. He is but a Left-wing dupe who damaged our national security and that of our allies, putting lives at risk.
As Russia reels from a spate of deadly shootings by armed extremists for the second time in just over three months, questions have swirled over how the Kremlin's powerful security forces failed to prevent the attacks.Sunday's attacks came just three months after Islamic State (IS) group fighters killed more than 140 people in the Crocus concert hall outside Moscow, the deadliest attack in Russia for almost 20 years.
It took more than 40 years, but I finally lived my “Top Gun” dream, in the back seat of a South Korean Air Force F-4 Phantom.
Zelenskiy, speaking in his nightly video address, gave no reason for the dismissal. Sodol's removal, one of a series of personnel changes, followed publication of a letter by the head of Ukraine's revered Azov regiment, Bohdan Krotevych, in which he alleged that Sodol's actions had led to serious military setbacks.
Violent extremist groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group are growing in size and influence across Africa, fueling worries that as they improve their tactics they could attack the U.S. or Western allies. U.S. defense and military officials described the threats and their concerns about growing instability in Africa, where a number of coups have put ruling juntas in control, leading to the ouster of American troops and a decline in U.S. intelligence gathering.
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