US fighter jets intercepted Russian and Chinese bombers off the coast of Alaska on Wednesday. NORAD detected the aircraft after they entered international airspace in what is known as the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). It is the first time Russian and Chinese aircraft have jointly entered the ADIZ. NORAD said their presence was 'not seen as a threat'.
The remotely controlled gun turrets follow a trend in this war, in which remotely operated unmanned systems are ever-present and wildly destructive.
Russian drones breached the airspace of two Nato members in less than 24 hours, sparking calls for a joint response from the Western military alliance.
A growing army of Russian expats want to take back Russia. Can they succeed?
The remains of World War II US Army soldier William E Calkins returned to his home state of Oregon on September 6, more than 80 years after his death, footage here shows.The Oregon Army National Guard conducted a “planeside dignified transfer” for Calkins at Portland International Airport.Calkins’s body was identified in April using “dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence,” according to the Department of Defense.The 20-year-old Oregon native was captured as a prisoner of war by Japanese forces and died on November 1, 1942, the department said.Calkins is due to be buried in Fir Lawn Memorial Park, Hillsboro, on September 13. Credit: DVIDS via Storyful
The Army wants longer-range artillery, but it's looking more at the round than new cannons.
A wave of Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia overnight killed a woman near Moscow, Russian officials said on Tuesday, the first time someone has been killed in a Ukrainian attack near the capital since Russia's military offensive began in 2022.Ukraine has targeted Moscow and the surrounding region several times with drones since the start of Russia's Ukraine offensive in February 2022.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said that a Russian airstrike destroyed a Ukrainian command post and killed 80 people in Hrushivka, in the Kharkiv region.Footage released on Monday, September 9, to Telegram shows a strike on buildings in Hrushivka. The buildings are seen razed to the ground after the strike.The footage also shows white vehicles arriving in the area, which the Russian Ministry described as “Ukrainian Armed Forces evacuation vehicles.”The Russian Ministry of Defense said that 80 people were killed in the strike, and that “8 units of equipment” were destroyed.“A decision was made to carry out an airstrike using an FAB aerial bomb with a universal planning and correction module at the moment of the largest concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel,” it said.According to Russian Telegram channels, the Ukrainian command post was used to distribute “forces and resources” in Kupiansk, Petropalovka, Kucherovka, Podolah, Kurylivka, and Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi. Credit: Russian Ministry of Defense via Storyful
Russia on Monday said it had captured another village on the road to the key garrison city of Pokrovsk in Ukraine’s east.
Over 140 Ukrainian drones targeted multiple Russian regions overnight, including Moscow and surrounding areas, killing at least one person and injuring eight, officials said Tuesday, in one of the biggest drone attacks on Russian soil in the 2 1/2-year war. A woman died in the town of Ramenskoye, just outside Moscow, where drones hit two multistory residential buildings and started fires, Moscow region Gov. Andrei Vorobyov said. Five residential buildings were evacuated due to falling drone debris, Vorobyov said.
Syrian media agencies say more than a dozen people were killed in the latest Israeli strike on the country
Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced the move after meeting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken for talks in London
A convoy of clearly marked armored U.N. vehicles in Gaza was encircled and held at gunpoint on Monday by Israeli forces seeking to question two of the U.N. staff, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The convoy, on its way to help with a campaign to vaccinate thousands of Palestinian children against polio, was stopped at a checkpoint connecting central and northern Gaza, U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Tuesday, because Israeli soldiers wanted to question two Palestinian staff members.
After entering 2024 in a sorry state, Ukraine has notched up a series of notable achievements, but war experts say there's still cause for concern.
CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen speaks with Ukrainian convicts recruited to fight in the war against Russia.
KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine's prosecutor general said on Tuesday that Kyiv suspected a senior Russian air force commander of ordering a missile strike on a children's hospital in central Kyiv in July that killed two people and caused extensive damage. Shortly after the announcement, Ukraine's SBU security service identified the suspect as Lieutenant General Sergei Kobylash, who it said was the commander of Russia's long-range aviation forces at the time of the attack. In March, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Kobylash, saying at that time that he was suspected of war crimes including ordering strikes on Ukraine's energy system.
The use of sanctions failed to deter Russia from invading Ukraine and failed to persuade Moscow to end it - and yet despite one of the most dramatic escalations in this conflict so far, the West is just issuing more of them, and limited ones at that. This as the war is turning in Russia's favour again, though you wouldn't believe it from the conduct of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken during his visit to London. Losing it could lose Ukraine the entire Donetz region.
A senior Ukrainian official said Monday that Western partner countries must allow Ukraine to use weapons they have supplied to strike military warehouses inside Russia because of strong suspicions Iran has provided ballistic missiles for the Kremlin’s war effort. The United States has told allies it believes Iran has sent short-range ballistic missiles to Russia for its war in Ukraine, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press at the weekend.
Ukraine's air force said on Monday it shot down six out of eight Russian-launched drones and two out of three missiles during an overnight attack over four Ukrainian regions. Russia has launched hundreds of missiles and drones to attack Ukraine in the past weeks, prompting Kyiv to reiterate to its Western allies the urgent need for air defence and long-range strike capacity to repel the attacks. On Monday, the air defence shot down aerial targets in the Kyiv region with debris causing two fires in open areas which have since been put out, the regional authorities said.
Figure is largely in addition to £7.8bn committed since Russia’s invasion, says National Audit Office report
Russian-Canadian director Anastasia Trofimova’s doc Russians at War makes its North American debut in Toronto this week, following a world premiere in Venice, amid calls from Ukrainian diplomats in Canada for the festival to pull the film. The two-hour work, for which Trofimova embedded with Russian soldiers serving in Ukraine over a period of seven …
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