WATCH: Improvised Ukrainian drone unit in Russia-seized Bakhmut
One of the soldiers, who goes by the call-sign "Butcher", says the unit is having to improvise to fill the gap left by lack of shells and artillery.
One of the soldiers, who goes by the call-sign "Butcher", says the unit is having to improvise to fill the gap left by lack of shells and artillery.
For a country sharing a long and disputed maritime border with China, The Philippines was seriously lacking in military force for protecting that border.
Ukrainian forces have launched "co-ordinated strikes" against an airbase in southern Russia that is used to unleash glide bomb attacks on Ukraine, a military source has said. The operation, which took place overnight on Saturday, had "significantly reduced" Moscow's ability to use glide bombs against frontline Ukrainian positions, according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The Ukrainian military source claimed this would "seriously impact" a Russian attempt to advance on the battleground town of Chasiv Yar, in the east of Ukraine.
The helicopter crash in which Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and other officials were killed is likely to reverberate across the Middle East, where Iran’s influence runs wide and deep. Tensions have never been higher than they were last month, when Iran under Raisi and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei launched hundreds of drones and ballistic missiles at Israel in response to an airstrike on an Iranian Consulate in Syria that killed two Iranian generals and five officers.
Plans for a mass parachute drop as part of the 80th anniversary events have been scaled back.
Overnight on Saturday, Ukraine launched a drone attack on Russia's Kushchyovskaya air base in an effort to hamper glide bomb attacks, sources said.
Fraudsters have stolen almost £1 billion from the Ministry of Defence since 2010, official figures show.
The defence secretary said some Nato members were not spending enough on their military.
One of Charles de Gaulle’s most famous rhetorical flourishes was that “France has no friends, only interests”. His dogged pursuit of those interests, at the expense of the Entente Cordiale, regularly brought him into conflict with British prime ministers – whether over the Common Market or Nato. He believed that was a price worth paying: protecting France’s power and autonomy was a duty he was bound to elevate above all else.
Last week Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, announced that the UK’s military spending would rise to 2.5 per cent of the national income by 2030. He also stressed that the UK was “not on the brink of war” but claimed that the extra money would put the country’s defence industry “on a war footing”. Similarly, the old Latin phrase says: Si vis pacem, para bellum, which translates to: If you want peace, prepare for war. The new Hungarian approach – which is very topical in view
Poland is investing almost £2 billion to step up security on its eastern border, its prime minister announced on Saturday, in a bid to defend itself against what it describes as a growing threat from Russia and Belarus.
Ukraine’s struggle to fend off Russia’s massive offensive in the Kharkiv region has underscored a pressing issue that Kyiv has long tried to overturn: a ban on firing U.S. weapons to hit inside of Russia. Russia launched its Kharkiv offensive from the neighboring Belgorod region, and some Ukrainian officials are arguing that the attack could…
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A mobilisation law took effect on Saturday as Kyiv struggles to recruit troops amid a new Russian offensive threatening Kharkiv, the second-largest city.
A prosecutor at the International Criminal Court has applied for arrest warrants to be issued for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar over alleged war crimes. Prosecutor Karim AA Khan KC is also seeking arrest warrants for Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant - and other top Hamas leaders Mohammed Diab Ibrahim al Masri, more commonly known as Deif (commander-in-Chief of the military wing of Hamas, known as the al Qassam Brigades), and Ismail Haniyeh (head of Hamas's political bureau).
A powerful ethnic armed group fighting Myanmar’s military government in the country’s western state of Rakhine claimed Saturday to have seized a town near the border with Bangladesh, marking the latest in a series of victories for foes of the country’s military government. Members of the state’s Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority, targets of deadly army-directed violence in 2017, appear to have been the main victims of fighting in the town of Buthidaung, where the Arakan Army claims to have chased out forces of the military government. Khaing Thukha, a spokesperson for the Arakan Army, told The Associated Press by text message from an undisclosed location that his group had seized Buthidaung after capturing all the military’s outposts there.
The Israeli army said Saturday that troops had retrieved the body of hostage Ron Benjamin from the war-torn Gaza Strip after he was "murdered" during the October 7 Hamas attack.Benjamin was "murdered during the October 7th massacre at the Mefalsim intersection, and his body was abducted to Gaza by Hamas militants", the military said in a separate statement.
Ron Binyamin was seized during the October 7 attack.
At least 11 people were reported killed in attacks in Ukraine’s war-ravaged northeast on Sunday as Russia pushed ahead with its renewed offensive. In the Kharkiv region, the focus of the offensive, the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office said six people were killed and 27 wounded in a Russian strike on the outskirts of the regional capital, also called Kharkiv. Regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said that five more people were killed and nine wounded in an attack on the region’s Kupiansk district, southeast of the regional capital.
Taiwan’s new President Lai Ching-te in his inauguration speech has urged China to stop its military intimidation against the self-governed island Beijing claims as its own territory. “Fellow compatriots, we have the ideal of pursuing peace, but we must not have illusions," Lai said after being sworn into office. "As China has not yet given up its use of force to invade Taiwan, we should understand that even if we fully accept China’s proposition and give up our sovereignty, China’s attempt to an