Ukraine says troops defending Kharkiv have reached Russian border
Ukraine said troops defending Kharkiv had repelled Russian forces and advanced as far as the border with Russia
DEFENCE
Successful tests of Korean DV27K engine into the Turkish Altay MBT
ANKARA— Turkey is currently conducting field tests on its main Altay battle tank with an integrated South Korean Doosan DV27K engine. Turkish Defense Industry President Ismail Demir said in an interview that after the integration of the power supply into the Altay tank prototype and ongoing tests, the results were “very good”. “We have now […]
Israeli ‘aggression’ targeted Syria’s Quneitra
Syrian state news agency SANA reported early on Wednesday that an act of “Israeli aggression” was carried out with missiles over the vicinity of the Quneitra governate’s countryside in southern Syria. The missile attack resulted in only physical damage, SANA added. The Israeli military declined to comment. For several years, Israel has been mounting attacks […]
China says warned U.S. warship as it transited Taiwan Strait
SHANGHAI/TAIPEI, May 11 (Reuters) – China’s military said on Wednesday that it had monitored and warned a U.S. warship that had sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait, a mission that happened shortly after China carried out drills near the island. The U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet said the guided-missile cruiser USS Port Royal conducted a “routine” […]
Ukrainian TB2 struck Russian Mi-8 just as troops are disembarking
KYIV— Ukraine’s Bayraktar TB2 continues to inflict serious damage on Russia’s armed forces. A video taken by a drone showing a Russian helicopter landing appeared on social media. The source claims that this is a military Russian Mil Mi-8 medium twin-turbine helicopter. Photo credit: TASS Ukraine’s Bayraktr TB2 is waiting, aiming, and as troops descend […]
Future F-35’s AIM-132 Block 6 missile has new British-built seeker
LONDON— Successful tests of the advanced short-range air-to-air missile [ASRAAM], also known by its United States designation AIM-132, have been carried out and the missile has thus reached its initial operational capability. This means that this year the British Eurofighter Typhoon fighters will be armed with this missile, and within two years the American F-35 […]
Russia pounds Odesa as civilian bodies uncovered elsewhere
Strikes came the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin marked his country’s biggest patriotic holiday without being able to boast of major new battlefield successes
Putin says Donbass volunteers fighting for Motherland
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that troops and volunteers fighting in the eastern Ukrainian Donbass region were fighting for their Motherland. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that troops and volunteers fighting in the eastern Ukrainian Donbass region were fighting for their Motherland. “You are fighting for your Motherland, its future,” he […]
Zelenskyy says 60 civilians dead in Ukraine school after Russian bombing
Sixty civilians died in Russia’s bombing of a school in Ukraine’s Lugansk region this weekend, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday. “Just yesterday in the village of Bilohorivka, Lugansk region, a Russian bomb killed 60 people. Civilians. They were sheltering from shelling in a regular school which was hit by a Russian air strike,” Zelenskyy […]
Russia hits US-supplied weapons at railway station in Ukraine
Russia’s defense ministry said on Sunday it destroyed weapons and military equipment supplied by the US and other Western countries at a railway station near the Ukrainian town of Soledar, state news agency TASS reported. Russian air force used “high-precision air-launched missiles” in the strike, Russian defense ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said. He […]