ukraine war

Nuclear threats by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov ‘should not be taken seriously,’ says Ukrainian president

Russian leader says decision to partially mobilize was ‘fully adequate to the threats we face’

Russia is looking to accept payments in UAE dirhams for oil exports to some Indian customers, as the latest efforts by Moscow to bypass western sanctions and to move away from the US dollar, reports Reuters today, citing three sources. An invoice seen by the news agency purportedly shows the bill for supplying oil to […]

Russia claims to have used an advanced electromagnetic weapon for the first time to neutralize Ukrainian drones. The development comes as Moscow’s invading forces continue to carry out offensives in Kyiv and neighboring cities. According to a report by the state-run TASS News Agency, the weapon is the Stupor anti-drone system, which cuts the connection […]

Ukraine has deployed the Harpoon anti-ship missile system provided by Denmark last month, Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov announced last week. Ukraine has fielded the land-based version of the Boeing system to strengthen its coastal defense, as it currently relies on the domestically-produced Neptune anti-ship missile. The Neptune is a Soviet-era system reportedly copied from the […]

Researchers believe use of sonars and constant underwater noise caused by military activities may explain rise in deaths

President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Monday that Russia would respond if NATO began to bolster the military infrastructure of Sweden and Finland which have both decided to join the US military alliance after the invasion of Ukraine. Putin, Russia’s paramount leader since the last day of 1999, has repeatedly cited the post-Soviet enlargement […]

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

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 […]

WASHINGTON: The US says it shared intelligence with Ukraine about the location of the Russian missile cruiser Moskva prior to the strike that sank the warship, an incident that was a high-profile failure for Russia’s military. An American official said Thursday that Ukraine alone decided to target and sink the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea […]