Ukraine plans to send “several dozen” combat pilots for training to fly US-manufactured F16 fighter jets, Ukrainian air force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat says. “Everything is being done to get it started as early as possible,” Ihnat told Ukrainian national television, adding that the pilots picked for training would have combat experience. “It’s not training – … [Read more…]
North Korea fired two short-range missiles off its east coast, the South Korean military said, less than an hour after Pyongyang warned of an “inevitable” response to military drills staged earlier in the day by South Korean and US troops. The latest action by North Korea came as US President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, … [Read more…]
United Nations nuclear chief Rafael Grossi has delayed a trip to the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station for security reasons as both sides reported heavy fighting in southern Ukraine. Grossi had been expected to visit the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) in southern Ukraine on Wednesday following talks in Kyiv on Tuesday but Ukrainian Energy … [Read more…]
An Israeli soldier who killed a Palestinian toddler in a car two weeks ago thought he was shooting at gunmen, the army says, blaming a mix-up caused by another soldier firing in the air in violation of regulations. Two-year-old Mohammad al-Tamimi suffered a fatal head wound in the June 1 shooting near Ramallah in the … [Read more…]
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says his country has started taking delivery of Russian tactical nuclear weapons – some of which he says are three times more powerful than the atomic bombs the US dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The deployment is Moscow’s first move of such warheads – shorter-range, less powerful nuclear weapons … [Read more…]
Kyiv’s troops say they had recaptured a village from Russian forces in Ukraine’s southeast, the first liberated settlement they have claimed since launching a counterattack this week. Soldiers hoisted the Ukrainian flag at a bombed-out building in an unverified video published by Ukraine’s 68th Jaeger Brigade, which identified the settlement as Blahodatne in Donetsk region. … [Read more…]
Russia is still not satisfied with how a Black Sea grain deal is being implemented, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin said after meeting senior UN trade officials a day earlier, the TASS news agency reports. Russia has threatened to walk away from the grain deal on July 17 if demands to improve its own food … [Read more…]
Russia has reported heavy fighting along the front in southern Ukraine, where bloggers described the first sightings of German and US armour, signalling that Ukraine’s long-anticipated counterattack is under way. With virtually no independent reporting from the front lines and officials in Kyiv saying little, it was impossible to assess whether Ukraine was penetrating Russian … [Read more…]
Ukrainians have abandoned inundated homes as floods crested across a swathe of the south after the destruction of a huge hydro-electric dam on front lines between Russian and Ukrainian forces, with their presidents trading blame for the disaster. Residents slogged through flooded streets carrying children on their shoulders, dogs in their arms and belongings in … [Read more…]
Sudan’s army has been battling to defend a military industrial complex believed to contain large stocks of weapons and ammunition in southern Khartoum, close to fuel and gas depots that are at risk of exploding, residents say. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), in the eighth week of a power struggle with the army, had … [Read more…]