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Baltic states acquire billion dollar air defence system Estonia and Latvia on Monday struck a joint deal to purchase a German-made medium-range air defence system. The two Baltic states also signed a letter of intent to participate in Germany’s European Sky Shield Initiative (ESSI), launched last year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “This is by […]

A Russian strike killed more than a dozen people, including a child, in a market near the frontline in east Ukraine, in an attack that President Volodymyr Zelensky described as “heinous evil.” State Emergency Service of Ukraine The projectiles ripped into the center of Kostiantynivka, a town of nearly 70,000 people in the Donetsk region, […]

Blinken announces $1 billion in new military aid during visit to Kyiv Parliament approves Rustem Umerov as new defense minister Russian attack on Kostiantynivka kills at least 17 people, injures 32 Romania confirms that Russian drone fragments fell on Romanian territory Ukrainian scholar Ihor Kozlovskyi who survived imprisonment in Donetsk dies at 69 U.S. State […]

Ukrainian drones are violating sacrosanct air space over the Kremlin and blasting expensive combat aircraft on the ground. So Russian air defense planners are trying to think creatively. The Pantsyr S-1 self-propelled air defence missile system (NATO name SA-22 Greyhound) is seen at the Vorobyovy Hills observation point above the Luzhniki stadium as Russian President […]

Any meeting could take place in the Pacific city of Vladivostok, which is relatively close to North Korea, and would come after Russia’s minister of defence visited Pyongyang in the summer for talks with Kim. North Korean leader could soon visit Russia to meet Vladimir Putin and sell him weapons to use in the war […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that a grain deal that allowed Ukraine to export grain safely through the Black Sea won’t be restored until the West meets its obligations to facilitate Russian agricultural exports. Russia refused to extend the deal in July, complaining that an agreement promising to remove obstacles to Russian exports of […]

In November 2022, months before the actual war began, a dispute emerged in Las Anod, a region straddling Somalia’s Puntland federal state and Somaliland, which has unsuccessfully tried to secede for the last 30 years. People walk in a street of Hargeisa, Somaliland on October 31, 2012.  What seemed like a local protest over perceived […]

The Israeli Prime Minister made the call after protests by Eritreans in Tel Aviv on Saturday left dozens injured. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he wants Eritrean migrants who were involved in a violent clash in Tel Aviv to be deported immediately – and has ordered a plan to remove all of the […]

General Brice Oligui Nguema, Gabon’s new strongman since the overthrow of President Ali Bongo Ondimba, has threatened contractors involved in corruption, which is endemic in this country, and demanded that they show “patriotism” and “commitment” to the “development of the country l Brice Oligui Nguema (R) and Gabonese officials salute next  –   Copyright © africanews Recent […]

The second quarter of this year saw increasing defense industry exports for Türkiye, a senior government official told Anadolu Agency (AA) at the latest edition of Teknofest, seen bringing together thousands of enthusiasts and illustrating the country’s meteoric rise in the sector. Crowds of visitors are seen close to the unmanned fighter jet Bayraktar Kızılelma, Ankara, […]