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Russia has awarded the pilots of two fighter jets involved in this week’s confrontation with a U.S. drone over the Black Sea, the Defense Ministry said Friday. U.S. Military Releases Footage Of Russian Jet Forcing Down Drone.U.S. European Command / Zuma / TASS The United States accused Russia of an “unsafe” and “unprofessional” intercept of its MQ-9 […]

Russian forces launched 34 airstrikes, in particular, using 11 Shahed-136 UAVs. Ten of these drones were shot down by Ukrainian air defense forces, while one hit an industrial infrastructure object. There were no civilian casualties. This is said in a morning update published by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, Ukrinform reports. […]

Moscow warned against “hostile” U.S. flights on Wednesday, as tensions simmered after a Russian fighter jet was accused of colliding with an American drone over the Black Sea MQ-9 Reaper drone.Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson / U.S. Air Force photo Though Russia has denied its Su-27 plane clipped the propeller of an unmanned Reaper drone, Kyiv […]

Washington has summoned Russia’s ambassador to the US to the State Department to express its “strong objection” after a Russian fighter jet struck an American surveillance drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday, causing US forces to bring the drone down in international waters. Russian fighter jet struck the propeller of a U.S. MQ-9 drone […]

The incident is the first such contact between Russia and the U.S. since the Kremlin launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year and has some people a little on edge. This handout photo courtesy of the US Air Force obtained on November 7, 2020 shows an MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV or drone) […]

A photo published in state media Monday of a cruise missile reportedly being launched from a submarine | Image: KCNA (March 13, 2023) North Korea says it tested two “strategic cruise missiles” from a submarine for the first time on Sunday in a demonstration to the U.S. and South Korea of the country’s “diverse” nuclear […]

Nobody should doubt that Türkiye has mobilized all state and national means for the earthquake-stricken provinces in its southeast despite the vast expanse and the scale of the destruction, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Sunday from the Samandağ district of Hatay, the city worse hit by the Feb. 6 disaster. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan holds […]

Russia has lost its share of global arms exports over the past five years as the invasion of Ukraine limited supplies and demand from most traditional partners declined in 2022, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) think tank said in a new report Monday. A German army Leopard 2 main battle tank.U.S. Army Europe photo by […]

Key developments on March 10:  Russia continues its assaults on Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast At least 8 wounded in Russian attack of Kostyantynivka, Donetsk Oblast Norway says it will send Ukraine 2 NASAMS air defense systems Finland’s Prime Minister visits Kyiv, meets Zelensky Ukrainian servicemen fire with a 105mm howitzer towards Russian positions near the city […]

Saudi Arabia and Iran have agreed to re-establish diplomatic ties, reopen embassies and exchange ambassadors within a period of two months, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Friday. Saudi Arabia and Iran agree to re-establish ties following talks in China. (Nour News) The decision to reestablish relations, which were severed in 2016, came […]