DENYS KARLOVSKYI - TUESDAY, 28 JUNE 2022, 18:01 Belarusian journalist Anton Motolko has published the intercepted conversations between Russian military pilots and dispatchers on 25 June, when missiles were launched from the airspace of Belarus.
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/TwitterThe war in Ukraine is no stranger to drones, but the kamikaze drone strike on the Russian city of Rostov last week marked the beginning of a whole chapter in drone warfare. A small ramshackle Ukrainian drone with a tiny warhead flew across the heavily defended front line and smashed into an oil refinery in Russia on June 22, causing a large fire. Given how cheap it is to make a drone, and its successful evasion of Russian air defenses,
The Antonov An-225 Mriya was destroyed in a fierce bombardment of Antonov Airport just days after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.
Alona Mazurenko - Wednesday, 29 June, 2022, 23:47 Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated that the Russian missile attack hitting the Amstor shopping centre, where more than 20 civilians were killed and dozens injured and missing, does not amount to a terrorist attack.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia would respond in kind if NATO deployed troops and infrastructure in Finland and Sweden after they join the U.S.-led military alliance. "But they must understand there was no threat before, while now, if military contingents and infrastructure are deployed there, we will have to respond in kind and create the same threats for the territories from which threats towards us are created."
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin still wants to seize most of Ukraine, but his forces are so degraded by combat that they likely can only achieve incremental gains in the near term, the top U.S. intelligence officer said Wednesday. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, outlining the current U.S. intelligence assessment of the more than four-month war, said that the consensus of U.S. spy agencies is that it will grind on "for an extended period of time." "In short, the picture remains pretty grim and Russia's attitude toward the West is hardening," Haines told a Commerce Department conference.
General Dynamics Land Systems beats out BAE Systems in a competition to build and field Mobile Protected Firepower systems for the Infantry Brigade Combat Team.
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OLENA ROSHCHINA - WEDNESDAY, 29 JUNE 2022, 11:42 AM The Security Service of Ukraine has questioned a Russian sailor who, after an unsuccessful effort to save the cruiser Moskva, joined the infantry and was taken prisoner.
The Army awarded Palantir Technologies and Raytheon Technologies $36 million each to turn their TITAN designs into prototypes, and the service plans to choose a single provider at the end of the 14-month phase.
Defense expert Jack Watling said Ukraine has lost more soldiers in the four months since Russia's invasion than there are infantry in the British army.
Alona Mazurenko - Tuesday, 28 June, 2022, 22:53 Ukrainian Minister of Defence Oleksii Reznikov has reported that thousands of Ukrainian defenders have mastered the use of weapons provided by Western partners, and their training is still ongoing.
Losing track of a weapon is widely seen as one of the greatest sins a service member can commit; a stance that's drilled into troops beginning in basic training.
Several Russian who help Russia target missile attacks on Kyiv and Lviv Oblast have been detained by Ukraine’s SBU security service, the SBU said in a YouTube video published on June 28.
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The former commanding general of the United States Army Europe, Ben Hodges, says that Russian troops will be pushed back to their Feb. 24 positions by the end of the year.
KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO - WEDNESDAY, 29 JUNE 2022, 17:32 As part of the largest prisoner exchange since 24 February, 144 soldiers, including 95 defenders of Azovstal, have returned to Ukraine. Source: Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine Photo: Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine Quote: "Another prisoner exchange has been held, thanks to which 144 Ukrainian defenders have returned home.
The John F. Kenney Special Warfare Center and School chose to name new buildings after these two Special Forces legends.
The ratio of losses in the war between Ukraine and Russia is one to five in Ukraine's favor, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with the U.S. television channel NBC on June 29.
At a recent Senate hearing, special-operations leaders described the importance of operators who are proficient in foreign languages.
