President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Saturday praised military pilots who died trying, despite near impossible odds, to deliver aid to fighters who were besieged at a steel plant in Mariupol, a city that Russia’s claims has finally fallen to its forces after a siege that lasted for months. “Many of our pilots died,” Mr. Zelensky said in an in

The eighty-eighth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues. russian enemy does not stop conducting offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone. russian enemy continues to launch missile and air strikes on the territory of Ukraine. Increased the intensity of the use of aircraft to destroy

WASHINGTON — Two NATO agencies recently kicked off an artificial intelligence initiative to better understand the technology and its potential warfare applications. More than 80 AI experts, researchers and academics from the U.S. and other member countries are involved with the venture, known as a strategic “horizon scanning,” put together by the N

A group of international defense chiefs convened by U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to coordinate military aid for Ukraine is likely to expand when it meets for the second time on Monday. The Ukraine Contact Group, which included 40 member countries at the inaugural gathering at Ramstein Air Base in Germany on April 26, has since attracted more

Former Deputy Minister of Defense of Poland Romuald Sheremetiev said that in the event that Finland and Sweden join NATO, the alliance needs to take care of the "demilitarization" of the Kaliningrad region of Russia. In addition, in his opinion, the city of Kaliningrad should be renamed, since it is now named after the “criminal” Mikhail Kalinin, w

As Russia’s war in Ukraine is about to enter its fourth month, a question has been at the center of a passionate debate: Are France and Germany trying to pressure Ukraine into negotiations with Russia? Declarations from the German chancellor asking President Vladimir Putin to accept a ceasefire “as quickly as possible” or from the French president

The eighty-seventh day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues. russian enemy does not stop conducting offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and maintain the land corridor with the temporarily occupie

Ukrainian forces are training to use electronic jamming equipment provided by the U.S. in their bloody battle against Russia. A senior U.S. defense official, speaking May 18 on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive issues, confirmed electronic warfare instruction was underway. No details were provided on the curriculum or the gear itself. “We

Russian armed forces have used a laser weapon against a drone in Ukraine, the Kremlin’s deputy prime minister claimed Wednesday on a local television station. “Our physicists have developed and are now mass-producing laser systems,” Yuri Borisov said, adding this system used in Ukraine destroyed the drone “within five seconds.” This is the first ti

The Senate on Thursday passed 86-11 a $40 billion aid package for Ukraine that will enable the Biden administration to transfer more advanced, high-end weapons systems to counter Russia. The bulk of the funding in the pipeline — $34.7 billion — is allocated toward Ukrainian military aid and marks the largest tranche yet from Congress. Much of that

Finance ministers and central bank governors of the United States, Japan, Canada, Britain, Germany, France and Italy – the G7 – are holding talks as Ukraine, invaded by Russia on 24 February, is struggling to fend off the attack and is running out of cash. "We have mobilised 18.4 billion US dollars of budget support, including 9.2 billion US dollar

Russia’s foreign ministry said it will only consider opening access to Ukraine’s Black Sea ports if the removal of sanctions against Russia is also considered, the Interfax news agency reports. Russian deputy foreign minister, Andrei Rudenko, was quoted as saying: You have to not only appeal to the Russian Federation but also look deeply at the who

The eighty-sixth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues. russian enemy is conducting an offensive operation in the areas of Lysychansk and Severodonetsk. There are no significant changes in the state and position of units of the Armed Forces of the republic of belarus in the Volyn and Polissya

This aid package for Ukraine will include 14 M113 tracked armored personnel carriers and 20 Bushmaster armored personnel carriers to fight the Russian invaders. Australia will also provide medical supplies, radiation monitoring equipment and personal protective equipment. This additional aid will support the Ukrainian government in response to Russ

Ukrainian officials are seeking a prisoner swap to return fighters who left the city of Mariupol toward territory in Russian hands under a negotiated surrender. But some Russian officials are now signaling that a swap may not be guaranteed. Russia said nearly 1,000 Ukrainian fighters had exited the embattled Azovstal steel plant, their last holdout