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Russia is prepared to take military measures to “counter-deter” NATO’s expanding arsenal in Europe in response to a U.S. decision to deploy longer-range missiles in Germany for the first time since the 1980s, high-ranking Moscow officials said Thursday.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz welcomes the plan, says it is ‘something of deterrence and it’s securing peace’. The United States’s decision to station long-range missiles in Germany could lead to a Cold War-style “direct confrontation”, Russia has warned, as Chancellor Olaf Scholz hailed the move. The White House announced the decision on Wednesday during a […]
Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. US Army soldiers inspect MIM-23B Hawk surface-to-air missiles in 1977. HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Ukraine is operating US-made Hawk air-defense systems from the 1960s. Though the US retired these tools decades ago, Kyiv is now using them to kill […]
North Korea test-fired two ballistic missiles Monday but one of them possibly flew abnormally, South Korea’s military said, a day after the North vowed “offensive and overwhelming” responses to protest a new U.S. military drill with South Korea and Japan. The Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement the missiles were launched 10 minutes apart […]
Russia should start producing previously banned midrange missiles, President Vladimir Putin said Friday, as Moscow warned the United States that drone reconnaissance flights over the Black Sea risked a “direct” military clash. The call to bolster Russia’s military arsenal . . .
Russia should start producing previously banned midrange missiles, President Vladimir Putin said Friday, as Moscow warned the United States that drone reconnaissance flights over the Black Sea risked a “direct” military clash. The call to bolster Russia’s military arsenal came days after Moscow angrily blamed Washington for a Ukrainian strike on the annexed Crimean peninsula […]
The United States will suspend the planned export of hundreds of air defense munitions to its allies and partners and redirect them to Ukraine, the White House said Thursday, as Russia continues its assault on the country’s power grid and other vital infrastructure.
The Biden administration will rush advanced air defense missiles to Ukraine by delaying certain weapons shipments to other countries, a move that a White House spokesman described on Thursday as “difficult but necessary” given Russian advances in the war. The spokesman, John F. Kirby, said Ukraine had a critical need for Patriot interceptor missiles as […]
The U.S. is moving Ukraine to the top of the list to receive air defense interceptors to defend its cities against the onslaught of Russian missile attacks. The policy decision applies to interceptors the Patriot and other air defense systems use to shoot down incoming missiles and drones . . .
Ukrainian military forces targeted Russian forces in Crimea twice in five days using the U.S.-made and recently acquired ATACMS surface-to-surface missile system. Photo by U.S. Army May 4 (UPI) — Ukraine is using recently acquired and U.S.-made and supplied mobile surface-to-surface missile systems to target Russian military assets in the occupied Crimean peninsula, the Kremlin […]