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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea conducted a strategic cruise missile test on Saturday, state media KCNA reported Sunday. The country’s leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the test, according to the report, which described it as a test-fire of an “important weapon system.” The underwater-to-surface strategic cruise missiles traveled 1,500 kilometers (around 932 miles) and […]
Outgoing US President Joe Biden has authorised Kyiv to use the long-range weapons against Russia. Russia has pledged to retaliate after it claimed to have shot down eight US-supplied ATACMS missiles fired by Ukraine at its border region of Belgorod. “On January 3, an attempt was made from Ukrainian territory to launch a missile attack […]
CNN — Russia has vowed retaliation after claiming to have shot down eight US-made ATACMS missiles fired by Ukraine on Saturday morning.
Russia launched a barrage of missiles at Ukraine Thursday in its first major retaliation for Ukraine’s attack earlier in the week on a military facility in the Russian region of Bryansk. That strike saw the Ukrainians use American-made and supplied long-range missiles known as ATACMS, which President Biden had given the Ukrainian forces permission to […]
How likely is it that Russia would use nuclear weapons in the Ukrainian conflict? The Kremlin has brandished its strategic arsenal before over the course of the Ukrainian conflict, in an attempt to deter western involvement. But for all the threats, the US has said it has seen no signs of unusual movement at Russian […]
Close to 11,000 North Korean soldiers are believed to have been deployed to Russia’s Kursk region, with some having already participated in battles against Ukraine, two South Korean lawmakers said on Wednesday, citing a briefing from Seoul’s spy agency. Ukrainian . . .
Ukraine has fired US-made ATACMS missiles into Russia’s Bryansk region, Russia’s defense ministry said, in a major escalation on the 1,000th day of war.
CNN — Ukraine hit a Russian weapons arsenal with US-made ATACMS missiles that it fired across the border for the first time, according to two US officials, in a major escalation on the 1,000th day of war.
Ukraine’s military used American-made ATACMS missiles to strike into Russia for the first time on Tuesday, according to senior U.S. and Ukrainian officials. Two days earlier, the Biden administration had authorized Ukraine to use the U.S.-supplied ballistic missiles for attacks inside . . .
Vladimir Putin has signed a decree lowering the threshold for using nuclear weapons, as the Kremlin intensified its rhetoric over Joe Biden’s decision to permit Kyiv to use US-made long-range missiles for strikes inside Russia. The revised nuclear doctrine declares that a conventional attack on