Ukraines
It hasn’t received the attention it deserves, but Ukraine’s unexpected victory in the battle of the Black Sea could be a landmark achievement in the annals of naval warfare. Without a standing navy of its own, Ukraine has disabled at least one . . .
June 17, 2024, 6:50 AM EDT By Richard Engel, Marc Smith, Natasha Lebedeva, Keir Simmons and Freddie Clayton DONETSK REGION, Ukraine — For the Ukrainian soldiers battling Russia’s offensive, signs of
Ukraine’s Azov Brigade will “prove the effectiveness” of the U.S.’ decision to lift a long-standing ban on providing weapons to the unit, according to the brigade’s commander. “We will justify the responsibility entrusted to us, and with our discipline, resilience and bravery in battle, we will prove the effectiveness of this decision,” Colonel Denys Prokopenko […]
The Biden administration will allow a Ukrainian military unit with a checkered past to use U.S. weaponry, the State Department said Monday, having lifted a ban imposed years ago amid concerns in Washington about the group’s origins. The Azov . . .
The US Air Force has been the first to respond to growing reports that Russian EW jamming is severely impacting the effectiveness of Ukraine’s Western-supplied GPS-guided munitions, including the Joint Direct Attack Munition-Extended Range (JDAM-ER) precision-guided glide bombs that have been in use since early 2023 deployed on Kyiv’s Soviet-era MiG-29 “Fulcrum” and Su-27 “Flanker” […]
April 24, 2024, 7:15 AM EDT / Updated April 24, 2024, 7:58 AM EDT By Daryna Mayer and Yuliya Talmazan KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine needed this. After months of political wrangling and
<!– –> From left, British Royal Navy Adm. Sir Keith Blount, deputy supreme allied commander Europe, U.S. Ambassador to Italy Jack Markell and Adm. Stuart Munsch, commander of U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa and Allied Joint Forces Command Naples, speak with reporters aboard U.S. 6th Fleet flagship USS Mount Whitney on April 9, 2024. (Alison Bath/Stars […]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the peace plan proposed by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is pointless as it is based on Moscow’s withdrawal from its captured areas. Lavrov told the Moscow daily Izvestia that a peace summit expected to be held in Switzerland based on Zelenskyy’s plan would not work until its fundamental bases […]
Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. An F-16. US Air Force Ukrainian pilots training on US F-16s are “very impressed” with the fighter jets, a report said. The Ukrainian service of the Voice of America report cites a Ukrainian Air Force pilot. The F-16 can be used in both […]
The first warning was a blip, a small anomaly picked up by radar scanning the skies over Ukraine. Within seconds, it became clear that the blip was a Russian ballistic missile streaking in Kyiv’s direction at several times the speed of sound. It was just before 4 a.m. on Dec. 11, and there was no […]