Footage has emerged of what is thought to be the first major use of Western-made weapons systems by Ukraine’s armed forces to destroy targets on Russian soil, prompting a top Kremlin official to warn of ‘fatal consequences’.
It is believed the Ukrainian military struck a S-300 or S-400 air defence system using US-supplied High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and completely destroyed it in a devastating attack yesterday.
A stunning clip taken by a Russian soldier and shared to the
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— Ukrainian forces fired American-supplied ATACMS missiles, striking a Russian airfield in occupied Ukraine and marking the first known use of the long-range weapon.
— Multinational military exercises kicked off in Spain this week, in what is the first time the EU has led and organized wargames independently of NATO.
— An underwater telecommunications cable connecting Sweden and Estonia sustained damage, at around the same time an energy pipeline
Russia struck the city of Pokrovsk in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region with two ballistic missiles overnight, killing at least seven people, local officials said Tuesday.
At least 81 people were injured in the strikes, Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk regional military administration, said in a statement.
“Among the dead are five civilians, one employee of the State Emergency Service, and one soldier,” Kyrylenko said. Of the injured, four were soldiers, seven were from the State Emergency Service, 31 were
Russian missiles struck the centre of Ukraine’s Pokrovsk twice on Monday night (7 August) killing eight people, including five civilians, regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said in a statement.
The second missile hit the Ukraine-controlled town near the frontline in Donetsk Oblast 40 minutes after the first, the governor said. It killed and injured first responders, witnesses of the strikes told a Reuters cameraman at the scene.
Two rescuers and one military person were among the dead. Nine policemen and one
Russian forces shelled a small city in eastern Ukraine twice in quick succession on Monday evening, killing at least five people, including an emergency worker who was responding to the first attack, Ukrainian officials said.
At least 31 others, including a child and more than a dozen police officers, were injured in the attacks on the city, Pokrovsk, Ihor Klymenko, Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs, said on the Telegram messaging app. He praised the “heroes” who were first to arrive
KYIV — Russia hit Ukraine with a barrage of missiles and drones overnight, including a strike on a medical center that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy labeled a war crime.
The attack started Saturday evening and continued until the early hours of Sunday, Ukraine’s Air Force said in a statement Sunday morning.
Ukrainian air defense managed to shoot down 30 missiles and 27 drones, the Air Force said. But Ukrainian officials did not disclose any information about at least five missiles
A port city in Russia has been rocked by an explosion that has injured multiple people, according to local media and accounts on Telegram.
Up to 15 people were injured in a devastating blast in Taganrog, in the Rostov region, which is believed to have hit a museum and a cafe.
Russian news agency TASS cited Rostov Governor Vasily Golubev, who claimed the strike was “presumably” caused by a missile but led to no deaths.
Russia’s defense ministry claimed the
Iran has announced the production of artificial intelligence-powered missiles, which officials claim have the ability to avoid obstructions and hit a target with pinpoint accuracy, but experts remain skeptical the weapons can perform as promised.
“We see this from time to time and, more frequently, recently, that the Iran regime will flex its military might with a missile test or new technology,” Lisa Daftari, Middle East expert and editor-in-chief of The Foreign Desk, told Fox News Digital.
“We aren’t able
