Berlin is still not ready to provide Taurus cruise missiles to Kyiv, German government spokesperson Steffen Hebestreit said, at the same time condemning Russia’s recent attacks on Ukraine and calling them a war crime, German Tagesschau reported on Jan. 3. “There is no new status in this matter,” he said while stressing that massive attacks on civilian infrastructure are “absolutely disgusting.” The […]
NATO members are buying up to 1,000 Patriot missiles in order to improve their air defence capabilities, in purchases worth $5.5 billion, NATO procurement agency NSPA said on Wednesday. The contract also includes test equipment and spare parts to support future maintenance, the agency said. It is also commissioning new suppliers. NATO Secretary General Jens […]
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO announced Wednesday that it would help buy up to 1,000 Patriot missiles so that allies can better protect their territory as Russia ramps up its air assault on Ukraine. NATO’s Support and Procurement Agency said it will support a group of nations, including Germany, the Netherlands, Romania and Spain, in buying […]
Russia has ramped up its missile attacks against Ukraine, launching its biggest barrages of the war. It may have a specific motive: to deplete Ukraine’s limited stocks of Patriot air-defense ammo. Ukraine gets some of its Patriot ammo from the US — where Congress blocking further supplies. Russia’s recent, huge missile barrage on Ukraine has […]
In a phone conversation on Tuesday, 2 January, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak that Russia has fired at least 500 missiles and drones on Ukraine over the past five days. Source: Zelenskyy on Twitter, as reported by European Pravda Details: Zelenskyy briefed Sunak on the recent large-scale Russian strikes and […]
The head of the Defense Committee of Germany’s Bundestag parliament, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, has called for the transfer of powerful German Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine after another massive Russian attack on Jan. 2, T-online reports. Strack-Zimmermann also urged the government to speed up the supply of ammunition to Ukraine. “Ukraine needs more ammunition, more spare parts, and we need to mobilize […]
Russia has attacked Ukraine with at least 500 missiles and drones in the past five days, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Jan. 2 during a phone call with U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Zelensky and Sunak discussed how to bolster Ukraine’s air defense hours after Russia launched another mass air attack against the country, killing […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s two largest cities came under attack Tuesday from Russian missiles that killed at least five people and injured almost 100, officials said, as the war approached its two-year mark and the Kremlin stepped up its winter bombardment of urban areas. Four civilians were killed and 92 injured in the capital of Kyiv, […]
Ukraine’s two largest cities came under heavy Russian missile attacks, killing one person and injuring dozens. Oleh Syniehubov, the governor of the Kharkiv region, said one person died and 41 were injured in Russian missile strikes that hit the centre of Kharkiv city and other areas. In Kyiv, the capital, five areas of the city […]
Ukraine managed to eliminate more than 60 Kh-101/Kh555Kh-55 cruise missiles and 10 Kinzhal ballistic missiles that Moscow criminally launched at Kyiv in a brutal overnight attack on Jan. 2, the Kyiv City Military Administration announced. The Russians actually repeated the attack on Dec. 29, both in terms of the types of missiles and the number […]
Ukrainian air defense brought down all 35 attack drones used by Russia in its latest massive overnight attack on Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Air Force reported on Jan. 2. Several missiles are still in the sky, including Kinzhal ballistic missiles. Read also: Woman killed under rubble as Russians shell residential building […]
Ukraine’s two largest cities came under heavy Russian missile attacks, killing one person and injuring dozens. Oleh Syniehubov, the governor of the Kharkiv region, said one person died and 41 were injured in Russian missile strikes that hit the centre of Kharkiv city and other areas. In Kyiv, the capital, five areas of the city […]