Yahoo Finance Plus The US will send Ukraine another $1 billion in security assistance. This round will include artillery, anti-ship missile launchers, howitzers, helicopters, radios and thermal night-vision optics. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke to reporters from a two-day gathering of NATO defense ministers at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels.
ROMAN PETRENKO - SATURDAY, 2 JULY 2022, 09:46 Ukrainian artillery units destroyed a Russian Pantry-1S anti-aircraft missile system worth $15 million with one direct hit. Pivnich (North) Operational Command shared footage of the operation.
KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO - SATURDAY, 2 JULY 2022, 19:46 Oleksandr Lukashenko, the self-proclaimed president of Belarus, accused Ukraine of launching missiles on the territory of Belarus and ordered his military to "put" the capitals' decision-making centres of Minsk's opponents "at gunpoint".
American Water Works Company Inc's (NYSE: AWK) Military Services Group has secured a contract for the ownership, operation, maintenance, and replacement of the wastewater utility system assets at Naval Station Mayport in Jacksonville, Florida. The contract value awarded is ~$341 million over a 50-year period. "American Water is honored to be awarded our first Navy contract," said CEO Susan Hardwick. AWK was selected for the NS Mayport wastewater UP contract by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA),
Russian occupiers raised the large landing assault ship Saratov which was sunk in March in the port of Berdiansk after an attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Russian Federation plans to send it to the occupied Crimea for repairs.
The U.S. military has a recruiting problem, with a former senior military official telling ABC News the viability of the all-volunteer force could be at stake. Pentagon data show a simple, troubling trend: Fewer and fewer young Americans want to serve, and due to obesity and other problems, fewer are qualified. The Defense Department's top personnel and readiness leader blamed the nation's competitive job market as a major contributor while testifying on Capitol Hill in late April.
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyIn mid-May, CNN reported that the U.S. intelligence community was about to begin a sweeping review of the way it does business. What prompted the senior officials to action? The answer is simple enough: alarmingly inaccurate predictions as to the durability of the U.S. supported government of Afghanistan, which led to a decidedly ignominious withdrawal of our forces there, as well as overly pessimistic projections of Ukraine’s ability to
The High-Powered Joint Electromagnetic Non-Kinetic Strike Weapon (HiJENKS) uses microwave technology to disable an adversary’s electronic systems.
IRYNA BALACHUK - FRIDAY, 1 JULY 2022, 13:06 The training exercises conducted by the Armed Forces of Belarus at the country's training grounds have been extended at least until 9 July. Source: "Belarusian Hajun", which monitors the actions and movements of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus on the territory of Belarus, with reference to the exercise schedule Details: It is reported that 3 July (Belarus' Independence Day) will be a day off fo
ALONA MAZURENKO - FRIDAY, 1 JULY 2022, 19:38 Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said that he had talked with General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States Army, about the liberation of Ukrainian lands from occupation.
Three Bayraktar TB-2 UAVs, donated to Ukrainian war effort by their Turkish manufacturer Baykar, are almost ready to ship to Ukraine, Ukrainian Ambassador to Turkey Vasyl Bodnar said in a Twitter post on July 1.
Ukrainian and Russian forces make competing claims of controlling Luhansk city
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Saturday Ukraine had tried to strike military facilities on Belarusian territory three days ago, but all its missiles had been intercepted, the state-run Belta news agency reported. Lukashenko, who did not provide evidence for the claim, said Belarus did not want war with Ukraine, but would fight if its own territory was invaded.
An activist-turned-soldier whose fingers were mangled by metal tools. Women photographed naked and forced to hold their hands above their heads or be beaten. Hospitalized prisoners of war mocked, threatened and left to die. The Hill spoke to a half dozen former prisoners of war and their families this month about what life was like…
ROMAN PETRENKO - SATURDAY, JULY 2, 2022, 12:49 PM Due to the total resistance to the invaders in the Kherson region, the occupying leadership has to travel in armoured vehicles with guards and wear bulletproof vests, according to the Special Operations Forces.
At their base in no-mans’ land outside Ukraine’s southern city of Mykolaiv, volunteers with the Kherson Brigade hone their shooting skills on a paper target of Vladimir Putin. Dozens of bullet holes pepper the Russian leader’s face – one they’d much rather practise on in person.
ROMAN PETRENKO - SATURDAY, 2 JULY 2022, 09:18 Mykhailo Podoliak, advisor to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, believes that Russia is launching missiles on peaceful cities in an attempt to sow fear among the Ukrainian people and compel the Ukrainian government to negotiate or make territorial concessions.
STORY: The video showed people carrying another person on a stretcher, blast craters, various damage and rubble around the area.The footage was released on Ukrainian Donetsk Regional Police’s official Youtube channel which said the material was recorded in Bakhmut on July 2, 2022.Kyiv says Moscow has intensified missile attacks on targets far from the frontline and that it has deliberately hit civilian sites while Russian forces have been grinding out gains on the battlefield in the east, pummelling urban areas with artillery.Russia says it has been aiming at military sites and denies taking aim at civilians. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said "Russian Armed Forces do not work with civilian targets".Thousands of civilians have been killed since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 in what Moscow calls a "special military operation" to root out nationalists. Ukraine and its Western allies say it is an unprovoked war of aggression.
ALYONA MAZURENKO - FRIDAY, 1 JULY 2022, 10:56 P.M. Ukrainian paramedic Yulia Paievska (Taira) said that the Russian occupiers kept her in a small cell in the Donetsk Pre-Trial Detention Centre along with 21 other women.
The 1-ton SWiFT platform is powered by a Russian NPO Saturn 36MT turbofan engine.
Moscow’s stockpiles of more accurate weapons might be dwindling, UK Ministry of Defence claims
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