'That was my calling': Prince Harry 'saved' by military career
Prince Harry finally felt "normal" when he joined the Army and credits his military service for having "saved" him.
Prince Harry finally felt "normal" when he joined the Army and credits his military service for having "saved" him.
"It's very difficult with what we have, because what we have was not meant to shoot down balloons," a former naval aviator told Insider.
Western supplies of Leopards and Challengers have made the news, but the biggest donor is the enemy
Sputnik/Evgeniy Paulin/KremlinRussia’s military is preparing for heavy losses ahead in a new offensive, according to a source apparently stationed at a Russian military headquarters in Ukraine, Novaya Gazeta reported.Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing to send tens of thousands of men to war in Ukraine knowing very well that he is going to make them into “minced meat,” the source said.The source accused the Russian military of not taking any dangers of the offensive into account and pr
Former Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said all of Ukraine 'will burn' after the West pledged to supply Kyiv with more sophisticated weapons.
It comes as Moscows is expected to launch a new offensive to mark one-year since it first invaded Ukraine.
Russia is running out of “single-use soldiers” and can no longer rely on “human wave” attacks in eastern Ukraine that have helped in its recent offensives, British military intelligence has concluded.
It seems pretty clear what Beijing might be interested in amid the vast expanses of Montana - America's so-called nuclear "doomsday" base.
"With something like this, which is stationary in the air when the CF-18s are flying very, very fast, it is difficult to shoot it," a lieutenant said.
Satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press on Friday showed damage done to what Iran describes as a military workshop targeted by Israeli drones, the latest such assault amid a shadow war between the two countries. While Iran has offered no explanation yet of what the workshop manufactured, the drone attack threatened to again raise tensions in the region. Already, worries have grown over Tehran enriching uranium closer than ever to weapons-grade levels, with a top United Nations nuclear official warning the Islamic Republic had enough fuel to build “several” atomic bombs if it chooses.
It marks the second prisoner swap this year
Ukraine’s forces prepare for the war’s most intense phase yet; why Ukraine wants F-16 fighter jets
‘A high-altitude surveillance balloon was detected and its movements are being actively tracked’
Ukraine said it had fought off a fresh Russian assault on the embattled eastern city of Bakhmut Saturday, as it endured a fresh wave of shelling in the disputed Donetsk region.Ukrainian officials meanwhile recovered the bodies of two British volunteers, killed trying to help evacuate people from the eastern warzone.And the southern city of Odesa suffered a massive power cut affecting half a million households after an accident at a war-damaged electrical substation."This week, the Russian occupation forces threw all their efforts into breaking through our defence and encircling Bakhmut, and launched a powerful offensive in the Lyman sector," said Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar."But thanks to the resilience of our soldiers, they did not succeed."Ukraine's border guard service reported that its soldiers had stopped the latest attack, killing four and wounding seven of the attacking forces.Russia unleashed a fresh wave of bombardment across the eastern frontlines Saturday morning. Ukrainian officials reported shelling in the Chernigiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv Lugansk, Donetsk and Mykolaiv regions.In his evening address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged that the situation was getting tougher.Russia, he said, was "throwing more and more of its forces at breaking down our defence."It is very difficult now in Bakhmut, Vugledar, Lyman and other areas", he added, referring to the frontline cities in the east of the country.On Friday, at an unprecedented summit with EU leaders in Kyiv, the Ukraine leader promised: ""No one will surrender Bakhmut. We will fight as long as we can."The more sophisticated, long-range weapons promised by its western partners could help turn the tide of the fighting there in Ukraine's favour, he added.France, Italy and the United States on Friday all promised fresh deliveries of weapons to Ukraine. Kyiv, while expressing its gratitude, is already pressing for more, including fighter jets.- Foreign casualties -Officials in Kyiv said Saturday that the bodies of the wo Britons killed while trying to help people evacuate from the eastern warzone had been recovered in a prisoner swap.Chris Parry, 28, and Andrew Bagshaw, 47, were undertaking voluntary work in Soledar, in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, when their vehicle was reportedly hit by a shell.Their bodies were returned to Ukraine authorities as part of a wider exchange, in which Kyiv got 116 prisoners and Russia 63."We managed to return the bodies of the dead foreign volunteers," said President Volodymyr Zelensky's chief of staff Andriy Yermak, naming them as the two British men.Concern had grown about their fates after the head of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, which helped capture Soledar from Ukrainian forces, said on January 11 that one of the missing men's bodies had been found there.Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin had also published online photographs of passports that appeared to belong to Parry and Bagshaw, which he claimed were found with the corpses.On Friday, news emerged of the death of an American medic killed in Bakhmut when his evacuation vehicle was hit by a missile.Global Outreach Doctors, with whom he was working, said 33-year-old Pete Reed, was a former US Marine Corps rifleman who also worked as a paramedic.Ukrenergo, the country's energy operator, reported the accident at a substation supplying both the city and the region of Odesa.The power network there had been gradually degraded by repeated Russian bombardment in recent months, it added: "As a result, the reliability of power supply in the region has decreased.""As of today, almost 500,000 customers have no electricity supply," said Maksym Marchenko, of the Odesa regional administration. Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko said that came to "about a third of consumers" there."The situation is complex, the scale of the accident is significant," Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said on messaging app Telegram.- Fresh embargo -On Sunday, Russia faces a fresh turn of the sanctions screw, with an embargo on ship deliveries of its refined oil products.Already in December, the EU imposed an embargo on Russian crude oil coming into the bloc by sea and -- with its G7 partners -- imposed a $60-per-barrel cap on Russian crude exports to other parts of the world.The new embargo and price caps starting Sunday will target Russian refined oil products such as petrol, diesel and heating fuel arriving on ships.In Brussels, on Friday, the European Union, the Group of Seven industrialised nations and Australia agreed to cap the price of Moscow's refined oil products.European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen estimated this week that the crude oil price cap costs Moscow around 160 million euros ($170 million) daily.The Kremlin has warned that the measures will destabilise world markets.bur-jj/pvh
The Pentagon said Thursday it was tracking a Chinese spy balloon flying high over the United States, reviving tensions between the two countries just days ahead of a rare visit to Beijing by the top US diplomat.Blinken's visit to Beijing, which follows a meeting last November between Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 summit, will be the first trip to the Asian country by the United States' top diplomat since 2018.
Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky said the situation on the front lines in the east of the country was getting tougher, with Russia throwing more and more troops into battle, hours after the two sides agreed to exchange dozens of prisoners of war. Earlier on Saturday, Ukrainian officials said a serious accident at a high-voltage substation had caused widespread power outages in and around the southern port city of Odesa, leaving half a million people without power. Follow our live blog to see how the
A massive Chinese surveillance balloon that moved across the continental U.S. this week has been shot down. The Pentagon has confirmed the balloon was being used for surveillance, disputing China's claim that it was a civilian aircraft used for meteorological purposes. Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said the balloon didn't pose a physical or military threat, and once it was detected, the U.S. took steps to protect against foreign intelligence collection of sensitive information.
US officials said on Thursday that a Chinese "surveillance balloon" has been flying over the United States for several days.
The Biden administration is going ahead with a plan to shoot down the Chinese balloon over the Atlantic, officials have said. This comes as the airspace along the coast of North and South Carolina has been closed amid the expected national security operation. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Associated Press that President Joe Biden has given the green light for the operation to go ahead.
The ship returned to Portsmouth and the issue is being investigated
‘The greatest weapon in Ukraine’s arsenal is international unity’, the PM said