Ukrainian Defense Forces have eliminated the commander of a Chechen unmanned aerial vehicle squad – the Ahmat special unit of the Russian Ministry of Defense – with the call sign Amur, according to the unit’s commander, Apti Alaudinov. Since the beginning of Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine, the…

The British military has found Russian sensors in seas around the country that it believes were attempting to spy on its nuclear submarines, the Sunday Times reported. The Royal Navy found some devices planted on the sea bed while several washed ashore, the newspaper reported. Military and…

Buildings housing the editorial offices of the state-owned International Broadcasting Multimedia Platform of Ukraine were severely damaged in a Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv on the night of 5-6 April. Source: Dim, a Ukrainian TV channel Details: The channels of this company are Freedom,…

Sailors attached to the fast-attack submarine USS Iowa (SSN 797) man their newly commissioned submarine during a ceremony in Groton, Conn., April 5, 2025. (Joshua Karsten/U.S. Navy) The USS Iowa (SSN 797) was commissioned in a ceremony on Saturday at Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Conn.…

Eleven years ago, members of the Ottawa treaty banning the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of antipersonnel mines agreed a deadline for completing their obligations: 2025. The ambitious timeline reflected the immense progress made since the pact was signed in 1997. Back then, 25,000 people…

04/06/2025April 6, 2025Indonesia says no retaliation against Trump tariff Indonesia has issued its first response to Donald Trump's new 32% tariff on Southeast Asia's largest economy. Chief Economic Minister Airlangga Hartarto said in a statement that Indonesia would pursue diplomacy and…

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Europe | Made in Ukraine Investing in the country’s defence industry is the best way to keep it in the fight Photograph: Eyevine A CEASEFIRE BETWEEN Russia and Ukraine remains a distant prospect, and Europe has made slow progress towards creating a “reassurance force” to help support one. American…

A major Russian assault operation in eastern Ukraine has ended in disaster, Forbes reports. The attack, which targeted areas west of Russian-occupied Andriivka and north of Toretsk, Donetsk Oblast, was thwarted when two Russian platoons were caught in a well-prepared Ukrainian ambush. “Presumably,…

In the Pokrovsk sector in Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast, the Russians continue to push forward with small infantry groups, according to Romeo, head of the medical service of the 152nd Separate Jaeger Brigade, speaking on Army TV. At the same time, after a prolonged period of mostly infantry assaults in…

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After the Estonian startup KrattWorks dispatched the first batch of its Ghost Dragon ISR quadcopters to Ukraine in mid-2022, the company’s officers thought they might have six months or so before they’d need to reconceive the drones in response to new battlefield realities. The 46-centimeter-wide…

Naval News Navy 2025 On April 5, 2025, Anduril Industries announced via its official LinkedIn account the successful delivery of its first Dive-LD autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to the U.S. Navy’s Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Squadron 1 (UUVRON-1). This milestone represents a significant…

“People think that data is in the cloud, but it’s not. It’s in the ocean.” Jayne Stowell, Google’s former undersea cable project manager.” 99% of all intercontinental internet traffic is transmitted through a network of undersea cables. This network is under increasing threat. Almost all internet…

More and more people are using AI-driven chatbots such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Le Chat or Copilot instead of search engines to find information online. The advantage in this is that these large-language models (LLMs) not only provide links to the information they reproduce but also summarize content in…

Crews from two Ukrainian minehunting naval vessels are training in Britain to prepare for a future mission to clear explosives from the Black Sea. They would likely be deployed only once a cease-fire between Russia and Ukraine genuinely takes hold. RFE/RL's Roman Pahulych visited the crews in…

A column of smoke rises on the horizon, and birds scatter from the trees as the green van barrels down the muddy road. It’s January 21, the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, and a Ukrainian Army drone unit is on a reconnaissance mission on the border of the Volnovakha region of Donetsk in…

By Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including China. Brendan joined Newsweek in 2018 from the International Business Times and well as English,…

In early 2025, a Ukrainian information resource reported that Russia’s defense industry has ramped up production of its 2S43 “Malva” self-propelled howitzers, a development underscored by a Telegram channel, BTVT.INFO, which published a photograph of a train convoy transporting at least eight of…

The Head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov, named the most secure messenger among those in existence. He told this in an interview with Anna Maksymchuk. The presenter named such options as Telegram, Signal, Viber, and WhatsApp. "Well, no…

The TWZ Newsletter By signing up you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The Black Arrow, also known as the Small Cruise Missile, has completed a guided flight test from an AC-130J Ghostrider gunship, the weapon’s manufacturer, Leidos, has confirmed. The Black Arrow, which is intended…

People are only just realising how big submarines actually are after a photograph of a single part being transported through a UK town has gone viral. While the concept of submersibles allegedly has roots as far back as 332 BC, the first submarine to be officially declared as functional was the…

On the night of April 5, Ukrainian drones attacked the Optic Fiber Systems plant in Saransk. The facility, previously partially owned by the state nanotechnology group Rusnano, produces fiber optic cable used in drones and is the only plant of its kind in Russia. The Russian Telegram channel Baza…

Ukrainian delegates from Special Forces Unit OMEGA at the recent SOFINS 25 conference were wearing combats in the new M23 Pattern camouflage, reports Bob Morrison. ~ Naturally, with the current situation on the ground in Ukraine, examples of the new M23 (sometimes designated MM-23) camouflage…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called it dangerous to remain silent about Russia’s guilt in the strike on Kryvyi Rih, stating that doing so only encourages the aggressor country to continue the war and ignore diplomacy. The Russian ballistic missile strike on a residential district in…

Abstract This article examines how the Houthi rebels in Yemen use tribal poetry as a propaganda platform to influence public opinion about the current war crisis in the country. By digitalizing Yemeni oral popular poetry, zamil, in the form of motivational war songs and YouTube videos, the Houthi…

Poetry is politics in the Yemen. When the last Imam of Yemen, who was also the hereditary ruler, was deposed in a coup in 1962, it was a local poet who announced the change of regime on the radio, in verse of course. And the current al-Houthi regime in the north of the country, like all its…

US missile hits gathering in Yemen, Trump claims militants were struck #Asia #US Air Force #USA #World #Yemen Houthis gathering before their defeat. Source: Donald Trump (“X” network) The US Air Force has launched a precision strike on a Houthi gathering in western Yemen. The footage of the air…

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Ukraine's navy has refused to confirm that there was "anger," "surprise," and "panic" among the administration of former U.S. President Joe Biden after Ukraine sunk the Mosvka, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet in April 2022. Ukrainian Navy spokesperson Dmytro Pletenchuk said he "cannot…

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Thousands of Lithuanians paid tribute this week to four United States soldiers who died during a training exercise while serving in the Baltic nation. Crowds lined the streets of Vilnius as hearses carrying the bodies of the deceased soldiers made their way to the Lithuanian capital city’s main…

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A US neo-Nazi terrorist group with a Russia-based leader is calling for targeted assassinations and attacks on the critical infrastructure of Ukraine in an effort to destabilize the country as it carries out ceasefire negotiations with the Kremlin. The Base, which has a web of cells all over the…

Russia’s stock market has suffered its worst week in more than two years in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs and a drop in global oil prices. The market capitalization of companies listed on the Moscow Exchange (MOEX) fell by 2 trillion rubles ($23.7 billion) over…

In Turkey, a successful combat test of the Bayraktar TB3 drone with a hypersonic missile was conducted. Military expert Valentyn Badrak explains how this event will impact Ukraine's defense capabilities and why cooperation with Turkey is vital. On March 25, 2025, Baykar announced the successful…

The shipper of a cargo of Russian crude oil loaded aboard a sanctioned shadow tanker has found a creative way around Indian regulations that were barring the ship from offloading. A second tanker, also sanctioned in the west and operating in the shadow fleet moving Russian crude is being used to…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. arms deliveries to Ukraine resumed Wednesday, officials said, a day after the Trump administration lifted its suspension of military aid for Kyiv in its fight against Russia’s invasion, and officials awaited the Kremlin’s response to a proposed 30-day ceasefire endorsed by…