Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee in 2021, Admiral Philip Davidson, the retiring commander of U.S. military joint forces in the Indo-Pacific, expressed concern that China was accel

The Humanitarian Demining Research and Development (HD R&D) Programme, the Cambodian Mine Action Authority (CMAA) and demining operators are currently holding discussions on the use of new technologie

Major Powers Among Non-Signatories of Mine Ban Treaty Land Mines Mar 1, 2024 Defense spending and arms trade 25 years ago today, the Ottawa Mine Ban Treaty came into effect. While 164 countries have s

ADVERTISEMENT Last year, Ukraine became the most land-mined country on Earth. It is an inauspicious harbinger for this year’s 25th anniversary of the Ottawa Mine Ban Treaty entering international law.

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No matter how Russia's war in Ukraine ends, Dr. Yuriy Kuznetzov will be battling Vladimir Putin's madness for years. Kuznetzov is a Ukrainian surgeon and a national hero who stayed beside his patients

Early on a June morning in 2023, my colleagues and I drove down a bumpy dirt road north of Kyiv in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Armed Forces were conducting training exercises nearby, and mortar shells arce

Armed forces of neighbouring Nato countries could intercept incoming Russian missiles over Ukrainian territory, Voldymyr Zelenskiy has said. Ukraine’s president told Reuters: “Russians are using 300 p

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A convoy of 20 vehicles donated to Ukraine through London’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) scrappage scheme arrived over the weekend, a charity has said. More than 100 vehicles have been donated to Uk

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes that assistance from the North Atlantic Alliance in shooting down Russian missiles over the territory of Ukraine would help compensate for Kyiv's deficit in air

Poland has arrested nine members of an alleged Russian spy ring in connection with alleged sabotage plots, prime minister Donald Tusk said on Monday. “We currently have nine suspects detained and indi

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By RFE/RL Oleg Salvelyev has been appointed deputy defense minister by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russian President Vladimir Putin on May 20 appointed Oleg Savelyev, the former minister on Crim

The United States and Ukraine's other partners are focused on the short-term protection needs of Ukrainians in Kharkiv and elsewhere, and "will continue to step up to meet Ukraine's most urgent needs,

Margarita Robles, Minister of Defence of Spain, announced the delivery of the second batch of Leopard tanks and other military aid to Ukraine on 20 May. Source: Robles during the 22nd meeting of the C

A BTR-50. Wikimedia Commons The thinly-protected, 1950s-vintage BTR-50 might not be the worst vehicle the Russian army has sent in a direct assault on Ukrainian positions, but it’s probably the oldest

Welcoming remarks: Mr. Aaron Korewa, Director, Warsaw Office, Europe Center, Atlantic Council Mr. David Dixon, Partner, Warsaw Office, Dentons Panel 1: “Risk and opportunity: the geopolitics of AI in

YouTube has blocked at least three videos that show viewers how to evade military service after it received a request from the Russian authorities, the investigative news outlet Agentstvo reported Mon

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Russia's Communist Party Leads Red Square Induction for Youth Movement May 20, 2024 - 03:04 pm Russia's Communist Party on Sunday marked Pioneer Day, a holiday dedicated to the Soviet Union's Young Pi

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Day 817: 20 May On 20 May, there were many updates from the Bakhmut direction. The most interesting updates come from the northern flank of Chasiv Yar. Here, the Ukrainians repelled head-on Russian as

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is confirmed dead after rescuers found a helicopter carrying him and other officials that had crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of Iran the day before. Raisi

Russia launched Iranian-made kamikaze drones against Ukraine's Kharkiv region. (file photo) Ukraine says it downed all 29 Shahed-type kamikaze drones launched by Russia against Kharkiv in the early ho

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The Ukrainian military sinking of another Russian warship, the minesweeper Kovrovets, in the port of Sevastopol, may have been achieved with American-supplied Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) ro

The warm weather has improved the level of energy consumption, which will likely result in a reduced number of power shutdowns, according to Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, the chairman of the transmission syst

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported on 20 May that the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi would have serious implications for the succession of the country’s supreme leader. Howeve

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Latvia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Baiba Braže has run the Riga marathon to collect funds for drones for Ukraine, covering the distance of a half marathon (21 kilometres). Source: Braže on Twitter (

Deep beneath the harsh wasteland of the Antarctic shelf lies a prize hundreds of millions of years in the making. For more than 150 years, wars have been fought for access to oil, the thick, black ooz

Tyrants and terrorists have been mourning the death of Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi after his surprise death in a helicopter crash on Sunday. The Hamas terror group, Lebanon's Hezbollah militia, Ira

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Every spring, thousands of Greater Spotted Eagles make the arduous journey from East Africa and Greece to southern Belarus to breed. Now, a study has revealed the impact of the war in Ukraine on this