In and around Kyiv, residents were advised to get into bomb shelters as quickly as possible following an air alert announced on Wednesday. “Kyiv region – air alert. Threat of a missile attack. Everyone immediately to shelters,” regional administration head Oleksiy Kuleba said on Telegram. Russian troops have now advanced deep…

A proposal by Poland, a NATO ally, to transfer its Russian-made MiG-29 fighter jets to a U.S. base in Germany to assist Ukraine’s air force against Russia was rejected by the United States. The US has sought to fasten arms supplies to Ukraine. The Pentagon said that the prospect of…

Approximately 2,000 to 4,000 Russian soldiers were killed in the war waged by Moscow in Ukraine, the United States Department of Defense informed lawmakers on Tuesday. In response to a question from the House Intelligence Committee regarding the number of Russian soldiers killed so far in the current military operation,…

Russia is recruiting Syrians and other foreign fighters to fight in Ukraine, the Pentagon said on Monday. US Department of Defense officials said that Russian President was on a recruiting mission seeking to bring some of those fighters into the fray in Ukraine. According to the Wall Street Journal, US…

According to the Ukrainian military intelligence services, while Ukrainian forces attacked Kharkiv on Tuesday, a Russian general was killed, making him the second Russian military leader killed in the war. Major General Vitaly Gerasimov, first deputy commander of Russia’s 41st army, was killed on Monday, the Chief Directorate of Intelligence…

US State Department Secretary Antony Blinken said on a visit to Moldova that he was considering sending planes to Poland if Warsaw decided to send fighter jets to Ukraine. “We are looking actively now at the question of airplanes that Poland may provide to Ukraine and looking at how we…

As shelling by the Russian army resumed on Saturday, the ceasefire to evacuate residents from two cities of Ukraine broke. The Russian defence ministry earlier announced that it had agreed upon evacuation routes with Ukrainian forces for Mariupol, a strategic port in the southeast, and Volnovakha, in the east. “The Russian…

A lone Afghan suicide bomber killed at least 56 worshippers and injured 194 others inside a Shiite Muslim Mosque in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday, according to Islamic State. According to SITE Intelligence, Islamic State’s affiliate in the region known as Islamic State in Khorasan province, which is…

China will raise its defense budget in 2022 by 7.1% to $229 billion, up from a 6.8% increase from the previous year. The announcement on Saturday marks a continuation of the robust spending that has given China an increasingly powerful military. The Chinese government has the second-largest defense budget in…

NATO foreign ministers met in Brussels on Friday to discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine as Kyiv called on Western allies to implement a no-fly zone and provide additional planes to protect civilians and infrastructure, including nuclear plants. Volodymyr Zelenskiy, head of Ukraine’s government, has repeatedly called for a no-fly…