Tag: Russia

“We need to give people the means to defend themselves,” Perry Blackburn Jr., 60, a retired Army Special Forces lieutenant colonel.

“Military units, including the East group and the West group, must carry out their tasks according to previously approved plans.” – Putin.

President Joe Biden has pledged more US troops, warplanes, fighter jets, and various warships to be deployed to Europe last Wednesday, marking a significant bolstering of NATO forces amid the specter of Russian aggression in the region.

The United States Commerce Department has blacklisted five Chinese companies for continuing to supply Russian military defense firms after the start of the invasion of Ukraine despite sanctions.

Russian forces have decided to pull out of Snake Island in a small but strategic win for Ukraine. Russia’s Defense Ministry framed the decision to leave as “a gesture of goodwill” and an attempt to open up a humanitarian corridor to export Ukrainian agricultural products.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised Belarus that they will supply nuclear-capable Iskander-M missiles to Minsk to further bolster their arsenal amid NATO expansion.

Turkish defense firm and drone maker Baykar has donated 3 Bayraktar TB2 drones to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, rejecting a Ukrainian crowdfunded payment for the drones.

Two Russian Kh-22 missiles have reportedly hit a crowded Ukrainian shopping mall in Kremenchuk, leaving 16 dead with 59 wounded.

Did the Russian Armed Forces believe their own government’s propaganda? Did Putin believe it too? Did the West believe it?

The British Defense Ministry has reported that the Russian forces have likely captured Severodonetsk, but analysts say this will not make a dent in the war.

The Russians will now be feeling some good old American firepower as the US-donated HIMARS has arrived in Ukraine, with more units on the way under Biden’s new $450 million aid to Kyiv.

A Russian Mi-8 helicopter crossed into Estonia’s southeastern territory. Estonia and France respond with a surprise military drill to keep Russians at bay.