KYIV, Ukraine — The race for a new anti-ballistic system has begun. After decades of relying on the U.S.-made Patriot interceptor system and its hit-to-kill PAC-3 munition as the most proven air defense against ballistic missiles, three new tracks are now leveraging international cooperation and a dire global need to develop and manufacture cheaper interceptor…
Eight people, including two boys and a girl, have died during a Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine, according to local officials. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had launched more than 70 missiles and over 280 drones at the country overnight. The worst attack was near Zelensky’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih. Dozens of…
While there was no official US confirmation of military assistance to Ukraine, Zelenksy said afterwards that Trump had agreed to give Ukraine licences for domestic production of Patriot missiles. “He accepted that he will give us licences,” Ukraine’s leader told Fox News, “and then I had a meeting with representatives of production, very strong military…
Andy Burnham has pledged to continue the UK’s “unwavering” support for Ukraine ahead of a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday. Zelensky will become the prime minister’s first international visitor since he took office a week ago, which No 10 said “illustrates the strength of the relationship between the two nations”. They will visit…
In a field in southern Ukraine, soldiers scrawled sardonic messages on a sleek grey attack drone that would soon be hunting Russian ships on the Black Sea — part of a widening Ukrainian campaign to isolate Crimea and weaken Moscow’s war effort. Operating far behind the front line on Ukraine’s sweeping steppe, such units have…
By Al Jazeera Staff, Anadolu and Reuters Published On 23 Jul 202623 Jul 2026 Attacks by Russia and Ukraine have killed at least eight people, including a child, with four dead in Ukraine and another four in Russia and Moscow-annexed Crimea, officials on both sides say. Thursday’s strikes came as Moscow and Kyiv, in their…
Ukrainian drones have hit warehouses belonging to Russia’s biggest online retailer again, injuring 15 people, according to the company’s founder and regional governors. Logistics hubs run by Wildberries in two south-west cities were impacted by overnight attacks, leading to workers evacuated, the founder said. It is the second time Ukraine has attacked the firm’s facilities…
“I perceived our relationship as a working one,” he wrote in an op-ed for the Militarny website. “If I offended anyone, Mykhailo Albertovych [Fedorov], I’m sorry.” The general said the issues of military contracts, procurement and mobilisation currently being aired in the press and boiled down to pithy slogans on pieces of cardboard carried aloft…
Over eight years, Ethan and his wife went through nine rounds of IVF in Melbourne. They travelled to Spain for two more, without success. “I thought maybe the universe had decided we’re not supposed to have kids,” says Ethan, who asked for his real name not to be published. Finally, someone suggested surrogacy. “We kind…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed Mykhailo Fedorov as the country’s minister of defense after just six months in office as part of a major shake-up in Kyiv’s leadership. The move, which has been the subject of speculation, was confirmed when Fedorov published a farewell social media post on Wednesday. It followed Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko’s…
