Companies bidding for defense contracts will reportedly be responsible for the risks faced by their employees The administration of outgoing President Joe Biden has lifted a de facto ban on deploying US defense contractors in Ukraine to repair American-made armaments, Reuters and CNN reported on Friday, citing anonymous Pentagon officials. This reversal of previous US […]
Military contractors from the US will be sent to Ukraine in order to help maintain and repair Pentagon-provided weaponry, a US defense official said on Friday. The move is a significant policy shift in the final months of Joe Biden’s administration that aims to aid Kyiv’s fight against Russia. Source link
The past few weeks have been marked by a flurry of footage and intelligence tidbits revealing North Korea’s deployment of its forces to Russia. Initial incredulity on the South Koreans’ part gradually turned into consternation, as clips circulating online showed scrawny North Koreans, uttering undeniably fluent Korean, in Russia. South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) […]
In its final months, US President Joe Biden’s administration has decided to allow American defence contractors to work in Ukraine to maintain and repair Pentagon-provided weaponry, US officials said on Friday, in a significant policy shift that aims to aid Kyiv’s fight against Russia. A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the contractors […]
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s desire to end Russia’s war against Ukraine is sincere. But it is understandable that Ukraine and its supporters may have concerns about how, exactly, the “deal” promised by Trump during his campaign will look. If it does not include ways to guarantee Ukraine’s ability to defend itself, the fighting may only […]
President-elect Donald Trump’s post-election call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday included tech billionaire and staunch Trump ally Elon Musk, according to multiple reports. Zelensky described the call as “excellent” in a post on X (the platform that Musk owns) shortly after it took place, but he did not reference Musk’s involvement. Musk has […]
Ukraine’s former FM Kuleba: Biden knew Ukraine would perish Before the start of the special military operation, US President Joe Biden received a document from US intelligence services about the fall of Ukraine, former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in an interview with Channel 24. Photo: commons.wikimedia.org by Hnapel, CC BY-SA 4.0 […]
Russian prosecutors requested a six-year prison sentence for a Moscow pediatrician accused of criticizing the invasion of Ukraine during a private appointment Friday, despite the medic insisting she was innocent. Nadezhda Buyanova was accused by the ex-wife of a soldier killed in Ukraine of criticizing the war. She was arrested in February. The case against […]
A Hong Kong broadcaster has cancelled a documentary series on global conflicts after online backlash, with comments accusing it of being politically motivated in favour of Ukraine and neglecting Russia’s narrative. A scene from TVB’s “Planet Under Fire.” Photo: Tuấn Trương, via YouTube. Scheduled as a 10-episode series, the first two instalments of TVB’s Cantonese […]
Deux ans après le début de la guerre à grande échelle, la dynamique du soutien occidental à Kiev est en perte de vitesse : les aides nouvellement engagées sont en baisse sur la période d’août 2023 à janvier 2024 par rapport à la même période de l’année précédente, selon le dernier rapport de l’Institut Kiel, […]