According to the Russian state news agency TASS, Putin has warned Biden not to send F-16s to Ukraine after the U.S. expressed support for a joint international effort to train Ukrainian pilots in using modern fighter aircraft, including F-16s. The West’s effort to potentially send modern fighter jets to Ukraine
US hawks want an Iron Dome for Ukraine, but it would be ineffective as Ukraine’s wartime situation is very different from the conditions where the Iron Dome has been deployed in Israel. Israel has long rejected the idea of sending its Iron Dome missile defense systems to Ukraine, despite the
According to U.S. officials, a retired soldier named Nicholas Maimer, who had previously served in the US Special Forces, was killed in Ukraine. A retired Special Forces soldier died in Ukraine after an apparent building collapse amid a Russian artillery barrage in the embattled city of Bakhmut, according to U.S.
According to The Moscow Times, YouTube is taking down content that features the Wagner Mercenary Group. The Moscow Times’ Russian service is reporting Tuesday that YouTube has begun removing videos about Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, with the the Google-owned video platform explaining in a statement its policies prohibit videos about “criminal and terrorist organizations”. “We
According to CNN, US officials have confirmed the Russian strike on the Patriot system in Ukraine, but they downplayed the degree of devastation caused by the strike. On Tuesday Russia’s military announced it destroyed US-supplied Patriot anti-air battery in Ukraine during a hypersonic missile strike on Kiev. Widely circulating video appeared to confirm
The Russian side is celebrating a big victory, claiming that they successfully took out a US-supplied Patriot missile in a hypersonic strike on Kiev. Russia’s military may have taken out a US-supplied Patriot anti-air battery in Ukraine, which if true would be a very significant first since the advanced Raytheon-made defense
Army Secretary Christine Wormuth informed senators that they would only spend $22 billion on high-tech Army goggles after ensuring that the system will not make soldiers vomit. As Army leaders make the rounds on Capitol Hill, they’re carrying a stark message about the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program: the service’s struggling,
Researchers from Brown University have released a report on the number of deaths post-9/11 wars. Using U.N. data and expert analyses, they have estimated that these wars have contributed to approximately 4.5 million deaths. The full death toll of violence in the U.S.-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, let alone
Newly disclosed Pentagon documents reveal that the Pentagon does not vet foreign proxy fighters trained by them for a history of rape and torture. American special forces have trained up foreign proxy fighters and sent them on ‘kill-or-capture’ missions without ascertaining whether they have histories of rape, torture, extrajudicial killings,