Defence`s Feeds

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Aviation, drones, missiles, and artillery all targeted the Hortitsa operational-strategic grouping of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Foreign Legion militants.

Russia's Battlegroup Zapad gained better ground over the past 24 hours, while Ukraine lost up to 545 soldiers in clashes, the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) said on Wednesday.

An Arizona National Guard spokesperson told Sputnik on Wednesday that its 162nd Wing unit cannot accommodate Ukraine's request to train more of its pilots on F-16 fighter jets because training availability is scarce and multiple other countries have spots reserved throughout the year.

Ukrainian forces have been given US "permission" to bomb Russia with the Pentagon explaining that this directive had only just come into effect.

UK military advisor, Nicholas Aucott, says Russia has chosen to construct a false narrative of victimhood as it attacks its smaller neighbour, stifling debate as the facts around its illegal invasion are unpalatable and laid bare for all to see.

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"Established in 2016 as a result of the Russian Federation's occupation of Crimea and as an offshoot of the G7-led Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction, the ISI convenes likeminded countries of the international donor community to meet Ukraine's most urgent radiological and nuclear security needs."

The crews of the Northern Fleet's separate anti-submarine helicopter regiment carried out a series of combat-use measures at the Alluaive training ground on the Kolskoye Peninsula.

In the Bay of the Peter the Great, the Ka-27PS helicopters of the Pacific Fleet's Naval Aviation in support of the corvettes Rezkiy and Sovershenniy carried out the exercise in difficult hydrometeorological conditions.

Moscow intends to launch the professional retraining of the Central African Republic's (CAR) military pilots and ground personnel to operate aircraft this year, Russian Ambassador to Bangui Alexander Bikantov has told Sputnik.

Russia and Burkina Faso are developing cooperation in the military-technical sphere, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday.

The war in Ukraine began after the coup d'état in 2014, not because of Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during his conversation with the heads of international news agencies on the sidelines of the 27th Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).

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The delegation of the Central African Republic (CAR) might discuss supplies of 30,000 tonnes of Russian fuel in the course of the working meetings on the margins of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Russian Ambassador to Bangui Alexander Bikantov told Sputnik.

Systema, RFE/RL's Russian investigative unit, said on June 4 that it had discovered the name and details of a person who it believes is Yelizaveta Peskova, the daughter of Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, in the national taxpayer registry of Kazakhstan.

The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States of a F-16 Non-Standard Spare and Repair Parts and related equipment for an estimated cost of $80 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of this possible sale today.

Joining the World Health Organization (WHO) Pandemic Agreement will be "very difficult" for Taiwan under current conditions, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Deputy Director-General Lo Yi-chun (羅一鈞) said Wednesday.