Defence`s Feeds

A Russian journalist has been killed by cluster munitions in what Moscow denounced as a "heinous, premeditated crime" committed by Western powers and Ukraine.

About one and a half months after the launch of the much-hyped Ukrainian "counteroffensive," Kiev's Western sponsors have begun to grudgingly admit that Ukrainian forces have not fared well on the battlefield.

The United States is crossing "all moral red lines" by supplying Ukraine with cluster munitions that killed Sputnik war correspondent Rostislav Zhuravlev and injured, among others, the news agency's photojournalist, Konstantin Mikhalchevsky, Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyanskiy said on Saturday.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that four journalists received wounds of varying degrees of severity as a result of the Ukrainian strike with cluster munitions.

Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry stated that Kiev has intensified recruitment of mercenaries to hide heavy losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during long-advertized counteroffensive. Ukraine is trying to recruit fighters in the US and Canada, including with the help of the CIA, as well as in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.

Earlier this week, White House National security spokesman John Kirby said that Ukraine has started using cluster munitions, adding that Kiev was using them "appropriately".

An explosion occurred at an ammunition depot in Crimea after a drone strike, the head of the Republic of Crimea Sergey Aksyonov said on Saturday, adding that preliminary information suggests nobody was injured in the incident.

Over the past few days, Ukraine has again made the headlines worldwide - for all the wrong reasons - following the Russian Federation's decision to terminate the crucial Black Sea Initiative and the wave of attacks on the civilian Port of Odesa.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke Saturday with NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg about ways to restore the safe transit of ships carrying Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that the Crimea Bridge is a legitimate target.

Wartime contingency and campaign planners can learn a lot from a major multi-national exercise, with dozens of aircraft carrying thousands of participants and moving tons of materiel and equipment across the Indo-Pacific theater.

The United States has commissioned a warship in Sydney, Australia amid fears of growing Chinese clout in the region.

The USS Canberra littoral combat ship was officially commissioned in Australia on Saturday, becoming the first US vessel in the country's fleet, the Australian Defense Ministry said.

The UK military and their counterparts from the United States, France, Belgium and Georgia are training Ukrainian troops in Scotland on finding and neutralizing bombs, booby traps and mines in, on and around the water, the Royal Navy said in a statement.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that his country would monitor Sweden's counterterrorism steps before ratifying its NATO bid at the parliament.

At least 16 civilians have been killed by rocket fire in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region, a local lawyers' union reported.

A car packed with explosives has been detonated near the Naranjitos military base in Colombia's Arauca Department, having killed at least two people inside the vehicle and injured four soldiers, Arauca Governor Willington Rodriguez Benavides said Friday.

Eighteen political parties will compete in Cambodia's parliamentary election on July 23 - the country's seventh national vote since the United Nations organized and ran the 1993 election two years after the Paris Peace Agreements.

Radio Free Asia spoke with former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans on Wednesday, ahead of Sunday's parliamentary election in Cambodia.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told a large audience in central Romania on July 22 that the Foreign Ministry in Bucharest has given him a list of sensitive topics he should avoid in his public addresses at an annual event held by leaders of Romania's Hungarian minority in Transylvania.