Defence`s Feeds

The annual Han Kuang military exercise is underway across Taiwan but parts of the drills have had to be scaled back because what could be the most powerful typhoon to hit the island in years is due to make landfall.

Troops stationed on the offshore Penghu Islands held an anti-landing drill early Wednesday featuring the United States-made Stinger and Javelin missile defense systems as part of the ongoing Han Kuang exercises.

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The Armed Forces destroyed two S-300 air defense systems, along with a command post and a drone storage site, over the past day, Russia's Ministry of Defense reported on Wednesday.

Slovakia may take retaliatory measures if Ukraine does not resolve the issue of oil transit from Russia, said Slovak President Peter Pellegrini said on Wednesday.

Ukraine is ready for negotiations with Russia, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said during talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday.

At the OSCE Forum for Security Cooperation (FSC), Ambassador Neil Holland calls on Russia to end its war, withdraw all its forces from all of Ukraine and to re-engage in dialogue and risk-reduction.

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Moscow does not know what is behind Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba's statements and hopes to receive clarifications in the near future, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday.

The Head of the military department congratulated the command and personnel of the 15th Guards Motorised Rifle Shavlinsky Order of Lenin, Red Banner Regiment on the liberation of Peschanoye from the enemy. As a result of the decisive actions, the enemy retreated to the west suffering losses.

Russian shelling and missile strikes on Ukrainian regions on July 24 killed at least two people, injured several others, and damaged infrastructure in the Danube port of Izmayil, regional officials reported.

Ukraine remains ready to hold talks with Russia provided Moscow proves it's ready to negotiate in "good faith," but Kyiv has yet to see such inclination from the Kremlin, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba reiterated on July 24 during talks with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi.

Ukraine highly appreciates China's positive and constructive role in promoting peace and maintaining international order, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said here on Wednesday during his talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

At an inter-institutional meeting on long-term support and security commitments towards Ukraine, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Baiba Braže, informed the participants about the Foreign Ministry's work and thanked other ministries for their efforts to implement the agreement concluded this past 11 April year between the Presidents of the Republic of Latvia and Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin held a meeting on socioeconomic matters in the new constituent entities of the Russian Federation that include the Donetsk and the Lugansk people's republics, and Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba on Wednesday in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province, with Kuleba saying Ukraine is willing and prepared to conduct dialogue and negotiations with Russia.

The European Union has financed the purchase and delivery of modern IT equipment and software for the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine and the State Service of Ukraine on Food Safety and Consumer Protection.

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Today, as part of implementing the historic Rebuilding Economic Prosperity and Opportunity for Ukrainians Act (the "REPO for Ukrainians Act"), the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has issued a new reporting requirement for financial institutions holding Russian sovereign assets. Pursuant to section 104(a) of the REPO for Ukrainians Act, all financial institutions at which Russian sovereign assets are