China on Sunday launched a Long March-2D carrier rocket, sending 4 satellites into preset orbit.
China's rocket scientists and engineers carried out a major test on Saturday on a new type of engine, which will be the most important component in the nation's attempt to land astronauts on the moon.
Russia says its forces have carried out a missile strike on facilities that manufactured and prepared drone boats near the Black Sea port city of Odessa, amid Ukraine's heavily publicized counteroffensive.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy decried the Russian attacks on the city of Odesa and in particular its historic center, one of UNESCO's world heritage sites.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed that plans for a highly anticipated counteroffensive in early spring have been postponed due to lack of sufficient munitions despite widespread reports that the war effort have miserably failed with heavy losses.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ridiculed Ukraine's loss of massive number of troops and foreign mercenaries during their widely publicized counteroffensive as "stupidity."
Russia has blamed the US after an attack conducted by the Ukrainian military forces using Washington-supplied cluster munitions killed Russian military correspondent Rostislav Zhuravlev and injured several other journalists.
The Ukrainian troops have deployed foreign-made cluster bombs in a strike on Zolotarivka village near the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR), a source from the LPR's security forces told Sputnik on Sunday.
Western countries knew that Ukraine did not have enough weapons and training for the counteroffensive, but hoped that Ukrainian courage and resourcefulness would save the day; however, these hopes have been dashed, the US press admits.
Russian Foreign Intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin said earlier that Poland is considering establishing control over the western part of Ukraine through the deployment of its troops there.
Kiev kicked off its counteroffensive on June 4 after being pumped up with heavy weapons by the US and its NATO allies. A month-and-a-half on, Ukrainian forces have little to show for their operations apart from heavy losses in both troops and equipment.
The Russian Armed Forces launched an overnight missile strike on facilities that manufactured and prepared drone boats near the Ukrainian city of Odessa, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
Russian forces have repelled attempts by Ukrainian troops to attack in four directions, a Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson told Sputnik.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has claimed Ukraine has recaptured 50 percent of the territory originally seized by Russia amid widespread reports of the massive losses of troops and equipment suffered by the Western-backed country.
The United States will deliver F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine but it will take "several months" as the process involves providing training and maintenance as well, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told an American news channel in an interview on Sunday.
With a Ukrainian drone hitting a Crimean ammunition depot prompting authorities to close the Crimea bridge again and overnight Russian strikes on Odessa that destroyed buildings including the Transfiguration Cathedral over the weekend, the Chinese Embassy in the Ukraine issued a security notice on Sunday morning reminding Chinese nationals to take strict security precautions given the frequent air strikes in the south of Ukraine.
Click from one Ukrainian news channel to another these days and you're likely to find the exact same show you just surfed away from.
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