The United Kingdom will hand over Challenger 2 tanks to war-stricken Ukraine, Downing Street announced on Saturday. A Challenger 2 tank.Photo: Morio, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Prime Minister Rishi Sunak outlined Britain's ambition to send battle tanks to Ukraine along with additional artillery support during a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Prime Minister Sunak's office
Poland ranks 20th in the world in terms of military strength, according to the 2023 Global Firepower ranking. Poland ranks 20th in the world in terms of military strength, according to the 2023 Global Firepower ranking.Twitter/18th Mechanised Division of Polish Armed Forces Compared with last year, Poland has climbed four places in the international league table, Polish state news
German soldiers who will operate the Patriot air defence systems promised to Warsaw by Berlin are set to arrive in Poland next week, according to military officials. German soldiers are set to arrive in Poland next week to help operate Patriot air defence systems promised to Warsaw by Berlin, according to reports on Thursday.PAP/DPA/Thomas Frey Some 400 Bundeswehr troops are
The Polish president has congratulated Poland’s athletes for their successes in 2022 and thanked the country’s sports community for the help extended to athletes from war-torn Ukraine. Andrzej Duda’s words came at an annual ceremony dubbed the New Year’s Meeting of the Olympic Family, Polish state news agency PAP reported. The president attended the event accompanied by First
One of President Vladimir Putin's closest allies said on Tuesday that Moscow was now fighting the U.S.-led NATO military alliance in Ukraine and that the West was trying to wipe Russia from the political map of the world. Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev.EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV Putin casts the war in Ukraine as an existential battle with an
Poland’s prime minister said on Monday that his government would invest heavily in the development of shooting sports to teach the public how to defend the country against a potential attack. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki visits a shooting range in Warsaw on Monday, Jan. 9, 2023.Photo: Polish Prime Minister's Office/KPRM "We will continue to invest in the promotion of shooting and in the Polish arms industry
Two thermal power plants in Russian-occupied Donetsk region in Ukraine were struck by missiles fired by the Ukrainian army, Reuters reported on Sunday. A High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) of Ukrainian army fires close to the frontline at the northern Kherson region in Ukraine.EPA/HANNIBAL HANSCHKE Initial information suggested that the plants in Zuhres and Novyi Svit
Another formation of Russian soldiers, numbering 700 to 800 people, arrived in Belarus on Saturday night, media reported. Soldiers demonstrate their skills as they perform during the 60th anniversary celebrations of The 5th Special Forces Brigade, at the city of Maryina Gorka in Minsk, Belarus on December 27, 2022. Stringer / Anadolu Agency/ABACAPRESS.COM "A special train with 15
The Russian-installed governor of the Crimean city of Sevastopol said on Saturday that air defences had shot down a drone in what he suggested was the latest attempted Ukrainian attack on a port where Russia's Black Sea Fleet is based. A fragment of a Russian kamikaze drone is seen on the ground in the Shevchenkivskyi district
Russian President President Vladimir Putin’s order for a 36-hour ceasefire in Ukraine over Orthodox Christmas is a tactical ploy designed to damage Ukraine's reputation, a US think tank has said. Russian President Vladimir Putin.Photo: EPA/MIKHAEL KLIMENTYEV via PAP The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported that Putin had instructed Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to initiate a ceasefire from Friday noon to Saturday midnight local time along the “entire
