Ukraine has long called for the supply of Patriots to bolster a sometimes-overwhelmed array of antimissile defenses that have included Soviet-designed systems, as well as old U.S. HAWK air-defense missiles. The supply is sent as Western countries contribute other weapons to Ukraine, including se...
The equipment previously hidden in a hangar was destroyed on the southern outskirts of the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro. Meanwhile, Russia is continuing its special military operation in Ukraine, and a total of 129 aircraft and 99 helicopters, 243 anti-aircraft missile systems, 441 unmanned ae...
KIEV, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Ukraine has asked the United States to sell more Javelin anti-tank missile systems, said William Taylor, charge d'affaires of the U.S. embassy in Ukraine, in his interview with Radio Liberty Ukrainian service published on Monday. "They would like to buy more Ja...
But the experience of the past 12 months has prompted Ukraine to seek more air defence systems to protect its critical infrastructure. "We need more Patriots, more IRIS systems. We cannot protect ourselves against ballistic missiles if we don't have air defence systems," Tim...
Kyiv's decision to take troops off the battlefield to train across the Atlantic in the U.S. is unusual, although Ukraine has sent forces for short-term training at European bases for other complex systems it has received, such as on the longer-range High Mobility Artillery Rocket System. ...
Ukraine's foreign ministry spokesperson Oleg Nikolenko said: "(Russian President Vladimir) Putin wants to deprive millions of people of electricity and heating, amid freezing temperatures. Send Ukraine more air and missile defence systems to avert this tragedy. Delays...
According to Konashenkov, the air defenses of Russia’s Aerospace Forces downed 12 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles. Bastion Russia’s Bastion coastal missile system has destroyed electronic intelligence centers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Ukraine’s Odessa region, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesma...
One distinction relates to the tail sections: the North Korean missile’s tail section has a diameter of 110 cm, while the Iskander’s is smaller at around 95 cm. Overall, the analysis indicates that the missile CAR documented in Ukraine on 10 and 11 January 2024 is of North Korean ...
Air defense systems were activated in other regions of Ukraine, as well, and as another round of air raid sirens sounded across the country in the afternoon, regional officials urged local residents to seek shelter. Vitali Kim, governor of the southern Mykolaiv region, hinted in a Telegram post...
The missile struck a missile factory in Dnipro in central Ukraine. Mr Putin warned that US air defence systems would be powerless to stop the new missile, which he said flies at 10 times the speed of sound and which he called Oreshnik – Russian for hazelnut tree. ...