"Sweden notably brings to NATO a well-equipped army, over a hundred advanced fighters, a modern navy including five submarines, as well as a technologically advanced defence industrial base," Neil Melvin, director of International Security at defense think tank RUSI, said in a statement Tuesday. ...
Russia will cut its army of bureaucrats by more than 100,000 within the next three years, saving 43 billion rubles ($1.5 billion), Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Monday. “We assume more than 100,000 federal state civil jobs will be cut within three years. The government has alrea...
Zelenskyy also addressed last summer's counteroffensive, saying Ukraine had "wanted faster results," adding that limitations to the size of Ukraine's army and having less weapons than requested from allies were factors. "There is not enough power to achieve the desired results faster. But this...
That's because back in September, Vladimir Putin signed a decree to grow the Russian army by 180,000 troops, citing growing threats on Russia's western borders. It was the third time since his invasion of Ukraine that he's expanded Russia's ranks. ...
M, but boasts alonger 900kmrange and carries a warhead several times as large. There has been speculation that the KN-23B was never exported to Russia, and that the missile systems were instead deployed by Korean People’s Army units thatdeployed to supportthe Russian war effort in Ukraine....
It has the second largest army in NATO and would function as an important guarantor in any possible peace. Ankara has said it would consider joining a possible peace initiative on the ground, but said details of such a mission remained unclear. ...
5:09 p.m. 21:03:14, July 26, 2023 Russia's lower parliament approves bill expanding military draft age to include citizens from 18 to 30 years From CNN’s Anna Chernova An advertisement promoting contract military service in the Russian army is seen in a Moscow metro station on July ...
“At least two civilians were killed and this is a direct consequence of the unprofessionalism of Putin’s army,” the group said. CNN cannot independently verify the claims. The Freedom for Russia Legion also claimed Friday there is “active fighting on the outskirts of the village of Novaya...
Ukraine’s air force and army aviators along with their planes and helicopters are priority prey for Russia’s missiles. They’re likely top of the Kremlin’s list. “We’re always surprised that we’re here. But, well, we are and we’re never going to stop,” says the deputy commande...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country’s army will need to double in size if NATO denies it membership to the alliance. “If we do not have NATO, real NATO, we will make NATO in Ukraine. It means that we need to increase our soldiers, our army twice. We have 110 br...