October 4, 2023
Staff at Ukraine’s largest steelmaker Metinvest watched in horror last February as their security cameras showed invading Russian forces closing in on their factory But a lack of defences for their own industrial plants prompted an idea that has since taken on its own momentum: creating a Potemkin army. Metinvest’s hope is that the fake
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Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said late Wednesday his country will no longer send weapons to Ukraine as the far right continues to place pressure on his populist party over its support of the country, and a dispute over grain ban continues to escalate between neighboring countries. Rather than transfer weapons to Ukraine, the prime
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Receive free War in Ukraine updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest War in Ukraine news every morning. Poland will no longer send weapons to Ukraine, Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said, in an escalation of tensions between Warsaw and Kyiv that threatens the west’s unity in supporting
READ MOREIran’s president on Monday denied his country had sent drones to Russia for use in the war in Ukraine, even as the United States accuses Iran of not only providing the weapons but helping Russia build a plant to manufacture them. “We are against the war in Ukraine,” President Ebrahim Raisi said as he met
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Germany has invested heavily into what officials say will help them find the future of combat through an artificial intelligence (AI) virtual training area some have dubbed a military “metaverse.” “We compete with the big ones in the industry,” GhostPlay project manager Gary Schaal, a professor at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, wrote in a
READ MORE North Korea celebrated the anniversary of its founding on Saturday, marking 75 years since the establishment of the regime. A military parade took place at Kim Il Sung Square, overseen by supreme leader Kim Jong Un and his young daughter, Jun-ae. Platoons of soldiers marched down the streets of Pyongyang, joined by lines of military,
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Seoul, South Korea CNN — Russia’s failures on the battlefield in Ukraine could turn into a win for North Korea. That’s the view of analysts who say a possible meeting between Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin could lead to Pyongyang getting its hands on the sort of weapons two decades’ worth of United Nations’
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Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, plans to travel to Russia this month to meet with President Vladimir V. Putin to discuss the possibility of supplying Russia with more weaponry for its war in Ukraine and other military cooperation, according to American and allied officials. In a rare foray from his country, Mr. Kim
READ MORE Ukraine has developed weapons technology capable of striking targets up to 400 miles away, according to officials. President Volodymr Zelenskyy announced the breakthrough Thursday, just a day after a bombardment of strikes deep into Russian territory. Zelenskyy said via his official Telegram channel that the new long-range weaponry was developed by the nation’s Ministry of
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CNN — In the early hours of August 29th, swarms of Ukrainian drones flew across seven Russian regions. Many were intercepted; some were not. Several reached a Russian airbase in Pskov, some 600 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, destroying two Russian military transport aircraft and damaging two more. It was the most dramatic evidence yet
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