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Sunday, 23 June 2024 04:46

What to know after Day 850 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Has Russia just dropped a deadly new 3,000kg glide bomb in Ukraine? The multistorey building stands alone just off a main road. The houses around it are completely destroyed, razed to the ground by relentless Russian shelling, and the dirt road is scarred by shrapnel. All that can be heard is the sound of a bomb being dropped, followed seconds later by a mighty explosion. The bomb smashes into the ground 10 metres from the building, opening up a huge crater before a swelling fireball engulfs the entire three floors. When the smoke eventually dissipates, the footage shows…

Saturday, 22 June 2024 04:46

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 260

Israel pounds Gaza, killing dozens, as fighting rages Israeli forces pounded Rafah in southern Gaza on Friday, as well as other areas across the enclave, killing at least 45 Palestinians as troops engaged in close-quarter combat with Hamas militants, residents and Israel's military said. Residents said the Israelis appeared to be trying to complete their capture of Rafah, which borders Egypt and has been the focus of an Israeli assault since early May. Tanks were forcing their way into the western and northern parts of the city, having already captured the east, south and centre. Firing from planes, tanks and…

Saturday, 22 June 2024 04:45

What to know after Day 849 of Russia-Ukraine war

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE US permits Ukrainian strikes anywhere beyond conflict front line – Politico The US has permitted Ukraine to strike targets on Russian territory using American-made weapons anywhere across the front line – not just in the Kharkov Region, Politico has reported. This doesn’t represent a change to Washington’s policy on the use of US-supplied weapons by Kiev, anonymous sources told the outlet in an article published on Thursday. In late May, media reported that the administration of President Joe Biden had quietly greenlighted Ukrainian attacks using American weapons inside Russian territory for “counterfire purposes in the Kharkov region.” The…

Friday, 21 June 2024 04:45

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 259

Israel's pledge to guard an aid route into Gaza falls flat as lawlessness blocks distribution The Israeli military said Sunday that it was establishing a new safe corridor to deliver aid into southern Gaza. But days later, this self-declared “tactical pause” has brought little relief to desperate Palestinians. The United Nations and international aid organizations say a breakdown in law and order has made the aid route unusable. With thousands of truckloads of aid piled up, groups of armed men are regularly blocking convoys, holding drivers at gunpoint and rifling through their cargo, according to a U.N. official who spoke…

Friday, 21 June 2024 04:44

What to know after Day 848 of Russia-Ukraine war

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE ‘Strategic defeat’ means end of Russia – Putin The West must realize that defeating Russia is not only unlikely, but impossible due to the unity of its people who understand that it would spell the end of the country’s thousand-year history, President Vladimir Putin has argued. Speaking at a press conference in Hanoi following his meetings with the leadership of Vietnam on Thursday, Putin addressed the issue of Western powers “raising the temperature” of the Ukraine conflict through gradual escalation. “Apparently, they expect us to get scared at some point. But at the same time, they also say…

Thursday, 20 June 2024 04:44

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 258

Israeli tanks push deeper into Rafah, forcing people to flee again Israeli tanks backed by warplanes and drones advanced deeper into the western part of the Gaza Strip city of Rafah on Wednesday, killing eight people, according to residents and Palestinian medics. Residents said the tanks moved into five neighbourhoods after midnight. Heavy shelling and gunfire hit the tents of displaced families in the Al-Mawasi area, further to the west of the coastal enclave, they said. Some eight months into the war, there has been no sign of let up in the fighting as efforts by international mediators, backed by…

Thursday, 20 June 2024 04:43

What to know after Day 847 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russia's drone attack damages Ukraine's energy infrastructure, injures two Russian drone attacks on Wednesday damaged energy infrastructure in central Ukraine and injured at least two people in the western region of Lviv, Ukrainian authorities said. The energy ministry said via the Telegram messaging app that emergency services have been deployed to the sites of the attacks and that repairs to damaged electrical equipment in the western region of Lviv were underway. Russian forces launched five drones to attack the Lviv region that borders NATO member Poland, injuring two men, according to Lviv regional governor Maksym Kozytskyi. Kozytskyi said…

Wednesday, 19 June 2024 04:42

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 257

Israel's Netanyahu blames Biden for withholding weapons. US officials say that's not the whole story Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday claimed the United States is withholding weapons and implied this was slowing Israel’s offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where fighting has exacerbated the already dire humanitarian situation for Palestinians. President Joe Biden has delayed delivering certain heavy bombs since May over concerns about Israel’s killing of civilians in Gaza. Yet the administration has gone to lengths to avoid any suggestion that Israeli forces have crossed a red line in the deepening Rafah invasion, which would…

Wednesday, 19 June 2024 04:41

What to know after Day 846 of Russia-Ukraine war

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Russian troops wipe out Western-supplied equipment depot in Ukraine operation Russian troops destroyed a Western-supplied armament depot of the Ukrainian army over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday. Russian troops "also destroyed an attack UAV production workshop and an equipment depot of the Ukrainian army’s 44th artillery brigade used to unload and distribute armament and military hardware delivered by Western countries to the Kiev regime, and struck massed enemy manpower and materiel in 124 areas," the ministry said in a statement. Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicts 455 casualties on…

Tuesday, 18 June 2024 04:50

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 256

Netanyahu disbands war cabinet as pressure grows on Israel's northern border Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved the six-member war cabinet, an Israeli official said on Monday, in a widely expected move following the departure from government of centrist former general Benny Gantz. Netanyahu is now expected to hold consultations about the Gaza war with a small group of ministers, including Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer who had been in the war cabinet. The move was announced as U.S. special envoy Amos Hochstein visited Jerusalem, seeking to calm the situation on the disputed border…

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Tuesday, 18 June 2024 04:49

What to know after Day 845 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE 'If we stop, we die': Ukraine's struggling soldiers emboldened by renewed U.S. support For the Ukrainian soldiers battling Russia’s offensive, signs of renewed Western support are more than just diplomatic results. “I can tell you that your money is not wasted here,” said First Sgt. Dmytro Pryimak, a tank commander in the eastern Donetsk region where Kyiv’s troops are struggling to hold back Moscow’s military. He spoke to NBC News on the ground from a remote area several miles from the front lines, where Abrams tanks provided by the United States are being repaired and refitted for battle.…

Monday, 17 June 2024 04:13

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 255

Netanyahu denounces tactical pauses in Gaza fighting to get in aid Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized plans announced by the military on Sunday to hold daily tactical pauses in fighting along one of the main roads into Gaza to facilitate aid delivery into the Palestinian enclave. The military had announced the daily pauses from 0500 GMT until 1600 GMT in the area from the Kerem Shalom Crossing to the Salah al-Din Road and then northwards. "When the prime minister heard the reports of an 11-hour humanitarian pause in the morning, he turned to his military secretary and made it…

Monday, 17 June 2024 04:12

What to know after Day 844 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Swiss right-wing leader calls Ukraine summit an 'embarrassment' A leading Swiss right-wing nationalist panned a summit his country was hosting in a bid to pressure Russia to end its war on Ukraine as an "embarrassment", reflecting the view that the talks are damaging for Switzerland's traditional neutrality. The right-wing Swiss Peoples' Party (SVP), the biggest group in the lower house of parliament, says neutrality is an integral part of Switzerland's prosperity, and it has initiated a referendum to embed the principle in the constitution. Leading figures in the party have argued Switzerland should not have hosted this weekend's…

Sunday, 16 June 2024 04:35

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 254

Eight Israeli soldiers killed as fighting continues in Rafah Eight Israeli soldiers were killed in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, the military said, as forces continued to push in and around the southern city of Rafah and strikes hit several areas of Gaza, killing at least 19 Palestinians. The soldiers, all members of a combat engineering unit, were in an armoured carrier that was hit by an explosion that detonated engineering materials being carried on the vehicle, apparently in contravention of standard practice, the military said. It said the early morning incident, in the Tel al-Sultan area in the…

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