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Tuesday, 13 February 2024 04:46

What to know after Day 719 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russia uses Zircon hypersonic missile in Ukraine for first time, researchers say A preliminary analysis concluded that Russia hit Kyiv last week with the hypersonic Zircon missile, its first use in the nearly two-year-old war, the head of a Kyiv research institute said on Monday, presenting a new challenge to Ukraine's air defences. Oleksandr Ruvin, director of the Kyiv Scientific-Research Institute for Forensic Examinations, said on his Telegram channel that his institute completed a preliminary analysis of missile fragments from a Russian attack on Feb. 7. He included a video of alleged missile wreckage showing specific markings. "In…

Monday, 12 February 2024 04:47

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 129

The Israeli military says it has rescued 2 hostages from captivity in the Gaza Strip The Israeli military said it rescued two hostages from captivity in the Gaza Strip early Monday, marking a small but symbolically significant success in its quest to bring home over 100 captives believed to be held by the Hamas militant group. The hostages were released in a raid that included a series of Israeli strikes in Rafah, the city on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip where 1.4 million Palestinians have fled to escape fighting elsewhere in the Israel-Hamas war. At least seven people…

Monday, 12 February 2024 04:46

What to know after Day 718 of Russia-Ukraine war

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine ‘must accept new reality’ – Kremlin Ukrainian authorities must accept the new conditions no matter how “painful” it might be for them, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. He was responding to a question on the prospects of new talks between the two warring countries. Peskov made the remarks in an interview released by Russian journalist Pavel Zarubin on Sunday. Should Russia and Ukraine ever actually get back to the negotiating table, the potential talks will not be the same as those held early in the ongoing conflict, Peskov suggested. “Should we begin the same negotiations, there’s…

Sunday, 11 February 2024 04:54

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 128

Hamas had command tunnel under U.N. Gaza headquarters, Israeli military says Israeli forces have discovered a tunnel network hundreds of metres (yards) long and running partly under UNRWA's Gaza headquarters, the military says, calling it new evidence of Hamas exploitation of the main relief agency for Palestinians. Army engineers took reporters for foreign news outlets through the passages at a time of crisis for UNRWA, which has launched an internal probe and seen a string of donor countries freeze funding over allegations last month by Israel that some of its staff doubled as Hamas operatives. The Palestinians have accused Israel…

Sunday, 11 February 2024 04:53

What to know after Day 717 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Zelenskiy fills out rebooted Ukraine military team Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced five senior military appointments on Saturday, filling out a rebooted team after he named Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi this week as the new armed forces chief. In his nightly video address, Zelenskiy said he spent the day meeting his military leadership and government and that experienced "combat commanders of this war" would be taking on new duties. The country is closing in on two years of war since Russia's full-scale invasion. As deputy chiefs of staff under Syrskyi, Colonel Vadym Sukharevskyi would take charge of unmanned…

Saturday, 10 February 2024 04:42

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 127

Israel seeks to evacuate Palestinians jammed into a southern Gaza city ahead of an expected invasion Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday said he has ordered the military to prepare a plan to evacuate civilians from Rafah ahead of an expected Israeli invasion of the densely populated southern Gaza city. The announcement came after heavy international criticism, including from the U.S., of Israeli intentions to move ground forces into the city that borders Egypt. Rafah had a prewar population of roughly 280,000, and according to the United Nations is now home to some 1.4 million additional people living with…

Saturday, 10 February 2024 04:41

What to know after Day 716 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine's Kharkiv swept by fire after Russian drones strike petrol station Russian drones struck a petrol station in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, late on Friday, triggering a vast fire that engulfed private homes, local officials said. Officials said drones also hit a hospital and a restaurant in the town of Velykyi Berluk, east of Kharkiv. In Kharkiv, the head of the local prosecutor's office, Oleksandr Filchakov, said in a video posted on the Telegram messaging app that three drones hit the petrol station in Nemyshlianskyi district just before 11 p.m. "There was a great deal of fuel and…

Friday, 09 February 2024 04:29

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 126

Strikes kill 13 in Gaza as Biden describes Israel's military response as 'over the top' Israeli airstrikes killed at least 13 people in Rafah in the Gaza Strip after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected Hamas’ cease-fire terms and vowed to expand the offensive into the southern Gaza town. President Joe Biden called Israel’s military response in Gaza “over the top” and said he continues to work “tirelessly” to press Israel and Hamas to agree on an extended pause in fighting. “I am of the view, as you know, that the conduct of the response in the Gaza Strip has been…

Friday, 09 February 2024 04:28

What to know after Day 715 of Russia-Ukraine war

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine is ‘artificial state’ – Putin Modern Ukraine is a country that was artificially created by the actions of the late Soviet leader Joseph Stalin after World War II, Russian President Vladimir Putin told American journalist Tucker Carlson on Friday. In a wide-ranging and highly anticipated interview that lasted more than two hours, Putin described in detail the process by which Ukraine was created in its current form. He recalled that, during the feudal fragmentation of Russia in the Middle Ages, Ukraine – which he described as being part of Russian lands – came under heavy Polish cultural,…

Thursday, 08 February 2024 04:43

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 125

Blinken says a Hamas-Israel deal is still possible even though the sides remain far apart U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that a cease-fire and hostage-release agreement between Israel and Hamas was still possible, despite the two sides being far apart on the central terms for a deal. Blinken was in the region trying to broker an arrangement that could bring some respite in Israel’s war against Hamas, which is entering its fifth month after killing more than 27,000 Palestinians, displacing much of the territory’s population and sparking a humanitarian catastrophe. Those diplomatic efforts were rattled earlier in…

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Thursday, 08 February 2024 04:40

What to know after Day 714 of Russia-Ukraine war

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Russian forces foil two rotations of Ukrainian troops in southern Donetsk area Units of Russia’s Battlegroup East broke up two rotations of Ukrainian troops in the southern Donetsk area during the past day, the battlegroup’s spokesman Alexander Gordeyev told TASS. "Units of the Battlegroup East continue to fulfil combat tasks of the special military operation in the southern Donetsk area. Artillery systems and heavy flamethrowers hit strongholds and areas of the deployment of manpower of the 23rd brigade of the Ukrainian National Guard, the 72nd mechanized brigade and the 128th territorial defense brigade of the Ukrainian army near…

Wednesday, 07 February 2024 04:42

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 124

Gaza mediators search for 'final formula' for Israel, Hamas ceasefire U.S., Qatari and Egyptian mediators prepared a diplomatic push to bridge differences between Israel and Hamas on a ceasefire plan for Gaza after the Palestinian group responded to a proposal for an extended pause in fighting and hostage releases. Hamas on Tuesday replied to a framework drawn up more than a week ago by U.S. and Israeli spy chiefs at a meeting in Paris with the Egyptians and Qataris. Details of the response were not disclosed. In a statement Hamas said on Tuesday it responded "in a positive spirit, ensuring…

Wednesday, 07 February 2024 04:41

What to know after Day 713 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine's Zelenskiy orders creation of separate military force for drones President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday ordered the creation of a separate branch of Ukraine's armed forces devoted to drones, weapons he and military officials say are crucial to fighting the war against Russia. Zelenskiy signed a decree calling on the government and general staff of the armed forces to "work out issues on the creation within the Ukrainian armed forces of a separate force for drone systems". "I have just signed a decree which will launch the creation of a separate branch within our armed forces -- a…

Tuesday, 06 February 2024 04:48

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 123

Blinken returns to Mideast in push for hostage deal and postwar plan for Gaza, but obstacles loom U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Monday at the start of his fifth visit to the Middle East since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, hoping to press ahead with a potential cease-fire deal and postwar planning while tamping down regional tensions. But on all three fronts he faces major challenges: Hamas and Israel are publicly at odds over key elements of a potential truce. Israel has dismissed U.S. calls for a path to a Palestinian…

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