Ukraine

A U.S. Marine Corps M-1A1 FEP in Iraq in 2004.Wikimedia Commons To speed up deliveries of new tanks to Ukraine, the United States has opted to send secondhand M-1A1s instead of newer M-1A2s that would take longer to produce. The M-1A1s presumably are ex-U.S. Marine Corps tanks that the Corps retired starting in 2019. While lacking the…

Ukraine is celebrating the destruction of a shipment of Russian "Kalibr" cruise missiles in Crimea.The Ukrainian defense ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) said in a release on Monday that an "explosion" took out a number of missiles being transported by rail in the "temporarily occupied" northern Crimea settlement…

Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Olivier Schmitt is a professor at the Center for War Studies at the University of Southern Denmark and the author of “Allies that Count: Junior Partners in Coalition Warfare.” Lucie Béraud-Sudreau is the director of…

Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Gabrielius Landsbergis is the minister of foreign affairs of Lithuania. Despite all the cruelty and hatred unleashed by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime, Ukraine continues to resist its aggressor — and it…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping’s plans to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow next week highlighted China’s aspirations for a greater role on the world stage. But they also revealed the perils of global diplomacy: Hours after Friday’s announcement of the trip, an international arrest warrantwas issued for Putin…

By Jugal Purohit BBC Hindi, Delhi2 hours agoImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Lviv in western Ukraine is far from the fighting - but there are frequent sirens warning of attacksRishi Dwivedi is one of thousands of Indian students evacuated from Ukraine a year ago - but he's now back studying in Lviv, despite the threat the war poses to…

7:59 p.m. ET, March 15, 2023 Analysis: How Russia's Black Sea drone downing measures up to other confrontations…

The International Criminal Court is planning to open two war crimes cases tied to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and issue arrest warrants against "several people," according to the New York Times and Reuters, citing current and former officials with knowledge of the decision who were not authorized to speak publicly.According to the New…

Though DeSantis acknowledged that “peace should be the objective,” he warned that sending in troops, or advanced weapons like F-16 fighter jets and long-range missiles, “would risk explicitly drawing the United States into the conflict and drawing us closer to a hot war between the world’s two largest nuclear powers.” His remarks come as…

As Russia’s war in Ukraine puts a heavy strain on EU arms, there’s infighting in Brussels over how best to reload. The latest skirmish is focused around a procurement fund intended to ramp up production of arms in Europe. POLITICO has learned that key committees in the European Parliament — namely, the committees for industry,…