Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) says that a joint operation between the military intelligence service and the Ukrainian Air Force was responsible for shooting down a Russian Aerospace Force Tu-22M3 that crashed outside the Russian city of Stavropol Friday morning local time. The GUR uploaded a video of what it said was inside the control center of the air defense system used to shoot down the Tu-22M3, claiming that the joint operation hit the bomber at around 300 kilometers away from the launch site, using the same type of system used to shoot down an A-50M. 💥 Внаслідок операції…
Author: Albert Lee
A Russian A-50 airborne early warning and command aircraft appears to have been shot down over Russian territory near the Sea of Azov.
Estonian robotics firm Milrem Robotics announced Tuesday that it has signed a contract with German defense contractor Krauss-Maffei Wegmann to deliver 14 THeMIS unmanned ground vehicles to Ukraine. The German Ministry of Defense is funding the delivery of the 14 THeMIS UGVs, with seven THeMIS to be delivered by the end of this year in a casualty evacuation configuration. The remaining seven will be delivered in the second quarter of 2023, and will be equipped with route clearance payloads from French defense manufacturer CNIM Systèmes Industriels. In a statement announcing the partnership to deliver the vehicles, Milrem Robotics’ Defence R&D…
While deliveries of military aid pledged by allies to Ukraine continue to gather pace as warnings by Western officials of an imminent Russian invasion grow ever more shrill, financial support in the form of loans from allied governments has also begun to accelerate, bolstering Ukraine’s economy in the face of investor uncertainty fueled by the warnings. The European Parliament approved on Tuesday a 1.2 billion euro ($1.36 billion) package of emergency loans and grants for Ukraine, the latest and largest offer of financial support made to Kyiv during the current crisis. The package had been proposed by the European Commission…