Kushnikov Vadim
Vadim Kushnikov

Vadim Kushnikov

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Italy deploys SAMP/T air defense system in Lithuania

Italy deploys SAMP/T air defense system in Lithuania

Italy has deployed the SAMP/T air defense system, capable of intercepting ballistic missiles, in Lithuania on a rotational basis. Lithuanian Min...
February 18, 2025
11:00
EU to discuss additional €5bn military aid to Ukraine

EU to discuss additional €5bn military aid to Ukraine

The ambassadors of the European Union will consider the possibility of providing Ukraine with additional military assistance in the amount of 5 bil...
February 18, 2025
10:39
Magyar’s Birds Destroy Three Grads, Msta-S and T-90M

Magyar’s Birds Destroy Three Grads, Msta-S and T-90M

The external pilots of the FPV drones of the 414th Separate Brigade of Unmanned Aerial Systems showed how they hunted enemy artillery and armoured ...
February 17, 2025
22:46
Europe Weighs Sending Up to 30,000 Peacekeepers to Ukraine

Europe Weighs Sending Up to 30,000 Peacekeepers to Ukraine

European leaders are discussing the possibility of sending several peacekeeping teams to Ukraine to support Russia's compliance with a possible pea...
February 17, 2025
21:58
Germany Increases Planned Military Assistance to Ukraine

Germany Increases Planned Military Assistance to Ukraine

Germany has updated the list of military aid for the Ukrainian Defense Forces, adding more armored vehicles, anti-aircraft missiles, ammunition, ar...
February 17, 2025
21:32
Ukraine Deploys Upgraded BTR-60D APCs with Anti-Drone Defenses

Ukraine Deploys Upgraded BTR-60D APCs with Anti-Drone Defenses

Units of the 156th Mechanized Brigade have received modernized Bulgarian BTR-60 armored personnel carriers. Photos of the vehicles were released...
February 17, 2025
20:34
Ukraine-NATO Joint Project Opens Up in Poland

Ukraine-NATO Joint Project Opens Up in Poland

The NATO-Ukraine Joint Analysis, Training and Education Center (JATEC), a joint project of Ukraine and NATO, was opened in Poland. The Ministry ...
February 17, 2025
19:29
Sweden Does Not Rule Out Its Participation In Peacekeeping Mission In Ukraine

Sweden Does Not Rule Out Its Participation In Peacekeeping Mission In Ukraine

The Prime Minister of Sweden has confirmed that Sweden would consider contributing to post-war peacekeeping forces in Ukraine. Reuters reported ...
February 17, 2025
18:37
German Chancellor Candidate Friedrich Merz Wants to Change Taurus Policy For Ukraine

German Chancellor Candidate Friedrich Merz Wants to Change Taurus Policy For Ukraine

Probable German chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz has announced his intention to change Berlin's policy on supplying Ukraine with Taurus missiles...
February 17, 2025
18:31
Finland Is Building Wall Border With Russia Ahead Of Schedule

Finland Is Building Wall Border With Russia Ahead Of Schedule

Finland is building a two-hundred-kilometer wall on the border with the Russian Federation ahead of schedule. Yle reported on this. It is rep...
February 17, 2025
17:41
Ukrainian Defence Forces Use About 5000 HMMWVs

Ukrainian Defence Forces Use About 5000 HMMWVs

The Ukrainian military has a fleet of about five thousand HMMWVs in various modifications. This was reported by Militarnyi, citing sources in th...
February 17, 2025
16:01
India Has Developed Domestic Radar For Su-30MKI Fighter To Replace Russian One

India Has Developed Domestic Radar For Su-30MKI Fighter To Replace Russian One

Indian defense giant DRDO has unveiled a new indigenous radar station designed for Russian Su-30MKI fighters at the Aero India 2025 aviation exhibi...
February 17, 2025
15:30
Canada Announced Transfer Of Two F-16 Flight Simulators To Ukraine

Canada Announced Transfer Of Two F-16 Flight Simulators To Ukraine

The Canadian government will transfer two more flight simulators to Ukraine to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine’s pilot training and skills main...
February 17, 2025
15:24
Ukraine’s National Team Wins 30 Medals At Invictus Games

Ukraine’s National Team Wins 30 Medals At Invictus Games

The Ukrainian national team has completed its performances at the 2025 Invictus Games, having won 30 medals. Suspilne Sport reported on this. ...
February 17, 2025
15:15
Mitsubishi Launches Reconnaissance Vessel For Japanese Navy

Mitsubishi Launches Reconnaissance Vessel For Japanese Navy

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Maritime Systems has held a ceremony to launch a new Hibiki-Class Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System. This was r...
February 17, 2025
15:00
Magyar’s Birds Use Fibre Optic Drones With Thermal Imaging Optics

Magyar’s Birds Use Fibre Optic Drones With Thermal Imaging Optics

The external pilots of the 414th Separate Brigade of Unmanned Aerial Systems use fibre-optic drones with thermal imaging sensors. The brigade co...
February 17, 2025
14:15
Come Back Alive Foundation Provides Heliborne Forward Air Controllers With Communication Equipment

Come Back Alive Foundation Provides Heliborne Forward Air Controllers With Communication Equipment

Come Back Alive Foundation has provided the first group of heliborne forward air controllers with communication equipment as part of the Communicat...
February 17, 2025
13:40
Enemy Tried Three Times to Break Through 110th Brigade’s Defense With Equipment And Infantry

Enemy Tried Three Times to Break Through 110th Brigade’s Defense With Equipment And Infantry

Russian troops made three attempts to attack the positions of the 110th Mechanized Brigade and related units near Velyka Novosilka in the Donetsk r...
February 17, 2025
12:34
Russian GRU Forms Sabotage Unit to Target Europe

Russian GRU Forms Sabotage Unit to Target Europe

The Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation—GRU—has formed a new structural unit designed to conduct sa...
February 16, 2025
22:33
Pentagon Prepares Potential Cuts Amid DOGE Inspections

Pentagon Prepares Potential Cuts Amid DOGE Inspections

The Pentagon is preparing for possible budget cuts amid inspections of the newly created Department of Government Effectiveness (DOGE). The Wall...
February 16, 2025
22:13
Russian Forces Attack Kursk Oblast with Tanks Flying Soviet Flags, Suffer Defeat

Russian Forces Attack Kursk Oblast with Tanks Flying Soviet Flags, Suffer Defeat

The soldiers of the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade "Magura", together with adjacent units, successfully repelled a massive assault by the Russian...
February 16, 2025
21:19
Russia Mounts BMP-1 and BMP-2 Guns on Soviet D-44 Cannon Carriages

Russia Mounts BMP-1 and BMP-2 Guns on Soviet D-44 Cannon Carriages

Russians have begun to install 2A42 30mm automatic guns on the carriages of Soviet D-44 85mm divisional guns. The corresponding video was posted...
February 16, 2025
19:47
Russians lost the state-of-the-art TOS-2 Tosochka flamethrower system

Russians lost the state-of-the-art TOS-2 Tosochka flamethrower system

The Russians lost the state-of-the-art TOS-2 Tosochka flamethrower system near Pokrovsk. Accordingly, the photos were published by the national ...
February 16, 2025
16:41
Moldova Seeks Withdrawal of Russian Troops From Transnistria As Result of Talks On Ukraine

Moldova Seeks Withdrawal of Russian Troops From Transnistria As Result of Talks On Ukraine

Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean believes that Russia may withdraw its troops from Transnistria as part of negotiations on Ukraine and EU secur...
February 15, 2025
11:02
Defense Forces Destroy Enemy Grad MRL

Defense Forces Destroy Enemy Grad MRL

The Ukrainian Defense Forces destroyed an enemy Grad multiple rocket launcher system in the Zaporizhzhia direction. This was reported on the off...
February 15, 2025
10:41
Fort Trump to be Built in Poland

Fort Trump to be Built in Poland

Polish President Andrzej Duda believes that during Donald Trump's second presidency, the Polish-American alliance will be strengthened. This inc...
February 14, 2025
22:54
Zelensky: Ukraine Mapped Out Allied Troop Deployment Plans

Zelensky: Ukraine Mapped Out Allied Troop Deployment Plans

Ukraine has mapped a plan for the deployment of allied forces to deter Russian aggression after the ceasefire. Ukrainska Pravda reported on this...
February 14, 2025
21:45
Zelensky Calls for 1.5 Million-Strong Army if Ukraine Stays Outside NATO

Zelensky Calls for 1.5 Million-Strong Army if Ukraine Stays Outside NATO

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that in order to defend Ukraine against Russia without NATO, the country's army should have 1.5 millio...
February 14, 2025
21:24
China Supplies Batch of Raw Materials For Rocket Fuel To Iran

China Supplies Batch of Raw Materials For Rocket Fuel To Iran

The container ship Golbon has delivered to Iran the first batch of Chinese raw materials for the production of rocket fuel for solid-fuel ballistic...
February 14, 2025
19:46
Bodies of 757 Fallen Soldiers Returned To Ukraine

Bodies of 757 Fallen Soldiers Returned To Ukraine

The bodies of 757 fallen soldiers who lost their lives defending their homeland from the invaders have been returned to Ukraine. The Coordinatio...
February 14, 2025
19:29
Mercenaries Who Fought Against Ukraine Detained In Moldova

Mercenaries Who Fought Against Ukraine Detained In Moldova

Law enforcement officers of Ukraine and Moldova conducted a special operation during which they detained three mercenaries of the Wagner PMC and ot...
February 14, 2025
18:57
Shmyhal Proposes to Create EU Army On Basis of Ukrainian Troops

Shmyhal Proposes to Create EU Army On Basis of Ukrainian Troops

Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal proposes to build the EU Armed Forces project on the basis of the Ukrainian army and its combat experience. He outl...
February 14, 2025
17:21
US Considers Sending Troops To Ukraine If Russia Refuses to Negotiate

US Considers Sending Troops To Ukraine If Russia Refuses to Negotiate

The United States is considering sending its troops to Ukraine if Russia abandons peace talks. US Vice President JD Vance stated this in an inte...
February 14, 2025
14:28
Umerov: Finland Invests In Production of Heavy Armored Vehicles For Ukraine

Umerov: Finland Invests In Production of Heavy Armored Vehicles For Ukraine

Finland is preparing a new military aid package, including investments in the production of heavy armored vehicles for Ukraine. Defense Minister...
February 14, 2025
11:12
Denmark Delivers Most of Promised F-16s to Ukraine

Denmark Delivers Most of Promised F-16s to Ukraine

Denmark has already handed over most of the promised F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine as part of its military assistance. This was announced by Defe...
February 14, 2025
10:34
Ukraine to receive 6 thousand HX-2 strike drones this year

Ukraine to receive 6 thousand HX-2 strike drones this year

German company Helsing will produce 6,000 HX-2 strike drones for the Ukrainian Defense Forces. The company announced this on its website. Thi...
February 13, 2025
15:17
The first section of the Eastern Shield was completed ahead of schedule in Poland

The first section of the Eastern Shield was completed ahead of schedule in Poland

The first section of the system of engineering barriers and fortifications of the so-called “Eastern Shield” was completed ahead of schedule in Pol...
February 13, 2025
15:10
5 units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces received UAVs and EW systems worth almost UAH 51 million

5 units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces received UAVs and EW systems worth almost UAH 51 million

The Come Back Alive Foundation has supplied five units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces with equipment, UAVs, and EW systems thanks to a contributio...
February 13, 2025
13:11
AASM Hammer production to be localized in India

AASM Hammer production to be localized in India

The French company Safran will launch a joint production of AASM Hammer bomb correction modules in India. The Economic Times reported on this. ...
February 13, 2025
12:56
Ukraine discusses F-16 maintenance localization with Belgium

Ukraine discusses F-16 maintenance localization with Belgium

Ukraine is discussing with Belgium the localization of F-16 fighter jet maintenance within the country. Rustem Umierov, Minister of Defense of U...
February 13, 2025
11:59
Ukraine will receive about 100 IRIS-T missiles from Germany

Ukraine will receive about 100 IRIS-T missiles from Germany

Ukraine will receive about 100 IRIS-T guided missiles from Germany in the near future. The German Mission to NATO announced this on social media...
February 13, 2025
10:55
Norway to purchase NOK 1.2 billion worth of air defense equipment from the United States for Ukraine

Norway to purchase NOK 1.2 billion worth of air defense equipment from the United States for Ukraine

Norway will allocate approximately NOK 1.2 billion to strengthen Ukraine's air defense. The press service of the Norwegian government reported o...
February 13, 2025
10:06
The Netherlands to transfer 25 YPR-765 PRGWT armored medical evacuation vehicles to Ukraine

The Netherlands to transfer 25 YPR-765 PRGWT armored medical evacuation vehicles to Ukraine

The Netherlands will supply the Ukrainian Defense Forces with 25 YPR-765 tracked armored medical evacuation vehicles. The Ministry of Defense of...
February 13, 2025
09:52
Pentagon chief: Ukraine’s Pre-2014 Borders Not a Realistic Goal

Pentagon chief: Ukraine’s Pre-2014 Borders Not a Realistic Goal

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth stated that returning to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic goal, according to the European Pravda...
February 12, 2025
22:19
UK Presents Gravehawk Missile System, Designed for Ukraine

UK Presents Gravehawk Missile System, Designed for Ukraine

The Gravehawk surface-to-air missile system, designed specifically for Ukraine, has been officially unveiled in the UK. Forces News published a ...
February 12, 2025
21:35
Latvia plans to transfer 42 armored personnel carriers to Ukraine

Latvia plans to transfer 42 armored personnel carriers to Ukraine

The Latvian government plans to transfer 42 armored personnel carriers to the Ukrainian Defense Forces, which corresponds to a battalion-size set. ...
February 12, 2025
20:54
Missiles and artillery systems: Britain has allocated a £150 million aid package to Ukraine

Missiles and artillery systems: Britain has allocated a £150 million aid package to Ukraine

The UK government has allocated a new military aid package for Ukraine worth £150 million. This was announced at the beginning of a meeting of t...
February 12, 2025
18:38
Local war in six months and Russian aggression against the EU in five: Danish intelligence forecast

Local war in six months and Russian aggression against the EU in five: Danish intelligence forecast

If the war against Ukraine stops or freezes, and NATO does not rearm, Russia could be ready for a large-scale war in Europe in about five years. ...
February 12, 2025
18:20