Tag: Defense
In Lviv, Guterres, Erdogan and Zelensky worry about tensions around the Zaporizhia power plant
The leaders of Ukraine, Turkey and the UN, meeting in Lviv, Ukraine, discussed two key issues in this conflict on Thursday: the grain export agreement and the growing tensions around…
Ukraine continues its counter-offensive in the South, Russia bombs Kharkiv
Russian strikes intensified in northeastern Ukraine on Wednesday evening August 17 and Thursday August 18, particularly in Kharkiv: at least four dead and twenty wounded Thursday morning, after seven people…
An American Marine Corps colonel admires the Finnish Defense Forces’ quick reaction ability
The big joint exercise between the USA and Finland did not even exist on paper in the early summer. The Finnish reservist is excited about the exercise: “We are on…
North Korea fires 2 cruise missiles amid US-South Korean military exercises
Military tensions are not falling on the Korean peninsula. As fears of a seventh nuclear test by North Korea are growing, the North Korean army fired two cruise missiles this…
President Putin promotes Russian weapons used ‘in real combat conditions’
Vladimir Poutin did not have, this Monday, August 15, words strong enough to praise Russian weapons to his foreign allies. The President of the Federation was speaking on the first…
Arrival in Nouméa of the longest projection of French Air Force assets
Showing that the Indo-Pacific space is a priority for France: this is one of the objectives of the Pegase 2022/Henri Brown mission currently being carried out by the French army.…
US to boost support for Taiwan after Chinese military maneuvers
New episode of tensions between the United States and China over Taiwan: after Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei last week, then Chinese military exercises around the island claimed by Beijing,…
French Rafales in the New Caledonian sky
It is the longest projection of bursts ever organized by the French army. Three Air Force fighter planes, accompanied by two tankers and two A400Ms are expected in New Caledonia…
The search of Trump’s home was based on suspicions of the illegal storage of defense documents – in the background a possible violation of the Espionage Act
During the search, FBI agents seized a significant amount of documents marked as top secret. In the United States, a Florida judge has released the former president Donald Trump the…
Russia has not the slightest interest in withdrawing from the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, the researcher estimates: It uses the nuclear power plant as a defense shield
Russia and Ukraine blame each other for the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant strikes. According to Ilmari Käihkö, a visiting researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute, both sides have a motive to…