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Ramstein Air Base, Germany — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rarely attends the security summits organized by his Western partners in person, but on Friday, he paid his first visit to the sprawling Ramstein Air Base in Germany, where U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin declared in his opening remarks of the latest such meeting that “it is a critical moment” in …

Two NATO members said Sunday that Russian drones violated their airspace, as one reportedly flew into Romania during nighttime attacks on neighboring Ukraine while another crashed in eastern Latvia the previous day. A drone entered Romanian territory early Sunday as Moscow struck “civilian targets and port infrastructure” across the Danube in Ukraine, Romania’s Ministry of National Defense reported. It added that Bucharest …

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Thursday that a decision by the U.S. or its NATO allies to allow Ukraine to use Western-supplied long-range missiles to hit targets deep inside Russia would be viewed as NATO’s direct participation in the war, which he said would significantly change “the very nature of the conflict.” “Flight assignments for these missile systems can, in fact, only …

There’s a new look of the Russian army in Ukraine: Soldiers on motorcycles who race across no-man’s land, counting on speed to evade Ukrainian fire … but not always able to outrun the swarms of drones which hover over the battlefield and can pick off fighters one-by-one. A Ukrainian drone (highlighted, left) strikes a Russian solder on a motorcycle.  George …

Ukraine used U.S.-supplied long-range missiles to strike at Russian airbases in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine on Tuesday after the U.S. secretly shipped variants of the Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) in recent weeks, according to U.S. officials.  President Joe Biden promised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a meeting at the White House last month that the U.S. would provide the ATACMS that …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday the daring military incursion into Russia’s Kursk region aims to create a buffer zone to prevent further attacks by Moscow across the border. It was the first time Zelenskyy clearly stated the aim of the operation, a stunning border incursion that was launched on Aug. 6. His comments came after Ukraine destroyed a key …

Ukraine’s surprise thrust into Russia – armored columns slicing through unprepared defenses, seizing towns and settlements – is perhaps the most audacious gamble in more than two years of war, since the invasion was launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin. “There’s a big psychological blow here to the Russian mindset, specifically Putin, where you have a Ukrainian penetration of Russian territory, [for …

A roadside blast caused by an improvised explosive device, targeting a convoy of foreign diplomats, killed a policeman and injured four others, an official in Pakistan said Sunday. The diplomats were traveling to a tourist area in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders Afghanistan and is a base for militant groups, including the Pakistani Taliban. The blast occurred at the tourist spot and …

Washington — Israeli President Isaac Herzog said Sunday that his country “did not want this war” with Hezbollah and ahead of Israel’s attacks on Friday that killed a senior commander of the terrorist group, “it is assumed that they were planning an attack.”  “We did not want this war,” Herzog said Sunday on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan. ” We’re …

Four people were killed and 17 more were injured in a shooting in Birmingham, Alabama, police said Sunday. Some of the individuals wounded suffered “life-threatening injures,” Birmingham Police Officer Truman Fitzgerald said at a news conference, hours after the incident that occurred in what he called one of the city’s “most popular entertainment districts.” Police said they believe multiple suspects …