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One killed in Kyiv as Russian missile attack targets Ukraine’s capital

Ukrainian official says Russia used hypersonic Kinzhal missiles and Iskander/KN-23 ballistic missiles to carry out the attack. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said air defences were operating following a missile attack which Russia said was in “response” to this week’s Ukrainian strikes using Western missiles on a chemical plant in southern Russia. Prior to the air raid, the Ukrainian Air Force warned …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

In first call, Russian defense chief cautioned top US general about large-scale military exercise in eastern Mediterranean

CNN

CNN — In their first ever call, Russia’s defense chief cautioned the top US general about a large-scale Russian military exercise in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, according to a US official, with tensions running high between the two countries over the escalating war in Ukraine. The call between Chief of Russian General Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov and US Chairman of …

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1 month ago

Russia spokesperson ordered on call to keep quiet on ICBM strike? Video is viral

India Today

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova on Thursday received a phone call in the middle of a press conference where she was allegedly instructed by her higher authorities to not speak about the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile by Moscow during an attack on Ukraine. In a theatrical presentation likely designed to strike fear into the hearts of naive …

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1 month ago

Hypersonic missiles: The age of AI is raising risk levels

Live Mint

It’s a no-brainer that global geopolitics is dictating the modern arms race, with security concerns, power struggles and shifting alliances driving nations to expand and modernize their military capabilities. The successful testing of India’s indigenously-developed long-range hypersonic missile supports this contention, while marking a big leap in the country’s tech capability. There are two primary types, both fast and sneaky: …

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How DRDO’s successful hypersonic missile test will boost India’s deterrence capability

Firstpost

This test marks an important milestone in India’s strategic deterrence capabilities, and now India is among a select group of nations, which includes the United States, Russia, and China The Defence Research and Development Organisation on November 16, 2024, conducted a successful flight test of a long-range hypersonic missile from the APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the Odisha coast. Hypersonic …

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3 months, 4 weeks ago

Ukraine’s president says Russian overnight attack involved over 100 missiles and about 100 drones, at least three killed

The Hindu

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday condemned Russia’s overnight and early morning barrage on his country as “vile” and said it involved over 100 missiles of various types and about 100 “Shahed” drones. Russian forces fired drones, cruise missiles and hypersonic ballistic Kinzhal missiles at 15 Ukrainian regions — more than half the country, Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said …

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3 months, 4 weeks ago

Russia launches barrage of missiles and drones that hit over half of Ukraine, officials say

LA Times

A mobile Ukrainian machine gun unit scans the sky for incoming Russian ordnance from a road in the capital, Kyiv, on Monday. Russia battered much of Ukraine on Monday, firing scores of missiles and drones that killed four people, injured more than a dozen and damaged energy facilities in attacks that President Volodymyr Zelensky described as “vile.” The barrage of …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

A major Russian missile attack on Ukraine kills at least 20 people and hits a children’s hospital

The Hindu

A major Russian missile attack across Ukraine killed at least 20 people and injured more than 50 on Monday, officials said, with one missile striking a large children’s hospital in the capital, Kyiv, where emergency crews searched rubble for casualties. The Russian barrage targeted five Ukrainian cities with more than 40 missiles of different types, hitting apartment buildings and public …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Russia unleashes biggest airstrike on children's hospital, kills 20 ahead of crucial NATO Summit I VIDEO

India TV News

Russia-Ukraine war: Ahead of the NATO Summit, Russia has unleashed a major airstrike on a Ukrainian children's hospital wherein at least 20 people were killed, interior ministry confirmed. The missiles struck a children's hospital in Kyiv on Monday and killed at least three people elsewhere in the Ukrainian capital, authorities said, while another attack in the central Ukrainian city of …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Russia’s heaviest bombardment of Kyiv in 4 months hits a children’s hospital

LA Times

Rescuers and volunteers clean up rubble and search for victims after Russian missiles hit the country’s main children‘s hospital in Kyv during a massive missile attack on many Ukrainian cities Monday. Dozens of Russian missiles blasted cities across Ukraine on Monday, striking apartment buildings and a large children’s hospital in the capital, where local residents joined emergency crews to search …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Russia fires more missiles and drones at Ukraine ahead of diplomatic efforts to stop the war

The Hindu

Russian forces fired missiles and drones at the Kyiv region and five other areas of Ukraine in a nighttime attack, officials said on Wednesday, ahead of several days of intense diplomatic activity around the war that is now in its third year. Ukraine’s air force said it shot down more than two dozen air targets, including cruise missiles, a Kinzhal …

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7 months ago

Russia starts ‘tactical nuclear drills’ near Ukraine border

Al Jazeera

‘First stage’ of exercises involves Iskander and Kinzhal hypersonic missiles and is seen as a warning to Ukraine’s Western allies. Russia has begun the first stage of tactical nuclear weapons drills, involving Iskander and Kinzhal missiles, in areas bordering Ukraine. Belarus, where Russia said last year it was deploying tactical nuclear weapons, is also expected to take part. Nuclear analysts …

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7 months ago

Russian troops carry out tactical nuke drills near Ukraine's border

Daily Mail

Bleak footage has revealed Russian troops carrying out drills to use tactical nuclear weapons near Ukraine's border in response to what the nation claimed were Western 'threats.' Vladimir Putin 's defence ministry said this was the 'first stage' of the drills, which involved practicing the loading of launch vehicles, driving to designated launch sites and loading planes with hypersonic Kinzhal …

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7 months ago

Russia begins nuclear drills in an apparent warning to West over Ukraine

Associated Press

Russia’s military has begun drills involving tactical nuclear weapons that were announced by Russian authorities earlier this month in an apparent warning to senior Western officials who had spoken about the possibility of deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine. It was the first time Russia has publicly announced drills involving tactical nuclear weapons, although its strategic nuclear forces regularly …

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11 months, 1 week ago

Ukraine says Russia launched barrage of missile attacks nationwide

Al Jazeera

Mass onslaught took place before France’s new foreign minister’s visit to Kyiv. Russia launched dozens of attacks across Ukraine overnight, the Ukrainian air force said, as Kyiv continued its diplomatic efforts to ratchet up support and military aid. “A total of 40 means of enemy air attack were recorded,” the air force said on Saturday, adding that it destroyed eight …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

Wave of Russian missiles pounds areas across Ukraine

Al Jazeera

Russia launched another barrage of hypersonic and cruise missiles against Ukrainian targets on Monday, striking near the front lines of fighting in the east as well as in central and western parts of the country, officials said. Unlike last winter, when the Kremlin’s forces targeted Ukraine’s power grid, Russia is now reportedly aiming at Kyiv’s defence industry. Russia fired 51 …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

Russia and Ukraine target each other’s defence industry amid land stalemate

Al Jazeera

With the ground war stalemated and both governments unshaken, Kyiv and Moscow took aim at factories. Even as Ukraine’s allies called for reinforcements in air defence, Ukraine responded punitively, launching drones into the Russian city of Belgorod that killed at least 26 people. I would like the whole world to hear these sounds of explosions … in all editorial offices …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Russia Targets Ukraine With Fresh Wave of Drones and Missiles

Live Mint

KYIV—Russia launched another mass drone-and-missile attack against Ukraine, the latest in a growing campaign to break Ukrainian morale and wear down its air-defense systems. Ukraine’s air force said 72 of the 99 missiles were shot down, mostly over Kyiv, as were all 35 Iranian-designed Shahed drones. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who has been calling ever louder for more military aid, …

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1 year, 3 months ago

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects Russian nuclear-capable bombers, 'Kinzhal' hypersonic missiles

ABC

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected Russian nuclear-capable strategic bombers, hypersonic missiles and warships on Saturday, accompanied by President Vladimir Putin's defence minister. Key points: Kim Jong Un has viewed Russian bombers which "can fly from Moscow to Japan and then back again" He also inspected a warship from Russia's Pacific Fleet based in Vladivostok A Kremlin spokesman told …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Russia shows N Korea’s Kim hypersonic missiles, nuclear-capable bombers

Al Jazeera

North Korean leader continues tour of Russia with visit to airbase where he inspected latest Russian missiles, bombers. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected Russia’s hypersonic “Kinzhal” missiles as well as strategic, nuclear-capable bombers in the latest stop on his tour of Russian space, military and other technological facilities in the country’s Far East, according to Russian-language news …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Russia Equipping Nuclear Submarines With Hypersonic Missiles

ABP News

According to Reuters, Yasen-class submarines, also known as Project 885M, are nuclear-powered cruise missile submarines, built to replace Soviet-era nuclear attack submarines as part of a programme to modernise the army and fleet. Earlier this year, President Vladimir Putin had said that Russia would start mass supplies of Zircon missiles as part of the country's efforts to boost its nuclear …

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1 year, 6 months ago

African leaders start peace mission in Kyiv despite Russian missile barrage

The Hindu

A delegation of leaders and senior officials from Africa arrived in Ukraine seeking ways to end the invaded country's nearly 16-month war with Russia and to ensure food and fertilizer deliveries to their continent, though an air raid in Kyiv during their Friday trip provided a reminder of the challenges they face. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said last month …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Iran unveils what it calls a hypersonic missile able to beat air defenses amid tensions with US

Associated Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran claimed on Tuesday that it had created a hypersonic missile capable of traveling at 15 times the speed of sound, adding a new weapon to its arsenal as tensions remain high with the United States over Tehran’s nuclear program. The new missile — called Fattah, or “Conqueror” in Farsi — was unveiled even as …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Ukraine battles Russia in Bakhmut as Zelenskyy secures more arms

Al Jazeera

What happened in the 64th week of Russia’s war in Ukraine? Blow-by-blow Eastern forces spokesman Serhii Cherevaty said Ukrainian troops had on May 11 advanced “into the depth of enemy positions from 250 metres to one and a half kilometres.” Maliar put the advance at two kilometres. Ukraine’s foreign intelligence service said that “the aid package includes in particular: 18 …

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One killed in Kyiv as Russian missile attack targets Ukraine’s capital

In first call, Russian defense chief cautioned top US general about large-scale military exercise in eastern Mediterranean

Russia spokesperson ordered on call to keep quiet on ICBM strike? Video is viral

Hypersonic missiles: The age of AI is raising risk levels

How DRDO’s successful hypersonic missile test will boost India’s deterrence capability

Ukraine’s president says Russian overnight attack involved over 100 missiles and about 100 drones, at least three killed

Russia launches barrage of missiles and drones that hit over half of Ukraine, officials say

A major Russian missile attack on Ukraine kills at least 20 people and hits a children’s hospital

Russia unleashes biggest airstrike on children's hospital, kills 20 ahead of crucial NATO Summit I VIDEO

Russia’s heaviest bombardment of Kyiv in 4 months hits a children’s hospital

Russia fires more missiles and drones at Ukraine ahead of diplomatic efforts to stop the war

Russia starts ‘tactical nuclear drills’ near Ukraine border

Russian troops carry out tactical nuke drills near Ukraine's border

Russia begins nuclear drills in an apparent warning to West over Ukraine

Ukraine says Russia launched barrage of missile attacks nationwide

Wave of Russian missiles pounds areas across Ukraine

Russia and Ukraine target each other’s defence industry amid land stalemate

Russia Targets Ukraine With Fresh Wave of Drones and Missiles

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects Russian nuclear-capable bombers, 'Kinzhal' hypersonic missiles

Russia shows N Korea’s Kim hypersonic missiles, nuclear-capable bombers

Russia Equipping Nuclear Submarines With Hypersonic Missiles

African leaders start peace mission in Kyiv despite Russian missile barrage

Iran unveils what it calls a hypersonic missile able to beat air defenses amid tensions with US

Ukraine battles Russia in Bakhmut as Zelenskyy secures more arms