2023-05-25 09:22:30
Cover image: Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting with the Bosnian Serb leader at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 23, 2023. ALEXEY FILIPPOV / AFP
- The Ukrainian army assured on Thursday that the air defense protecting kyiv had completely repelled a new attack « massive » of Russian drones. The head of the city’s military administration, Serhi Popko, counted twelve offensives in May.
- Washington on Wednesday approved the sale of Nasams advanced surface-to-air missile systems to Ukraine for $285 million (265 million euros) to strengthen the country’s air defence. The US Congress has yet to give its authorization.
- Russia denied on Wednesday night that a fire hit the building of the Russian Defense Ministry in Moscow, moments following the official TASS agency reported a fire on a balcony. On some Telegram channels, witnesses reported a pungent smell in the area of the military department building.
- The largest warship ever built, the American aircraft carrier USS Gerald-Fordarrived in Oslo on Wednesday, with his escort, for a stopover denounced by Russia, neighboring Norway. He should take part in a few days in military exercises which, according to local media, should take him to the Arctic.
- Two Russian armed groups, fighting on the Ukrainian side, and who claimed responsibility for an incursion into a Russian border region on Monday, boasted on Wednesday of the ” hit “ of their operationwhich showed, according to them, the weakness of the Russian defenses. Moscow promised a response on Wednesday “extremely firm” in the event of new armed incursions.
- Ukraine’s NATO membership “is not something that will happen in the middle of a war”said the Secretary General of the Atlantic Alliance, Jens Stoltenberg. He acknowledged that the members were divided on the subject.
- About 10,000 of the 50,000 inmates recruited from Russian prisons by the Wagner Group were killed in Ukrainesaid private militia leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, adding that a similar proportion of his professional fighters had died.
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