Why Ukraine is finally getting new fighter jets from NATO
In what counts as another milestone in the West’s willingness to increase security assistance to the war-ravaged nation, Poland and Slovakia, both NATO members, announced last week they will jointly be donating their entire inventory of Soviet-era MiG-29s to Ukraine. According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a London-based think tank, the Poles have some 28 MiG-29s in their inventory, but it is unknown how many of them are still airworthy. The remainder of the Polish fleet would follow after the planes had been “serviced and prepared,” Duda said. The Polish MiG-29s are scheduled to be backfilled by new generation American F-35s and South Korean Golden Eagles.
Putin: Russia will "respond accordingly" if Ukraine gets depleted uranium shells
Russia President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Moscow would be "respond accordingly" if Britain gives Ukraine military supplies, including armor-piercing ammunition containing depleted uranium.
Russia launched another round of strikes across Ukraine, killing at least eight people in the Kyiv region and one in Zaporizhzhia after, officials said.
Meanwhile in the east, the town of Avdiivka in Donetsk is being heavily bombarded by Russia, a local Ukrainian leader told CNN, as concerns mount that it could become the next Bakhmut. The fighting comes as President Volodymyr Zelensky made a surprise visit to troops Wednesday in the region.
Are China and Russia allies? Key takeaways from the Xi-Putin summit
When Chinese President Xi Jinping landed in Moscow on Monday, it was for what would be his astonishing 40th meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. The two nations share a 2,672-mile border, one of the longest in the world, as well as the legacy of having been the 20th century’s two communist superpowers.
The relationship has long been one of two neighbors whose mutual needs are checked by mutual suspicions. Close allies at the start of the Cold War, the Soviet Union and China eventually became rivals, with Beijing moving closer to the American camp after President Richard Nixon’s visit to China in 1972. Today, they are again both friend and foe, united by an overarching common purpose: weakening the United States or at least checking American ambitions in their respective spheres of influence. The meeting in Moscow was billed as a peace summit intended to end the fighting in Ukraine. But most observers agree that efforts at peace were superficial.
Ukrainian president extends tour of war’s front-line areas
Ukraine’s president visited the Sumy region in northern Ukraine on Tuesday, continuing his tour over recent days of areas of the country that have felt the brunt of Russia’s full-scale invasion and as the stage increasingly looks set for a Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Russia stops sharing info on missile tests with U.S., begins nuclear weapons drills
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in remarks carried by Russian news agencies that Moscow has halted all information exchanges with Washington after previously suspending its participation in the last remaining nuclear arms pact with the U.S.
Ukraine war live updates: Biden tells Russia to release WSJ reporter; Wimbledon reverses ban on Russians and Belarusians
Turkey’s Parliament unanimously approved Finland’s membership to NATO, clearing the final hurdle for the Nordic country’s ascension to the 74-year old defense alliance. Ankara is still holding out on Sweden’s membership, however. The step for Finland, which comes after months of stalling by NATO members Turkey and Hungary, marks a historic foreign policy shift and a significant setback for Russia, which often refers to NATO’s expansion as an existential threat. Finland’s addition to the alliance will add 830 miles of NATO territory along Russia’s border.
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