The Financial Times reports that Kiev is quickly depleting Ukraine’s pool of young men to conscript into its army. To add to its ranks, Kiev has set up checkpoints to catch potential draft evaders. The outlet says Ukraine is struggling to train its soldiers and has...
The AP reported that Ukrainian soldiers preparing for deployment have resigned themselves to the “grimness of the future.”
Washington formally declared the July 26 ouster of Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum - and the subsequent establishment of a miliary junta in Niamey - a coup d’etat on Tuesday. The junta, called the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland (CNSP), is led by...
The United Nation’s most powerful body is set to vote on a US-backed resolution that will authorize a Kenyan-led military force to be sent to Haiti. The White House hopes the deployment will restore order in Port-au-Prince, where gangs are estimated to control 80% of...
Moscow announced that it plans to increase military spending by nearly 70% in 2024 as it fights against what the Kremlin has dubbed NATO’s “hybrid war.” Russia’s defense budget next year, which is dwarfed by the Pentagon budget, will still be less than the total...
Russian FM Sergey Lavrov remarked that the Western powers are “fighting against us, using the hands and bodies of Ukrainians” Kiev launched cruise missile attacks on the Crimean Peninsula with weapons provided by NATO on Friday. This was followed by another missile...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attacked the UN as an ineffective body unable to enforce its own principles. The Ukrainian leader called for Russia to lose its veto power on the Security Council (UNSC). Speaking at a special session of the UNSC - the UN's most...
The US has resumed intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance flight operations in order to maintain “force protection” while some troops and assets are relocated Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso have signed a charter establishing a mutual defense pact, dubbed the...
