The Russian Navy’s Pacific Fleet is set to carry out various weapons tests, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced on Friday. Moscow’s drills come amid heightened tensions in the region as well as numerous large scale war drills led by Washington and its...
Defense Official Confirms Leak: American Smart Bombs Are Failing in Ukraine
A high number of American smart bombs are failing to achieve their objective in Ukraine, a Pentagon official told Politico confirming information in documents leaked by Jack Teixeira. The White House ordered The Joint Direct Attack Munition-Extended Range (JDAM-ER) be...
Russia, Ukraine free POWs in Orthodox Easter Swap
Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin announced Sunday that he marked Orthodox Easter Sunday by ordering more than 100 Ukrainian POWs freed, according to Reuters. Per the Associated Press, Ukrainian presidential adviser Andriy Yermak confirms the Easter prisoner...
Biden Looking at Expanding Internet Surveillance After Discord Leaks
The Biden administration appears poised to increase internet surveillance in response to the leaked Pentagon documents that appear to have been posted on the messaging platform Discord. NBC News reported on Wednesday that the administration was looking at expanding...
Saudi Push to Bring Syria Back Into Arab League Faces Some Resistance
Saudi Arabia's push to bring Syria back into the Arab League is facing resistance from a few countries, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The report named Qatar, Morocco, and Kuwait as opposing normalization between Syria and the Arab League, which suspended...
Twenty-One-Year-Old Air National Guardsman Arrested as Suspected Leaker
On Thursday, the FBI arrested a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard as the suspected leaker of the classified documents from the Pentagon and other US government agencies that have surfaced online. Jack Teixeira was first named before the arrest...
Ukraine Calls for Black Sea to Become a ‘Sea of NATO’
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba is calling on NATO to expand its military activity in the Black Sea, urging the alliance to transform the waters into a "sea of NATO." "The Black Sea is instrumental for making the whole of Europe peaceful and future-oriented,"...
Germany Approves Poland’s Request to Send MiG-29 Fighter Jets to Ukraine
The German government has approved Poland's request to export five Soviet-made MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine that originally came from Berlin's stockpile. Poland and Slovakia have already delivered some MiG-29s to Ukraine, making them the first NATO countries to...
US Arms Industry Planning First Taiwan Trip in Four Years
Around 25 US defense contractors plan to send representatives to Taiwan next month, marking the first time the arms industry will send a delegation to the island since 2019, Nikkei Asia reported on Tuesday. Rupert Hammond-Chambers, president of the US Taiwan Business...
Ukrainian PM Appeals Directly to Lloyd Austin for Long-Range Missiles, Jets
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal directly asked Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to provide Ukraine with longer-range missiles and fighter jets during a meeting in Washington on Wednesday. "We will win this war," Shmyhal said, according to The Hill. "But to...