Finland President Alexander Stubb said that Russia's dependence on China meant that Xi Jinping could end the Ukraine war if he wanted to.
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2024-07-02T21:17:31Z
After Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un signed a new strategic pact including mutual defense, Russia is sending kids to a North Korean summer camp.
War expert Mick Ryan says Russia failed to act decisively in the Ukraine war, missing a chance to strike a decisive blow.
The Netherlands' defense minister said the delivery of the first F-16s to Ukraine "will proceed soon," with export licenses now issued.
Russia's new glide bomb has a greater destruction radius than previous munitions and can be released outside the range of Ukrainian air defenses.
War experts have suggested that Ukraine may be degrading Russian air defenses, possibly with the coming F-16s in mind.
Some of Russia's devastating glide bombs are falling on its own territory. One analyst said this was probably because of cheap guidance systems.
Ukraine's F-16s are set to arrive when it's allowed to use allied weapons to hit targets in Russia — making the jets far more effective, experts say.
Some of Russia's deadly Su-34 fighter bombers lie exposed on the tarmac of a military airfield just 100 miles from the border with Ukraine.
Rutte's experience and personality could be key to "Trump-proofing" the NATO alliance, one expert said.
Russia and North Korea's budding partnership and new mutual defense pact may be putting China in a tough spot.
Ukraine has long coveted more of the $1 billion US-manufactured Patriot air defense systems.
French Army Chief of Staff Gen. Pierre Schill said small drones could soon lose their battlefield advantage as defenses were catching up.
Russia's warships are firing on Ukraine from the Sea of Azov, thinking it's a 'safer' spot, a Ukrainian official said. It may not be, experts told BI.
On Sunday evening, gunmen attacked two Orthodox churches and two synagogues in Russia's Dagestan region, killing around 20 people.
ISW's conflict experts warned that the West must "challenge Putin's belief that he can gradually subsume Ukraine."
Russian troops are being used in head-on assaults on Ukrainian positions.
BI looked at President Joe Biden's and former President Donald Trump's plans for eight major economic categories that affect Americans' daily lives.
Ukraine is now able to strike military targets in Russia using Western-supplied weapons. One commander said Ukraine had destroyed columns of troops.
A Pentagon spokesperson said that any military personnel North Korea sent to Ukraine to aid Russian forces would just be "cannon fodder."