Author: Steven Sahiounie

This comes just hours after a Mirage 2000 fighter jet of the Taiwanese air force crashed into the sea during a training flight. The Taiwanese air force was scrambled to ward off thirteen Chinese aircraft that entered its air defence zone, Taiwan’s Defence Ministry said. Earlier on Monday, a Taiwanese Mirage 2000 fighter crashed into the sea during a training flight, but the pilot managed to escape, the office of Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said. Taiwan has been governed independently from mainland China since 1949, but Beijing sees it as a breakaway province. China has repeatedly condemned US assistance to the…

The Donbass republic’s officials have said that at least 17 people were killed in the shelling A Tochka-U ballistic missile was launched into Donetsk, the capital of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), on Monday, officials said. The reported incident took place amid the Russia military campaign in Ukraine. DPR military spokesman Eduard Basurin said the missile was intercepted and destroyed mid-air, but one of its explosive parts managed to hit the city. DPR defense officials reported that at least 17 people were killed and 28 wounded. “If the missile hadn’t been shot down, we’d have a lot more casualties,” DPR head…

Turkey was unceremoniously booted out of the F-35 programme in 2019 over its decision to buy Russia’s S-400 air defence system, notwithstanding its membership in NATO and the fact that its defence industry helped to develop the fifth-gen fighter jet.Turkey has no interest in purchasing US Patriot surface-to-air missile systems, and considers the F-35 issue “closed” for the moment, Turkish Defence Industries president Ismail Demir has said. “At the moment there is no demand for Patriots from our side. If we’re talking about the defence industry, we have turned the page on the matter. This issue has been removed from…

If Pentagon-funded research is as benign as Washington claims, why not subject it to scrutiny? – Chinese Foreign Ministry Washington should prove that the global network of biolabs funded by the Pentagon does not conduct nefarious research by subjecting the facilities to international scrutiny, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said during a daily briefing on Monday. “If the US wants to prove their activity is benign, why not open those biolabs to independent examination by international experts?” he asked. There are dozens of biolabs funded by the US through the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) scattered throughout the globe. The…

Russia started a military operation in Ukraine on February 24 in response to calls from the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk for protection against attacks by Ukrainian forces.The pilot of the Russian Su-25 attack aircraft was able to land the plane after being hit by a missile from a Ukrainian man-portable air defence systems (MANPADS), the Russian Defence Ministry said on Monday. “While performing a combat mission in the special military operation zone, a Su-25 attack aircraft, the second in the pair, was hit by a missile from a man-portable air defence system fired from the ground by a…

Over two weeks after starting the operation to demilitarize Ukraine, Russian forces have been hesitant to enter major populated centers -especially in areas where Ukrainian ultranationalist battalions are holed up. The Russian MoD has repeatedly accused the latter of placing heavy weapons in residential areas, and using civilians as human shields.Moscow considers recent statements by US and European officials on President Putin’s supposed “disappointment” with the state of the operation in Ukraine to be provocative, and aimed at getting Russia to storm Ukrainian cities, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov has said.”At the begnning of the operation, the president did in fact…

Ukraine is meeting the first “foreign volunteers” who are on their way to the country to “protect its freedom”, says Volodymyr Zelensky. The Ukrainian armed forces are currently in the process of setting up a “foreign legion unit”. Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, has stated that 16,000 foreign mercenaries will fight for the country. In a video message on Thursday, he claimed that “Ukraine is meeting the first foreign volunteers” who are on their way to the country to “protect its freedom.” Zelensky’s remarks came after the Japanese newspaper Mainichi quoted an unnamed source as saying that approximately 70 Japanese volunteers are set to join…

Kiev’s special forces have warned Moscow’s soldiers of their impending doom The command of Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces has released a statement allegedly threatening that all Russian soldiers will be killed, including those who try to surrender, as Moscow’s military carries out an attack on the Eastern European nation. Critics have condemned it, describing it as tantamount to a threat to carry out war crimes. It has caused a severe backlash, with many commentors online accusing Kiev of having expressed the intent to commit grave offenses against Russian soldiers. The statement, which was apparently first shared in a Facebook post…

On the day of March 2, 2022, information began to spread that Ukrainian defense forces had sunk a Russian large landing ship on its approach to the port of Odessa. Particularly active “information warriors” reported that the ship had 600 battle tanks on board. This is not a joke, everyone can check this information in social media. At the same time, information began to circulate again that Russian landing troops were landing in Odessa. As in previous days, this information turned out to be unreliable. However, it played a role and was used as a basis for further actions of…

An infamous tank hunter of Turkish-backed forces in Syria is reportedly attempting to travel to Ukraine to fight Russian forces there. The militant, Suheil al-Hammoud, first expressed his desire to fight in Ukraine on February 25, just a day after the beginning of the Russian special military operation which is meant to “demilitarize” and “denazify” the country. In a tweet, al-Hammoud asked his follower on Twitter how he could get to Ukraine to fight the Russians. Later, al-Hammoud, who claims to be the best TOW anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) operator in Syria, announced that he was in contact with the…