Ukraine is one of the largest grain exporters in the world; its grain feeds approximately 400 million people worldwide.
Russia has sought to cripple Ukraine’s grain export capacity in recent weeks by flying … Read the rest
22 July 2023.
The United States inspection of material and technical assistance has shown that they have no complaints concerning Ukraine’s accounting of weapons and military equipment transferred to the country.
mil.in.ua/en/news/u-s-confirms-no-claims-on-ukraine-s-weapon-record-keeping/
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The United Kingdom’s rate of inflation dropped to 7.9% in the year to June 2023, according to the Office for National Statistics.
It had been at 8.7% in both April and May 2023.
Some experts are expecting this to cause … Read the rest
A coalition of 11 nations will start training Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 fighter jets in August 2023.
Both Denmark and Romania will be involved in the locations for training.
The F-16 is an American single-engine … Read the rest
Ukraine and NATO
12 July 2023
NATO has dropped a requirement for Ukraine to fulfil what is called a Membership Action Plan (MAP).
This effectively makes Ukraine’s future path into joining NATO, a much easier process.… Read the rest
More anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine.
Germany has joined the United States, the UK, Denmark, and the Netherlands who have announced their intention to provide hundreds of additional anti-aircraft missiles to support Ukraine’s counteroffensive.
The delivery of these missiles has already … Read the rest
How does the Kakhovka Dam breach affect the Ukraine Counter-offensive?
Few observers expected Ukraine to replicate its blitz across Kharkiv.
In anticipation of Ukrainian attacks, Russia prepared the most extensive fortifications in Europe since World War II across the territory … Read the rest
On 30 November 1939, after Finland declined a 30-year lease to the Soviet Union for a naval base at Hanko, in exchange for Soviet land, almost half a million Soviet troops invaded Finland.… Read the rest
Nikolai Patrushev, the Russian Security Council Secretary and a friend of Vladimir Putin from their days at the KGB, has claimed that Moscow is not at war with Ukraine but is in a “… Read the rest
The head of the Russian private army Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has acknowledged that Russian troops have killed civilians and has agreed with Western estimates that The Wagner group has lost more than 20,000 men … Read the rest