KYIV, Ukraine — A Russian naval ship in Crimea was damaged in an airstrike by Ukrainian forces, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday. The landing ship Novocherkassk was hit at a base in the city of Feodosia by plane-launched guided missiles, the ministry said, adding that two Ukrainian fighter jets were destroyed by anti-aircraft fire during … Read more
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan’s Defense Ministry says a Chinese military surveillance balloon was spotted in the Taiwan Strait, as well as a large-scale dispatch of military aircraft and ships. The ministry said the balloon passed southwest of the northern port city of Keelung on Thursday night, then continued east before disappearing, possibly into the Pacific … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip have left thousands of people dead, and the toll continues to climb, according to Palestinian health authorities. The Washington Post, like other news organizations, the United Nations and other international institutions, cannot independently verify death tolls in the war between Israel … Read more
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian drones targeted Kyiv Sunday as the British Defense Ministry said there were “few immediate prospects” for major change along the Ukrainian front line as the war enters its second winter. Russia launched 20 Iranian-made Shahed drones overnight, targeting the Ukrainian capital and the Cherkasy and Poltava regions, according to a military … Read more
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Thousands of people broke into aid warehouses in Gaza to take flour and basic hygiene products, a U.N. agency said Sunday, in a mark of growing desperation and the breakdown of public order three weeks into the war between Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers. Tanks and infantry pushed into … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment KYIV — Ukraine’s protection minister resigned Monday, hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky introduced plans to switch him amid a widening corruption probe and slow-moving counteroffensive in opposition to Russian invaders within the nation’s southeast. Zelensky stated on Sunday evening that he’ll ask parliament to approve his nomination of Rustem Umerov, presently … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment The abrupt dismissal of a high basic who commanded considered one of Russia’s elite navy forces in Ukraine has laid naked the persevering with divisions within the armed forces, as President Vladimir Putin grapples with the aftermath of a mercenary insurrection that posed the best problem he has confronted as Russia’s … Read more