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“Sweden has already donated a Saab Erieye airborne early warning aircraft.”
“On July 19, a Turkish-owned cargo vessel, Golden Leo, was struck by three Russian missiles, killing nine Indian and Syrian crew members and a Ukrainian pilot.”
“In the first month of the conflict alone, US forces reportedly fired more than 850 Tomahawk cruise missiles, over 1,000 Patriot and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors, and more than 1,300 Army Tactical Missile Systems…”
“In July, Russia launched an estimated 381 missiles at Ukraine, including 126 ballistic missiles. There were also some 5,000 Shahed-type drones.”
“We are closing every asylum hotel and moving asylum seekers into basic accommodation including ex-military sites.”
“As part of the Trump administration’s plans to remain a world leader in AI technology, the Department of Defense has requested $30 billion in funding to build secure AI data centers as part of the Pentagon’s “AI Arsenal initiative”.”
“Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and the surrounding region killed 17 people and wounded 44 others overnight into Wednesday”
“Discussions continue on a larger package of up to 150 aircraft”
“There were maybe more than 180 civilians inside. Most of them, around 90%, were killed," Civil Defence spokesman Mohammed Basel said at the time.”
“Hegseth, Feinberg and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine have asked Congress for an additional $67 billion to cover the costs of the Iran conflict and rebuild depleted stockpiles.”
“The big difference is that Ukraine brought down almost 90% of the Shaheds, which are slow and be taken out by interceptor drones and mobile fire groups with machine guns. It brought down approximately 40% of the missiles – mainly cruise mi…”
“We are closing every asylum hotel and moving asylum seekers into basic accommodation including ex-military sites”
“The Department of Energy is also looking to build 16 new data centers under guidance from the Trump administration.”
“Russian Defense Ministry said its forces downed 475 Ukrainian drones overnight over 16 Russian regions, as well as illegally annexed Crimea and the waters of the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.”
“Berlin refuses to supply Taurus cruise missiles”
“We provide material support - literally the gloves, shovels, protective equipment and body bags they use," said Patrick Griffiths, spokesperson for the ICRC.”
“According to the report, the Pentagon's proposed $1.5 trillion defence budget for the next fiscal year includes tens of billions of dollars for missile production.”
“Last night Russia launched 24 Iskanders, and Ukraine was not able to bring down any of them.”
“Companies linked to Mr Hearn have previously donated to other senior Labour figures, including Health Secretary-turned Defence Secretary Wes Streeting, who received £148,475 from OPD Group and MPM Connect Limited between 2023 and 2025.”
“Forescout says 15 vulnerabilities its researchers discovered all allow for different ways of exploiting these shortcuts, meaning a flaw anywhere in the onboarding chain can compromise every device that goes through it.”
“Russia fired 24 ballistic missiles, four other missiles identified as either hypersonic Zircons or supersonic Oniks, and 115 drones, many of them jet-powered, in the attack”
“President Emmanuel Macron has championed European strategic autonomy but delivered only six Mirage 2000 fighters to Ukraine”
“Four people have been killed by a soldier in Russian-annexed Crimea in an apparently random gun rampage.”
“The US military has rapidly depleted critical missile inventories during more than five months of fighting with Iran.”
“According to a recent report by thinktank CSIS when the U.S. entered into conflict with Iran in February, it had some 2,330 Patriot missiles. By the time of the “ceasefire” in April this was down to 1,030, and the total is now down to an e…”
“Across the same period, OPD Group also donated to Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander and former Defence Secretary Dan Jarvis, who received £15,000 and £42,000 respectively.”
“Out of the 15 discovered flaws, 11 received CVE identifiers, and the rest did not receive a tracking number.”
“It was the 14th Wildberries warehouse to catch fire in less than three weeks, according to a Ukrainian tally.”
“The FCAS programme, intended to replace the Rafale and Eurofighter, remains stalled by workshare disputes between Dassault and Airbus.”
“The Moscow-installed regional governor Mikhail Razvozhayev said the gunman opened fire on his fellow soldiers, killing one and wounding another.”
“As of last year, the US Department of Defense estimated that China fielded around 600 missiles in the 'boosted hypersonic' category, a classification that includes ballistic missiles equipped with hypersonic glide vehicles (HGVs) as well a…”
“This means that in the hot stage of the conflict the U.S. was expending more than 32 Patriots per day, and existing stocks would be exhausted in less than 30 days of action if things escalated to that level again.”
“there were 725 Armed Forces personnel and 183 civilian staff located at MOD Bicester.”
“Forescout said there are more than 1,800 Omada controllers accessible from the wider internet.”
“Nova Poshta, said a Russian cluster munition destroyed one of its sorting centers in Kyiv.”
“Kyiv plans an 800,000-strong army and domestic missile industry after concluding it cannot rely on Western promises, with EU loans and drone output already scaling up.”
“He then went on to kill three civilians in the village of Khmelnytske - two men, aged 71 and 59, and a 64-year-old woman.”
“According to recent Pentagon estimates, the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF) operates around 200 SRBM launchers supported by approximately 1,000 missiles, roughly 300 MRBM launchers backed by about 1,300 missiles, and another …”
“They are by far the biggest item in the U.S. Army’s missile budget for next year: 2,798 Patriot missiles on order, costing a cool $12 billion.”
“Combined with two previously disclosed CVEs (CVE-2025-7850 and CVE-2025-7851), these flaws enable concrete attacks that let attackers infiltrate networks through controllers and client devices.”
“Epicentr, one of Ukraine's largest retail and construction chains. It said in a statement on Facebook that 'in minutes, Russian missiles destroyed what the company had built over decades.' One employee was killed and three others were woun…”
“Brussels targets 189 tankers while London hits missile components and disinformation networks, acting in concert after Trump failed to extract a ceasefire commitment from Putin.”
“He has not been publicly identified and local officials have not released information about which branch of the Russian armed forces he was serving with.”
“With an estimated range of 300 to 600 kilometres, it is primarily intended for precision strikes against airfields, command centres, logistics hubs and military infrastructure, particularly in a Taiwan contingency.”
“The cost, $4,987,857 per missile according to the latest figures, is a major reason why stockpiles are not bigger.”
“the ministry said its forces hit three bulk carriers on the Black Sea south of Odesa that it claimed were transporting weapons and military equipment for the Ukrainian armed forces.”
“increase the readiness of 300,000 troops”
“The DF-15 (CSS-6) is a more advanced short-range ballistic missile with a range of 600 to 900 kilometres.”
“Makers Lockheed Martin recently announced a “low cost” version dubbed Adapted Capability Effector or ACE which will be around half the cost; it is not clear how performance will be affected.”
“It listed four targets in Kyiv, claiming they ran war-related operations.”
“He estimates it would take the alliance 'about 12 years' to adopt new standards sufficient to reach 'at least half the level of the Russian Federation.'”
“The DF-16 represents the next generation of China's short-range ballistic missiles, with an estimated range of 800 to 1,000 kilometres.”
“The Oryx database of Russian losses records just 4 confirmed hits on Iskander TELs so far out of a fleet of more than 100.”
“The next NATO summit, scheduled for 2026 in Turkey”
“The DF-17 is among China's most advanced missile systems and the world's first operational ballistic missile equipped with a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV). With an estimated range of 1,800 to 2,500 kilometres, the missile releases a manoe…”
“Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov, electronic warfare expert and advisor to President Zelensky, estimates that Russia is producing around 70 Iskanders per month.”
“Joint Expeditionary Force meets at defence ministerial level in Oslo in September”
“The DF-21 is a medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) with an estimated range of around 1,700 kilometres and exists in several variants for different missions.”
“each of those missiles will deliver a 1,000-pound high explosive warhead on a vital target.”
“Ukraine has been deepening ties with the JEF since 2022, participating in exercises and staff talks”
“The most well-known is the DF-21D, often described as the world's first operational anti-ship ballistic missile, earning it the nickname 'carrier killer.'”
“about half of its global supply of Tomahawk cruise missiles since the start of the war”
“The DF-26 is an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) capable of striking targets more than 3,000 kilometres away.”
“Between February and July, it also used about 65% of its Patriot ballistic missile interceptors and 38% of its THAAD ballistic missile interceptors”
“Western defence assessments estimate its range at 5,000 to 8,000 kilometres, placing it between an intermediate-range and intercontinental ballistic missile.”
“The Washington Post reported previously the U.S. used more than 1,300 of the Army’s tactical ballistic missiles in the initial weeks of fighting, more than 850 Tomahawk cruise missiles in the first month and more than 1,000 Patriot and THA…”
“Estimated to have a range of 1,500 to 2,000 kilometres, the missile is widely assessed to be intended primarily for nuclear delivery, strengthening China's air-based nuclear deterrent.”
“a U.S. intelligence assessment in April found more than half of the country’s missile launchers are still intact”
“killing all 67 people aboard the two aircraft.”
“killing four service members in July”
“at least 51 parents and spouses of active-duty US military personnel have been detained since Trump returned to office for a second term”
“resulting in the deaths of 67 people”
“while at least six have already been deported”
“one-month period”
“At least eight immediate family members remain in federal immigration custody”
“As well as detailing 18 fixed Samsung Vulnerabilities and Exposures, yes, they do call them that, the bulletin also confirms there are 38 CVEs provided by Google in the fix. Of these, eight carry a Common Vulnerability Scoring System sever…”
“policy introduced in April 2025, which states that 'military service alone does not exempt aliens from the consequences of violating US immigration laws.'”
“The August 3 bulletin has absolutely zero Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures listed, nor any hint of how many might have been fixed.”
“The programme, introduced during President George W Bush's administration in 2007 and later codified under President Barack Obama, allows eligible spouses, children and parents of service members to apply for legal immigration status from …”
“the contract has not gone according to plan and cost the manufacturer hundreds of millions of dollars.”
“According to Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR), the deployment includes about 90 North Korean personnel, six missile launchers and 120 ballistic missiles, including 40 newly supplied KN-23 and KN-24 missiles.”
“Cherniak also alleged that Russia used a North Korean ballistic missile in a strike last week, describing it as the first recorded use of such a weapon since August 2025.”
“He said Pyongyang had supplied Moscow with around 150 KN-23 and KN-24 ballistic missiles between late 2023 and August 2025.”
“South Korea's defence ministry said in 2024 that North Korea had shipped around 6,700 containers of ammunition to Russia by February that year, containing more than 3 million 152 mm artillery shells, around 500,000 122 mm rounds, or a comb…”
“A Reuters investigation published in April 2025 found that four Russian cargo ships completed 64 voyages between North Korea and Russia from September 2023 to March 2025, transporting an estimated 4 million to 6 million artillery shells.”
“Ukraine's HUR has estimated that North Korea has supplied about 4 million artillery shells since mid-2023, with 122 mm and 152 mm ammunition accounting for more than three-quarters of the deliveries.”
“In April 2025, North Korea publicly acknowledged for the first time that it had deployed troops to fight alongside Russian forces under the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty.”
“State media said Kim Jong Un had authorised the deployment and that North Korean troops had participated in operations in Russia's Kursk region.”
“Russia has also publicly confirmed the involvement of North Korean soldiers in the fighting.”
“According to a CNN report citing two sources familiar with the latest inventory figures, the US has used nearly four-fifths of its Thaad missile inventory compared with pre-war levels, along with roughly half of its Patriot interceptors.”
“The center for strategic and international studies estimates that the US had around 2,200 Patriots and 452 Thaad missiles before the war.”
“The US military has used nearly 80 per cent of its Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (Thaad) interceptors since the start of the war with Iran.”
“The remains of 112 Palestinians, including dozens of women and children from the same extended family, were recovered from the rubble of their homes in Gaza City nearly three years after an Israeli strike, according to Gaza's Civil Defence.”
“Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal said 44 of those recovered were children.”
“Mohammad Al-Mughayyir, director of operations at Gaza Civil Defence, said rescue crews worked for 17 days to recover the 112 bodies and remains.”
“According to Gaza's Hamas-run Health Ministry, more than 73,000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel launched its military campaign following the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel, in which 1,221 people were killed and 251 …”
“about 65% of its Patriot interceptors between February and July”
“fell by at least 38%”
“70 Sainik Schools have been allotted to organisations like Vidya Bharati and Saraswati Sishu Mandir to run them in a partnership model.”
“The central government in December 2022 approved an initiative to set up 100 new Sainik Schools in partnership mode with NGOs/private schools/state government schools in all states and Union territories.”
