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Kyiv is negotiating with official Canberra to provide the Ukrainian Armed Forces with F/A-18 multi-role fighters. These are aircraft that are being decommissioned by the Royal Air Force. According to the Australian Financial Review, the US authorities have issued a permit for the re-export of fighter jets. The Ukrainian Armed Forces will not have the […]
Ukrainian Army Commander Oleksandr Syrsky said that the Defense Forces continue to move on the flanks, forcing the enemy to lose ground near Bakhmut. He wrote about this in his Telegram channel. He also posted a video and added that 3 separate assault brigades are working at the site. In the morning report of the […]
SpaceX has finally sent a Cargo Dragon cargo ship to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission was supposed to take place last week. The postponement is due to bad weather. The ship was sent into space using a Falcon 9 rocket, which was launched from Launch Complex 39A at Cape Canaveral, Florida. After about […]
According to the former commander of the Azov regiment, Maksym Zhorin, the Russians have begun to move reserves to Bakhmut and build up their defenses. Every forest belt is hard fought. On June 5, Ukrainian forces resumed their offensive in Bakhmut. This was stated by Major Maksym Zhorin of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on […]
The new draft law provides for an excise tax on gasoline and diesel fuel of €175/1000 liters, and €125/1000 liters on autogas Draft Law No. 9348 on amendments to the Tax Code regarding the excise tax on fuel was registered on the website of the Verkhovna Rada, which proposes to raise the excise tax on […]
In 2022, the Russian army actively used Iranian-made drones. In particular, Mohajer-6. The first such drone was captured last fall. The Navy managed to shoot down an unmanned aerial vehicle over the Black Sea in September 2022. A navigator of a small armored artillery boat told about it. #Ukraine: More images have arrived of this […]
The press service of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine published photos of the combat use of RAK-SA-12 by border guards. These compact jet systems were donated by Croatia. The footage shows an artillery crew of the RAK-SA-12 battery working on targets at specified coordinates. The photo shows the process of targeting MLRS, the […]
The startup Sun-Ways received permission from the Swiss Federal Office of Transport and began installing solar panels in the gaps between the tracks of the Buttes railway station. Interestingly, Sun-Ways is not the first company to deploy solar panels on railroad tracks. The Italian renewable energy company Greenrail and the British technology company Bankset Energy […]
A new turret was installed on the hull of the trophy T-62 tank and the armor around it was reinforced. Ukrainian volunteers used a trophy Russian T-62 tank to create an armored fire support vehicle. The car was created with the assistance of Serhiy Prytula’s charitable organization. The new car is ready for testing and […]
Back in the fall of last year, a Swedish engineering company modeled the consequences of the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam explosion. Today, on June 6, at night, Russian occupation forces blew up the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant. This is currently one of the largest war crimes of the Russian Federation, which will have […]