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A group of senior Gabonese military officers have announced the seizure of power. The officers claimed to represent all of Gabon’s security and defence forces, asserting their authority over the nation. During their televised address, the officers declared the cancellation of the election results, closed all borders until further notice, and dissolved state institutions. Gunfire…
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It’s a little unclear exactly what has happened in Russia’s reported foiling of a “Ukrainian saboteur” operation in the west of the country. As we reported at 1.40pm, security service FSB said they killed four people who trying to get into Russia’s Bryansk region. A statement from the service, released via state media TASS, said:…
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A Russian military official has accused the UK’s intelligence service of working with Ukraine to start a “sabotage squad” for operations on African soil. Russian state media outlet Tass says it has spoken to an unnamed official, who claims MI6 has “formed and prepared for deployment” what is described as a sabotage and assassination squad…
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Britain on Monday said its fighter jets intercepted two Russian long-range bombers flying over north of Scotland. The British Typhoon jets were launched from RAF Lossiemouth, one of Britain’s Royal Air Force’s two Quick Reaction Alert stations, to intercept two Russian Tu-142 long-range bombers flying over north of Scotland, the Ministry of Defense said in…
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has approved the plan to launch the country’s first military spy satellite and vowed to exercise just right to self-defense to defend his country, the state-run media said on Wednesday. Kim on Tuesday met with the non-permanent Satellite Launch Preparatory Committee for launching the military first reconnaissance satellite and inspected…
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Ukrainian air defence crews destroyed 15 out of 18 missiles launched by Russian forces in the early hours of Monday morning, the military said, Air raid sirens also sounded across the country, and authorities warned residents to take shelter. “Around 2:30 a.m. (2330 GMT), the Russian invaders attacked Ukraine from strategic aviation planes,” a post on the Telegram channel of Valeriy Zaluzhnyi,…
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Well-known Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed in a bomb blast in a cafe in St Petersburg on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported. They quoted the interior ministry as confirming the death of Tatarsky and saying that 16 people had been wounded. Tatarsky, whose real name was Maxim Fomin, had more than 560,000 followers…
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Russia released a U.S. Navy veteran who had been held in the country’s Kaliningrad territory for nine months, negotiator and former Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson announced. Taylor Dudley had been held since April 2022 and was one of several detained Americans whom Richardson and U.S. authorities have been seeking to have freed. According…
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A senior Taliban leader has told Prince Harry that the militants he killed in Afghanistan were “not chess pieces, they were humans”. Responding to revelations in Harry’s forthcoming memoir that he killed 25 Taliban fighters, Anas Haqqani, a senior aide to the interior minister, tweeted: “Mr Harry! The ones you killed were not chess pieces, they were…
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The Nigerian military on Thursday said although it is facing constant pressure to compromise the 2023 elections, Nigerians can be rest assured that it would remain neutral. The Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, disclosed this to journalists at the 61st session of the State House Ministerial Briefing organised by the Presidential Communications Team at the…
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Polish leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski has accused Germany of wanting to dominate Europe by peaceful means after its failure to do so by military means. “The Germans today want to achieve by peaceful means what they wanted to achieve by military force,” Kaczynski declared Saturday during an event in Legnica, in the south of the country.…
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Afghan special forces soldiers who fought alongside American troops and then fled to Iran after the chaotic US withdrawal last year are now being recruited by the Russian military to fight in Ukraine, three former Afghan generals have told the Associated Press. They said the Russians wanted to attract thousands of the former elite Afghan commandos…
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A teenage guardsman who was involved in the funeral of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth has died at an army barracks in London. Jack Burnell-Williams, an 18-year-old member of the Household Cavalry, was found unresponsive at Hyde Park Barracks in London just before 4pm on Wednesday, the army said. The trooper walked with the queen’s coffin from…
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Russia “threw its best troops into the meat grinder” in the early stages of its war on Ukraine, a military analyst has said. And Vladimir Putin’s insistence that the so-called “special operation” is going to plan is making things even worse, Simon Miles, an assistant professor at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, has said. Ukrainian forces…
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Poland and the Czech Republic have agreed to protect Slovakia’s airspace as the country seeks to retire its 11 Soviet-era fighter planes. At an air show this weekend, the defence ministers from the three countries signed the agreement which will allow the Polish and Czech air forces to patrol Slovak skies until the arrival of…
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Russia recruitment drive ‘unlikely to improve combat power’ The British Ministry of Defence said that a new Kremlin-ordered drive to recruit more personnel to the Russian military “is unlikely to make substantive progress towards increasing Russia’s combat power in Ukraine.” On 25 August, Vladimir Putin issued a new decree increasing the overall number of personnel…
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