Zapad – which means ‘West’ in Russian – is hosted as a joint exercise between the two nations every four years. This year, over 800 vehicles and about 200,000 personnel took part, including around 2,000 military personnel from other allied nations, including India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Mongolia. This year’s exercise …
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Pentagon spokesman John Kirby confirmed the request on Wednesday, acknowledging that it was made in connection with a protest scheduled for Saturday over the alleged mistreatment of suspects in January’s Capitol riot. He said the Capitol Police Department (CPD) is seeking “manpower support” for the rally, and the request is …
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Some 600 Russian paratroopers were airdropped from several Il-76MD-90A military transport aircraft at an altitude between 600 and 1,000 meters on Friday night, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. The troops had to rely on night vision equipment during their training mission because they were descending in complete …
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In a statement issued on Friday, Moscow’s Ministry of Defense confirmed that the Zapad-2021 drills had begun in earnest, across 14 separate training grounds from the Baltic Sea to Central Russian cities like Voronezh and Nizhny Novgorod. © function.mil.ru Troops from former Soviet republics, including Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as …
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In a written statement to Parliament on Monday, Minister for Defence Procurement Jeremy Quin said that the Ajax tank programme, already beset by failures, had engendered adverse health effects among the troops trialing the hardware. Quin said that while 121 personnel had previously been identified as requiring urgent hearing assessments, …
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“A society that doesn’t back its soldiers and commanders, including when they make mistakes, will discover that it has nobody to fight for it,” Kohavi wrote on Saturday in what Israeli media described as a “highly irregular” public letter. The warning came in response to the public outcry over the …
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The authorities have turned off the internet in the area as a precautionary measure and introduced restrictions in the Kashmir valley following Geelani’s passing, police chief Vijay Kumar told Reuters. “Troops are being deployed at sensitive places in Srinagar and other major towns and no vehicular movement is being allowed,” …
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley spoke with reporters at the Pentagon on Wednesday, echoing the official line that the Kabul airlift was a success and that the Afghan War was officially over. “I will always be proud of the part …
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“I am devastated by reports that the American government is pulling out of Kabul and leaving behind brave US military contract working dogs to be tortured and killed at the hand of our enemies,” American Humane President and CEO Robert Ganzert said in a statement on Monday. “These brave dogs …
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Biden traveled to Dover Air Force Base in his home state of Delaware on Sunday to pay respect to the 13 slain American service members arriving back from Afghanistan in flag-draped coffins. The reception from some parents, however, was hostile. The meeting “didn’t go well,” Mark Schmitz, father of 20-year-old …
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