[ad_1] Ukraine said Tuesday it believed Russia had poisoned the wife of its military intelligence chief, in an apparent assassination attempt targeting the heart of Kyiv’s leadership. Issued on: 29/11/2023 – 08:01 2 min Marianna Budanova, who is an advisor to Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko, was hospitalised after a prolonged deterioration in her health, the Babel news outlet reported earlier. Ukrainian investigators’ “main hypothesis” is that Russia was involved in the poisoning attempt, Ukrainian military…
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[ad_1] Russia’s lower house of parliament voted on Tuesday to raise the maximum age at which men can be conscripted to 30 years from 27, increasing the number of young men liable for a year of compulsory military service at any one time. Last year, Russia announced a plan to boost its professional and conscripted combat personnel by more than 30 per cent to 1.5 million, an ambitious task made harder by its heavy but…
"Russia raises maximum age for military conscription to 30"
[ad_1] Volodymyr Zelensky has been urged to strike while the iron is hot and launch an attack on Putin’s stalling army by a military analyst. Colonel Brendan Kearney said Ukraine is using its resources economically and believes an offensive is in the pipeline. But, speaking in an interview with Times Radio, the former US marine said now is the time to launch an offensive while they have momentum on their side and their opposition is…
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[ad_1] Issued on: 05/03/2023 – 08:53Modified: 05/03/2023 – 09:46 China said Sunday its military spending would rise at the fastest pace in four years, warning of “escalating” threats from abroad at a meeting of its rubber-stamp parliament that is set to hand Xi Jinping a third term as president. The increase in the world’s second-largest defence budget came as Beijing announced an economic growth goal of around five percent for this year — one of…
"China ramps up military budget to counter ‘escalating’ threats"
[ad_1] Ukraine’s continuing rout of Russian forces in the east has exposed fundamental problems within the Russian military, including deficiencies and power struggles in its command structure and gaps in intelligence gathering and processing. Though Russia’s early failures and difficulty recruiting enough soldiers for the frontline have been clear for months, the latest operation shows the depth of the disarray and stasis in Russia’s armed forces. Ukraine’s lightning strike operation in Kharkiv oblast demonstrated the…
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[ad_1] In the last month, since Russia invaded Ukraine, Germany has gone through a watershed transformation when it comes to its military. Within days, Chancellor Scholz’s almost knee-jerk reaction to the war was to announce a new €100 billion pot of money for the military, as Germany said it would finally meet a NATO target of spending 2% of GDP on defence. “But it’s important to understand that we’re not going to spend the 2%,…
"Germany’s military spending spree: What can you buy for €100 billion?"