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...“[Saturday was] one of the most difficult days in our history,” said Zvika Haimovich, former commander of the Israel Air Defense Forces....
...Netanyahu said the timing of a ground assault would be made by a unanimous decision of the war cabinet and senior army commanders. “All Hamas members are dead men,” Netanyahu said....
...The Israeli leader said he had appointed Gal Hirsch, a confidant and former military commander during the 2006 Lebanon war, as his “co-ordinator for the captive and missing”....
...They have more forces, and better training,” says Amir Avivi, former deputy commander of the Gaza Division of Israel’s military. “Eventually we will have to deal with it....
...He had previously been commander of US Central Command, or Centcom....
...A defence official said: “It’s real-time gathering intelligence and putting it together in ways that can be used by commanders.”...
...Ukrainian commanders may decide there is more to be gained by an attack in Donetsk province, where much of the winter fighting has been centred....
...The measures come on top of penalties announced by the Biden team last month targeting General Min Aung Hlaing, the country’s commander-in-chief, and other military leaders, as well as three mining and gemstone...
...A senior Russian military commander said Russia aimed to seize the whole of Ukraine’s Donbas region and capture territory linking it to the annexed Crimean peninsula....
...The Ukrainian military commander leading the defence of Kyiv said his troops had successfully defended the capital from a Russian attack overnight on Sunday....
...In an address to the nation, he said he had ordered Sri Lanka’s military commanders and head of police “to do what is necessary to restore order”, and that the president’s office and other buildings occupied...
...Yet Zelensky, a former TV comedian who some of his countrymen once dismissed as a political lightweight, has transformed visibly before Ukrainians’ eyes in less than a week into a convincing commander-in-chief...
...But it is notable that Czech voters last month elected a retired Nato commander, Petr Pavel, as Zeman’s successor....
...Serhiy Volyna, commander of Ukraine’s 36th marine brigade in Mariupol, among the last Ukrainian troops in the city, released a video on Tuesday in which he pleaded for international action to “save Mariupol...
...“We are ready to evacuate with the support of a third party from the city of Mariupol with their small arms in order to save the personnel loyal to us,” Svyatoslav Palamara, deputy commander of the Azov...
...In the video, shot against a brick wall, Prokopenko sat beside Serhii Volyna, commander of the 36th Marine Brigade. The two groups had successfully joined forces to defend Mariupol, he said....
...Lavrov’s comments were the first Russian confirmation that it had begun a new offensive to capture the Donbas after partially regrouping its forces and appointing a new field commander for the invasion....
...Serhiy Volyna, commander of Ukraine’s 36th marine brigade in Mariupol, who are among the last Ukrainian troops in the city, released a video on Tuesday in which he pleaded for international action to “save...
...Svyatoslav Palamara, deputy commander of the paramilitary Azov Battalion’s regiment in Mariupol, said in a video on Wednesday that fighters inside the complex wanted to evacuate their wounded and take the...
...UK military intelligence said on Monday Ukrainian resistance had “tested Russian forces and diverted men and material”, and that Russian commanders would be “concerned by the time it’s taking to subdue Mariupol...
...Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s ministry of internal affairs, said in a post on his Telegram channel on Friday that the Moskva’s commander, Anton Kuprin, had been killed in an explosion and fire...
...Ihor Litvinyuk, the Ukrainian military commander in charge of securing the area, said he saw bodies of civilians on the ground in the town of Bucha, a few kilometres north of Irpin, which was under Russian...
...total of 6,705 missiles were fired over the first two weeks of the invasion, including 50 over the past 24 hours, the Pentagon official said, arguing that Russia had accelerated its bombardment because commanders...
...Zelensky, as commander of the military, began ruling by decree and parliament suspended regular sessions....
...Now there is “growing appetite in society for him to prove that he could be an effective commander-in-chief since belief in diplomacy is fading”, she added....
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