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...The next day another strike destroyed a state of the art S-400 Triumph air defence system....
...But Ukrainian air defences managed to down all 28 missiles and 15 out of the 16 Russian drones, according to Valery Zaluzhny, commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces....
...“The centre of gravity for [Hamas’s rocket-launching capabilities] was the Gaza City metropolitan area,” said Zvika Haimovich, former commander of the Israel Air Defense Forces....
...“I want to thank the pilots of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for their excellent combat work,” Ukraine’s air force commander Mykola Oleschuk said on Telegram, suggesting his pilots were involved...
...“The true intention of the US is to use this to maintain their hegemonic system. They are trying to create small circles by roping in some countries.”...
...But at the same time, he made Ecuadorean waters more attractive to smugglers by shutting a US naval base in the port city of Manta in the name of national sovereignty....
...Additional reporting by John Paul Rathbone Cartography by Steven Bernard...
...They have also provoked consternation among the high command of a nation obsessed with security....
...Additional reporting by John Paul Rathbone in London and Patricia Nilsson in Frankfurt...
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...Recently, General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine’s commander-in-chief, called the war a stalemate....
...The US will also send its Patriot air defence system as part of a new $1.85bn weapons package....
...Even bullets are slower because cold air is denser than warm....
...The mixture of armour, artillery, air and naval forces was tightly co-ordinated from a central command that bristled with the latest computer-assisted technology....
...In Crimea, Russian news agencies reported that the Black Sea Fleet commander was replaced after the assault on the Saki air base that sent plumes of smoke into the sky and Russian tourists scrambling from...
...Military analysts said Ukraine had launched the two, nearly simultaneous, offensives to overwhelm the Russian military’s centralised system of command, which struggles with multidirectional deployments....
...Rather, it wants to stop Moscow from fortifying its position and installing long-range air defence systems that could protect the area and allow for naval operations....
...Additional reporting by John-Paul Rathbone...
...Liudmyla Buimister, an MP who also serves as an army commander, said Ukraine also required more fighter jets, armed drones and sophisticated air defences to launch a full scale counter-attack....
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...These include 173 tanks, 261 armoured and infantry fighting vehicles, and 28 surface-to-air missile systems....
...“What’s coming down the road to Kyiv and other cities now is a wholly different order of magnitude of potential military force,” said General Sir Richard Barrons, former commander of the UK’s Strategic Command...
...About 75 bombers also attacked Ukraine’s air defence systems, command and control infrastructure, air bases and large troop concentrations....
...Bauer says possible future steps include more rigid command and control systems, integrated air and missile defence systems, and larger troop deployments than the existing battle groups....
...Admiral John Aquilino, the top US military commander in the Indo-Pacific, recently held an unusual meeting with the head of US Space Command and deputy head of US Cyber Command — in a remote part of the...
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