Ukraine’s military intelligence chief predicted attacks ‘deeper and deeper’ inside Russian territory, as Germany’s top diplomat said there was little sign that President Vladimir Putin planned to end the war any time soon.
Putin put a frigate armed with Tsirkon hypersonic missiles on combat duty. The, part of the Northern Fleet, will be deployed in the Indian and Atlantic oceans and the Mediterranean, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told the Russian leader via video-link in televised footage.
Hypersonic missiles are difficult to repel as they combine the speed of ballistic missiles with the manoeuvrability of cruise missiles, leaving little time to react, according to the Washington-basedUkraine expects US-supplied Patriot air-defence systems to be deployed in the country “in the absolute short term” to help fend off Russian attacks, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said during a video briefing.
“The balance sheet of the German government in its first year in office shows the results of value-driven arms-export policy in the face of the changing times,” Sven Giegold, a deputy economy minister, said in an emailed statement.Russia said 89 soldiers died in a Ukrainian rocket attack on New Year’s Day, raising the estimate for the number killed from 63 in what is the highest acknowledged Russian death toll of the war.
Russian military bloggers have accused defence chiefs of negligence for stationing mobilised conscripts next to a weapons depot, multiplying the casualties after Ukrainian forces fired at the base in the Russia-controlled part of eastern Ukraine with US-supplied HIMARS multiple rocket launchers.Ukraine is talking to US officials about taking delivery of
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