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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has ordered the Security Service of Ukraine, or SBU, to lead an investigation into what led to the crash of an Airbus H225M helicopter that killed everyone onboard, including the nation’s Interior Minister, Denys Monastyrsky, earlier today. More than a dozen other people, including children, on the ground also died. The SBU has said it cannot yet rule out the possibility that sabotage, pilot error, or a technical malfunction was the cause.

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley visited a military base in Germany on Monday to inspect the expanded U.S. training of Ukrainian forces.
Milley arrived at the base for the second day of training on a visit that sends a strong message to Moscow that the U.S. will not back down in its support of Ukraine in its war with Russia.
American advisors are training 600 Ukrainian troops on armored vehicles, tanks, a variety of weapons, and combat techniques.

The U.S. exposed and arrested Ana Montes, known as the “Queen of Cuba” with the help of her sister who was an FBI agent.
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The New York Army National Guard (NY ANG) and the Brazilian military have held an initial planning conference for exercise Southern Vanguard 24.
The conference was held in Brazil to lay the groundwork for the bilateral event. The joint exercise will be conducted in the autumn of this year.
Southern Vanguard is sponsored by the US Southern Command and is conducted by the US Army South.

It aims to improve readiness between New York and Brazilian forces to operate in a joint environment.

A crew chief with the 801st Special Operations Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, watches as a CV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft arrives at Hurlburt Field, Fla., Aug. 18, 2016. (Airman 1st Class Joseph Pick/U.S. Air Force).

Five airmen have received awards for their role in the longest-distance nighttime hostage rescue mission in U.S. military history, the Air Force announced last week.
The 2020 mission saw airmen fly CV-22B Osprey and MC-130J aircraft about 2,000 miles from Rota, Spain to northern Nigeria.

The UK plans for the 14 Challenger 2 MBTs it is donating to Ukraine to be operated by Ukrainian crews before the end of March. (Crown copyright)
The 14 Challenger 2 main battle tanks (MBTs) that the United Kingdom is donating to Ukraine will be operated by Ukrainian crews before the end of March, a UK Ministry of Defence spokesperson told Janes on 18 January. He added that the AS90 self-propelled howitzers (SPHs) the UK is also donating to Ukraine would follow but could not say when.

The retirement of Australia’s older-generation S-70A-9 Black Hawks in 2021, such as the aircraft pictured here, reduced the transport capabilities of the Australian Army. The earlier Black Hawks were used for special forces operations, flood relief, and other logistical duties. Canberra sees the acquisition of UH-60Ms as a return to a familiar, tested platform. (Commonwealth of Australia)
The Australian government has confirmed that it is proceeding with the acquisition of 40 Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters for the Australian Army.

Reuters has reported that the Russian and Belarusian air forces have started a series of bilateral dogfight exercises near the Ukrainian border.
Reuters has reported that eight Russian fighter jets and four cargo planes arrived in Belarus on Sunday, citing unofficial military monitoring channels on Telegram. The maneuvers began on January 16 and are scheduled to last until February 1.

The Australian Government has confirmed its plans to procure a total of 40 UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters for the Australian Defence Force (ADF).
Delivery of the new helicopters to the Australian Army is expected to commence later this year.
Once delivered, the new UH-60M Black Hawk fleet will be based at Oakey, Queensland, and at Holsworthy, New South Wales, Australia.

The fleet will be supported by a highly skilled workforce comprising maintenance personnel from the ADF and Australia’s defence industry partners.

Last fall, as Ukraine recaptured large swaths of territory in a series of counterattacks, it bombarded Russian forces with US-made artillery and rockets. Some of that artillery was guided by a homemade targeting system Ukraine developed on the battlefield.
Tablets and smartphones are easy to get, but a computer program made in Ukraine has turned them into sophisticated targeting tools that are now widely used by the Ukrainian military.