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The Russian envoy to the United Nations has declared that it will be impossible for his country to achieve President Vladimir Putin’s war goals in Ukraine unless Bakhmut, an industrial city in Donbas, is captured.
Bakhmut, in the eastern Donetsk region, has been one of the hotbeds of war for half a year. The Russian army has focused its attacks on the city, run by the notorious Wagner paramilitary group, hoping to capture it.

The Ukrainian Army has devised a novel technique to deploy the captured Russian Army T-62 main combat tanks from the Cold War era.
Ukrainian forces are repurposing seized T-62 tanks as armored recovery vehicles (ARVs), which will accompany main battle tanks (MBTs) into combat. The ARV will be used to rescue these tanks in the event that they become disabled in combat or when traversing flooded terrain.
Equipped with bulldozers and other equipment, these ARVs can help other engineering tanks prepare fortifications, repair damaged vehicles, etc.

Two F-35A Lightning II aircraft fly over the Alaska Canada Highway en route to their new home at the 354th Fighter Wing, Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, April 21, 2020. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Adam Keele).

U.S. Air Force fighter jets intercepted a group of Russian military aircraft off of Alaska on Tuesday, the U.S. military’s second such intercept in as many days, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) announced on Thursday.

Tyler Rogoway (Hunter), Martin Baker (Ejection Seat) Rod Kurtz (In Front Of Hunter)

Former U.S. Navy Super Hornet pilot Roderick “Hot Rod” Kurtz was surprised.
On a fair-weather summer afternoon in August 2017, just under two years after he retired from active duty flying F/A-18E/F Super Hornets with Strike Fighter Squadron 122 (VFA-122), the “Flying Eagles,” Kurtz was airborne in a Hawker Hunter acting as an adversary to help train the Navy fighter pilots and ship crews he’d only recently parted company with.

Defense Department CIO John Sherman on Wednesday publicly issued the DOD Cyber Workforce Framework after months of previewing the new lexicon for defense personnel who perform IT and cybersecurity-related roles.
The framework builds on the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Cybersecurity Workforce Framework and DOD’s Joint Cyberspace Training and Certification Standards to establish an “authoritative lexicon based on the work an individual is performing, not their position titles, occupational series, or designator.

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FILE” Security officers patrol near the destroyed Hayat Hotel after a deadly 30-hour siege by Al-Shabaab jihadists in Mogadishu on August 21, 2022. – (Photo by Hasan Ali Elmi/AFP via Getty Images).

The U.S. military launched an airstrike on Wednesday in Somalia, which has become a very active front in the post-Global War on Terrorism conflict against al-Qaida and the Islamic State group.
The airstrike supported the Somali National Army, which was fighting al-Shabaab militants, U.S. Africa Command announced on Thursday.