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The Ukraine War Is Going Badly for Russia: Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to admit that Ukrainian drone strikes are causing real damage – but he warned that Moscow is preparing to respond with its own escalations and attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure.
The news comes as Ukraine continues its long-range drone and missile strikes, hitting critical Russian energy infrastructure and pushing Russia to consider how it could escalate through the rest of the year.
A major factor for service members as they consider whether to stay in the military is how frequent moves to new assignments affect their children.
An Army program is designed to ease that burden on military families by allowing soldiers to remain at one duty station through a child’s last two years of high school.
Roughly 4,000 soldiers took part in the High School Stabilization Program over the past year, according to a recent Army news release. The program was established in 2000 for families with a high school senior and later expanded to juniors.
China Says It Didn’t Train Russian Troops, But Europe Says Otherwise: China has this week denied allegations from the European Union that its military trained Russian personnel who later fought in Ukraine. Chinese officials described the bombshell claims as “slander” and warned against what they claim are attempts to damage Beijing’s international reputation. The accusation was made by Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, following a meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Luxembourg.
Ukraine has increased attacks on Russian energy facilities in recent months, and it is having a devastating effect on the country’s oil and gas infrastructure as well as the already stretched Russian economy.
Fuel shortages are affecting Russia everywhere, even in Moscow, where the nation’s fifth-largest oil producer, Tatneft, has implemented restrictions on the sale of gasoline and diesel at all its stations across Russia, limiting purchases to 20 liters of gasoline and 40 liters of diesel per car for Russian consumers.
Recent Drone Attacks In Moscow And Elsewhere
Ukraine Drone.
Two weeks ago, the heads of American oil firms trundled up to the White House to inform President Donald Trump that America’s energy buffers–the reserves stored up to get the country through an energy crisis–are depleting so fast that a true oil crisis is possible.
America’s Energy Buffers Are Running Out
Not long thereafter, the forty-seventh president appeared to have reversed his previous hardline stance on waging war with Iran and sought a 60-day ceasefire with the intention of fully restoring traffic through the Strait of Hormuz immediately.
Russia retains one of the largest fleets of strategic bombers in the entire world, behind the U.S. and China. Despite its bombers dating back to the Cold War, its fleet remains world-class in range and overall payload capacity. They form the air wing of Russia’s nuclear triad and a central pillar of the country’s nuclear deterrence strategy.
The issue with Moscow’s strategic fleet is not that its bombers are incapable, but rather that its bombers are old Soviet designs, almost all of which have been out of production for several decades.
Congress is considering a proposal that would grant full retirement and disability benefits to combat veterans, while slashing future disability checks for veterans with tinnitus and sleep apnea.
The Take Care of America’s Veterans Act is a package with dozens of legislative proposals for veterans, caregivers, and survivors. Among the bundled bills is the Major Richard Star Act, which allows veterans with fewer than 20 years of service to collect both disability compensation and retirement pay at the same time.
Israel and Hezbollah Could Blow Up Iranian-American Peace Plan: The U.S.-Iranian peace framework is complex, immature, and fraught with risk. There are no guarantees that this agreement can stand the test of time. One wild card in the whole effort is how much Israel’s strategic aims would affect the ceasefire. Keeping Israel and Hezbollah from fighting in Lebanon will be a critical requirement for the peace framework between the Americans and Iranians to succeed.
There Is Always the Fear of Missile Strikes Between Israel and Hezbollah
Israel’s F-35I Adir Fighter.
Rheinmetall has unveiled its new L60 155mm artillery weapon system at the ongoing defence and security exhibition, Eurosatory.
The Finnish Defence Forces and the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) have entered into an Implementation Arrangement aimed at cooperation on the potential procurement of tracked armoured personnel carriers.