As the war enters its 915th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Wednesday, August 28, 2024. Fighting At least six people were killed across Ukraine, including in the central city of Kryvyi Rih and in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, in a second day of…
As the war enters its 914th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Tuesday, August 27, 2024. Fighting At least seven people were killed and 47 injured, including four children, as Russia targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure across 15 regions with waves of drones and missiles, causing…
State media shows Kim looking ecstatic after a test in which drones crashed into what appeared to be a tank. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has supervised a test of domestically-developed attack drones, state media KCNA reported. Photos published by North Korean media on Monday showed a white drone…
As the war enters its 913th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Monday, August 26, 2024. Fighting At least 18 people were killed and 37 injured in Russian missile and drone attacks on Sunday which targeted the front-line Ukrainian regions of Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and…
Ukraine confirmed on Wednesday that it had used weapons supplied by the United States to attack Russian bridges over the Seym river in Kursk. On Monday, a Russian military investigator said that Ukraine had completely destroyed one of the three bridges on Seym, damaging the other two. The US has…
Montreal, Canada – Canada has refused to comment on a planned United States sale of Canadian-made weapons to Israel, after news of the deal drew rebuke from rights advocates who argue the arms will help fuel Israeli human rights abuses against Palestinians. In a brief statement to Al Jazeera on…
The Swiss Federal Department of Defence Procurement (Armasuisse) is offering 50,000 Swiss francs ($57,800) for the three best ideas on how to retrieve some 12,000 tonnes of old munitions from the country’s lakes, including Lake Thun, Lake Brienz and Lake Lucerne. “Armasuisse wants to involve academia and industry in the…
As the war enters its 906th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Monday, August 19, 2024. Fighting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the first time stated the aim of Ukraine’s August 6 incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, saying the operation was necessary to create a…
As the war enters its 903rd day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Friday, August 16, 2024. Fighting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine had taken full control of the town of Sudzha in Russia’s Kursk region, after sending thousands of troops across the border in a…
Montreal, Canada – The United States has faced widespread condemnation this week for authorising the sale of more than $20bn in additional weapons to Israel as the top US ally wages war in the Gaza Strip. But while the newly approved arms transfer has renewed global scrutiny of Washington’s unwavering…
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