The head of Wagner Group died in a “plane crash.” Everyone saw this coming after the June 2023 march on Moscow, we just didn’t expect him to last this long. The Russian government scrambled war planes against the Wagner insurgency which were, reportedly, shot down. A Private Military Company (PMC)
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It liberates strategic southeastern settlement: Ukraine
Ukraine said on Monday its troops had liberated the southeastern settlement of Robotyne and were trying to push further south in their counteroffensive against Russian forces. The Ukrainian military said last week that its forces had raised the national flag in the strategic settlement, but were still carrying out mopping-up operations. Ukrainian
Myanmar junta gets tough in resistance strongholds
Myanmar's junta has introduced tough new measures in resistance strongholds under which people accused of treason and ‘spreading false news’ will be tried by a military court, state media said Friday.In the 37 townships affected by the measures, no appeals will be allowed for convictions handed down by military tribunals,
Why has the West given billions in military aid to Ukraine, but virtually ignored Myanmar?
Two years after Myanmar’s coup on February 1 2021, the country’s large and growing resistance forces receive almost no attention outside the country. The democratic opposition, fronted by the National Unity Government (NUG), but comprising many different groups, armies, militias and individuals, has also struggled to gain awareness, even for its
Myanmar situation ‘catastrophic’ two years after coup: UN
Nearly two years after Myanmar's military coup, the UN rights chief warned Friday that the country had plunged into catastrophe, calling for the military to be brought under civilian oversight. Since the coup that toppled Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government on February 1, 2021, Myanmar has "by nearly every
Russia claims progress in eastern Ukraine
source Russia claimed Friday to have captured a village in its intense, months long push toward the eastern Ukraine city of Bakhmut, as military analysts cautioned that tanks that may be sent by Kyiv's Western allies wouldn't be a magic wand in the almost 11-month war.Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov
Can the military stay out of politics in Pakistan?
Model who criticized Myanmar junta fears repatriation
Military, diplomatic pressures on Russia’s Putin mount
Pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin mounted on the battlefield and in the halls of global power as Ukrainian troops pushed their counteroffensive Saturday to advance farther into Ukraine's partly recaptured northeast. Western officials and analysts said Russian forces were apparently setting up a new defensive line in Ukraine's northeast after
India fires 3 military officers for Pakistan missile misfire
India’s air force said Tuesday that three military officers have been dismissed for accidentally firing an unarmed missile into rival Pakistan in March. A formal inquiry found that “deviation from the Standard Operating Procedures by three officers” led to the BrahMos cruise missile being fired into Pakistan, the air force said