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☆ One of Ukraine's main goals in invading Russia appears to be working
  + stars: | 2024-08-14 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Ukraine's invasion of the province of Kursk last week took Russia by surprise. Analysts told Business Insider that one of Ukraine's core aims in the operation is to divert Russian troops from the front line in Ukraine. Related storiesIt said that Russia could be diverting troops from units in Donetsk intended to relieve or reinforce front-line units. BI has been unable to confirm reports of the redeployments, and it is unknown exactly how many Russian troops may have been diverted to fight Ukraine's Kursk incursion. AdvertisementFor months, Ukraine's forces have been losing ground to Russia in a grinding war of attrition.
Persons: —, Dmytro Lykhoviy, Lykhoviy, Ukraine's, Volodymyr Zelesnkyy Organizations: Service, Business, POLITICO, BI Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Kursk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Ukraine's, Ukrainian, US, Russian, Donetsk, Kharkiv Oblast, Kursk Oblast, Baltic, Kaliningrad, Ukraine's Kursk
☆ NATO is taking greater control of Western efforts to back Ukraine's fight as US politics raise questions about its reliability
  + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
Read previewNATO is moving forward with a new initiative that will see it take greater control over Western efforts to arm and train Ukraine's military. The move comes as the alliance aims to solidify the long-term support for Kyiv as it battles the Russian invasion. Growing concern about the potential change in US leadership has hung over the highly consequential NATO summit in Washington this week. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Joe Biden at the 2024 NATO summit. "There are 32 countries in the alliance," the NATO official who spoke on the condition of anonymity said Thursday.
Persons: —, Donald Trump —, Donald Trump, NICHOLAS KAMM, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Joe Biden, Susan Walsh, Trump, Ivo Daalder, Laurynas Organizations: Service, Kyiv, NATO, Ukraine —, Business, Wednesday, Assistance, Training, White, Getty, Ukraine Defense Contact, AP, Ukraine, Russian, Trump, Wall Street, Kiel Institute, Politico, Republican, Democratic Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Washington, Germany, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Kyiv, Russia, Europe, NATO
☆ Front-line NATO allies say the West needs to give Ukraine the 'technological superiority' it needs to beat Russia
  + stars: | 2024-07-10 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Read previewThe West should send Ukraine the kind of weapons it needs to inflict a lasting, strategic defeat on Russia, NATO countries on the front lines of the military alliance said Tuesday. With this threat in mind, the Baltic nations have long pushed for increased defense spending among NATO member states. "The goal must be [the] strategic defeat of Russia in Ukraine," said Latvian Defense Minister Andris Sprūds. The Baltic states say enabling Ukraine to win will require a massive political buy-in and support from the West. "We have to say clearly: 'Yes, we will help Ukraine to win this war.'"
Persons: —, Hanno Pevkur, Pevkur, Serhii, Laurynas, Kasčiūnas, Andris Sprūds, Joe Biden, Jens Stoltenberg, Andrew Mellon, Kevin Dietsch Organizations: Service, Lithuania —, Kyiv, Business, Estonian, POLITICO, NATO, Artillery, System, Getty, Russian, Moscow, Chamber of Commerce, Latvian Defense, Andrew Locations: Ukraine, Russia, NATO, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Baltic, Moscow, Washington ,, West, Europe, AFP, Kyiv, Washington , DC
☆ Russia rebuilt its war machine 'faster than we expected' and is now cranking out artillery shells at a breakneck pace, NATO defense official says
  + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Read previewRussia has successfully rebuilt its "war-stage" economy much faster than expected, and it is now cranking out far more artillery ammunition than it was prior to the beginning of the Ukraine war, a NATO defense chief said Tuesday. Before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Moscow was producing up to 400,000 152mm rounds per year. But that figure has since swelled to 2 million rounds annually, according to Laurynas Kasčiūnas, Lithuania's minister of national defense. Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via APDespite international efforts to inflict economic pain on Russia over its war, through actions like sanctions, Kasčiūnas said Moscow's "war-stage economy" has recovered "faster than we expected." Dmytro Smolienko / Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty ImagesKasčiūnas delivered his remarks alongside Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur and Latvian Defense Minister Andris Sprūds.
Persons: —, Laurynas, Kasčiūnas, Vladimir Putin, Putin, Dmytro Smolienko, Hanno Pevkur, Andris Sprūds Organizations: Service, NATO, Business, POLITICO, Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, —, Publishing, Getty, Estonian Defense, Latvian Defense Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Moscow, Soviet, Washington ,, Europe, Zaporizhzhia Region, Baltic
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