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☆ Europe is taking on Elon Musk with its own Starlink rival
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-17 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The European Union has finalized plans to build a satellite network to rival Elon Musk's Starlink. Elon Musk's Starlink could have a new rival after the European Union confirmed it will join the race to provide high-speed internet to remote locations. AdvertisementThe EU said Monday it had finalized plans to build a €10.6 billion ($11.1 billion) satellite network that will take on SpaceX's Starlink. In September 2023, Musk said he had denied a request to activate Starlink in Crimea, thwarting an attack on Russia's Black Sea fleet. The EU is not the only one building their own Starlink rival.

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CNN —Ukraine said on Monday that North Korean soldiers fighting alongside Russian troops suffered heavy losses during fighting at the weekend in the Russian region of Kursk. North Korean units that arrived in Kursk last month were involved in assaults at the weekend near three villages, according to Ukraine’s defense intelligence service. Since the beginning of December, North Korean troops appear to have been playing a more prominent role on the front lines in Kursk, especially as infantry. Ukraine estimates that about 12,000 North Korean soldiers are in the region trying to assist Russian units in recovering parts of Kursk taken in a Ukrainian offensive in August. Butusov said that North Korean infantry was backed by “massive fire support” from Russian units, as well as electronic warfare against Ukrainian drones.

Persons: Plekhovo, –, Volodymyr Zelensky, Yuriy Butusov, Butusov, ” Butusov Organizations: CNN, Russian, North Korean, Korean, Facebook Locations: Ukraine, Russian, Kursk, North, Plekhovo, Ukrainian

☆ North Korean soldiers attacked Russian forces by mistake due to a language barrier, Ukraine says
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-16 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ukraine said that North Korean troops had accidentally killed 8 Russian soldiers in Kursk. Eight Russian soldiers were killed by North Korean forces in a recent "friendly fire" incident in Kursk, according to Ukrainian intelligence. AdvertisementNorth Korean soldiers opened fire on Russian military vehicles, Defense Intelligence of Ukraine said on Saturday, attributing it to a language barrier between the two forces. He said a cumulative 100,000 North Korean soldiers could serve in Russia within a year. AdvertisementExperts on the relationship between the two states have previously said that the language difference between North Korean and Russian soldiers would be a key logistical issue.

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Although Democrats were wrecked up and down the ballot in Pennsylvania, Casey doesn’t think the party needs to rip up its playbook. In fact, he thinks the factor that will help them the most is not having to face Trump on the ballot again. But obviously, for probably a variety of reasons, President Trump had his strongest performance ever in Pennsylvania of the three races and got about 50%. I don’t think that’s accurate, but that’s the perception that people had, and that if he was able to achieve that once, he could do it again. And at the time, President Trump was very clear about that.

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☆ A Russian missile and drone developer was assassinated in a Ukrainian hit: reports
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-13 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A Russian drone and missile designer was assassinated near Moscow, reports say. A senior Russian official who worked at a company that designs drones and missiles was killed in a Ukrainian operation near Moscow, according to reports. AdvertisementA source in Ukraine's security services told Ukrainian outlet Pravda that Mikhail Shatsky was assassinated in a special operation by Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, the country's military intelligence service. AdvertisementA source told Kyiv Independent that Shatsky was seen as the main proponent of incorporating AI into Russian drones, aircraft, and spacecraft. Ukrainian military intelligence didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from BI.

Persons: Mikhail Shatsky, Shatsky, didn't Organizations: Pravda, Defence Intelligence, Kyiv Independent, Moscow Times Locations: Moscow, Ukraine, Russian, Kotelniki, Ukrainian, Russia's, Russia

CNN —Russian forces are now just three kilometers (1.9 miles) from the outskirts of the key eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk after making advances Wednesday, according to Ukrainian mapping service DeepState. They have also destroyed or captured Ukrainian positions near the city, a Ukrainian army spokesperson said. Ukrainian military bloggers have reported that the village has fallen to the Russians, a claim that has not been confirmed by Ukrainian or Russian officials. Data from DeepState, a Ukrainian monitoring group and mapping service, showed Russian soldiers just three kilometers from the southern outskirts of Pokrovsk Wednesday. Russian President Vladimir Putin has made it clear that his goal is to seize the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.

Persons: Nazar Voloshyn, Voloshyn, ” Donetskoblgaz, Roman Pilipey, Pokrovsk, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, ”, Donald Trump, Antony Blinken, Biden, CNN’s Ivana Kottasová, Jennifer Hansler, Haley Britzky Organizations: CNN, Getty Locations: Ukrainian, Pokrovsk, Vidrodzennia, Novotroitske, Shevchenkove, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Ukraine, AFP, Russia, Ukraine’s Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Moscow, Russian, Luhansk, United States

☆ Ukraine supplied Syrian rebels with drones and operators for the offensive that toppled Assad last week: report
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-11 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The Ukrainian aid played a modest role in toppling him, Western intel sources told the outlet. Ukrainian intelligence supplied Syrian rebels with about 150 drones and 20 drone operators last month, shortly before the offensive that toppled Syrian dictator Bashar Assad last week, The Washington Post reported, citing sources familiar with Ukrainian military activities. AdvertisementThe military aid played a modest role in ousting Assad, Western intelligence sources told the outlet. On Sunday, Syrian rebels led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham overthrew Assad after a lightning two-week campaign that caught the world off guard and ended Assad's 24-year rule. Ukraine's intelligence services didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from BI.

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☆ Russia's access to crucial military bases in Syria hangs in the balance, threatening its role in the region
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-10 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The downfall of Assad has threatened Russia's military presence in Syria along with its wider strategic objectives. Russia's bases in Syria made it a major diplomatic player in the Middle East. AdvertisementThe fall of Bashar Assad has thrown Russia's military presence in Syria into question. Russia has been a close ally of Syria and has leases on two military bases in the country, giving it a strategic foothold in the Middle East. Advertisement"I think it will rattle some folks in the Kremlin to see just how quickly Russia's military had to withdraw," Dailey said.

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☆ Fighting in Ukraine is giving rise to a new kind of drone warfare: hit-to-kill intercepts
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-07 | by ( Jake Epstein | Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

The grinding Ukraine war has seen a rise in hit-to-kill drone interceptions of other drones. Combat footage from the war in Ukraine has repeatedly captured these hit-to-kill intercepts in which a cheap drone slams into another unmanned aircraft. A Ukrainian FPV drone destroyed a russian Lancet drone that tried to escape its fate. Related storiesAn outfit that makes combat FPV drones posted in August that its modified drones had taken out 100 Russian UAVs. Interceptor drones are limited in range and altitude and often carry less explosive power than more traditional air defenses like missiles.

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☆ GoFundWar: How Ukraine Is Crowdfunding Its Battle Against Russia
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-07 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +19 min

On April 27, 2023, Diana Kulyk's father told her he was leaving the next day to start training to fight Russia. Diana had already raised about $30,000 over the previous year to buy protective gear for childhood friends fighting in Ukraine. Diana's efforts are part of an immense crowdfunding movement helping fuel Ukraine's fight against Russia's far larger and more advanced military. Benjamin Jensen, a war-strategy expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, describes this crowdfunding as a "game changer." Before the war, Ruslan Kulyk was a pastry chef who made wedding cakes in Spain, where the family immigrated when Diana was young.

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☆ Russia is suffering record casualties as the West steps up support for Ukraine, and it may struggle to replace them
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

It added that Western military support remains vital to Ukraine's war effort. Russia will struggle to replace the increasing numbers of troops lost to death and injury on the frontline if the West continues to back Ukraine, a US think tank said. But Russia can't both replace its troops lost in Ukraine, and solve its workforce crisis, said the ISW. AdvertisementPresident-elect Donald Trump has pledged to bring peace to Ukraine and has been critical of US support for Ukraine. "The continued, regular provision of Western military assistance to Ukraine remains crucial to Ukraine's ability to continue defending against Russian offensive operations and inflicting unsustainable losses on the Russian military in 2025," the ISW said.

Persons: Petro, ArmyInform, Donald Trump, Keith Kellogg, Kyiv didn't, Joe Biden Organizations: UK's Ministry of Defence, The, Reuters, Ukraine, Kyiv, Trump, Russian Locations: Russia, Ukraine, US, Russian, Kursk Oblast, Ukrainian, Donetsk, Moscow

☆ Ukraine's front-line fighters and dronemakers are trying to crowdfund their way to Russia's defeat through cheap strikes
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Another prototype, a modified Soviet ZU-23-2 antiaircraft gun, needs $70,000 worth of parts to be fully automated to strike down Russian drones. Advertisement"For drones, most funding is from volunteer help, by donors," Chernyavskiy told Business Insider. Throughout the war, Ukraine has repeatedly struggled with insufficient amounts of ammunition, such as much-need 155mm artillery shells. In Ukraine, Chernyavskiy is frustrated, too. This is the nature of war," Chernyavskiy said.

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KYIV, Ukraine — In a snow-covered forest outside Kyiv, the “Witches of Bucha” are training to defend their city from a constant bombardment of Russian missiles and drones. The volunteer civil defense force, which is 90% women, is primarily tasked with defending the skies, shooting down the Iran-made Shahed drones that arrive nearly every night. Tetyana said that her husband and brother have both been killed in the war, and that her nephew in the army has been reported missing. “My whole word was destroyed,” said Tetyana, 41, who, in keeping with Ukrainian military protocol, declined to give her last name. Volunteering with the group gives her an outlet to channel her rage, she said.

Persons: Bucha, Tetyana, ” Locations: KYIV, Ukraine, Kyiv, Russian, Iran, Bucha

☆ North Korea expands weapons plant that makes missiles used by Russia against Ukraine, researchers say
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Lauren Kent | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —North Korea is expanding a weapons plant that manufactures missiles used by Russia against Ukraine, according to new research from a US-based think tank. Located in the country’s second-largest city, Hamhung, the factory has been visited several times by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, with North Korean state media previously touting its mass-production of tactical missiles. Attacks on Ukraine with KN-23 missilesRussia has fired about 60 North Korean KN-23 missiles (Hwasong-11A) at Ukraine this year. And strikes using North Korean missiles have killed at least 28 people and injured 213 this year, the Ukrainian prosecutor general told CNN last week. Moscow and Pyongyang have both previously denied that North Korea has exported weapons to Russia, despite significant evidence of such transfers.

Persons: James Martin, Kim Jong Un, Sam Lair, Lair, they’re, ”, CNN’s Helen Regan, Daria Tarasova, Nick Paton Walsh, Victoria Butenko Organizations: CNN, Ukraine, James, James Martin Center, Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies, North, Center, Planet Labs, Planet Labs PBC, Nonproliferation, North Korean, Russia, Korean, Ukraine’s, Corruption Locations: North Korea, Russia, Hamhung, North Korean, Ukraine, Moscow, Pyongyang, Western, Korea, United States, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Kursk

☆ Ukraine says it found Western parts inside North Korean ballistic missiles fired by Russia
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-25 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementUkraine said on Monday that it found Western-made parts inside North Korean ballistic missiles. Ukraine's military intelligence agency said that it found Western-made parts inside North Korea's KN-23 and KN-24 short-range ballistic missiles. Kyiv said that it had previously found Western technology in the North Korean missiles. The Monday statement marks Ukraine's latest announcement on the finding of Western-made parts inside weapons used by Russia in this war. NATO said the introduction of North Korean troops into the war marked a "significant escalation" in the grinding conflict.

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Russia has fired about 60 North Korean KN-23 missiles at Ukraine this year, according to a Ukrainian defense official. These less-sophisticated missiles are part of North Korea’s growing support to Moscow, which also includes about 11,000 North Korean soldiers deployed to Russia’s Kursk region. Strikes using North Korean missiles have killed at least 28 people and injured 213 this year, the Ukrainian prosecutor general told CNN. Ukrainian investigators found evidence that crucial components used in the North Korean missiles are produced by at least nine Western manufacturers. There are more than 250 companies whose components have been identified in North Korean missiles, according to CAR.

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☆ From a call with Putin to an experimental strike, a dramatic week transforms the war in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-22 | by ( Nick Paton Walsh | Analysis Cnn'S International Security Editor | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —It began with a peace move nobody wanted and ended with an experimental missile strike so rare in war Moscow gave a 30-minute heads-up to Washington. The White House publicly authorized Ukraine Sunday to fire missiles it supplied into Russia proper, which it swiftly did Monday. Moscow responded by using an experimental medium-range missile, with hypersonic speeds and a multiple warhead system usually reserved for nuclear payloads, to strike Dnipro Thursday. Similarly, Putin’s decision to launch the Oreshnik missile was likely Moscow stepping up another rung on a carefully prepared ladder of escalation. Yuri Budanov, head of Ukraine’s defense intelligence, said Friday it was a “medium-range ballistic missile, a nuclear weapons carrier.

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☆ Oil rises as intensifying Ukraine war increases supply risk
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-22 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

An aerial view of Phillips 66 oil refinery is seen in Linden, New Jersey, United States on March 8, 2022. Oil prices rose on Friday after Russia said it had fired a ballistic missile at Ukraine and warned of a broadening conflict, raising the prospect of tightening crude supplies. Russia is among the world's top crude oil producing countries, even with output declines following import bans tied to its invasion of Ukraine and supply curbs by producer group OPEC+. Russia this month said it produced about 9 million barrels of oil a day. Ukraine has used drones to target Russian oil infrastructure, including in June, when it used long-range attack drones to strike four Russian refineries.

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☆ Ukraine's drone units are inflicting 80% of the frontline casualties on Russia, report says
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Its drone units account for 80% of Russian losses, The New York Times reported. Ukraine's drone units now account for at least 80% of Russian frontline losses, The New York Times reported. The outlet reported that small Ukrainian drone teams had become prized targets for Russia. Ukraine's frontline drone units work in small teams, using remotely controlled first-person-view (FPV) drones to surveil and target Russian forces. In October, Ukraine exceeded its annual target of producing a million FPV drones for its military, Lieutenant General Ivan Havryliuk, Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine, told RBC-Ukraine.

Persons: Sgt, Maj, Vasyl, Ivan Havryliuk Organizations: New York Times, Times, Russian, Defense, RBC Locations: Russia, US, Ukraine

☆ Ukraine says Russia launched an intercontinental missile in an attack for the first time in the war
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Ukraine says Russia launched an intercontinental ballistic missile overnight targeting Dnipro city in the central-east of the country, which, if confirmed, would be the first time Moscow has used such a missile in the war. It said an intercontinental ballistic missile was fired at Dnipro city along with eight other missiles, and that the Ukrainian military shot down six of them. The attack comes two days after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a revised nuclear doctrine that formally lowers the threshold for the country's use of nuclear weapons. Ukraine on Tuesday fired several American-supplied longer-range missiles and reportedly fired U.K.-made Storm Shadows on Wednesday into Russia. While the doctrine envisions a possible nuclear response by Russia to a conventional strike, it is formulated broadly to avoid a firm commitment to use nuclear weapons and keep Putin's options open.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Yevgeny Balitsky, Joe Biden's, Putin Organizations: Kremlin, Ukraine, Russian Defense Ministry, U.S, NATO Locations: Moscow, Russian, Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia, Russia, Ukraine, Dnipro, Russia's Astrakhan, Crimean

☆ A startup making spy drones being used in Ukraine got a funding injection from NATO
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A dronemaking startup whose equipment is being used by the Ukrainian military got a cash injection from NATO. AdvertisementThe company has said its equipment is being used in Ukraine though not which of its models were sent. Drones are used for surveillance, to carry light supplies, for targeting assistance, and as weapons. AdvertisementThe battlefield features drones from around the world, spanning cheap consumer drones, high-end military hardware, and improvised systems. A new £60 million package of military support from the UK-administered International Fund for Ukraine will provide advanced new surveillance drones to support 🇺🇦's Armed Forces.

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☆ Russia says Ukraine attacked it using U.S.-made missiles, signals it's ready for nuclear response
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-19 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

watch nowMoscow signaled to the West that it's ready for a nuclear confrontation after Ukraine was given permission to attack Russian territory — and appeared to quickly act on that greenlight — using U.S.-made long-range missiles. Ukrainian news outlets reported early Tuesday that the missiles had been used to attack a Russian military facility in the Bryansk border region. The Kremlin has repeatedly warned the West against allowing Ukraine to use its long-range weapons to attack Russia directly. Moscow upped the ante Tuesday as Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree approving its updated nuclear doctrine, shifting the parameters on when Russia can use nuclear weapons. "Aggression against the Russian Federation by any non-nuclear state with the participation or support of a nuclear state is considered a joint attack."

Persons: Vladimir Putin, it's, Dmitry Peskov, Peskov Organizations: Washington Sunday, Ministry of Defense, CNBC, Kyiv Post, Kremlin's, Russian Federation, Civil Defense, Emergencies, Russia's Emergencies Ministry Locations: Moscow, Ukraine, Russian, Bryansk, Russia, Belarus, Republic of Belarus

☆ Ukraine says Russia's unstoppable hypersonic missiles had another bad night
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-19 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementUkraine said it destroyed nearly all the hypersonic missiles that Russia fired in a big weekend attack. The Ukrainian military said it destroyed nearly all of the hypersonic missiles Russia launched as part of a massive bombardment over the weekend. The purported success of Ukraine's air defenses during the engagement marks the latest blow to the reputation of Russian hypersonic weapons, which Moscow has touted as highly advanced systems that are basically unstoppable. AdvertisementUkraine has several air-defense systems that it says are capable of taking down Russia's hypersonic missiles, including the French/Italian-made SAMP-T and American-made MIM-104 Patriot battery. The Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a German research institute, notes that data on hypersonic missile interception rates is scarce.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Gorshkov, SERGEI SUPINSKY, Oleksandr Syrskyi, Syrskyi, Lockheed Martin Organizations: Russia, Russian Ministry of Defense, Russian, NATO, Getty, Kyiv, Kiel Institute Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Moscow, Russian, Kyiv, AFP

☆ Russia Has Suffered Colossal Losses in Ukraine. Is Its Army Depleted?
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-19 | by ( Anatoly Kurmanaev | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Russia’s military made its largest territorial gains in more than two years in October, as it pressed farther into Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region — but at a heavy cost. British and Ukrainian military officials, as well as BBC researchers, claim that Russia suffered its highest rate of dead and injured soldiers during that month. What do we really know about Russia’s casualties and its ability to replace them? The losses that matterIt is difficult to obtain concrete information about Russian casualties, which comprise deaths and injuries. Moscow has an incentive to minimize its losses and rarely discloses any information; Ukraine and its allies have an incentive to overstate them.

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I’m tripping over their bodies,” said Sydney Seiler, the U.S. national intelligence officer for North Korea from 2020 to 2023. “Kim Jong Un is selling North Korean soldiers as cannon fodder mercenaries,” South Korean Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun said last month. It’s an entirely new environment for the North Korean soldiers, who live in one of the most isolated and repressive countries in the world. The Russian military is teaching the North Korean soldiers about 100 key military terms, but “North Koreans are having a difficult time learning Russian,” South Korean lawmakers Lee Sung-kwon and Park Sun-won said last month. North Korean soldiers’ inexperience could be another point of friction and a major factor in how they are deployed.

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