“Russians will capture the Baltic States in 7 days. NATO’s reaction time is 10 days.”

— Ukraine’s military intelligence service (GUR) deputy chief Vadym Skibitsky.

More than one in two French citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are ready to fight in Ukraine to defend their country, Ipsos poll shows.

Of those surveyed, 51% are ready to go to war in Ukraine to defend France, with 17% saying “definitely yes” and 34% saying “maybe yes”.

Panorama view of massive shelling on one of the front sectors in Donbas, Ukraine.

Israeli airstrike right next to the encampment in southern city of Rafah, Gaza.

American Reaper drones move to the top of Ukraine’s wish list, Politico reports.

But, the U.S. remains hesitant to send them over concerns Russia "could shoot them down."

Donald Trump, if elected as President of the United States, may require NATO members to raise defense spending to 3% of GDP, The Telegraph reports.

India’s first indigenous (chubby) bomber UAV unveiled.

FWD-200B is a medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) unmanned combat aerial vehicle designed and manufactured entirely in India.

Turkish origin CEO sentenced to 6 years in prison for selling counterfeit equipment to US fighter jets.

Onur Aksoy, who lives in Florida, established dozens of fake companies and sold counterfeit Cisco network equipment to the US Army.

Aksoy earned hundreds of millions of dollars through the plot.

The parts he sold even managed to made its way into fighter jets such as F-15, F-18 and F-22.

The U.S. is buying add-on seekers designed to give Joint Direct Attack Munition-Extended Range (JDAM-ER) precision-guided bombs supplied to Ukraine the ability to "zero in on GPS jammers."

This would turn one of the weapons most impacted by this countermeasure into one used to directly attack it.

This follows growing reports that Russian jamming is severely degrading the effectiveness of Western-supplied GPS-guided munitions, including JDAM-ERs.

Source: TWZ

Yemen's Houthis offer education to students suspended in US protest crackdown.

"We are serious about welcoming students that have been suspended from U.S. universities for supporting Palestinians," an official at Sanaa University, which is run by the Houthis, told Reuters.

German Rheinmetall CEO Papperger calls for 43% increase in German defense budget.

"Germany needs to add 30 billion euro to its defense budget this year to the 68.58 billion euro already in the budget," he said.

Iran's IRGC Navy floating base Shahid Mahdavi used as mobile platform at sea to launch ballistic missiles.

Dezful medium-range ballistic missile launched from 40-foot containers on the deck of the Shahid Mahdavi.

Dezful has a reported range of 1,000 km.

French FREMM air defence frigate intercepting Houthi kamikaze UAV at the Red Sea.

Biden and Zelensky should be the first to be drafted into Ukrainian Army as they are "mentally retarded and psychotic", Chairman of the Russian State Duma Volodin says.

The U.S. does not allow strikes with its weapons on Russian territory, U.S. Ambassador in Kyiv Bridget Brink says.

"Our position from the beginning has been that we do not enable or encourage the use of our weapons in Russia, outside of Ukrainian territory."

Exclusive footage obtained by Al Jazeera from an Israeli drone, dropped by Palestinian resistance in Gaza, shows Israeli forces using an innocent civilian as a human shield; sending him to areas as bait in Gaza.

Photo from the recent exhibition of war trophies in Moscow. The billboard reads:

"Employees of the embassies of the US, Great Britain, Germany, France and Poland are allowed to enter the exhibition of NATO trophy weapons without queuing."

Man beats robot in the forest: Impressive capabilites of Chinese robotics company LimX Dynamics’ P1 bipedal robot.

The robot utilizes reinforcement learning, enabling it to dynamically adapt to complex environments without prior knowledge of the terrain's specifics.

Russian aviation drops six aerial bombs at once on Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region.