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UKRAINE – The Army has deployed its OTR-21 Tochka-U ballistic missile to the Donbas.

This type of missile is known as "The End" and is a Tank Killer.

Further escalation inevitable!

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SYRIA – Combat aircraft of the Russian Air Force today for the first time struck at militant targets in the direction of the Bab al-Khava crossing border with Turkey.

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JUST IN: @SecDef made a surprise stop in Afghanistan today, his first as Pentagon chief, as @POTUS weighs a decision on whether to draw down US troops by May 1 — a deadline stipulated by the agreement he inherited from the Trump administration.

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GASWEX is a combined, multilateral surface, air and sub-surface exercise

Participants include French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle with FS Provence, FS Chevalier Paul, FS Var, The Belgian Navy frigate Leopold I, Japanese destroyer JS Ariake, USS Makin Island and USS Port Royal.

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BREAKING – The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission announced that its unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) came under fire near the settlement of Veselaya Gora, controlled by the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic, near the contact line in Donbas.

In turn, Yakov Osadchiy, an official representative of the People's Militia of the self-proclaimed LPR, said that the Ukrainian side had placed an armored personnel carrier in a residential area of ​​the Kiev-controlled city of "Happiness" so that OSCE monitors would not find it, and then fired at the mission's drone.

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BREAKING – Israel Aerospace Industries say they completed a series of tests with the BARAK ER long range surface-to-air missile, reaching an interception distance of 150km.

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BREAKING – Saudi Arabia Rolls Out Initiative to End Yemen War, in coordination with US & UN

Saudi says it has “Direct Channel” with Houthis & another via Oman

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BREAKING – Bulgaria removes two Russian diplomats over suspected spying charges

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This week starts in vertical take-off like this #F35B on board ITS Cavour.
The Italian Navy aircraft carrier continues sea trials, as part of the #ReadyForOperations campaign, to obtain the certification for the use of 5th generation aircraft
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🇺🇸 US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets from The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN69) Carrier Strike Group’s Carrier Air Wing 3 and Turkish KC-135s conduct a mid-air fueling over the Black Sea amid tensions with Russia in the region.

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🚨 Airborne forces and special forces: the active phase of the exercises of Russia and Belarus started near Mogilev in the eastern part of Belarus.

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RUSSIA – Crews of MiG-31BM fighters of the Western Military District currently preparing for exercises in the Astrakhan region.

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RUSSIA – Servicemen of the Republic of Belarus arrived in the Nizhny Novgorod region to participate in a joint exercise with servicemen of the Western Military District.

As part of the exercise, the servicemen will jointly work out actions in the defense of tank and motorized rifle units with the support of cannon and rocket artillery. During the defense, T-72B3 tanks and BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles will conduct live fire at targets at a distance of 800 to 2000 meters. Having destroyed the main forces of the enemy, the subdivisions of Russia and Belarus will go over to the counteroffensive, conducting rapid fire from all guns.

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