SHANGHAI/TAIPEI: China’s military began drills around Taiwan on Saturday, saying it was a « serious warning » to separatist forces in an angry and widely expected response to a visit by Vice President William Lai to the United States, drawing condemnation from Taipei.Lai, the front-runner to become Taiwan’s president at elections in […]
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made another inspection tour of major munitions factories and ordered a drastic increase in production of missiles and other weapons, state media said Monday, days before South Korea and the US begin annual military drills that North Korea views as an invasion rehearsal. […]
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered his military to sharpen its war plans and signed off on expanding combat operations of frontline units, state media said Thursday, as the United States and South Korea prepare for a large-scale combined military exercise. Condemning the allies’ expanding drills as […]
The OTR-21 Tochka-U missile systems launch missiles during military exercises held by the armed forces of Russia and Belarus in the Gomel region, Belarus (Crumpa) WASHINGTON: Bumping up estimates of Russian troops massed across the Ukraine border to 190,000, the United States rallied European allies on Friday to confront Moscow, […]
MOSCOW: Several Russian mechanised infantry units have returned to their bases in the regions of Dagestan and Chechnya after completing drills in Crimea, the Interfax news agency cited Russia’s defence ministry as saying on Friday. Russia said this week it has started pulling back some troops from areas adjacent to […]
MOSCOW: Russia on Wednesday said military drills in Moscow-annexed Crimea had ended and that soldiers were returning to their garrisons, a day after it announced a first troop pullback from Ukraine’s borders. « Units of the Southern Military District, having completed their participation in tactical exercises, are moving to their permanent […]
MOSCOW: Britain’s top diplomat urged Russia on Thursday to defuse tensions over Ukraine and take the path of diplomacy even as thousands of Russian troops engaged in sweeping maneuvers in Belarus as part of a military buildup near Ukraine that has fueled Western fears of an invasion. U.K. Foreign Secretary […]
PARIS: France on Thursday denounced joint Russian military exercises with Belarus as « a very violent gesture » in addition to Moscow’s troop build-up on neighbouring Ukraine’s borders. The planned 10-day manoeuvres in Belarus were « extremely large » Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told France Inter radio. « There is a mounting number of […]
