Russia’s Defense Ministry in a statement confirmed the attacks, saying they damaged aircraft and sparked fires on air bases in the Irkutsk region, as well as the Murmansk region in the north. It said strikes were also repelled in the Amur region in Russia’s Far East and in the western regions of Ivanovo and Ryazan, the ministry said.

The challenge is that Russia has China’s industrial backing, allowing it to scale more effectively than Ukraine. China produces 80 percent of the world’s fiber-optic supply. Russia has far more state finances to allow the purchasing of these supplies, while Ukraine still heavily relies on volunteers to drive some of these efforts .

Three new realities in terms of relationships among four key regional powers - China, Russia, Pakistan and India - are clearly evident. First, the China-Russia alliance is rock-solid, cemented by their adversaries attempts to ignite a new Cold War,

Ukraine’s brazen, multifaceted attack on Russian military bases over the weekend was more than a year in the making and demonstrated its creativity in picking up battlefield victories against a

Ukraine's successful drone strikes deep inside Russia, utilizing low-cost FPV drones, highlight vulnerabilities in strategic military locations. This has significant implications for India, prompting a re-evaluation of its counter-UAV strategy.

Concluding her analysis, Mukherjee strongly criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “Zelensky got them into a war where they have gained nothing

The latest defence review was a sign that the UK "no longer fully trusts the Americans to be engaged in European security”. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The plan, which includes building six new arms factories, will make Britain ready to fight a full-scale war, U.K. defense chief John Healey said.