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Witnesses told local media they heard something like the sound of a moped and then two explosions. In conclusion, it seems that the war in Ukraine has demonstrated that drones will be an important factor in international conflict in the years to come. It is estimated that since Russia intervened in the Crimean peninsula in 2014, the Russian army has spent almost 9 billion USD to locally produce a fleet of around 500 unmanned aerial vehicles. The Russian master plan had not accounted for the Ukrainian people, including most ethnic Russians, being prepared to defend their democracy. Although part of the Ukrainian Air Force was destroyed on the ground, with some of its C2 (command and control) elements, enough survived to fight back. Russia has deployed relatively few of its combat aircraft, possibly connected with poor pilot training, but overall, President Putin and his generals miscalculated on a massive scale.

Some are strong enough to shake the bunker, and she woke up screaming one night in fear. She posted her first TikTok video on February 23rd, a few hours before the invasion began. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to SussexWorld, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more.

No one surrenders.’ In clip after clip, he accuses the Russian defence ministry of starving his forces of shells. He potters about in the morgue, examining the corpses of dead Wagner fighters piled high in filthy black body bags before being slung like sacks of flour into the back of a truck for dispatch to Russia. For people, watching through their phone screen, TikTok made the conflict feel closer. Yet while Marta worked tirelessly to find and aggregate real content, misinformation was spreading across the platform at lightning speed. Footage claiming to show artillery fire was  actually of lighting hitting a powerplant, while a video of Russian paragliders was from 2016.

It is around 47 minutes after the 9-liner radio call for medical evacuation was called and only five minutes since the US Black Hawk helicopter took off from Camp Bastion to medevac Mark. They lay down a smokescreen and are forced to carry him without a stretcher. At approximately 8.50am, the troops decide to try and get Mark back to the nearby patrol base (PB) from Compound One. They are still under intense fire and will have to cross a canal, and run over open ground with the injured men (another soldier was shot in the ankle, but survived) to enter the patrol base. The fabrications of 2014 continued when on 14 July, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over the Donbas, killing all 298 passengers and crew. According to a Dutch-led investigation, it was destroyed by an air-to-ground rocket fired by the Russian Army’s 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade that had moved into the rebel held area, then returned to Russia after the unintended mishap.
Support from Western governments for Ukraine has been matched by popular campaigns to stand with Kiev. Many reports indicate that Kiev obtained drones through the help of wealthy Ukrainians who had ties with European companies. Reports from 12 May also show that several Lithuanian citizens donated aid to help arm Ukraine, and that these donations had been put towards purchasing Estonian-made drones to target Russian artillery. Not only did President Putin underestimate his opponents’ will and determination to defend themselves, he equally misunderstood how the world would unite against him. This is the first major war to have been fought with the world watching over everyone’s shoulder in this way.

Washington and most EU countries have recognised Kosovo as an independent state, but Serbia, Russia and China have not. The conflict in Kosovo erupted in 1998 when separatist ethnic Albanians rebelled against Serbia’s rule, and Serbia responded with a brutal crackdown. More than a dozen Serbs and five Kosovar police officers were injured in clashes last Friday, and Serbian troops on the border with Kosovo were put on high alert the same day. Defence minister Milos Vucevic said the Serbian army is wrapping up deployment following the decision to raise combat readiness and will be ready to “fulfil any task and any order”. Serbia’s Prime Minister, Ana Brnabic, criticised the international handling of the events in Kosovo, saying that KFor is “not protecting the people … they are protecting the usurpers,” apparently referring to the new mayors.
Does Prigozhin’s recent ubiquity mean he’s a big man in the new Russia, one of the more-Putin-than-Putin candidates lining up to succeed the president? Wagner has its own army, artillery and air force, and Prigozhin seems confident of Putin’s backing; he displays more contempt for the Russian general staff than for his Ukrainian opponents. He may nominally control a few guns and planes, but he depends on the military establishment for munitions. He relies on the Kremlin’s continuing desire for a menacing, off-the-books force to carry out deniable ops abroad and to offer its regular army the spur of competition. Wagner could be shut down or Prigozhin arrested at any moment; although he’s just opened a smart office in downtown St Petersburg with ‘Private Military Company Wagner’ in letters a foot high over the door, recruiting mercenaries is a criminal offence in Russia. Also on Wednesday, Russia claimed to have fired two Kalibr cruise missiles at Ukrainian targets from a submarine in the Black Sea and reiterated a warning that it would seek to hit shipments of Nato weapons to Ukraine.

A Ukrainian soldier miraculously survived unscathed after a bullet whizzed just over his head during a shoot-out with Russian soldiers. Of the war's wider effects on the Ukrainian population you will glean little from Russian media, nor is there any frank coverage of war-crime allegations. A report broadcast in February 2023 by the Russian network NTV shows an "armoured group" of the 331st in action in Luhansk. But it just tends to confirm the impression we've gleaned from other sources that the regiment survives as small detachments able to spearhead certain missions.

Ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo, who are a majority in that part of the country, tried to block recently-elected ethnic Albanian officials from entering municipal buildings. Kosovo police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd and let the new officials into the offices. This turned out to be Ahmed Raza Khan, now a captain in the Pakistani army, who was awarded the best overseas cadet prize at Sandhurst. Prince Harry faces the prospect of what in polite army circles is called an interview without coffee - and in less polite ones "a bit of a bollocking" - over video footage in which he called a fellow cadet at Sandhurst a "Paki" and another a "raghead". We recognize the heightened risk and impact of misleading information during a time of crisis. We continue to increase our safety and security measures and are working aggressively to help ensure people can express themselves and share their experiences, while we also seek to mitigate the potential for harm.
From memes and dance crazes to the storming of the US Capitol, it captures and clips the world with an immediacy other platforms can’t. As Russia prepared to invade Ukraine, it became a boon for open source investigators trying to track troop movements, and has provided immediate, quickfire footage of what’s happening as Ukrainians fight for their future. So far Britain, the US and Germany have refused to send aircrafts to Ukraine over fears of provoking Mad Vlad Putin.