Houthi missile reaches central Israel for first time, no injuries reported
Jerusalem, Israel Reuters Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would inflict a “heavy price” on the Iran-aligned Houthis who control northern Yemen, after they reached central Israel with a missile on Sunday for the first time. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said the group struck with a new hypersonic ballistic missile that travelled 2,040 kilometres […]
Ukrainian missile kills 15 at apartment block, Russia says
Updated: 5:45pm (AEST) Moscow, Russia Reuters At least 15 people were killed and scores injured on Sunday when a section of a Russian apartment block collapsed after being struck by fragments of a Soviet-era missile, launched by Ukraine and shot down by Russia, Russian officials said. In one of the deadliest attacks to date on […]
Russian missile kills three in Ukrainian port of Odesa
Reuters A Russian missile attack killed three people and injured three others in the Ukrainian port of Odesa early on Wednesday, regional Governor Oleh Kiper said. Kiper, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said the attack damaged civilian infrastructure. An educational institution building burns after a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in […]
UN experts say North Korea missile landed in Ukraine’s Kharkiv
United Nations Reuters The debris from a missile that landed in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on 2nd January was from a North Korean Hwasong-11 series ballistic missile, United Nations sanctions monitors told a Security Council committee in a report seen by Reuters on Monday. In the 32-page report, the UN sanctions monitors concluded that […]
Essay: Shadow war no more – hostilities between Israel and Iran have strayed into direct warfare. Is there any going back?
In an article first published on The Conversation, JAVED ALI, an expert on national security and the Middle East, looks at the background to the escalating conflict in the Middle East…
Russia stages major airstrike on Ukraine; one missile enters Polish airspace
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russia struck critical infrastructure in Ukraine’s western region of Lviv with missiles early on Sunday, Kyiv said, in a major airstrike that saw one Russian cruise missile briefly fly into Polish airspace according to Warsaw. Moscow launched 57 missiles and drones in the attack that also targeted the capital Kyiv, two days […]
Ukraine says Russia has launched over 8,000 missiles, 4,630 drones during war
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russia has launched more than 8,000 missiles and 4,630 drones at targets in Ukraine since its invasion two years ago, Ukrainian air force spokesperson Yuriy Ihnat said on Thursday. Ukrainian air defences have shot down 3,605 of the drones, he said in televised comments that gave an idea of the scale of […]
Russia uses Zircon hypersonic missile in Ukraine for first time, researchers say
Reuters A preliminary analysis concluded that Russia hit Kyiv last week with the hypersonic Zircon missile, its first use in the nearly two-year-old war, the head of a Kyiv research institute said on Monday, presenting a new challenge to Ukraine’s air defences. Oleksandr Ruvin, director of the Kyiv Scientific-Research Institute for Forensic Examinations, said on […]
Four killed in combined Russian air strike on Ukraine
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russia sent dozens of missiles across Ukraine early on Monday, killing at least four civilians and hitting residential areas and commercial sites in its latest combined air attack, Ukrainian authorities said. Two people were killed in the western Khmelnytskyi region, local officials reported, where critical infrastructure had also been struck. A view […]
Russia fires North Korean missiles at Ukraine for first time – Kyiv official
Reuters Russia has hit Ukraine with missiles supplied by North Korea for the first time during its invasion, a senior Kyiv official said on Friday, corroborating an earlier assertion by the US White House. The statement on social media platform X came after the governor of the north-eastern region of Kharkiv said that his region […]