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Al Arabiya
08-07-2025
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Trump says he has approved sending defensive weapons to Ukraine
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he had approved sending US defensive weapons to Ukraine. Trump has said he is unhappy with Russia's President Vladimir Putin, whose war with Ukraine Trump is seeking to end. Trump was speaking at a cabinet meeting at the White House. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday that Ukraine will 'intensify' talks with the United States on air defense after President Donald Trump announced that Washington would send additional weapons to Kyiv. 'Today, I instructed the Minister of Defense of Ukraine and the Chief of the General Staff to intensify all contacts with the American side,' Zelenskyy said in his daily address. 'We now have the necessary political statements and decisions, and they must be implemented as soon as possible to protect our people and our positions. This primarily concerns air defense,' he added.
Al Arabiya
01-07-2025
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Russia says it downs 60 Ukrainian drones overnight
Russia's air defense units destroyed 60 Ukrainian drones overnight, the Russian defense ministry said on Tuesday. Most of the drones were destroyed over regions in southwest Russia and over the Crimean Peninsula, the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, it said.
Al Arabiya
27-06-2025
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Ukraine's drone attack restricts traffic in Russia's Volgograd
Traffic on the Don River in the Kalachevsky district of Russia's Volgograd region was temporarily restricted to eliminate wreckage from a 'massive' Ukrainian drone attack, the regional governor's administration said on Friday. 'Sappers are at work,' Volgograd Governor Andrei Bocharov was cited as saying in a post on the Telegram messaging app by the region's administration. He added that there were no injuries as a result of the attack. It was not immediately clear whether the bridge on the Don River, Europe's fifth-longest, was damaged. The Russian defense ministry said in a post on Telegram that its air defense units destroyed 39 Ukrainian drones overnight over the Russian territory and the Crimean Peninsula, including 13 over the Volgograd region. Volgograd airport was closed for more than three hours before flights were restored just before 7 a.m. local time (0400 GMT), Russia's civil aviation authority Rosaviatsia said on Telegram.
Al Arabiya
21-06-2025
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Breaking: Israel attacks nuclear site in Isfahan: Iranian media
Israel attacked Iran's Isfahan nuclear site in the early hours of Saturday, the Fars news agency reported, saying there were no hazardous leaks or risk to the population. Quoting a security official, it said Israel carried out multiple attacks including on the Isfahan site, saying 'most of the explosive sounds heard in these attacks were related to air defense activity.' There was no 'leakage of hazardous materials,' the official was quoted as saying. Developing
Yahoo
21-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Zelenskiy says Ukraine developing interceptor drones to counter Russian attacks
(Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that Ukraine was working on the rapid development of interceptor drones to counter the swarms of Russian drones that have been descending on Ukrainian cities in increasing numbers in recent weeks. Ukrainian officials have noted the sharply increased numbers of Iranian-designed Shahed drones deployed by Russian drones in the course of a single night and say it is vital to develop technology capable of tackling the threat they pose. "We are also working separately on interceptor drones, which are intended to enhance protection against Shahed drones," Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address. "Several of our domestic enterprises -- and, accordingly, different types of drones -- are delivering results. Production volumes of interceptors are already increasing." Russian forces have been deploying more than 400 drones on a single night, with more than 470 fired on more than one occasion. A total of 440 drones -- plus 32 missiles -- were deployed this week in a "combined" attack on Kyiv that flattened part of an apartment building and killed 28 people. "Drone air defence will help us use our means in a rational fashion. We cannot constantly use scarce air and anti-aircraft guided missiles and aviation itself to hunt enemy drones," Air Force spokesperson Yuri Ihnat told Ukrainian media this week. "The enemy is deploying more and more Shaheds and we are therefore looking for different methods to counter them." Zelenskiy and other officials have pointed to domestic drone production as a key element in national defence, and production has increased dramatically from being virtually non-existent before the Russian invasion of February 2022. The president told foreign arms manufacturers last November that Ukraine could produce 4 million drones annually and was quickly ramping up its production of other weapons. Ukraine has also been deploying drones against a variety of targets in Russia, mainly industrial and military. In a major operation earlier last month, Ukrainian drones attacked strategic bomber aircraft at different Russian airfields.
