Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kiev on Wednesday, ahead of a trip to Germany and a subsequent meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Switzerland on Friday.… Continue reading "Secretary of State Blinken Visits Ukraine In New Diplomatic Push"
Military equipment and personnel from Russia’s Eastern Military District have arrived in Belarus, following reports from early January that large amounts of military materiel was being transported by rail away… Continue reading "Russian Eastern Military District Troops Arrive In Belarus"
Following their meeting in Kyiv on 14 January, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, signed a Joint Declaration and a number of other bilateral documents aimed… Continue reading "Presidents of Ukraine and Azerbaijan Sign a Joint Declaration on Deepening Strategic Partnership"
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense has announced the arrival of Next Generation Light Anti-tank Weapons from the United Kingdom, after British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace stated on Monday that the UK… Continue reading "UK Delivers Light Anti-Tank Defensive Weapon Systems To Ukraine"
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock stressed the importance of diplomacy in resolving tensions between Ukraine and Russia, warning on Monday that Russia would pay for renewed military aggression against Ukraine,… Continue reading "Germany: Still No Defensive Arms For Ukraine, But “High Price” For Russian Aggression"
Welcome to Overt Defense’s Weekend Briefing where we round up the week’s most interesting and important defense news. This week we covered a vast range of subjects including Lockheed Martin’s… Continue reading "Weekend Briefing (10-14 January)"
Ukraine’s government says that it has restored services to governmental websites that were subject to a cyberattack earlier on Friday. Multiple governmental websites were defaced with messages telling users to… Continue reading "Ukrainian Government Websites Subjected To “Massive” Cyberattack"
Officials from the United States and Ukraine claim that Russia is preparing a false flag operation as a pretext for a large-scale incursion into Ukraine. A US official that spoke… Continue reading "US & Ukraine: Russia Planning False Flag Attack As Pretext For War In Ukraine"
Recruiters for Russian private military companies have reportedly stepped up their recruitment activities since late November 2021, looking for Russian mercenaries willing to bolster the ranks of Russian-backed separatists in… Continue reading "Reports: Russia Steps Up Mercenary Recruiting For Donbass Deployments"
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu claimed on Tuesday that American private military contractors present in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region were preparing a “provocation using unknown chemical components”. The state-run TASS… Continue reading "Russia Rehashes Syrian Chemical Warfare Disinformation Against Ukraine"