Tag: missile
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Russia bombs Ukrainian energy facilities with missile
Russia bombs Ukrainian energy facilities with missile Russian forces have launched a barrage of missiles and drones across Ukraine that damaged energy infrastructure in five regions, according to Ukrainian officials. Ukraine’s national grid operator Ukrenergo said on Saturday the attacks struck facilities in the eastern Donetsk, southeastern Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions, as well as the Kirovohrad…
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Israeli missile strike kills three sons, four grandchildren of Hamas political leader
Israeli missile strike kills three sons, four grandchildren of Hamas political leader Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s three sons and three grandchildren were murdered in an Israeli airstrike on a Gaza refugee camp, according to the Hamas-affiliated news agency Shehab. Haniyeh told Al Jazeera that his children were targeted while visiting relatives for Eid at the…
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Putin threatened me with missile strike — Boris Johnson
Former British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has said Vladimir Putin threatened him with a missile strike in an “extraordinary” phone call in the run-up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The then-prime minister said Mr Putin told him it “would only take a minute”. Mr Johnson said the comment was made after he warned the war…
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North Korea fires missile and flies warplanes near border with South
North Korea has launched a ballistic missile toward its eastern waters and flown warplanes near its border with South Korea, Seoul’s military said. The move will only add to tensions in the region already heightened by the North’s recent barrage of weapons tests. Additionally, the military said South Korea had scrambled fighter jets when around 10 North Korean…
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North Korea: Missile launches tested nuclear ‘wipe out’ of South
North Korean state media said some of the ballistic missiles were equipped with mock nuclear warheads. Kim Jong-un called this “an obvious” warning to the enemy. North Korea’s spate of missile launches over the past two weeks were training drills to “hit and wipe out” potential South Korean and US targets, the country’s state media…
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U.S. imposes sanctions targeting North Korea’s missile program
The United States has imposed sanctions on two Russian companies and a North Korean entity for transferring sensitive items to North Korea’s missile program, the State Department said on Thursday. It named the Russian entities as the Ardis Group of Companies LLC (Ardis Group) and PFK Profpodshipnik LLC. The North Korean entity targeted for sanctions…