Ukrainian army’s offensive attempt failed, 250 soldiers killed

Russian President Vladimir Putin threatens to `strike at those targets that we have not yet been hitting` in Ukraine if the West provides Kyiv with longer-range weaponry.

The Biden Administration is providing Ukraine with a next package of military aid, which will include Stinger anti-aircraft systems, Avenger air defense systems, additional munitions for Patriot air defense systems and for HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems), US National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said at a briefing on Wednesday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday accused Ukraine of seeking to "frighten" Russians after drones hit Moscow high-rises in the first such attack since the beginning of the Ukraine war.

Russia hit Ukraine with a series of missile fire on Monday in a surprise daytime attack, hours after an overnight barrage of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and across the country.

The United States wants to "move forward" regarding the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkiye, according to the US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby.

Russia’s Wagner mercenary group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has said that some 20,000 of it`s troops were killed in the months-long battle for control of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine.

Russia’s Defence Ministry said it scrambled an Su-27 fighter jet to “prevent violations of the state border” by two United States Air Force strategic bombers flying over the Baltic Sea.

The United States State Department has said that Russia’s Wagner mercenary force has attempted to hide efforts to obtain military equipment internationally for use in the Ukraine war and is seeking to transit such supplies through Mali.

Bangladesh and the US Navy have started a joint drill ‘Exercise Tiger Shark-40’ at BNS Nirvik in Chattogram on Sunday, said a media release of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) of Bangladesh.

On Saturday, mercenaries from the Russian private military contractor the Wagner Group claimed victory in the east Ukrainian town of Bakhmut after a gruelling battle that lasted for eight months. For the most part, the pro-Moscow camp has been elated at finally dislodging the stubborn Ukrainian defenders

A US-made Patriot missile defence system being used by Ukrainian forces has likely suffered some damage from a Russian air attack but does not appear to have been destroyed, two United States officials told the Reuters.

Air raid sirens have been heard in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and across two-thirds of the country continuing more than a week of a renewed Russian air campaign.

The Ukrainian armed forces lost more than 340 soldiers and mercenaries, as well as 13 units of military equipment in the Donetsk direction in the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.

Ukraine claims says it downed a Russian hypersonic missile over the capital city Kyiv using a newly acquired US Patriot defence system in what would be a first in its ability to intercept one of Moscow’s most modern weapons.

Russians have suffered 100,000 casualties, of which at least 20,000 are killed since a war of attrition intensified in Ukraine’s Donetsk region in December, according to an estimate by the White House, as Kyiv readies for a new counteroffensive against Moscow’s forces.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary force has threatened to withdraw his troops from the key battle for Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine as casualty rates mount, while Ukraine military authorities said Russian forces have been unable to cut their supply routes to the front line city.