The U.S. military on March 1 established a deconfliction line with the Russian Ministry of Defense aimed at avoiding incidents in the airspace over Eastern Europe amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
European Union plans to transfer Warsaw Pact-era combat aircraft to Ukraine appear to have faltered after the Eastern European governments operating them said they would not be handing over the aircraft.
The head of the U.S. military’s nuclear command has not recommended any posture changes more than two days after Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was ordering his nuclear forces to a “special mode” of alert.
Russia’s forces appear to be reassessing their approach and changing tactics as they advance into Ukraine from the north toward Kyiv, the Pentagon said March 1 in its latest assessment of the invasion.
A Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27 has been returned to the embattled country six days after a pilot fled with the two-engine fighter to Romania in the first hours of the Russian invasion, Romanian military officials said on March 1.
Three F-35As deployed to Amaris Air Base, Estonia, and the other three landed at Siauliai Air Base, Lithuania, where they will support NATO’s Enhanced Air Policing mission “for an extended period of time,” the U.S. Air Force said Feb. 27.
Germany is pledging to create a €100 billion ($112.7 billion) fund for defense investment this year and is promising a dramatic uptick in annual defense spending in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Roscosmos will suspend launches of Soyuz rockets from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana in response to European Union sanctions on Russia, the CEO of the Russian space corporation Dmitry Rogozin said Feb. 26.
U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, the long-serving Republican from Oklahoma and ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has announced he will retire at the end of his term in 2027.
The Russian military does not have air superiority in Ukraine, with the U.S. Defense Department assessing that Ukrainian command and control has remained intact and the country is still operating air defenses and aircraft,
The UK’s intelligence agencies believe Russian forces failed to achieve their primary objectives on the first day of their campaign in Ukraine, British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace says.
Russia added two more Ukrainian Air Force aircraft on Feb. 25 to a running tally of shoot downs, raising the claimed overall total of aircraft kills to 11 since the invasion began, the state-owned TASS news agency says.
