📍 Romania | Long-range drones featuring CAESAR: a precision duo during the PHOENIX COMPETITION.
🤝 French soldiers of the NATO Battlegroup in Romania participated in this multinational competition🇫🇷🇧🇪🇱🇺🇵🇹🇮🇹 in Cincu, dedicated to the tactical use of drones.
💥 From observation to fire: a unique sequence combined long-range drones and CAESAR howitzers. The drones designated targets to guide the shots, demonstrating perfect complementarity between intelligence and strike.
🚧 The CAESAR howitzers fired from an embossment position arranged by the @NATOPFLFBG 's engineers, optimizing their integration into the maneuver.
🎯 Coordination of allied and combined arm groups: a challenge that makes great sense for the defence of NATO's territory.
A Russian drone just came down between residential buildings in Kyiv's Obolon district, Kyiv Mayor Klitschko says. Floors two through five of a nearby 12-storey building caught fire. Ninth air raid alert of the day, with up to 8 injured in today's strikes across the city.
Russian attack drones are reportedly systematically attacking Ukrainian trucks carrying the summer/fall grain harvest to the port of Odesa.
Comes as key Ukrainian grain exports to the global market fell this summer on increasing Russian attacks.
Ukraine has received intelligence that Russia is preparing for a possible new ground offensive toward Kyiv as well as Chernihiv in the nation’s far north, a top official said https://t.co/nBC0IhYElh
At least 37 people have been killed following a Russian attack on the Bucha district, close to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, officials said. https://t.co/apnnm3nLGz
Mark Rutte @SecGenNATO przekazał mi właśnie swoją ocenę sytuacji w regionie i na froncie ukraińsko-rosyjskim. Tak jak ostrzegałem, eskalacja ze strony Rosji postępuje. Ukraina potrzebuje większego wsparcia w powietrzu, co ma także znaczenie dla naszego bezpieczeństwa. To zadanie dla całej Europy. Najbliższe pół roku będzie rozstrzygające i musimy być przygotowani jako Polska i NATO na różne scenariusze. Nie możemy wykluczyć prowokacji ze strony Rosji wobec któregoś z członków NATO.
🇫🇷🇸🇪 France is ready to export the MdCN naval cruise missile to Sweden. This marks a first for this European equivalent of the Tomahawk, with a claimed range of 1,400 km, to Northern Europe. Until now, it has been used exclusively by the French Navy for almost a decade.
Behind the strikes is Russia’s new Banderol cruise missile, which has turned Ukraine’s Black Sea coast into a deadly no-go zone for cargo ships and hammered its ports since it entered serial production at the end of last month.
Cheap, fast and carrying a 114kg high-explosive fragmentation warhead, Banderols are launched from Russian-occupied Crimea, often by Mi-28 attack helicopters🔗
https://t.co/VWwgTQMPnW
At least 27 people have been killed and 42 others injured, including four children, following a Russian attack in the Bucha district of the Kyiv region, Tymur Tkachenko reported.
Rescuers have evacuated 381 people, while around 50 homes were damaged.
Rostov region declared a state of emergency on August 28 after drone strikes disrupted Azov Sea shipping since mid-July, cutting off up to 1.5 million tonnes in monthly grain exports. The region produces nearly 10% of Russia's grain harvest.
Ukrainians living in Kherson have been urged to flee after Russia struck a power plant.
Four glide bombs were dropped on the city’s thermal power station, destroying all of its heat and power-generating equipment, according to Naftogaz, the state energy company🔗
https://t.co/QLUa9uM5FW
⚡️Russia has destroyed 90% of Ukraine's modern storage facilities, minister says
Agricultural Minister Taras Vysotskyi said attacks on logistics infrastructure could affect the range of goods available in stores, but assured that there is no risk of Ukrainians running out of food.
https://t.co/ZBgQibtJst
Russia’s land corridor to occupied Crimea, the highway is lined with burned-out logistics vehicles, including a large number of destroyed fuel tankers.
The heavily damaged container ship RMS TEAM enters the port of Samsun after the August 21 drone attack in the Black Sea while heading to the Russian port of Novorossiysk.
BREAKING: President Trump says the U.S. has entered a deal with Venezuela to take control of 65 billion barrels of its oil reserves. https://t.co/34Nkdg1WYY