The U.S. State Department has cleared a possible $600 million foreign military sale of sixteen Mark VI patrol boats to Ukraine, it was announced on 18 June. The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said that the State Department had approved the sale of 16 Mark VI patrol boats and related equipment for an estimated […]

Ukrainian magazine, Defense Express, quoting a director of the Pavlograd Chemical Plant Leonid Shiman, reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine has plan to buy three divisions of RK-360MC Neptune coastal defense system with R-360 cruise missiles. As noted by the magazine, that the one Neptune division includes six USPU-360 launchers with 24 cruise missiles […]

Ten members of the National Guard of Ukraine were injured when a Spartan armored personnel carrier hit a roadside bomb in Avdiyivka, Donetsk region, the press service of the prosecutor’s office of Donetsk region said Tuesday. “A pretrial investigation found that at about 9:30 a.m. on June 9, 2020, during the travelling of a military […]

Ukrainian mobile coastal defense system Neptun has successfully test fired two R-360 cruise missiles in the south of the Odessa region to hit designated targets at the “Alibey” range, the press service of the UkrOboronProm said on Saturday. “On May 29, the newest Ukrainian RK-360MT Neptun coastal missile system made a successful test salvo launch […]

On Friday, the U.S. Air Force has announced that its B-1B Lancer bombers from Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, conducted a long-range strategic Bomber Task Force mission throughout Europe and the Black Sea region. A Ukrainian Su-27 Flankers and MiG-29 Fulcrums escorted two B-1B Lancers from the 28th Bomb Wing at Ellsworth Air Force […]

An Youtube account claiming to be of an enginers from Robotics Design Bureau, posted a short video purportedly of a RSVK-M2 “Hunter” Unmanned Ground Vehicle testing in the eastern Donbass region. The video shows the field testing of new Ukrainian RSVK-M2 Unmanned Ground Vehicle in war-torn region. No details were provided about the date and […]

The Antonov AN-225 Mriya, the world’s largest plane armed with six engines and a massive cargo hold, arrived in Germany carrying 10million face masks for the fight against COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. The Ukrainian cargo plane arrived at Leipzig/Halle airport on Monday morning and was welcomed by German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. The masks were procured […]

A Ukrainian cargo plane reportedly carrying medical supplies for coronavirus patients landed in Wroclaw, Poland on Thursday (16 April 2020) to help the country’s fight against COVID-19. This is the second mission that the Polish Armed Forces have undertaken as part of the NATO-supported Strategic Airlift International Solution (SALIS), which provides participating NATO Allies with […]

Ukraine provides strategic air transport capability to NATO countries in response to the COVID-19 crisis, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said. During an online video conference for journalists ahead of an online pre-ministerial press conference, ahead of the extraordinary meeting of the North Atlantic Council (NAC) at the level of Defence Ministers which will be held […]

Official Kyiv has deployed more firefighters and National Guards to the Chernobyl exclusion zone to fight with fires in Pripyat. Radioactive forest near the Chernobyl nuclear plant caught fire for the first time since 1986. Currently, firefighters and soldiers are working to contain the forest fires burning through the territory surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power […]