The plan to send the controversial munitions, which can pierce armor and are mildly radioactive, is an escalation in the type of U.S.-supplied weapons to Kyiv.
Moldova will host joint military exercises with about 500 Moldovan, Romanian and U.S. troops from Sept. 10 to 22. The multinational Rapid Trident exercises, which will include infantry and artillery drills, are aimed at “improving the interoperability of the armies of the participating countries,” it said.Romania has launched an investigation to determine the nature of the fragments resembling “drone parts” that wereon Tuesday, Defense Ministry spokesman Constantin Spanu said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has arrived in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta and will attend the East Asia Summit on Thursday, the Russian state news agency Tass reported. “During the event, we believe it is important to discuss the challenges the Asia-Pacific region is facing,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova was quoted as saying.
As Russian invaders focus their fire on the strategic northeast town of Kupyansk, a Ukrainian armor platoon, hidden under camouflage nets and the last embers of summer foliage, expressed nostalgia for the tank-on-tank battles last year that tested soldiers’ will and skill, Alex Horton and Serhii Korolchuk report. The war is different now, said a 26-year-old commander with the call sign Leshyi.
Work has been steady, and Leshyi’s crew recently helped destroy some electronic warfare equipment, he said, though admitting the indirect contact with the enemy does not offer the same instant gratification as other battles. “Most of the time we don’t even know what we are shooting at,” Leshyi said from the hatch of his T-72. “Sometimes we only see videos of our work.”
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