Russia plotted to assassinate the CEO of a German arms firm making weapons for Ukraine as the Kremlin ramps up its covert campaign against the West

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Armin Papperger
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (R), Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (L) and Armin Papperger, the CEO of Rheinmetall (C).

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Ukraine will likely have to wait a year before it's able to launch another counteroffensive, NATO official says

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the NATO summit in Washington, DC, in July 2024.

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Russia targeting Ukrainian airfields before F-16s arrive shows its fear of the jets, experts say

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A screen grab from an aerial video shows a fiery explosion in part of an airfield, surrounded by green land
A screen grab captured from a video shows a missile strike hit on the Dolgintsevo airfield in Ukraine's Dnepropetrovsk region on July 3, 2024.

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Ukraine's navy is harassing Russian forces with 16 new armored assault boats built by Sweden

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Two CB90 fast assault crafts sail near snowy mountains during military exercises.
Deployed by naval forces around the globe, the Swedish-built CB90 fast assault boats have supported various missions and operations.

US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Danielle Serocki

NATO is taking greater control of Western efforts to back Ukraine's fight as US politics raise questions about its reliability

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Ukrainian soldiers in dugouts firing mortar rounds.
Ukrainian soldiers are fighting on the front lines with the support of Western partners, but there are questions about the reliability of those partnerships.

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Zelenskyy says the problem with the coming F-16 fighter jets is the same one Ukraine had with the Abrams tanks

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An F-16 fighter jet flies above a white cloudy sky with a KC-135 Statotanker flying above it and waiting to refuel the jet.
An F-16 Fighting Falcon.

US Air Force photo by Senior Airman Zachary Willis

Putin's war of attrition is coming at a massive cost, with 5,000 soldiers killed or injured in the battle for one neighborhood

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Chasiv Yar
A view of Chasiv Yar in Ukraine, which has been left ruined after ferocious fighting between the Ukrainian and Russian military.

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NATO just accused China of enabling Russia's invasion of Ukraine for the first time

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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russia's President Vladimir Putin in 2023. NATO has accused China of being "a decisive enabler of Russia's war against Ukraine."

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Russia's thwarting of precision Western weapons in Ukraine shows the value of things like old-fashioned, unguided artillery, European general says

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A rocket is shot out of a M142 HIMARS
Western-supplied precision weapons such as the M142 HIMARS in Ukraine are rendered less effective against electronic counterwarfare.

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Russia's brutal missile strike on a Ukrainian children's hospital just before the big NATO summit appears to be backfiring

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A woman comforts another crying woman as a child with a bandage on her face looks on between them
A woman reacts as people shelter in the basement of the Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital following a Russian missile strike on one of its buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine on July 8, 2024.

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