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US military spent about $2 million to shoot down aerial objects

WASHINGTON ― The U.S. military spent $1.6 million to $2 million last month to shoot down three unidentified, high-altitude objects over North America, with half of that spent on the mission over Lake Huron in Michigan, the Air Force said Monday.

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Syria Mission Worth the Risk, Milley Says after Visit

The nearly eight-year-old US deployment to Syria to combat ISIS is still worth the risk, the top US military officer said on Saturday, after an unannounced visit to a base to meet US troops in the country's northeast, Reuters reported. Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Israel Tells Top US General It Sees Need to Cooperate against Iran

Israel hosted the top US military officer, Army General Mark Milley, on Friday for discussions that it said included the need for cooperation on denying Iran nuclear weaponry. Milley made the previously unannounced visit ahead of a trip to Israel by US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that will also include…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Israel kills 15-year-old Palestinian ‘shot in the back’

Palestinians say Muhammad Nidal Salim was killed after Israeli forces entered the occupied West Bank town of Azzoun.

Al Jazeera

U.S. hosts war games for Ukraine ahead of next phase of Russia conflict

The United States is hosting war planning exercises in Germany for Ukrainian military officers to help them think through upcoming battlefield decisions, officials said on Thursday, ahead of the next phase of the year-old conflict with Russia.

Reuters

Russia and Ukraine have a common enemy - time

War’s most inflexible factor is time. How Ukraine and Russia’s clocks tick down will decide who wins this war.

360info

Russia-Ukraine war: Zelenskiy says it is ‘obvious’ Putin will not stop with Ukraine; Macron calls for more military support – as it happened

Zelenskiy speaks at Munich security conference as Scholz, Macron and Kamala Harris are in Germany; French leader says Ukraine needs more support

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Vladimir Putin has already LOST war with Ukraine, top US general claims

Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley has slammed Russia for launching an unprovoked attack on Ukraine and admitted they've "lost strategically, operationally, and tactically"

Daily Mirror

US military reveals what the three UFOs shot down might've actually been after spy fears

The US military has not yet recovered any of the debris from the three UFOs shot down over the weekend, but they maybe linked to research purposes, according to White House spokesman John Kirby

Daily Mirror

Ukraine ‘inflicting very serious losses’ on Russian troops in the east, says Ukrainian official – as it happened

Ukraine’s deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar says Russian attacks are constant

The Guardian - AU

Latest downed objects likely had ‘benign purpose’, says US

The three still-unidentified aerial objects shot down by the US in the past week likely had merely a "benign purpose,” the White House acknowledged Tuesday, drawing a distinction between them and the massive Chinese balloon that earlier traversed the US with a suspected goal of surveillance.

France 24

Mysterious objects shot down over United States and Canada likely 'benign', as officials admit first missile missed its Lake Huron target

As alien theories abound and more "objects" are spotted over Europe, US officials say their main theory on the three balloons shot down over North America is that they could be harmless — here's what we know.

ABC News

US says 3 mystery objects likely private, with no link to China

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration suspects that three unidentified objects downed since last Friday served commercial purposes and weren’t used for spying, a judgment that may help ease anxiety over a Chinese balloon that traversed the U.S. before being shot down.

Tribune News Service

Russia prepares ‘air fight’ as Ukraine ground war grinds on

NATO officials push for quick procurement of air defences for Ukraine as Russia eyes the skies for battlefield edge.

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US says first missile missed unidentified aerial object on Sunday

US General Mark Milley says that difficult terrain has hampered efforts to recover debris from latest downed objects.

Evening Standard

Ukraine war facing ‘crucial moment’ but top US general says Putin has already ‘lost’

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin says while Russia is introducing new troops to the battlefield, many are ‘ill-trained and ill-equipped’

The Independent UK

Ukraine prepares counteroffensive as Russia steps up assault – but it needs more Western ammunition

Nato plans to increase targets for stockpiling ammunition, as Kyiv is burning through shells much faster than they can be produced, with Moscow intensifying its shelling of the eastern region of Donetsk

Tribune News Service

US says mystery objects likely private craft not tied to spying

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government has assessed that three unidentified objects downed since last Friday were likely for commercial use and not foreign intelligence-gathering.

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The Guardian - US

Three objects shot down after Chinese spy balloon may be benign, White House says

Flying objects could be commercial- or research-linked, while US military admits first shot at object over Lake Huron missed

Axios

White House: No indication yet downed objects were part of China spy balloon program

Kirby said a leading explanation could be that the objects were "benign" and "tied to commercial or research entities."

The Independent UK

1st missile strike at aerial object over Lake Huron missed

The chairman of the Joint Chief of Staffs says the first U.S. missile fired at an unidentified object over Lake Huron missed the second target and “landed harmlessly” in the water, but that the second one successfully hit

The Guardian - UK

Putin’s war has reinvigorated the west’s defence of liberty. That unity must not crack now

The democracies have confounded the Russian tyrant with their resolve to support Ukraine. That must be sustained in 2023

The Independent UK

Experts criticise Trump administration as book reveals Melania sat in situation room for major military operation

‘The Trump administration was a national security nightmare’

Bangkok Post

US downing of Chinese spy balloon ends chapter in diplomatic crisis

WASHINGTON: The United States shot down a Chinese spy balloon Saturday that had spent the past week traversing the country, an explosive end to a drama that put a diplomatic crisis between the world’s two great powers onto television screens in real time.

The Conversation

Ukraine war: casualty counts from either side can be potent weapons and shouldn't always be believed

The war in Ukraine is shaping up to be one of the bloodiest of the 21st century, with both sides reported to be losing hundreds of soldiers each day as the conflict moves towards its first anniversary. But quite how many people are dying in this bitter struggle depends on…

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