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The RAF - the UK's Royal Air Force - has virtually stopped making job offers to white men, instead recruiting women and people from ethnic minorities to meet its diversity targets, Sky News reported, citing military sources.more

The UK yesterday denied Russian claims that an RAF jet had entered Russian airspace in the Arctic Circle. Russia called it a "deliberate provocation".more

New Zealand is another country to join the UK-led training program for Ukrainian soldiers on British military training grounds, the British defense ministry said yesterday evening.more

The Ukrainian army has resisted attacks by Russian troops in the Donbass towards Bakhmut, Avdiyivka and Slovyansk, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in a communiqué this morning.more

Neither Russia nor Ukraine will achieve a breakthrough in the war by the end of this year, British military intelligence chief Gen Jim Hockenhull announced in an interview with the BBC.more

The UK will hand over three more M270 MLRS multi-barrel rocket launchers to Ukraine, as well as a "significant number" of missiles used to fire such weapons, British Defence Minister Ben Wallace declared, as quoted by the BBC's Ukrainian service.more

UK Foreign Minister Liz Truss has instructed Chinese ambassador to London, Zheng Zeguang, to be summoned to explain his country's actions in connection with the maneuvers around Taiwan and Beijing's "aggressive rhetoric", which, according to the head of the British Foreign Ministry, is a threat to peace and stability in the region.more

More than half of the respondents, 54 percent, support the restoration of universal conscription to basic military service in Poland, 25 percent. one of them considers it necessary - according to the CBOS poll. In turn, 78 percent. of respondents support the idea of defense training for citizens.more

Most of the microchips found in the weapons Russia uses against Ukraine are of foreign manufacture, mainly American, according to a report by the UK-based defence research institute RUSI.more

Finland is the next country to join a UK-led programme to train Ukrainian soldiers on British training grounds, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has announced.more

The RAF's backlog in training fighter pilots is so great that it calls into question the future combat capabilities of British aviation, according to a leaked internal document that Sky News reported yesterday evening.more

Six US F-22 Raptor fighter jets have been deployed to Poland as part of a NATO 'air cover' mission, the US Air Force Europe and Africa Command announced yesterday. The aircraft will be stationed at an air base in Łask.more

Ukrainian deputies and MPs from the British Conservative Party support the possible candidacy of the outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson for the new NATO secretary general, the British Daily Telegraph reported. He would take the position after Jens Stoltenberg.more

British submarine hunter HMS Portland shadowed the vessels from Russia's Northern Fleet after they surfaced separately, north west of Bergen, Norway. more

“They [Ukraine] are absolutely clear that they plan to restore the whole of their territory in terms of Ukraine, and they see a Russia that is struggling, a Russia that we assess has lost more than 30% of its land combat effectiveness,” Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, the chief of the defence staff for the UK, said on BBC One’s Sunday Morning show.more

Russian President Vladimir Putin does not want Russian commanders to rise to prominence in the war in Ukraine because it could jeopardise his position, writes the independent Russian portal Meduza.more

British SAS special forces soldiers serving in Afghanistan have repeatedly killed detainees and unarmed people in suspicious circumstances, according to a BBC Panorama programme investigation presented today.more

Ukraine is gathering a million-strong forces equipped with Western weapons to regain Russian-occupied territory in the south of the country, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov revealed in an interview with today's edition of The Times.more

86 percent Poles support the decision to permanently station US soldiers on Polish territory; the opposite opinion is shared by 9.1 percent. respondents - results from a survey by the Estymator studio for DoRzeczy.pl.more

Britain has sent four Typhoon fighters to Sweden and two F-35Bs to Finland for joint air force exercises with these countries, the British Defense Ministry said. Both countries have requested that the exercises be carried out.more

Russia is waiting for the opportunity to take a break in military operations in Ukraine, rebuild its forces and resume the offensive next year, says the former US army commander in Europe, Gen. Ben Hodges, quoted yesterday by the Ukrainian Espreso portal.more

The US will provide Ukraine with four additional HIMARS rocket artillery systems and a thousand precision artillery ammunition, announced yesterday a high-ranking representative of the Pentagon. The new military aid package will be worth $ 400 million.more

Under a new law from the Canadian Ministry of Defence, Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) soldiers will be allowed to, among other things, dye and grow their hair, have tattoos on their faces as well, and the ability to wear skirts as part of the uniform will not be restricted to women, Canadian public broadcaster CBC reported following a ministry statement.more

British Defence Minister Ben Wallace has confirmed that the first group of Ukrainian soldiers are undergoing training in the UK under a programme announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to Kiev.more

The process of ratifying the membership of Sweden and Finland in the North Atlantic Alliance has begun, informed NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.more