Senior Ukrainian military commander tenders resignation over lethal strike on training facility
KYIV, June 1 (Reuters) - The commander of Ukraine's land forces, one of the most senior positions in the country's armed forces, announced on Sunday that he was tendering his resignation, citing a lethal strike on Ukrainian military training facility.
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Ukraine releases new footage of drone attack on Russian strategic bombers
KYIV, June 4 (Reuters) - Ukraine released new footage on Wednesday of its major drone strike on four Russian military airbases, showing attack drones targeting numerous Russian strategic bombers and landing on two airborne early warning and control planes. Ukrainian authorities say Sunday's attack on the airfields using 117 drones hit 41 military aircraft. Reuters has not independently verified that number. Satellite imagery shows several bombers were destroyed and badly damaged at one base. New drone footage released by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) showed drones landing on the dome antennae of two A-50 military spy planes, of which there are only a handful in Russia's fleet. There was no video showing the drones detonate. Reuters was able to independently verify the locations of all four air bases in the footage, including Ivanovo airbase where the A-50s were stationed. Reuters could not independently verify what date the footage was filmed. The SBU said in a statement that the aircraft struck included the A-50, the Tu-95 strategic bomber, the Tu-22M3 supersonic jet bomber, the Tu-160 strategic bomber, as well as the An-12 and Il-78 military cargo planes. Some of those military aircraft are part of Russia's airborne nuclear deterrent, but can also be armed with cruise missiles that Russia has used to pound targets in Ukraine since its full-scale invasion in February 2022. "A significant part of them is irretrievably destroyed, and some damaged aircraft will take many years to rebuild," the SBU said. The Russian Defence Ministry says Ukraine targeted airfields in the Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions and were repelled in the last three locations. Several aircraft caught fire in Murmansk and Irkutsk regions, it said. Russian officials said on Wednesday that military options were "on the table" for its response to Ukrainian attacks deep inside Russia and accused the West of being involved in them. The attack has bolstered Ukrainian morale after months of unrelenting Russian battlefield pressure and numerous powerful missile and drone strikes by Moscow's forces. While condemning other Ukrainian attacks at the weekend on Russian targets, President Vladimir Putin made no mention of the attacks on the airbases in his comments to senior Russian officials on Wednesday. However, influential Russian military bloggers have accused Russian authorities, especially the aerospace command, of negligence and complacency for allowing the nuclear-capable bombers to be targeted. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he had decorated a number of SBU officers for Sunday's operation.
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Ukraine's allies say will pay for defence manufacturing in allied countries
KYIV, June 4 (Reuters) - Ukraine's allies said they were willing to pay for defence manufacturing by Ukrainian companies in allied countries, defence minister Rustem Umerov said on Wednesday, after meeting his Western counterparts at the Ukraine Defence Contact Group in Brussels. "Our partners said they are willing to fully pay for all the production from these factories, and that ... (they) will appropriate even more funding for this," Umerov told a press conference in Brussels.
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Prince William visits Wattisham airfield to speak with soldiers
The Prince of Wales has pledged to raise the concerns of soldiers about their accommodation. Prince William visited Wattisham flying station near Needham Market, Suffolk, to meet with men and women from the Army Air Corps (ACC) in his role as their discussed concerns about the quality of accommodation while serving bacon and sausage baps to the families of the military personnel . "I'm going to have a chat about accommodation, make sure they look at that," he told them. The prince is a former RAF helicopter search and rescue pilot who later spent two years flying air camouflage military uniform and the AAC's blue beret, he flew into Wattisham on a Wildcat Helicopter, a reconnaissance aircraft in the ACC's he first arrived he entered a camouflaged covered tent, a mock-up of a mobile planning headquarters used when AAC regiments are on deployment, and got to grips with a laptop used to plan missions under the watchful eye of Lance Corporal Sulabh Ale. 'Smiles' Talking about the accommodation, he added: "If they listen to me, that's another matter", and said the issue would be landing on a he asked another group about the issue and only received smiles in response, the prince said: "I'll take that away, a lot of smiles going on, that's all you need to say."He ended his visit by presenting a King's Commendation for Valuable Service and awarded a group of soldiers their promotion from corporal to sergeant. Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
