Putin replaces commander of Russia's ground forces and appoints him to security council
Salyukov has for the past 11 years led the large Victory Day parades in Moscow's Red Square that mark the anniversary of Germany's surrender at the end of World War Two.
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Hindustan Times
2 days ago
- Hindustan Times
Ukraine hit fewer Russian planes than it estimated, US officials say
* US officials estimate 10 Russian warplanes destroyed in Ukraine drone attack * Ukraine's operation 'Spider's Web' targeted four Russian air bases with drones * Risk of escalation seen rising as Ukraine strikes Russia's nuclear-capable bombers WASHINGTON, - The United States assesses that Ukraine's drone attack over the weekend hit as many as 20 Russian warplanes, destroying around 10 of them, two U.S. officials told Reuters, a figure that is about half the number estimated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Still, the U.S. officials described the attack as highly significant, with one of them cautioning that it could drive Moscow to a far more severe negotiating position in the U.S.-brokered talks to end more than three years of war. Russian President Vladimir Putin told U.S. President Donald Trump in a telephone conversation on Wednesday that Moscow would have to respond to attack, Trump said in a social media post. Trump added it "was a good conversation, but not a conversation that will lead to immediate peace." Ukraine says it targeted four air bases across Russia using 117 unmanned aerial vehicles launched from containers close to the targets, in an operation codenamed "Spider's Web." It released footage on Wednesday showing its drones striking Russian strategic bombers and landing on the dome antennas of two A-50 military spy planes, of which there are only a handful in Russia's fleet. The two U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, estimated the Ukrainian strikes destroyed around 10 and hit up to 20 warplanes in total. That estimate is far lower than the one Zelenskiy offered to reporters in Kyiv earlier on Wednesday. He said half of the 41 Russian aircraft struck were too damaged to be repaired. Reuters could not independently verify the numbers from Kyiv or the United States. Russia, which prioritizes its nuclear forces as a deterrent to the United States and NATO, urged the United States and Britain on Wednesday to restrain Kyiv after the attacks. Russia and the United States together hold about 88% of all nuclear weapons. The United States says it was not given any notice by Kyiv ahead of the attack. The war in Ukraine is intensifying despite nearly four months of efforts by Trump, who says he wants peace after the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War Two. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Russian and Ukrainian embassies also did not immediately reply. ESCALATION RISK Ukraine's domestic security agency, the SBU, said the damage to Russia caused by the operation amounted to $7 billion, and 34% of the strategic cruise missile carriers at Russia's main airfields were hit. Commercial satellite imagery taken after the Ukrainian drone attack shows what experts told Reuters appear to be damaged Russian Tu-95 heavy bombers and Tu-22 Backfires, long-range, supersonic strategic bombers that Russia has used to launch missile strikes against Ukraine. Russia's Defence Ministry has acknowledged that Ukraine targeted airfields in the Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions and were repelled in the last three locations. It has also said several aircraft caught fire in the Murmansk and Irkutsk regions. The attack has bolstered Ukrainian morale after months of unrelenting Russian battlefield pressure and numerous powerful missile and drone strikes by Moscow's forces. It also demonstrated that Kyiv, even as it struggles to halt invading Russian forces, can surprise Moscow deep inside its own territory with attacks up to 4,300 km from the front lines. 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. Trump's Ukraine envoy said the risk of escalation from the war in Ukraine was "going way up," particularly since Kyiv had struck one leg of Russia's "nuclear triad," or weapons on land, in the air and at sea. "In the national security space, when you attack an opponent's part of their national survival system, which is their triad, the nuclear triad, that means your risk level goes up because you don't know what the other side is going to do," Trump's envoy, Keith Kellogg, told Fox News on Tuesday.
Deccan Herald
16-05-2025
- Deccan Herald
Putin replaces commander of Russia's ground forces and appoints him to security council
Salyukov has for the past 11 years led the large Victory Day parades in Moscow's Red Square that mark the anniversary of Germany's surrender at the end of World War Two.
Time of India
13-05-2025
- Time of India
Ode to comrade in arms from Garhwal: Russia honors forgotten Indian WWII hero on 80th Victory Day
NEW DELHI: As Russia marks its 80th Victory Day, celebrating the Red Army 's triumph over Nazi Germany in World War II, it hasn't forgotten Gajendra Singh , an Indian soldier from Garhwal who participated in the war and was conferred the prestigious Order of the Red Star in Friday, Russia put a large hoarding on Vikas Marg with a picture of Singh and the message; "Russians remember your sacrifice." A citation below said, "Naib Subedar Gajendra Singh and his comrades-in-arms supplied ammunition in 1942-1943 to the beleaguered Red Army on the Caucasian front."According to information on a plaque installed at a tree planted in his memory at his village of Baralu in Uttarakhand's Pithoragarh district, Singh was presented the award by the Soviet ambassador on Sept 1, was recruited into the British Indian Army Service Corps in 1936 and received his training in Chakwal, Rawalpindi, now in Pakistan, and was posted in the North-West Frontier Province, now Khyber was honoured for reaching much-needed supplies despite being badly hurt. When he recovered, Singh refused to return home and continued aiding the Soviets, earning their respect. This was narrated by his grandson Sandeep Chand, a soldier with the India-Tibet Border Chand never knew his grandfather, who died in 1988, he said that the tales narrated by his father, Bhagwan Singh, and uncle, Jang Bahadur, kept the Russian honoree's legacy alive. "I heard that when the World War II broke out, my grandfather was in Basra, Iraq. Since the British Empire was a part of the Allied forces, he was posted in the supply corps and given the task of carrying rations, arms and ammunition to the Soviet soldiers, who were fighting the Germans and were cut off," said Chand. "Help could reach the Soviet soldiers only through difficult terrain. During a supply run, his unit was attacked by the Germans and he was badly injured. Yet, he ensured the Soviets received the supplies. Apparently, he passed out due to his injuries only after making the final supplies."Chand said when Singh woke up in hospital later, he found the doctors had decided to send him back to India. "He insisted on staying on. He recovered, joined his battalion and continued supplying provisions to the Soviets," said Chand. In 2020, Singh's photograph and citation were included in the Russian Army Museum's gallery of gallant from Singh, only one other Indian soldier, subedar Narayan Rao Nikkam of Bengaluru, has been awarded the Order of the Red Star."My grandfather led a very humble life and never boasted of his exploits," said Chand. "I was told that when Russia marked the 50th anniversary of Victory Day, Russian officers, accompanied by Indian Army officers, came looking for him to pay their respect in person. He was once also invited to the ceremony in Russia, but he was too weak to travel."The visit of the Russians put Singh in the limelight and reporters, local leaders and area residents met him and he became known. A Pithoragarh villager said that the hero's original name was Gajendra Chand, a Rajput in Uttarakhand. "But since the British preferred Rajputs for being members of a warrior clan, many youngsters added the Rajasthani Singh as a title. He did too," claimed the a soldier himself, however, said that nowadays joining the armed forces wasn't just patriotic duty but more a mode of sustenance. He complained, "People nowadays don't take pride in bravery or matters like that. The Red Star is akin to India's Param Veer Chakra, yet my grandfather remained unknown for such a long time, even though the Russians themselves never forgot him."The village of Baralu, whose youth still think of the armed forces as their first career choice, now has some 200 families of what used to be more than 450, the others having migrated to urban areas.(With inputs from Prem Punetha)
