How AI guided Ukraine's drones to hit Russian airfields
The stunning footage of Russian military airfields obscured by thick plumes of smoke and strategic bombers going up in flames served to demonstrate Ukraine's resolve and ability to strike targets as far as beyond the Arctic Circle.
Kyiv's daring Operation Spiderweb carried out by Ukraine's security service (SBU) earlier this month against four air bases in Russia also highlighted the devastating effects of a technological race being shaped by artificial intelligence.
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- Perth Now
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The legal team for a man accused of murdering Melbourne teenager Isla Bell will seek to probe expert witnesses during a hearing later this year, a court has heard. Marat Ganiev and Eyal Yaffe appeared in Melbourne Magistrates Court on Friday afternoon, more than six months after their arrest over their alleged roles in the death of the 19-year-old last year. Mr Ganiev has been accused of murdering Ms Bell on October 7 last year at his St Kilda East apartment, while Mr Yaffe has been charged with assisting an offender after the fact. Both Mr Ganiev and Mr Yaffe watched on via videolink as their matters were mentioned in court on Friday afternoon, while Ms Bell's friends and family sat inside the courtroom. Isla Bell, 19, was allegedly murdered in October last year. Supplied. Credit: Supplied The court was told that lawyers for both men were expected to make applications to cross examine a series of police and expert witnesses during a four-day committal hearing on September 22. Following that hearing they will learn whether they will be committed to face trial. The two men were arrested on November 19 last year after police discovered Ms Bell's remains at a Dandenong waste management facility. According to court documents, police allege Ms Bell met Mr Ganiev on October 5 and began staying at his apartment. It's alleged CCTV captured her entering Mr Ganiev's apartment at 9.27pm and she never left. It has been alleged that she contacted a friend saying she had met the 'best Russian sugar daddy' and he was 'lavishing her with gifts'. Marat Ganiev. Credit: Supplied Eyal Yaffe. NewsWire/David Crosling Credit: News Corp Australia Police allege CCTV captured a fight shortly before 1am on October 7, followed by extensive cleaning by Mr Ganiev over the next few days. It's alleged that on October 9, Mr Yaffe arrived towing a black fridge on a trailer which was then swapped out eight days later with a fridge wrapped in plastic and black tape. Police alleged the fridge contained Ms Bell's remains and was moved across several locations in Melbourne's southeast over the following month. According to police, on November 18 a man opened the fridge, finding a bag with a 'foul smell' which he threw into a rubbish bin believing it was animal remains. Both Mr Ganiev and Mr Yaffe will return to court on July 1.
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Australia's best barrister is taking a paycheck from the Russian government. Bret Walker SC is representing the Russian Federation, who is challenging the constitutional validity of the Albanese government's 2023 laws which cancelled Moscow's lease on an embassy site next door to Parliament House. Your columnist, meanwhile, remains sanctioned by Russia since Vladimir Putin's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, along with dozens of other journalists, and is thus banned from the country. All that history aside, CBD isn't here to take Novichok-laced pot-shots at anyone. We're all entitled to good legal representation, of course. And barristers are bound by the cab rank rule, which obligates them to take any brief that pulls up outside their chambers, so long as it matches their expertise, they have capacity, and the prospective client, however objectionable, can pay. Loading In the case of Walker, who commands daily fees reputedly north of $25,000, those cabs tend to be Rolls-Royces. The Sydney silk has worked on a long list of high-profile cases before the country's top court, including the late Cardinal George Pell's successful appeal against child sex abuse convictions. Despite his work for the Russians, Walker won't have to register as a foreign agent, unlike former prime minister Tony Abbott and Kevin Rudd, who've both reluctantly landed on the foreign influence transparency register because of their past speaking and business engagements with other nations. The legislation has an exemption for anyone providing legal representation. Outside the courtroom, our learned friend has been leaning into his creative side. CBD has learnt that Walker is an official supporter of Poetry Month, the national event run by Red Room Poetry. This year Poetry Month runs from July 30 to September 3, which we are sure the legally pedantic side of Walker would quickly point out is indeed not a month, but his renaissance man side would acknowledge is fittingly poetically messy. Short-staffed
