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Russian Attacks Damage Ukrainian Education Facility in Kyiv
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In Short: Russian strikes have damaged a Ukrainian education facility in Kyiv, according to reports.
Russian attacks have damaged a Ukrainian education facility in Kyiv, according to reports. The incident highlights ongoing tensions in the region.
While the focus remains on the conflict with Iran, the damage to US military sites in the Middle East, including Camp Buehring and Camp Arifjan in Kuwait, has raised concerns about the adequacy of US defenses.
Brian Katulis, a former national security official, noted that the damage to US bases underscores the need for better preparedness, especially given the significant losses of US aircraft in the early stages of the conflict.
The situation has increased public and political pressure on the White House to find a resolution to the conflict with Iran, which began on February 28 with joint US and Israeli attacks on Iranian targets.
What's still developing
- Trailers destroyed by Iranian strike at Camp Buehring, Kuwait Undated photo shows smoke billowing from a structure that sustained damage in an Iranian strike at Camp Buehring, Kuwait Another image shows a four-storey building damaged by an Iranian strike at Camp Arifjan, in Kuwait.
- Damage to the site was reported in March, including on satellite communications hardware, though it is not clear whether this image is from the same attack.
- Brian Katulis, a former national security official under both Democratic and Republican administrations, said that the damage visible in the images showed that "America had not adequately prepared its defences".
- In the months after the war began, "dozens of US aircraft were destroyed or damaged", the report continues.
- Brian Katulis of the Middle East Institute said that while "these costs show how the Trump administration burned through precious military resources without having much to show for it", the greater damage had been to broader US military readiness.
- Watch: Leaked photos reveal extensive damage at US bases in Gulf Images showing widespread damage to multiple US sites in the Middle East from Iranian strikes have been obtained by the BBC's US partner CBS.
- President Donald Trump shows more fondness for Russian President Vladimir Putin than his predecessors did, but most Russia watchers in the West still dwell on Russia’s lagging technology; its failure to rescue allies in Syria, Venezuela, and Cuba; and what they see as its reduction to a vassal of mighty China.
- Washington went on to pursue a policy agenda, including NATO enlargement, that treated Russian power and interests as an afterthought, and the long-standing conflict over Ukraine turned dismissiveness into condescension.
Sources
- Kyivindependentlink