Putin won’t hesitate to use nuclear weapons: Serbian president

Outgoing US President Joe Biden has approved provision of anti-personnel land mines to Ukraine, a U.S. official has confirmed, a step that could help slow Russian advances in its east, especially when used along with other munitions from the United States.

Russia has said that Ukraine’s use of US-made long-range ATACMS missiles against its territory marked a “new phase of the Western war” against Moscow and has said it will react “accordingly”.

US President Joe Biden will allow Ukraine to use US-provided weapons to strike inside Russia, various news outlets, including Reuters, the Associated Press and the New York Times, have reported.

North Korea has supplied Russian army with long-range rocket and artillery systems, some of which have been moved to Russia’s Kursk region for an assault involving North Korean soldiers to push out Ukrainian forces, a Ukrainian intelligence assessment has found.

US warships came under sustained missile and drone attack from Yemen`s Houthi fighters as they sailed off the coast of Yemen, the Pentagon has confirmed, with the armed group claiming it attacked the US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and two US destroyers.

North Korean supreme leader ratified a major defense pact with Russia, which includes a provision committing both nations to mutual military assistance in the event of an attack on either side, state-run media reported on Tuesday.

Since September 1, the Ukrainian capital Kyiv has been spared from Russian drone attacks on just one night – October 14.

The United States has frozen the delivery of 130 bulldozers to Israel amid home demolitions in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli media said on Sunday.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has threatened Israel and the United States with a “crushing response” to last month’s air strikes against Iran and Iranian-backed militant groups in the Middle East.

Turkiye’s permanent representative to the UN announced Tuesday that Turkiye, along with a coalition of key nations, has issued a joint letter calling for a halt to arms transfers to Israel.

Iran on Saturday strongly condemned Israeli airstrikes on its military sites, calling them a "violation of international law" and asserting its “right to self-defense.”

Israel gave the United States a document last week with its conditions for a diplomatic solution to end the war in Lebanon, Axios reported on Sunday, citing two US officials and two Israeli officials.

The defense ministers of Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom have agreed to fast-track the joint development of a next-generation fighter jet, according to Japanese media.

Israel has launched several air attacks on Beirut’s southern suburbs after the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah fired volleys of rockets at northern Israel with one drone targeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s holiday home, Al Jazeera reports.

The United States military has bombed a series of targets in areas of Yemen controlled by the Iran-aligned Houthi group, the US defence chief has said, AlJazeera reports.

The Joe Biden administration has announced a new $425 million military aid package for Ukraine. The announcement came while US President Joe Biden speaking to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday about efforts to surge security assistance to kyiv, the White House said in a statement.