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There may be no immediate end to hostilities between Kyiv and Moscow in sight, but an international conference featuring China is the kind of determined effort needed to bring terrible conflict to an end.

  • A Russian cruise missile launched at the Lviv region in western Ukraine violated Poland ’s airspace, officials said. Ukraine said it hit two Russian ships in Crimea
  • In Ukraine’s Lviv, Mayor Andriy Sadovy said about 20 missiles and seven Iranian-made Shahed drones were fired at critical infrastructure in the region
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At least nine major refineries have been successfully attacked this year, currently taking offline 11 per cent of Russia’s total capacity by some estimates.

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From April 1, EHang’s EH216-S electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle will be available in overseas markets at a suggested retail price of US$410,000.

Once this new device reaches the target airspace it can split in the blink of an eye into two, three or even six smaller drones, depending on battle needs.

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Russian officials reported attacks on energy facilities, including a fire at Lukoil’s Norsi refinery and a drone destroyed on the outskirts of the town of Russia’s second largest oil refinery.

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Ukrainian forces have launched a wave of drone attacks at Russian energy facilities in recent months, trying to target the country’s vital energy and gas sector that it says Russia uses to fuel its invasion.

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China’s low-altitude economy is expected to reach 2 trillion yuan by 2030, with the burgeoning sector achieving another milestone this week with an intercity flight by an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.

Notice banning low-altitude aircraft including drones suggests political meetings could be over by March 12. Extra checks are also in place for inbound parcels and train passengers entering the Chinese capital.

The Ukrainian president said Russia was preparing a new offensive against Ukraine starting in late May or summer, but Kyiv has a clear battlefield plan of its own.

Amid reports that Ukrainian troops in the city are heavily outnumbered by their Russian counterparts, the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged allies to plug a shortage of weapons.

Digital transformation minister Mykhailo Fedorov said Kyiv had reached a ‘certain kind of parity’ with Moscow in the development of long-range drones.

A family of five were among the dead, killed in their home in ‘a river of fire’ after an attack on Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv.

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Beijing’s weapons makers show off UAVs at arms exhibition in Riyadh as demand for unmanned combat vehicles grows in Middle East, where Chinese drones have been deployed in Yemen’s civil war and Iraq.

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Russian strikes on the capital Kyiv killed four people, local authorities said. Attacks were also recorded in the northeast and south, as well as in the western Lviv region, hundreds of kilometres from the front lines.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had visited troops at southern frontline village Robotyne, which Kyiv retook from Russian forces last summer but is again under heavy attack.

The potential sale, which includes 31 advanced MQ-9B Sky Guardians, is notable given New Delhi’s historic reliance on weapons from Russia.

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US President Joe Biden said he had decided on a response to a drone strike that killed three American troops in Jordan, while insisting he did not want a wider war in the Middle East.

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