Sudan-Ethiopia tensions rise after airport drone strikes

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The Sudanese government accused Ethiopia of being behind recent drone attacks on sites  including Khartoum airport  and recalled its ambassador on Tuesday. A military spokesperson in Sudan said the government has evidence that four drone strikes that have happened since March 1 came from Ethiopia’s Bahir Dar airport. It also accused the United Arab Emirates of supplying the drones. The Sudanese military has been at war with a paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces since April 2023, when the RSF stormed the capital. The battles have now shifted towards more drone warfare concentrating in the Kordofan and Blue Nile states. Sudan has long accused the UAE of supporting the RSF, and U.N. experts and rights groups have also accused the it or providing arms to the group. The UAE has rejected the accusation. The most recent attack came on Monday and targeted the airport in Sudan’s capital Khartoum. The previous attacks were launched towards the Sudanese ...
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Fighting escalates in Ukraine’s Kostiantynivka

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 Russian troops are inching toward the city of Kostiantynivka in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, trying to establish a foothold close to a heavily defended area, ‌Ukraine’s top army official said on Saturday.

Kostiantynivka, along with other cities, forms a so-called fortress ‌belt in the country’s east – an area well fortified by the Ukrainian military.

“We are repelling the Russian occupiers’ persistent attempts ​to gain a foothold in the outskirts of Kostiantynivka using infiltration tactics. Counter-sabotage measures are going on in the city,” Oleksandr Syrskyi, Ukraine’s army chief, said on the Telegram app.

A Ukrainian battlefield mapping project called DeepState shows that Russian troops control an area around only one kilometre (0.6 mile) from the city’s southern outskirts.

Small chunks ‌of Kostiantynivka, in southeast Ukraine, are ⁠marked as a grey zone, meaning neither Ukraine nor Russia has full control over them.

Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Wednesday its forces had taken control of ⁠Novodmytrivka, just north of Kostiantynivka. Moscow’s top general, Valery Gerasimov, said in April that troops were advancing on the north and south of the city.

Syrskyi said that Russian offensive attempts had risen noticeably in April. Since Monday, ​Russian ​troops have carried out 83 assaults in this sector ​using small infantry groups, he added.

Moscow demands ‌that Ukraine pull back from areas in the Donetsk and neighbouring Luhansk regions that Russia has failed to capture during its four-year full-scale war. U.S.-brokered peace talks stalled over the issue as Ukrainian officials say Kyiv will not cede land it still controls.

For the past few years, Russian troops have not managed to capture any big cities in Ukraine, inching forward and announcing the capture of towns and villages.

The small ‌city of Pokrovsk, whose more than 60,000 pre-war population ​mostly fled, was the most significant Russian gain in the ​past year. It took Moscow’s troops months to ​advance, and Kyiv says it still has some positions in the city.

On Saturday, ‌Russia’s Defence Ministry said it had seized ​the village of Myropillia in ​Ukraine’s northern Sumy region, where Moscow says it wants to establish a buffer zone.

But the Kursk group of the Ukrainian military, writing on Facebook, dismissed the Russian report as a “complete lie” ​and said its units controlled the ‌area.

But the Kursk group of the Ukrainian military, writing on Facebook, dismissed the Russian report as a “complete lie” ​and said its units controlled the ‌area.

Also in Sumy, the regional governor said a Russian air strike near the town ​of Krovelets had injured six people, including two in serious condition.

SOURCE: REUTERS AND AGENCIES



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