Telegraph: UK and France rehearse Ukraine deployment as Coalition members balk at sending troops
Exercise Orion tests airborne readiness as Coalition members haggle over troop numbers and hem and haw over giving Russia a say in peacekeeping.
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UK and French paratroopers rehearse rapid deployment as 10,000-troop Ukraine peacekeeping force takes shape
More than 1,500 British, French, and Italian paratroopers jumped over western France on Feb. 24 in a nine-day drill designed to prepare a rapid-reaction force that could deploy to Ukraine under a future ceasefire agreement, the Telegraph reports.
Forbes: Up to 400 Russo-North Korean troops lost in single attack on Ukrainian positions in Kursk
A combined force of Russian paratroopers and North Korean infantry sustained devastating losses assaulting the contested Makhnovka village in western Russia's Kursk Oblast.
British intel: Russia’s 247th Air Assault Regiment sees three commanders resign or die since 2022
Three successive commanders of Russia's 247th Regiment face death or resignation since 2022, reflecting severe military attrition, according to British intelligence.