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A year has passed since Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board. What’s the current situation in Ukraine?

Expensive defenses against drone swarms and cheaper missiles will be too costly against a better armed foe.

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When the army overthrew Myanmar's elected government on Feb. 1, 2021, it looked like a walkover that could entrench the military in power indefinitely. Three years later, a poorly armed grassroots resistance movement has shaken the military’s grip in a modern-day David vs. Goliath conflict. Overshadowed by the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, Myanmar's civil war is no longer on the front pages, even as violence perpetrated under the military government has risen.

At a meeting held on 18 January, the Moldovan delegation to the Joint Control Commission (JCC) demanded an investigation into Russian military exercises held on 22 December near the administrative border between the right and left banks of the Dniester.

Czech Deputy Defence Minister Jan Jireš has rejected claims that further military assistance to Ukraine hinders a "diplomatic and peaceful resolution of the conflict" during a debate in parliament on Tuesday, 9 January.

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar traveled to Russia and met with President Vladimir Putin to discuss joint military weapons production.

Read CNN’s Terrorism and War-Related Airplane Crashes Fast Facts and learn more about aviation disasters caused by military acts or by terrorism.

A group of progressive Senate Democrats led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) are pressing President Biden and his administration to step up oversight of the use of U.S. military weapons by the Israeli military in Gaza to reduce the civilian death toll. In a letter to President Biden on Tuesday, the senators raised alarm…

Israel’s military vowed to increase its aerial bombardment of Gaza, and carried out an airstrike on what it said was a militant compound under a mosque in the occupied West Bank, as it signaled it was readying for a new phase of war against Hamas, including a potential ground operation.