Tag: rockets
US to send Ukraine longer-range rockets in latest aid package – BBC News
The US will send Ukraine more advanced rocket systems to help it defend itself, President Joe Biden has announced. The weapons, long requested by Ukraine, are to help it strike enemy forces more precisely from a longer distance. Until now, the US had refused the request out of fear the weapons could be used against targets in Russia. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the US…
Dozens dead after Ukraine railway station hit by rockets – BBC News
Ukraine says at least 50 people are dead and dozens wounded after rockets hit a train station in the city of Kramatorsk in the east of the country. Thousands of people were at the station at the time as they fled Russian attacks, the Donetsk regional governor says. Russia denies involvement in the strike, with a Kremlin spokesman saying it had no scheduled missions in…
Japanese fashion retail billionaire Yusaku Maezawa rockets to International Space Station
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa set off towards the International Space Station (ISS) on a Russian Soyuz rocket on Wednesday, December 8, 2021. The fashion tycoon, his video producer and a Russian cosmonaut began their six-hour journey from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, which is leased to Russia. The trio plans to spend 12 days aboard the…