A meeting headed by party leader and President Xi Jinping has urged “dedicated efforts to safeguard political security and improve the security governance of internet data and artificial intelligence”, the official Xinhua News Agency said. China’s ruling Communist Party is calling for beefed-up national security measures, highlighting the risks posed by advances in artificial intelligence (AI). Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more.



US-built Javelin systems have been deployed on the frontline in Donbass since late last year, clearly worrying Russian tank crews who have built makeshift screens atop some of their vehicles. Ukrainian commentators were delighted with Defence Secretary Ben Wallace’s Monday announcement that Britain was already sending similar systems. Refining much larger scale command and control has been a central feature of more recent Russian military exercises – but a full-scale invasion of Ukraine will test that to its limits. Russia will likely also want to use electronic warfare, cyber and other means to disrupt Ukrainian command and control and civilian systems – but until it tries, it will not know how effective that might be.

Footage from Ukraine’s State Emergency Service also showed damage and the rescue effort. Other verified videos of the aftermath show widespread destruction and at least one distinctive bomb crater of a size consistent with surface-impacted munitions of approximately 500kg. Verified content from another airstrike location in Ukraine shows an unguided dud FAB-500 M62 bomb being removed by civil defence forces.

“Putting psychological pressure on commanders who are fighting against an enemy that significantly outnumbers them in terms of personnel and weaponry is pointless,” she wrote in a Telegram post. The articles they are wanted under have not been specified, RIA reported, citing the ministry’s wanted person database. “What are these attempts to hide behind the phrase that they are ‘gathering information’?
Shot at by a Taliban sniper, Lt Evison was attacked in the entrance to Compound One on the morning of 9 May. Bleeding profusely, his men tried to give him medical attention, but his shoulder injury was so severe a medical evacuation (Medevac) or “9-liner” was required to take him by helicopter to Camp Bastion for emergency treatment. If you were Russia, and you were about to do something stupid, would you chat on the phone with your enemies loads or think 'ooo there's a bit of chaos going on in London, thats not a bad moment to dump a load of shit'. The Ukr soldier scrambling to reload his machine gun whilst the Ru truck tries to run the gap. It is hard to imagine how the soldiers live through this when they could easily have been a year ago sitting behind a desk at work.

Their filthy uniforms are almost the colour and texture of the earth, and only a pink cheek or nose suggests they were alive not that long ago. He climbs out of the trench into a brown winter wood where every branch has been snapped and torn by bullets and shrapnel. There’s nothing grainy, shaky or indistinct in these videos; neither is shot, as most combat footage was in previous wars, from a restricted vantage point on the ground, with the event a confusing blur in the distance, or at night. This is high-definition, widescreen, panoramic, daytime drone footage.
There has been no suggestion that US-made drones or munitions were used in the recent attacks on Moscow. Additionally, the US officials have repeatedly said that Ukraine has agreed not to use any American-provided weapons for attacks on Russian soil. The drone ammunition comes after new attacks by unmanned aircraft targeted Moscow, which the Kremlin has blamed on Kyiv. British public officials are a “legitimate military target” because of the UK’s support for Ukraine, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has warned. A day after Russia accused Ukraine of sending drones to attack buildings in Moscow, the governor of Russia’s Krasnodar region said a drone was the likely cause of a fire that broke out at the Afipsky oil refinery.

International governments along with the general public need to be careful about the media they are consuming and where it is coming from in order to sift out truth from lies. His page features plenty of other CGI clips he’s made, including other clips of war scenes. A video of what looks like an air raid is being shared on Facebook with the caption “It’s happening. The video is a CGI animation of WW2 and was put online long before the 2022 invasion. Many of his acquaintances are fundraising back in the United States so the funds can help fighters on the ground, and contribute to Ukraine’s future reconstruction. Isaac is referring to Ukraine’s counteroffensive underway in Eastern and Southern Ukraine.

Russian forces have been bombarding the steelworks, the last bastion of Ukrainian defenders in a city almost completely controlled by Russia after a siege of more than two months. The images showed many more damaged or abandoned vehicles, including tanks, in the woods and on the track leading to the river. It comes as Ukrainian forces destroyed a pontoon bridge and parts of Russian armoured column as it tried to cross a river in the Donbas region. After the tanks have finished their work the drone moves over the T-shape battlefield to number the dead. The camera zooms in on one Russian lying in a crater in the frosty sun, hands folded across his chest, a tourniquet round each of his shot-up legs, a sheet of some camouflage cloth covering his head. He lifts his hand, moves the sheet away from his face and squints, frightened, into the eye of the drone.
The number of helicopters and helicopter hours has increased specifically since the US marines arrived with us in Helmand. Putin’s words contained the untruth that his goal was not a “limited military operation” in a province, but actually the total subjugation of a neighbouring sovereign country. Since then it has become illegal in Russia to refer to the campaign as a war, or anything other than the president’s carefully chosen phraseology.