Five news reporters and two members of the military who were invited to an event at Vandenberg space force base in California
were briefly 👉 detained at gunpoint by security officers who thought they were gatecrashers, according to local news reports.
The incident happened Monday ahead of an invitation-only groundbreaking for a new training facility for missile operators at the federal airfield near Santa Barbara, California.
Reporters from Noozhawk and KEYT were among tho…
Crimea has been a bridgehead for Russia since it seized the territory from Ukraine in 2014.
But the peninsula is now looking vulnerable.
Ukraine has stepped up its drone campaign, targeting strategic infrastructure including electrical substations, bridges, oil depots and airfields.
Drones are also severing the roads, railways and waterways that connect Crimea to Russia.
Isolating the peninsula completely would give Ukraine a strong hand in any future negotiations…
Ukrainian forces struck Russia's Savasleyka military airbase and a key Roscosmos facility in Samara Oblast
using domestically produced Flamingo missiles, President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed on Aug. 15.
"The Savasleyka airfield, where the carriers of Russian missiles that strike our cities and villages are based, was also reached by our long-range sanctions," Zelensky said.
"It is about 700 kilometers from Ukraine," he added.
MiG-31K fighter…
Crimea has been a bridgehead for Russia since it seized the territory from Ukraine in 2014.
But the peninsula is now looking vulnerable.
Ukraine has stepped up its drone campaign, targeting strategic infrastructure including electrical substations, bridges, oil depots and airfields.
Drones are also severing the roads, railways and waterways that connect Crimea to Russia.
Isolating the peninsula completely would give Ukraine a strong hand in any future negotiations…