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China ramps up construction of bunkers, underground facilities near LAC, reveal satellite images: Report

China’s inclusion of Arunachal Pradesh, and Aksai Chin in its ‘standard map’ has escalated tensions with India, as satellite images reveal increased construction in the Aksai Chin region.

The satellite imagery from August 18 clearly depicts the evolving Chinese posture in Aksai Chin, include the development of underground facilities. (Photo:Satellite image ©2023 Maxar Technologies)

China’s latest move of including Arunachal Pradesh, and Aksai Chin in its 2023 version ‘standard map’ has riled up the already broken diplomatic and military relations between India and China. This also comes on days after India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s Premiere Xi Jinping held talks on the side lines of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg in South Africa. After the meet, news report said that both leaders had directed defence administration to reach a solution on the Line of Actual Control dispute between China’s People’s Liberation Army, and Indian Army.

On a day China’s new ‘standard map’ came to limelight, satellite images have revealed that Beijing has ramped up construction of reinforced personnel bunkers and underground facilities in Aksai Chin, according to a Hindustan Times report.

The Aksai Chin is the part China occupied during the 1962 Sino-Indian war.

Source: https://www.livemint.com/news/world/china-ramps-up-construction-of-bunkers-underground-facilities-near-lac-reveal-satellite-images-report-11693326320862.html

Ukrainian drones attack Russian airport in large-scale raid on six regions

Kyiv officials say 2 people killed, one wounded in largest Russian missile and drone raid on Ukraine’s capital in months.

An image from social media shows a large fire and billowing smoke in Pskov, Russia, on August 29, 2023 following a drone raid on an airport in the western Russian region [Ostorozhno Novosti via AP Photo]
Russia said that Ukraine launched drones against targets in six Russian regions, including an attack on an airport in the western city of Pskov – located near the borders of Latvia and Estonia – where military transport aircraft were reported damaged amid explosions and a huge fire.

In what could be the biggest drone attack on Russian territory since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, Russia’s defence ministry said on Wednesday morning that drones were also shot down over the regions of Orlov, Bryansk, Ryazan, Kaluga and the Moscow region surrounding the Russian capital.

Russian also launched a missile and drone attack against Kyiv on Wednesday morning that was described as the “most powerful strike” on the Ukrainian capital in months, leaving two people dead and one wounded, the city’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

Ukrainian air defences destroyed more than 20 missiles and drones involved in the attack and two security guards were killed by falling debris, according to authorities.

“Kyiv had not experienced such a powerful attack since spring… In total, more than 20 enemy targets were destroyed by air defence forces,” the Kyiv City Military Administration wrote on Telegram.

Russian state news agency TASS, quoting emergency services, said earlier on Wednesday that four Il-76 heavy transport aircraft, which have long been the workhorse of the Russian military, were damaged at an airfield in Russia’s western Pskov region, located roughly 660km (some 411 miles) north of Ukrainian border.

Source : https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/30/airport-in-western-russia-attacked-by-drones-aircraft-damaged-reports

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