Daily brief
Ukraine is testing a new missile as a domestic alternative to the Patriot air defense system, while President Zelensky has set a strict deadline for a Patriot contract and threatened staffing decisions if progress is not accelerated. Russia is exploiting the Patriot shortage to strike Kyiv with hypersonic missiles, and a Japanese lawmaker has called for Japan to provide Ukraine with Patriot defense technology.
A man was beaten in a possible antisemitic gang attack in Germany.
The US and NATO allies are set to launch scaled-down Baltic Sea drills.
An AfD politician threatened a German army colonel, and the party is accused of helping Putin during a trip to St. Petersburg.
Fugitive neo-Nazi Marla-Svenja Liebich faces extradition to Germany.
by WorldBrief & Maksim Micheliov | AI-generated summary