Over the past 24 hours, provocations by militants were recorded along the entire Ukrainian front line, five Ukrainian soldiers were killed and four were injured, said Andrei Lysenko, spokesman for the anti-terrorist operation (ATO). “This happened during the clashes in Verkhnetoretskoye and Marinka,” he said.…
Despite the declared truce and the withdrawal of weapons from the demarcation line, militants of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) periodically carry out armed provocations. “Starting at 7:50, Russian-terrorist mercenaries fired indirectly eight times from grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms...
The Russian military group in Syria has been increased to four thousand people, Reuters reports, citing sources in the US intelligence services and independent experts. At the end of September, when Russia launched an operation in Syria, the agency recalls, about two thousand Russian servicemen were deployed in this country. Three sources in the US intelligence services also said ...
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has signed a law allowing foreigners and stateless persons to serve under contract in the country's Armed Forces. Document No. 716-VIII, which was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada on October 6, provides foreigners and stateless persons with a legal opportunity to serve under a contract in the Armed Forces ...
Russia is completing the creation of the largest military base on the Novosibirsk Islands. This was stated by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. “We are not hiding it from anyone - we have actually completed the creation of a base on the Novosibirsk Islands, on Kotelny Island. It's such a big base ...
US Air Force soldier Spencer Stone, who defused a terrorist on an Amsterdam-Paris train in August, was stabbed multiple times in Sacramento. The incident, police said, took place near a bar in the city center. The attacker struck at least four blows to Stone's chest ...
At Kikar Shabbat Square in Jerusalem, representatives of the ultra-Orthodox community hold a protest against the conscription of yeshiva students into the army. Several dozen people take part in the demonstration. Haredim overturn and set fire to garbage cans and obstruct traffic. No information…
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem warned that Damascus, if necessary, could ask Moscow to send troops. The minister made such a statement on state television. He assured that to date, the Russian military is not taking part in hostilities in Syria. Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said ...
US intelligence has evidence of a significant increase in Russia's involvement in the Syrian civil war, including satellite images of a Russian military base currently under construction near the city that has become a stronghold for the Syrian president ...
The issue of increasing funding was discussed on September 1 in Tbilisi by members of the US Department of State delegation with Deputy Georgian Defense Minister Anna Dolidze. That the US is planning to allocate $ 20 million for the armed forces for Georgia within the framework of the European Security Initiative ...