The Ukrainian Defense Ministry's GUR Main Intelligence Department reports that there are about 7,700 Russian regular troops in the occupied areas in Donbas, eastern Ukraine. "According to the data the GUR has obtained, there are about 7,700 regular soldiers of the Armed Forces of Russia in Donetsk and Luhansk...
The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine more than 35 times in last day, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) wrote on Facebook early Monday. "An hour-long military clash with a small group of militants took place not far from the village of Troyitske in...
Brent crude dropped to the lowest level since 2004 amid speculation suppliers from the Middle East to the U.S. will exacerbate a record glut as they continue fighting for market share, Bloomberg reported. Oil has fallen below levels last seen during the 2008 global financial crisis on signs the market's oversupply will...
Gas turbines of Germany-based Siemens Corporation, primarily SGT5-2000E, can become the solution for the problem of power generation in the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula, ZN.UA reported. Gas may become a major resource for power generation in Crimea, according to the report. In addition, two gas pipelines are planned to be...
Air strikes believed to have been carried out by Russian warplanes killed scores of people in the center of the rebel-held city of Idlib in northwest Syria on Sunday, rescue workers and residents said, Reuters reported. They said at least six strikes had hit a busy market place, several government buildings and...
The CEO of Air France said a suspicious item that led a Paris-bound plane to make an emergency landing in Kenya was a "false alarm," Reuters reported. Air France staff decided to land the Boeing 777 at the nearest airport — in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa — after a passenger found the object in the...
Selfie has already so deeply rooted in our lives that hardly anyone pays attention to people who take pictures of themselves. Russian stars are no exception. They also regularly share their pictures taken by their own. But they usually spread on the network pictures on which they have a great makeup and look stunning....
Patrol aircraft from NATO's Baltic Air Policing mission on December 19 intercepted a military aircraft of the Russian Federation over the Baltic Sea, the National Armed Forces of Latvia reported on Twitter on Saturday. "Air Policing jets on December 19 in international airspace above the Baltic Sea near LV border...
Some 22 buildings have collapsed in a landslide at an industrial park in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, BBC reported. About 900 people have been evacuated, with four people pulled alive from rubble with minor or no injuries, the local government said, according to the report. No fatalities have been reported....
The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 63 times in last day, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) wrote on Facebook. "From 18:00 yesterday evening till midnight militants had used small arms to open aimed fire on Ukrainian positions in Krasnohorivka....
Iran has decided to unify its stance with Russia's in the push for a political deal to end Syria's civil war, Iranian officials said, in a sign it could ease its opposition to the departure of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as part of the agreement, according to Reuters. While maintaining its firm backing for Assad in...
Baghdad says nine Iraqi soldiers were killed when U.S.-led coalition war planes mistakenly struck at troops near the city of Fallujah. Iraq's Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi said the incident on December 18 "occurred as coalition air forces were covering the advance of army ground troops near Fallujah because the...