Mercenaries in Syria are paid ten times more then they receive while serving in the army of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Deputy Chief of Staff Colonel Konstantyn Sokolov said at a press conference in Kramatorsk, according to 112 Ukraine...
The deployment of a Russian strike force of 34 combat jets and 21 helicopters showed how billions invested in the armed forces by President Vladimir Putin had paid off. Within days of arriving they were flying attack missions, and have now clocked up something like 1,000 of them. President Putin wanted to show the world that he...
The combined Russian-separatist forces were firing rocket-propelled grenades, heavy machine guns and small arms on the Ukrainian army positions south of Avdiyivka from 19:40 to 20:10 on October 28, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation wrote on Facebook on Thursday. After the attack, there were no violations of...
Ukrainian pilot and Member of Parliament, held in Russian prison, Nadia Savchenko, will return to Ukraine in 2016, according to her lawyer, Mark Feygin. "I’m out of the prison in Novocherkassk. Nadia sends greetings to everyone. Freedom is closer than it seems. In the new year, Savchenko will leave for home," he...
Iran is likely to be invited for the first time to international talks with the U.S. and Russia in Vienna this week over the Syrian conflict, according to the U.S. State Department, BBC News reports. "Whether they come or not is up to Iranian leaders," said U.S. state department spokesman John Kirby, according to BBC...
Oh, the end of the XX century … People have learned a lot. But the most shocking and memorable was estrade of that time. Let's not talk about the quality of the music or lyrics. This is a topic for a separate article. Today we've decided to remember how did pop stars '80s and' 90s dress and...
Most of the deaths of civilians in Syria lately have been caused by indiscriminate Russian aerial attacks, the National Coalition of Opposition and the Revolutionary Forces (NCORF) claims. The data are reported by The Associated Press quoting the Syrian opposition's UN representative Najib Ghadban, according to Ukrainian...
The situation was calm in the Donbas conflict zone overnight, which allowed the Ukrainian military to continue reinforcing their outposts, train and prepare military equipment for the coming winter, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation wrote on Facebook on Tuesday. "The military continue reinforcing their...
A Syrian U.S.-backed secular militia compares the ground offensive by the Russian armed forces near Aleppo, Syria, to a Russian military operation in the Chechen capital Grozny in 1994, saying that "the Russians are burning everything," according to Voice of America (VOA). "The ground offensive is the biggest we...
An alliance of Free Syrian Army-related groups in southern Syria said on Monday Russia must stop bombing rebels before they could talk about cooperating with it, saying they hadn't turned down an offer of support but Moscow must first halt its attacks, according to Reuters. "We didn't turn down the offer. We just...
The employees of JSC Tactical Missiles Corporation were forced to work in three shifts due to the growing demand in the supply of Russian weapons to Syria, according to the Russian newspaper Kommersant. "In order to deliver weapons to Tartous, the Russian Navy has urgently bought eight Turkish transport ships and very...
20-year-old student Irina Cheremnyh won the beauty contest for girls plus size «North Aurora-2015", which took place in St. Petersburg. A prerequisite for participation was the size of clothes not less than 50. The young woman admitted that the fullness of helps her with a nice communication. Irina has...