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Starch-loaded truck ploughs through playground, crashes into building, covers area in white dust
A video of a truck crashing into a residential building at full speed creating a large white cloud in Russia's southern city of Saratov is going viral. The video was shot by dashcam from a vehicle driving by. A large truck going at full speed, veers off the main road and crashing into a residential building. Eyewitnesses...
U.S. to allocate $20 mln for Ukraine Army training, nonlethal aid
U.S. President Barack Obama delegated to the Secretary of State the authority to provide aid for Ukraine totaling $20 million in defense articles, military education and training, according to the Memorandum published on the White House’s website. “I hearby delegate <…> the authority to direct the...
Four militant attacks on Ukrainian troops overnight
The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine four times overnight, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) wrote on Facebook on Wednesday. "From 18:00 to midnight on September 30, the situation remained calm along the demarcation line, but in the evening the...
Pentagon opens lines of communication with Russia on Syria Read
Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter has directed his staff to "open lines of communication with Russia on de-confliction," Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said, DPA reported. Carter's order made it clear that the two nations have common ground when it comes to fighting Islamic State, and the goal should be to take...
BREAKING: Russia approves use of military force in Syria
Vladimir Putin request to Russian parliament required under country's law immediately approved, paving the way for open Russian intervention in Syria, according to The Telegraph. Syrian president Bashar al-Assad asked Russia's Vladimir Putin for military aid, the Kremlin's chief of staff Sergei Ivanov said on...
Poroshenko about Putin’s statement: «Cool story, but hard to believe!
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says he can hardly believe in the sincerity of statements made by his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the UN General Assembly regarding the establishment of an anti-terrorist coalition. "In the past few days, we've heard conciliatory statements from the Russian side in which,...
131 civilians killed in alleged Saudi airstrike on Yemen wedding
The bombing of a wedding party in Yemen by an apparent Saudi Arabia airstrike has killed over 130 people, medics said on Tuesday. Riyadh, who has air supremacy in the area, denied responsibility for the tragedy. Two missiles tore through two tents in the Al-Wahijah village in southwestern Yemen, where a wedding celebration was...
Poll: Russians oppose sending troops to Syria Read more on
The majority of Russians are opposed to sending troops to Syria, according to the results of a survey carried out by the Levada Center, an independent Russian polling and sociological research organization. The overwhelming majority of Russians, or 69%, believe that Russia should not provide direct military support to Syria to...
Russian proxies attack Ukrainian troops five times overnight
The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine five times overnight, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) wrote on Facebook on Tuesday. Last night, the militants were firing rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns on the Ukrainian fortified positions in the...
Poroshenko and Obama hold unscheduled, serious conversation
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday held a conversation at the 70th session of the UN General Assembly in New York. "A very serious conversation between the presidents of Ukraine and the United States took place," Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN Yuriy Sergeyev...
Russia, Iran and Syria set up military coordination cell in Baghdad
Russian, Syrian and Iranian military commanders have set up a coordination cell in Baghdad in recent days to try to begin working with Iranian-backed Shia militias fighting the Islamic State, Fox News has reported. Western intelligence sources say the coordination cell includes low-level Russian generals. U.S. officials say it...
Russia’s ‘Rokot’ carrier launches 3 military satellites into orbit
Three Russian military communication satellites were successfully guided into orbit early Thursday morning, the Russian Defense Ministry has reported. The satellites were launched via a Rokot carrier. At 1 am Moscow time on Thursday (22 GMT Wednesday), Russia’s Aerospace Forces successfully launched a Rokot space launcher...
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