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Russia risks confrontation with US over Syrian military build up
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says Russia's military support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "could provoke a further escalation of the conflict", as well claiming more lives and increasing the flow of refugees. "If they are there to shore up Assad and to certainly provide Assad with the continued...
Center-2015: Russia’s biggest military drills of the year enter final stage (PHOTOS)
The year’s largest military drills in Russia are concluding, with nearly 100,000 servicemen preparing to return to home bases. The exercise involved all the armed forces. The firing range saw Iskander missile complexes testing strike precision. On Sunday, troops and military vehicles are making the last accelerated march...
Ukrainian interest. Long-awaited sanctions, bargaining Putin, and taming of Gazprom
Ukraine imposed sanctions against Russian businesses and individuals, as well as some foreigners, actively involved in the annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea and in destabilization in Donbas. The Russian president is trying to sell to the world community the recipe of Syrian conflict settlement, for his own benefit. Gazprom...
Calm night in Donbas: only one militant attack recorded
The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine only once overnight, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) wrote on Facebook on Friday. "The last day was almost calm in the Donbas conflict zone. The only shelling of our positions was recorded in the direction of...
Moscow sends troops to Syria without consent: media
Some Russian military contractors are not willing to be deployed to another hotspot, this time in the Middle East, from Novorossiyck military port, according to the Russian online newspaper gazeta.ru. "We don’t want to go to Syria, we don’t want to die there,” said one of the lieutenants from a military...
Poroshenko enacts anti-Russian sanctions
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has enacted a decision taken by the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine on September 2 to introduce sanctions against Russia, presidential press secretary Svyatoslav Tsegolko tweeted. "The president has signed an order to introduce sanctions against Russia. It will...
OSCE sees 43 Grads in LPR-held areas behind withdrawal lines
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine has reported that militants from the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic ("LPR") in the country's east have massed heavy weapons, including 43 Grad multi-launch rocket systems at their training area. "At a Luhansk People's Republic training...
McCain calls LPR imaginary country, urges to put down weapons
U.S. Senator John McCain, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, turned down on Monday, September 14, the invitation by LPR terrorist organization leadership to monitor self-styled local elections in the militant-held eastern Ukrainian region. “While I do not typically monitor the elections of imaginary...
Public executions held in militant-occupied Ukraine
Public executions have been carried out in Horlivka, the militant-controlled town in the war-torn Donetsk region, the head of the Information Resistance group and military and political analyst Dmytro Tymchuk wrote on his page on Facebook on Monday, September 14, according to Ukraine Today. According to Tymchuk, Russian...
‘Normandy Quartet’ leaders hope for consolidation of ceasefire in Donbas
Foreign ministers of the "Normandy Quartet" countries, i.e. France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine, expressed hope for an early signing of the agreement on withdrawal of arms with a caliber of less than 100mm from the line of contact in eastern Ukraine, after their meeting in Berlin on September 12, Ukrainian online...
Nuland: Sanctions against Russia to remain until Ukraine gets Crimea back
The United States is ready to impose new sanctions against Russia if the Minsk agreements on the settlement of the situation in Donbas continue to be violated, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland said during the Yalta European Strategy Annual Meeting in Kyiv on Saturday. "The...
Terrorist Pushylin’s party intends to take part in local elections. DOCUMENT
A list of political parties that have decided on their participation in 2015 local elections has been released on Central Election Commission's website. The list of political parties willing to participate in Ukraine's local elections includes under No. 138 a political party "My Maiemo Metu!" (We Have a Goal!...