The overall situation in the zone of the Anti-Terrorist Operation remains difficult, according to the Main Intelligence Division of Ukraine’s Defense Ministry. "The enemy attacked 11 times using small arms and rocket-propelled grenades, of which five attacks were on Troitske, Luhanske, Novhorodske (Slaviansk...
The Russian-backed militants attacked the Ukrainian positions eleven times in the past day, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO). In the late hours of Sunday, the militants led aimed fire from small arms and rocket-propelled grenades on Ukrainian positions in the area of Shyrokyne, located not far...
Four Spanish Eurofighter Typhoon jets will begin patrolling the Baltic states' skies in 2016 as part of the rotating NATO mission, according to Delfi, the major online news media in the Baltic States. A Spanish contingent with four Eurofighter Typhoons will be stationed in Lithuania, marking the third time for the Spanish...
An hours-long gun battle raged at India’s Pathankot Air Base in the northern Punjab state after armed men stormed the facility. Three Indian troops were confirmed dead, and four terrorists were killed in the shootout with Indian security forces. The operation to secure the base has now ended with all the terrorists dead,...
Representatives of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission have provided information on the presence in areas of Kominternove, Kalynivka, Perevalsk and Novoamvrosievske of weaponry banned under the Minsk agreements — mortars, main battle tanks, self-propelled guns and a 220mm MLRS Uragan, according to the report of...
The leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France on Wednesday had a telephone call in the so-called "Normandy format" to discuss the Donbas crisis and the implementation of the Minsk peace agreements in 2016, according to a statement by French President Francois Hollande's office, reports World.Corruption The...
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...
The combined-Russian separatist forces are planning to conduct conscription in the occupied territories of Donbas in spring of 2016, according to the Defense Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. "Because of bad conditions of service in Russian occupation troops, it is worsened the manning issue. Considering...
After the killings of militant brigade commanders Mozgovoy and "Batman," another high-profile commander of the Cossack unit, Pavel Dryomov, was assassinated in the self-proclaimed “Luhansk People’s Republic,” according to one of separatist online media. A commander of the "sixth separate...
Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russia has been supporting military actions of the Free Syrian Army against the Islamic State, providing them with arms and ammunition. The Russian president announced this during his speech at an enlarged meeting of the Defense Ministry Board, according to a posting on the president's...
One Ukrainian soldier was killed and another three were wounded in the Donbas conflict zone in the last 24 hours, presidential administration spokesman for the Anti-Terrorist Operation Colonel Andriy Lysenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Saturday, according to an UNIAN correspondent. "In the last day, we lost one Ukrainian...
A group of 20 terrorists approached a Ukrainian fortified position near the town of Avdiyivka in Donbas and started firing on the ATO forces at 19:10 Kyiv time on Tuesday, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) wrote on Facebook on Wednesday. "The Ukrainian military immediately opened fire in response. The...