• The Pentagon: In 10 years American bombers will not be able to overcome Russian air defense

    Weapons systems installed on US strategic bombers will not be able to overcome Russian air defense in ten years, and therefore they need to be modernized, according to US Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Paul Selva.

    Speaking at a Congressional hearing, the general stated that the B-52 Bomber – the basis of US strategic air defense – was designed in the 1950s and 1960s, and the cruise missiles and bombs they carry were designed in the 1970s.

    “We know that today they are ready for …

  • Media: Polish LOT airline is planning to launch new flights to Ukraine

    Polish airlines are becoming increasingly interested in the Ukrainian market, as stated on Polish Radio, citing the Dziennik Gazeta Prawna newspaper.

    "The Polish airline LOT is planning to launch new flights to the Dnipro, Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnytsia, and Rivne. After the holidays more flights to Lviv will be launched. "There are currently two flights a day from Warsaw to Lviv, and there will be a third one," the message says.

    It was also reported that according to the press secretary of LOT, …

  • The largest coal mine in separatist-held territory of Ukraine stops its operations

    The DTEK energy holding’s largest coal mine, Komsomolets Donbasu, which is owned by Ukrainian businessman, Rinat Akhmetov, has stopped production in the occupied part of Donetsk region, as reported by Podrobnosti, citing one of the company’s employees.

    It was reported that the majority of the employees were put on leave without pay as of the 3rd of March. Currently, only maintenance personnel who measure gas levels and pump out water, remain at the coal mine. According to the mine’s employee, …

  • US accuses Russia of deploying land-based cruise missiles

    Russia deployed land-based cruise missiles in its own territory in violation of the “spirit and intent” of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, signed by US President Ronald Reagan and USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987 in Washington.

    General Paul Selva, Vice Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, made a statement to this effect on Wednesday the 8th of March, as reported by Reuters.

    Reuters noted that the General’s statement was the first official confirmation from the …

  • Media: Israeli aircraft bombed a Syrian S-300 missile complex and a weapons warehouse

    On Tuesday, March 7, a report by journalist Georges Malbrunot was published on the French newspaper Le Figaro’s Twitter account. Malbruno stated that on the eve of January 13, Israeli F-35 planes destroyed warehouses in Damascus where Pantsir systems intended for Hezbollah, as well as a battery of the S-300 surface-to-air missile system were stored.

    The attacks were carried out near Mezzeh Military Airport and Mount Qasioun, not far from the presidential palace, the French journalist writes …

  • Ukraine and five Eastern European countries ask U.S. not to remove sanctions from Russia

    Diplomats from six Eastern European states, including Ukraine, made a plea to U.S. senators to help in the confrontation with Russia.

    As noted by Reuters, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Pavlo Klimkin, as well as the Ambassadors of Poland, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia came to hearings of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations.

    They urged the U.S. not to lift sanctions from Russia in the near future. "Until Russia withdraws from the Ukrainian territory, there should …

  • Georgia’s visa-free travel privileges with the European Union will start on March 28

    The resolution on the introduction of a visa-free regime for Georgian citizens was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on the 8th of March. This resolution will enter into force 20 days after publication on the 28th of March.

    The abolition of visas with the European Union will allow Georgian citizens who have biometric passports to enter the territory of Schengen countries visa-free for the period of 90 days in six months. The policy does not grant the right to employment …

  • Ukraine discloses all of its correspondence with Moscow since the start of the conflict

    The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs handed over to the International Court of Justice in the Hague all of the diplomatic correspondence with Russia which there has been since the start of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Evropeyskaya Pravda reported on this with reference to litigator David Zionts of Covington & Burling LLP, Kyiv’s representative at the international court.

    According to him, the reason for such a decision is “false accusations from the Russian Federation that Kyiv did …

  • Russian Army will soon add a new long-range anti-aircraft missile to its arsenal

    Tests of a new anti-aircraft, guided, long-range missile are underway in Russia, and that it should soon go into service. This was stated by Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu, TASS reported.

    "We will also consider how state tests of a long-range guided missile are going," Shoygu said on Russia-24 TV. While speaking about the new long-range missile, as well as the anti-aircraft missile artillery complex for the frigates of the 22350 Project, the Minister noted that "the implementation of these two …

  • Two of Akhmetov’s factories confiscated in Kerch

    Crimea’s “Council of Ministers” decided to proceed with the compulsory buyout of two factories in Kerch affiliated with Ukrainian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov, reported the Russian newspaper “Kommersant” with reference to sources in the companies’ administration and the Crimean “government”.

    According to the publication, on the 6th of March, representatives of the Crimean “government” and the “administration” of Kerch met with employees of the Kerch Switch Plant and the Kerch Metallurgical …