Polish President: Moscow’s imperial ambitions are obvious to everyone
Moscow’s imperial ambitions are obvious to everyone; therefore, the NATO’s eastern flank should be strengthened, said Polish President Andrzej Duda in an interview with Bild am Sonntag.
When asked how dangerous the Russian president is due to threats that Russia poses for Poland and other countries of the eastern part of the EU, Duda answered, "Over the last ten years, Russia twice forcibly changed European borders."
"In 2008 it attacked Georgia, and in 2014 it attacked Ukraine. In both cases, …
Russia calls on the US to stop expelling diplomats and return diplomatic property
RIA Novosti reports that Sergey Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister said he would like that the US and Russia abandon the mutual expulsions of diplomats.
According to the Russian foreign minister, he proposed this during his meeting with the US National Security Advisor to the President, John Bolton.
Lavrov also expressed the desire to resolve the issue of the country’s diplomatic property. According to him, the beginning of the resolution includes mutual permission to visit those buildings “ …
France: Russia's presence will not help to stabilize the situation in Central African Republic
Recently, Moscow announced plans to send additional equipment and new military instructors to the Central African Republic (CAR).
Following Russia's announcement, French Defense Minister Florence Parly told the weekly Jeune Afrique that Russia’s expanding influence in the CAR, a former French colony, over the past months, will unlikely to help stabilize the situation in the country.
In December 2017, Russia received the United Nations’ Security Council’s approval to supply weapons to the CAR, …
OSCE drone disappears over the Donbas
The Special Monitoring Mission of the OSCE lost its drone over the territory of the Donbas which is not controlled by Ukraine. The drone was recording the movement of Russian military equipment, reported the command the Ukrainian Joint Forces Operation (JFO) citing the SMM report.
The JFO reported that the incident happened at 1:18 AM on October 27. While flying over an area near Kalynove, 72 km east of Donetsk, an SMM long-range unmanned aerial vehicle or UAV spotted a 9K33 Osa surface-to-air …
Russia deploys Samarkand electronic warfare systems near NATO's eastern borders
The Russian Defense Ministry deployed the latest Samarkand electronic warfare systems (EW) in strategic areas, Interfax reported with reference to the data from the government procurement portal. The systems are deployed in seven regions, including the Kaliningrad and Krasnodar oblasts and Primorsky Krai, as well as in the territory of neighboring Belarus.
“According to the tender documents, at least 13 EW Samarkand-U, Samarkand SU-Pred-K2, and Samarkand PU-Pred-D" systems have been deployed …