Syria demands that Turkey withdraw its troops
Speaker of the Syrian Parliament Hamoudeh Sabbagh said that Damascus demands the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Turkish troops from the country.
Speaking at the plenary session of the Assembly of the International Parliamentary Union in St. Petersburg, he noted that a large number of military vehicles and ambulances had been moved to the region of the Turkish province of Hatay. The Turkish General Staff announced the beginning of a reconnaissance operation in Idlib, Syrian, which is …
Ukraine tests new anti-tank missile system
The tests of the new Skif anti-tank guided missile system, which took place both in Ukraine and abroad, in particular, in the ultra-high temperatures in the desert, were successful, according to the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, Oleksandr Turchynov.
The ATGM rockets "accurately, without a miss, hit targets at a distance of up to 5.5 kilometers," the website of the National Security and Defense Council quotes Turchynov as saying.
Turchynov said that the ATGM Skif …
Poland says it has discovered a recording of an explosion aboard crashed Kaczynski’s plane
On Saturday, during a meeting with the representatives of Polish media, Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz said that the commission to investigate the Tu-154 crash that killed the country's President, Lech Kaczynski, found a recording of the explosion on one of the recorders.
During the meeting, the Defense Minister was asked about the progress of the investigation of the plane crash near Smolensk on April 10, 2010.
"We’ve identified the moment of explosion in a flight recording. It …
Russia preparing a bill to counter the US sanctions
The State Duma of the Russian Federation is working on a draft bill on countering the US sanctions policy as stated by the Russian State Duma Chairman, the Speaker of the Lower House of the Russian Parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, RIA Novosti reports.
"We are working on this issue, but we can’t present it yet and talk about specific content," he said, answering the question of whether the work on the relevant draft bill is going on in the State Duma.
The United States recently strengthened …
Chief Military Prosecutor of Ukraine: 150 km of Ukrainian border with Hungary not controlled by Kyiv
The Chief Military Prosecutor of Ukraine Anatolii Matios stated that the Ukrainian State Border Service does not have access to 150 km of the border with Hungary. However, the total length of the border of Ukraine with Hungary is only 137 km.
"Today I once again came across documents that say that 150 km border with Hungary in Transcarpathia is a private property," he said on 112.Ukraine TV. "150 km are the land plots, those two hectares that used to be allocated by the village council to …