Sweden put museum weapons back into service to 'deter Russian aggression'
The Swedish authorities decided to use anti-ship missiles from the times of the Cold War to strengthen their position in the Baltic Sea. According to The Times, Stockholm sent Kustrobotbatteri 90 missile systems on Scania trucks to the island of Gotland. Some parts for the systems were previously being held in museums.
According to Rear Admiral Thomas Engevall, Sweden will now be able to launch anti-ship missiles from land over very long distances, which will provide the country with “greater …
Putin’s advisor: The state of the Russian economy 'is like a heart attack'
Russian Presidential Advisor Sergey Glazyev compared the state of the economy to a heart attack. He said this speaking at “The trap of the new normal” forum at the Financial University.
“This was easy to foresee, and we have already talked about this. As soon as monetary authorities opted for the floating exchange rate of the ruble, immediately we got a spike in devaluation, inflationary shock, from which we still cannot recover. And our macroeconomic system is similar to a patient with a …
EU transferred equipment worth 2.2 million Euros to Ukraine to strengthen Belarusian-Ukrainian border
On Tuesday, the Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine transferred technical equipment and transport vehicles, worth €2.2 million, to the country’s State Border Guard Service to aid in strengthening their border with Belarus.
According to the website of the State Border Guard Service, this technical assistance is part of the second phase of the SURCAP international project, which aims to strengthen the capacities of the border agencies of Ukraine and Belarus by protecting their common …
SBU: Russia is attempting to destabilize the situation in Ukraine
Russian security services are trying to destabilize the situation in Ukraine, creating so-called pseudo-territorial communities, as reported by Colonel Stepan Greschuk, the head of the Main Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) for the Kyiv region, in an interview with the newspaper, Segodnya.
Greschuk noted that the establishment of these sort of communities has nothing to do with the laws of Ukraine on local self-government or on the distribution of powers between central and …
NATO begins deployment of multinational battalion to Poland
NATO has begun the deployment of a multinational battalion in Poland, in accordance with the decision to establish such units in Poland and the Baltic Countries, allotting one for each state, the Polish Defense Minister, Antoni Macierewicz, said.
"Their stationing has already begun. In January all units will be completed," he said, as reported by TASS.
It is expected that 1,200 soldiers and officers, 1,000 of whom are US military personnel, will arrive in Poland. The battalion will be located …