NATO fighter jets will carry out training flights over Estonia

Two Eurofighter fighter jets from the German Air Force will perform low altitude training flights in Estonian airspace next week, Estonian err.ee reported. The flights will be performed at a height of no less than 150 meters and, as servicemen promise, away from residential areas. The flights will be performed in the morning.

Since late August, fighter jets from the German Air Force have been guarding the sky over the Baltic States. They are based at Ämari Air Base. The NATO countries allocate …


New emblem of Ukrainian intelligence shows owl piercing map of Russia with a sword

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has presented the new head of the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, Major General Vasily Bourbeau,  to the relevant staff members. The ceremony was held against a backdrop of the new emblem of Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence.

A new emblem of the Ukrainian intelligence was also presented at the presentation.

The image on the emblem is set against a background of the colors of the Ukrainian flag and depicts an …


Russian TV Channel is facing restrictions on broadcasting in Lithuania

Russian Channel Planeta TV is facing restrictions on broadcasting in Lithuania due to the incitement of inter-ethnic discord and calls for war, the DELFI news portal reported. The Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission began investigating violations of the law on the Russian TV talk show, Duel. The program by Vladimir Solovyov was broadcast on the 16th of October by RTR-Planeta.

The Chairman of the Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission, Edmundas Vaitiekunas, reported that the …


Putin signs law suspending U.S.-Russian weapons-grade plutonium disposal agreement

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law suspending the U.S.-Russian agreement on plutonium disposal, TASS reported.

The law was passed by Russia’s lower parliament, the State Duma, on October 19th, and by the upper parliament, the Federation Council, on October 26th.

Earlier, Putin set forth a list of conditions under which Moscow would consider resuming the plutonium disposal agreement, including an end to U.S. sanctions against Russia, compensation for the sanctions, and a reduction …


Russian Navy to receive new nuclear submarine in December

On October 30, TASS reported that the third submarine of Project 11356 Admiral Makarov, which is being built on the Yantar shipyard in Kaliningrad, will be transferred to the navy in December. This was reported by Navy Commander-in-Chief Admiral Vladimir Korolev.

“In December another nuclear submarine of strategic project Borey for the submarine forces of the Russian navy will be laid on the enterprise Sevmash, and a frigate of Project 11356 Admiral Makarov will be commissioned to the navy,” …