UK citizen appeared in London court for involvement in the war in eastern Ukraine
A 41-year-old Briton, filmed on video together with pro-Russian separatists in the Donbas, appeared in a London court on the 28th of September. Benjamin Stimson, from Oldham in the north-western part of England, is charged under several articles of the British anti-terrorist legislation.
According to a police spokesman, he is specifically accused of “intent to commit an act of terrorism and the steps to implement this” and “intent to commit acts of terrorism and assistance to acts of terrorism” …
US lifts restrictions on Antonov flights
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) lifted restrictions on Ukrainian Antonov Airlines on the number of annual cargo charter flights in and out of the country.
According to aircargoweek.com, the permit to perform cargo charter flights to and from the United States freely was issued in connection with the Agreement on Air Transportation, which was concluded between Ukraine and the United States on July 14, 2015 and entered into force in January 2016.
The management of Antonov Airlines …
Large-scale military police inspection begins in Russia
On the 28th of September, TASS reported that a large-scale check of military police and military traffic police began in the Western Military District. It involves more than a thousand people, according to the chief of the press-service of the region, Igor Muginov.
"More than one thousand soldiers and more than 300 units of military and special equipment of the military police and military traffic police of the Western Military District are undergoing control inspection for 2016. Each unit of …
US General Hodges: We are able to deter Russia
Late last week, the Commander of the U.S Army in Europe, Lieutenant General Frederick Benjamin Hodges, visited Latvia and met with the Commander of the National Armed Forces of Latvia, Raimonds Graube, in order to discuss bilateral cooperation and the implementation of the decisions of the Warsaw Summit, as reported by BaltNews.lv.
"I have regularly visited Latvia over the past four years and I see the contributions of the Ministry of Defense and the National Armed Forces of Latvia in the …
Russia's Almaz-Antey arms company admitted MH17 could have been shot down due to operator error
Malaysia Airline’s Flight MH17 may have crashed due to an operator error of the Buk anti-aircraft. This was reported by the adviser to the chief designer of Russia's state-owned Almaz-Antey, Mikhail Malyshevsky.
According to him, the probability of a Buk missile system operator’s error cannot be ruled out.
“There may be a lot of different reasons for this. It could have happened due to poor crew training, or some wrong baseline data, possibly even some tragic mistakes. For example, a …