US gives Ukraine AN/TPQ Firefinder Radar System
The United States handed over a new batch of counter-battery AN/TPQ Firefinder radar systems to Ukraine. The radars can locate enemy weapons, following the trajectories of projectiles, missiles and mines. Ukraine received four AN/TPQ-36 systems and ten AN/TPQ-49 systems.
The handover ceremony took place at the Boryspil airport on Saturday. It was attended by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the US Ambassador to Ukraine, Jeffrey Pyatt.
Last year, the first batch of US counter-battery …
Russian citizen convicted for reposting article about Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939
A resident of Perm has been ordered to pay a fine of 200,000 rubles for the "rehabilitation of Nazism."
In Russia, the court found a resident of Perm guilty of publically denying the decisions of the Nuremberg trials and the dissemination of false information about the activities of the USSR during the Second World War, Kommersant reports.
The court ordered a resident of Perm, Vladimir Luzgin, to pay a fine of 200,000 rubles on charges of rehabilitation of Nazism.
The grounds for the …
Macierewicz hopes Russia will deoccupy all Ukrainian territory after NATO Summit
The Polish Minister of Defense, Anthony Macierewicz, expressed hope that the decisions made at the NATO summit will force Russia to withdraw from Ukrainian territories.
"During the NATO summit in Warsaw, a landmark decision will be made. Russia has for a long time thought that it has the right to challenge this decision. We have no reason to discuss something before it is adopted. Once the decision is made, we can start talking about how to keep peace in the world," Anthony Macierewicz said a …
Ukraine proposes creating transport corridor from the Baltic to the Caspian Sea
Ukraine has initiated the creation of a Baltic Sea-Black Sea-Caspian Sea transport corridor, as stated by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Communal Services, Gennady Zubko, at the 11th meeting of the Ukrainian-Azerbaijani Joint Intergovernmental Commission for Economic Cooperation in Baku.
"Ukraine has handed a draft agreement on the establishment of the international Baltic Sea-Black Sea-Caspian Sea transport corridor to Azerbaijan," Zubko …
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: The EU's extension of sanctions is 'short-sightedness'
The extension of economic sanctions against Russia by the European Union is a short-sighted policy, as stated by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"The extension of the anti-Russian economic sanctions by the European Union until January 31, 2017, which are illegitimate from the standpoint of international law, is seen as a continuation of a short-sighted policy by Brussels," the Ministry’s statement reads.
The Ministry also stated that binding the sanctions to the implementation of the …