Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Lithuanian delegations will not attend Victory Day parade in Moscow

Polish Minister of National Defense Antoni Macierewicz said that the Polish delegation will not take part in the celebration of Victory Day, which will be held on May 9 in Moscow. According to the newspaper Gazeta Polska Codziennie, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Lithuania have also decided not to attend.

"All the celebrations associated with Victory Day will take place in Poland," the Polish Ministry of Defense announced.

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense of Slovakia, in a …


Moscow says US-Georgian exercises are a 'provacative move'

Moscow sees the Noble Partner 2016 joint military exercises involving US and Georgian troops as "a provocative move aimed at the deliberate destabilization of the military-political situation in the South Caucasus." This was stated in commentary by the Department of Information and Press of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Grani reported.

The Foreign Ministry believes that Washington and its allies "indulge revanchist aspirations of Tbilisi".

The commentary referred to remarks made by …


US F-15s arrive in Finland for joint training flights

US F-15 fighter planes arrived at the Finnish air base Rissala on Friday where they will take part in joint training flights with Finnish fighters. They will also participate in the Finnish-Swedish exercise Cross Border Training (CBT), as reported by Yle.

It is the first time that American fighters will be based on Finnish territory. Earlier, US aircraft took part in flights within the framework of exercises in the air space of the country, but without taking off and landing from Finnish …


Kuchma: Prisoner exchange before Orthodox Easter failed due to changes in the position of separatists

Leonid Kuchma, the representative of Ukraine in the Trilateral Contact Group and the former Ukrainian President, said that the exchange of prisoners before the Easter holidays was disrupted due to a change in the separatists’ position.

"They are not interested in this. They always want to get some mechanisms to influence Ukraine, the mood of the people," he told journalists in Kiev on Friday, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

Kuchma said in this regard everything depends on the position of the …


Polish Minister of National Defense: The EU should be prepared for all forms of Russian aggression

The Polish Minister of National Defense, Antoni Macierewicz, believes that European countries must be prepared not only for hybrid aggression but also for other Russian tactics.

“All European states agree that Russia’s attack against Ukraine is a precedent for breach of the peace in Europe. I don’t believe that formally everything is fine. It is about the aggression of one country against another; it is about occupation. Crimea is occupied, part of Donbas is occupied,” Macierewicz stated in …