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Poland to spend additional $55 billion over 15 years on strengthening its defense
Over the next 15 years, Poland will allocate additional $55 billion to army modernization due to Russia’s continued aggressive behavior, said Polish Deputy Minister of National Defense Tomasz Szatkowski, Reuters reports.
“Poland will allocate an additional 200 billion zloty ($55 billion) to defense in the next 15 years to modernize its army due to the signs of growing aggression from Russia," he stated. According to Szatkowsky, this step corresponds with Polish government plans to gradually …
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Ukraine sends observers to Zapad 2017 Russian-Belarusian military exercises
Two Ukrainian observers will go, by invitation, to Belarus to monitor the Zapad (West) 2017 military exercise, according to a statement of the Office of Public Relations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The statement was published on Wednesday on the page of the General Staff of the Armed Forces on Facebook.
"The Ukrainian side confirms the fact that Ukrainian representatives were invited to monitor the West 2017 military exercises, which are to be held on the territory of the Republic of …
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Turchynov discussed Russia-Belarus Zapad 2017 exercises with Estonian defense minister
National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov met with Estonian Defense Minister Jüri Luik, the NSDC website announced.
The two discussed the matter of deepening bilateral collaboration in military technology. Furthermore, they devoted a lot of attention to discussing the Zapad 2017 strategic staff and command exercises.
According to Turchynov, against the background of the difficult economic situation in Russia, such large-scale drills “cannot be simply regular …
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Russian Defense Minister says ‘civil war in Syria has effectively ended’
In a meeting with his Lebanese colleague Ya’qub as-Sarraf, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu said that the civil war in Syria has ended, Interfax reports.
“In Syria, having separated the ones from the others [opposition from terrorists], we have managed to create four de-escalation zones, and to effectively stop the civil war,” Shoygu noted.
He added that the Russian military “is satisfied to watch Lebanon’s successes in the north-east of the country” in the fight against the terrorist …
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Belarus: Representatives of 7 countries will be present at Zapad-2017 military exercise
Belarus invited representatives of seven countries and six international organizations to the Belarusian-Russian military exercise Zapad 2017 in the fall of 2017, as reported by the Ministry of Defense of Belarus on its website.
The report emphasizes that "monitoring of the exercise has been organized in strict accordance with national legislation and international treaties."
"Building on the practice of good-neighborliness and reciprocity, within the framework of the OSCE Vienna Document …