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Russia opposes Ukraine's bill on reintegration of the Donbas
Boris Gryzlov, the permanent representative of Russia to the Trilateral Contact Group, which was formed to facilitate the settlement of the situation in eastern Ukraine, said that the bill on the reintegration of the Donbas is an attempt to destroy the Minsk agreements.
“At today's meeting of the contact group, the participants could not ignore the bill of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine to reintegrate Donbass. According to the available information, this bill being worked …
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Belarus will buy Su-30SM fighter jets from Russia
Belarus will purchase a batch of Sukhoi Su-30SM multi-role fighter aircraft from Russia, BelTA reported with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Defense.
"In order to update the fleet of combat aircraft, a contract was concluded with Russia on the supply of a batch of Su-30SM aircraft," the military department said.
Belarus plans to purchase 12 planes. The price of the contract was not specified.
Su-30SM 4+ generation fighters are developed by the Sukhoi Aviation Corporation …
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White House: The U.S. will continue the policy of sanctions against Russia until it 'leaves eastern Ukraine'
The USA intends to continue the sanctions policy towards Russia until it "leaves eastern Ukraine," as indicated on Tuesday by the White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, at a routine press briefing.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Finance Ministry included 38 people and organizations, including "two Russian civil servants" and two of their assistants, in the sanctions list. Among the Russians on the list are the Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Sergey Nazarov, a member …
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The Pentagon blamed Russia for a dangerously close encounter between aircraft over the Baltic
The US military department said that the interception of a US Air Force reconnaissance aircraft by a Russian Air Force jet in the Baltic Sea was unsafe.
"On June 19, an American RC-135U aircraft flying in international airspace over the Baltic Sea was intercepted by a Russian Su-27. Due to the high speed of convergence and poor control over the aircraft during the interception, this interaction is regarded as unsafe," the Pentagon statement said.
The agency also stressed that the American …
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Media: In Oliver Stone’s ‘The Putin Interviews’ Putin used a fake video to show ‘the work of Russian aviation’
The third part of the documentary "Putin", which Russian television will show on Wednesday, June 21, included a fragment in which the Russian president demonstrates the actions of Russian aviation in Syria to American director Oliver Stone on a smartphone.
As a group of independent investigators from the Conflict Intelligence Team was able to establish, Putin passed off a video in which a US Apache helicopter attacks the position of the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2009 as the work of Russian …