• US, Swedish and German aircraft conducted reconnaissance missions near Russia's borders

    According to websites that track the flights of military aircraft , planes of the U.S. Air Force, Swedish Air Force and the German Navy conducted reconnaissance missions near the sea borders of the Kaliningrad region on January 18, as reported by Russia’s Interfax news agency.

    According to their information, an RC-135W strategic reconnaissance aircraft of the U.S. Air Force with tail number 62-4138 and call sign LAVIC45, took off from an air base in Mildenhall, UK. It approached the coast of …

  • NATO battalion will arrive in Latvia by June

    A NATO Battalion headed by Canada with more than 1000 servicemen will arrive in Latvia by the end of June.

    This was stated by the Commander of the Joint Headquarters of the Latvian National Armed Forces, Leonids Kalnins, as reported by the Delfi news website.

    “Before June, smaller NATO units will arrive in Latvia, which will prepare for the arrival of the battalion. By June, the complete battalion will arrive in Latvia,” Kalnins said.

    According to him, it is expected that the battalion will …

  • Biden is convinced that Russia will try to interfere in European elections

    The Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, called Russia the greatest threat to the international liberal order, predicting that Moscow will try to influence the course of elections in Europe, as it did in the United States, Reuters reported.

    Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Biden stated that, “Under Vladimir Putin’s presidency, Russia is working with every tool available to undermine the European project, test the fault lines of Western countries and return …

  • Lithuania approves an updated national security strategy

    On Tuesday, Lithuanian Parliament approved an updated strategy of national security, as reported by Delfi news agency. 107 members of Seimas voted in favor of the document. No one was against it. One person abstained.

    14 threats and risk factors are listed in the strategy. The updated National Security project was prepared by the previous administration. The strategy was last reviewed in 2012 and was planned to be adapted to the changed situation.

    Conventional military threat was the first …

  • Polish diplomats were not let into Russia through the border with Belarus

    Border guards turned away the Polish diplomats, who were trying to cross the Russian-Belarusian border in the Smolensk region.

    The incident occurred at the Krasnaya Gorka checkpoint. According to the FSB border management of the region, two cars with diplomatic license plates traveled from Belarus to Russia and were stopped at the border between the two countries on a Moscow-Minsk highway.

    A border guard spokesman, Alexander Laznenko, explained that there are no border control staff that …