U.S. Army M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle deployment to northeast Syria has helped to lower tensions and prevent new conflicts in the region. The U.S. military has sent M2A2 Bradley fighting vehicles to eastern Syria in September to help protect the hundreds of American troops stationed there following series of tense encounters with Russian forces. Tensions with Russian troops in the Central Command (CENTCOM) area of […]
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Russia plans to complete the development of its latest S-500 mobile air defense and anti-ballistic missile system in 2021, the Krasnaya Zvezda news agency reported. “It should be noted that the work on developing the S-500 mobile air defense and anti-ballistic missile system is scheduled to be completed in 2021,” Aerospace Force Deputy Commander-in-Chief Lieutenant-General Andrei Yudin told Defense Ministry’s Krasnaya Zvezda news agency. Russian Deputy […]
Russian aerospace group Rostec has announced on Wednesday that the Central Research Institute for Precision Machine-Building (TsNIITochMash) has successfully completed factory acceptance testing of the new Lotos air-droppable self-propelled artillery gun. “The Central Research Institute for Precision Machine-Building (TsNIITochMash) of Rostec Corporation has completed the acceptance trials of the advanced 120mm Lotos self-propelled artillery gun (item 2S42). The fighting vehicle for the Airborne Force has confirmed […]
Russian National Defense Control Center has reported that the Russian Navy has been monitoring the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) sailing up the Black Sea. “The Black Sea Fleet’s forces and means began monitoring the USS Donald Cook, who entered the Black Sea on November 23,” the Ministry of Defense said. Previously, the U.S. Navy press service announced that guided-missile destroyer USS […]
On Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry told journalists that additional 18 military transport Il-76 aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Force with peacekeepers aboard have landed at Yerevan’s airfields. Russian Il-76 and An-124 military transport planes continue airlifting the peacekeepers to the area of the peacekeeping mission. The planes have already made 95 flights since the start of the peacekeeping operation, the Defense Ministry spokesman said. “Another […]
The Russian military is sending attack helicopters to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone following the start of the peacekeeping operation. According to a press release issued Thursday by the Russian Defense Ministry, An-124 Ruslan military transport aircraft delivered eight Mi-8 transport and Mi-24 attack helicopters of the Russian Aerospace Forces army aviation to the airfield in Yerevan, Armenia. “Helicopters will be involved in the peacekeeping operation to […]
Russia is immediately deploying about 1,960 soldiers to the self-declared Nagorno-Karabakh region in Azerbaijan. According to a press release issued Tuesday by Russian Defense Ministry, the first five Ilyushin Il-76MD Candid airlifters with Russian peacekeepers are heading to Nagorno-Karabakh from Ulyanovsk “The first four Il-76 planes, which are redeploying Russian peacekeepers to the area of performing tasks in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, have taken off from the Ulyanovsk-Vostochny […]
Russia is moving its one of the most powerful electronic warfare (EW) systems, called the Murmansk-BN, to military bases in Arctic territory near the Finnish border. This week, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has released a short video showing deploy of the Murmansk-BN ground mobile radio interference complex to areas located along the border to Finland. Murmansk-BN is a unique Russian long-range communications […]
A Bangladesh Air Force C-130 transport plane made an emergency landing at Khabarovsk airport in Russia. Local officials said two of the plane’s four turboprops failed and it landed safely at Khabarovsk International airport in the Russian Far East. Damage to the aircraft has not been determined. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – It is specified that there are no casualties as a result of […]
Russia has deployed a significant disinformation campaign against the Ukrainian defense industry to drive out the independent competitor. The Russian disinformation campaign has pushed fake news online in Egypt, Algeria, India, Peru, Nigeria, Czech Republic, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia to discredit Ukraine as a reputable and reliable partner. Russia is actively intervening in the information space of other countries where Ukraine claims to win a […]
The SBU, Ukraine’s state security service, has reported on Tuesday that it blocked a systematic steal of aircraft components from the strategic aerospace enterprise. According to a press release issued on 3 November by the SBU, the security service has blocked the illegal supply of helicopter engines to Russia. The stolen spare part and engines were exported abroad by intermediaries outside customs control. According to forged […]
JSC CSTS Dinamika, part of Technodinamika Group, has successfully passed the state trials of the latest target simulator with a rotary-wing target drone system. This is the first unmanned rotorcraft belonging to this size group ever designed, built and tested in Russia. With takeoff weight at an impressive 315 kg, its flight endurance makes up at least 1 hour, altitude ‑ 2,500 m and operational range […]
The Russian military said Tuesday it has successfully test-fired a new missile of the country’s anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defense system at the Sary-Shagan proving ground in Kazakhstan. “The next launch was successfully carried out by a combat crew of the air and missile defense forces of the Aerospace Forces at the Sary-Shagan proving ground (Republic of Kazakhstan),” the ministry said in a statement. “The new interceptor […]
Citing a source from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Izvestia reported that Russia plans to deploy its T-72B3 main battle tanks to the disputed Kuril Islands. The Kuril Islands, referred to as the Southern Kurils by Russia and the Northern Territories by Japan, were captured by Soviet forces following Japan’s surrender to Allied Forces in 1945. The resulting disagreement over who has rightful […]
Russia has launched Oniks anti-ship cruise missile during military exercises in the Arctic. The missile firings from the coastal defense missile system deployed on the Alexandra Land Island were performed for the first time as part of the Northern Fleet’s planned combat and operational training measures for the summer training period, according to a press release issued Tuesday by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian […]
Defense representatives from NATO’s 30 member states are slated to review a proposal that seeks to construct a centralized coordination point for an allied space surveillance center prior to a virtual meeting on Thursday. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg revealed early this week that Ramstein Air Base in Germany’s Rhineland-Palatinate will likely be the location of the intergovernmental military alliance’s space center, according to the German Press […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107861/88/1078618855_0:24:3072:1752_1200x675_80_0_0_3c3e8eaa134f93a0243f2a048c96bcec.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Morgan Artyukhina . Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202010191080820643-us-charges-10-defendants-with-smuggling-50-million-in-apple-products-into-russia/ The US Department of Justice charged 10 conspirators with allegedly smuggling more than $50 million in Apple products from the US into Russia by exploiting their relationship with employees of Aeroflot, Russia’s flagship air carrier. A pair of complaints filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York and unsealed on Monday […]
Russia plans to develop a new highly specialized aircraft to replace Cold War-era Il-80 “doomsday“ plane. New Airborne Command Post aircraft will be built on the basis of an Il-96-400M long-range airliner, TASS reported. “It is scheduled to replace it with an Il-96-400M. It will allow to significantly increase the period of airborne combat duty and to extend the radius for troop command,” an aircraft industry source told TASS. […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/104825/65/1048256531_0:183:3500:2151_1200x675_80_0_0_f58db1c885392ac22ad254f63c0acf5a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/latam/202010181080811715-maduro-says-venezuela-received-thousands-of-doses-of-coronavirus-treatment-from-russia/ LA PAZ (Sputnik) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says thousands of doses of a coronavirus treatment have arrived from Russia. “Favipiravir, a powerful antiviral medication, has arrived from Russia,” Maduro announced on Sunday, showing a package of the Avifavir antiviral drug. According to the president, the coronavirus treatment will be available to Venezuelans for free. “It has an amazing […]
Russian authorities have no powers to open a case against a Moscow-born attacker who beheaded a teacher in France, an embassy spokesman has said, adding that his origin is not as important as the place of his radicalization. Russia has no plans to launch its own investigation into the brutal murder committed in the town of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, not far from the French capital, the Russian embassy […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/11/1080800420_0:0:3641:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_1712c3094bc6f1bf132dc5399638fe79.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/military/202010171080804348-russia-to-respond-to-us-deployment-of-missiles-in-asia-pacific-region-ambassador-says/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Moscow will adequately respond to Washington’s deployment of intermediate and short-range missiles in the Asia-Pacific region (APAC), Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said. “If American missiles are deployed in APAC, and it was once again confirmed to me yesterday that such missiles would be deployed, then the range of these missiles would reach […]
MOSCOW—For the third year in succession, a Russian teenager has done something that Europeans previously believed was the sole preserve of disaffected American students. Danila Monakhov, 18, embarked on a mass shooting in the city of Nizhny Novgorod on Monday, shooting seven people before turning the gun on himself. Handsome but socially awkward, the teen shooter had watched videos of the Columbine massacre linking him to […]
Officials in Baku claim an Armenian rocket strike left 12 people dead and dozens more wounded amid ongoing clashes over disputed Nagorno-Karabakh, as the region’s ombudsman says Azerbaijani shelling has injured two in its capital. The death toll claimed in the Armenian strike rose to 12, also leaving 40 wounded, according to the Azerbaijani prosecutor general’s office. Hikmet Hajiyev, assistant to Azeri President Ilham Aliyev, shared […]
Russian journalists are facing prejudice and routine harassment by American authorities, Russia’s Embassy in Washington has warned, after US security services questioned an RT filmmaker for hours and combed through his devices. RT documentarian Konstantin Rozhkov was stopped by US federal agents at a New York airport soon after arriving in the country on Wednesday, where he was subjected to a three-hour interrogation and forced to […]
Former National Security Adviser John Bolton repeatedly told his staff to actively remove themselves from conversations and meetings with Rudy Giuliani after Bolton received warnings from intelligence officials that the president’s personal lawyer was propagating conspiracy theories that aligned with a Russian operation to undermine the 2020 presidential election. Bolton even warned his subordinates to avoid meetings in which Giuliani or his agenda might be raised. […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/10/1080795841_0:9:3148:1779_1200x675_80_0_0_94094f6a4f215886ad89f2bf039385c5.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202010161080795930-us-negotiator-accuses-russia-of-backtracking-on-nuclear-agreement/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US Special Envoy for Arms Control Marshall Billingslea on Friday called it a disappointment that Russia “backtracked” on the American proposal to conclude an agreement that would cover all nuclear warheads. Earlier on Friday, Washington rejected Moscow’s proposal to unconditionally extend New START, which expires in February, for one year and continue negotiations on the new […]
When he was released from a Soviet prison in 1990, Yevgeny Prigozhin went to work as a hot dog salesman. Soon, the budding entrepreneur—who had just served nine years for robbery and fraud—began moving up in the world of gastronomy. He became the manager of a chain of grocery stores in St. Petersburg, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hometown, and eventually expanded into the restaurant business. In […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202010161080792366-netherlands-hopes-to-continue-contacts-with-russia-on-mh17-in-trilateral-format/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Netherlands expects to continue contacts with Russia on the case of the Malaysian Boeing flight MH17 crash in Ukraine in 2014 in the format of trilateral consultations, which also includes Australia, the country’s foreign ministry told Sputnik. “The Dutch government is ready to continue trilateral negotiations to find a solution”, the ministry said, answering about […]
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Medics from as far away as France who travelled to help as fighting between Armenians and Azerbaijanis erupted in Nagorno-Karabakh, have told RT they weren’t fully prepared for the atrocities and called for the fighting to stop. Intense clashes between ethnic Armenian and Azeri forces over Nagorno-Karabakh have been raging since late September. The mainly Armenian-populated region, which is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, declared […]
Technical workers, attached to Lufthansa, at Germany’s Hamburg Airport have declined to service the state plane of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, accusing him of “giving the order to shoot at demonstrators in Belarus.” In a Facebook post on the page of the Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft workers union, a statement explained that technicians for Lufthansa Technik would not service the presidential Boeing 737 as an act of “international […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107752/24/1077522472_0:204:1600:1104_1200x675_80_0_0_0ff4b2cff30b8db51442b8a426459c5d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/military/202010151080782915-russia-open-to-intensive-consultations-with-us-on-strategic-stability/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Russia is ready to continue consultations with the United States on the issues of strategic stability, but wants the dialogue to cover its major concerns, including American plans to deploy the global missile defense shield and place weapons in space, Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov told Newsweek magazine. “Russia’s main concerns are the global […]
Anonymous clubbing in party hotspot Moscow will have to go on pause for a while after the capital’s mayor decreed that visitors to nightclubs will have to register upon entry using a QR code or by SMS starting from Monday. Sergey Sobyanin said that new restrictions are designed to counter the spread of Covid-19 and are being trialled in the hope of avoiding the sort of […]