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Putin’s Rubles for Gas, Europe and Japan will bear the cost of currency conversion
Unfriendly Countries will transfer payments for gas supply to Russia in rubles, said Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting with the government officials on Wednesday, March 23. “I have decided in the shortest possible time to implement a set of measures to transfer payments. Let’s start with this for our natural gas supplied to […]
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U.S. and Japan feel the diplomatic pain of Russian sanctions
Russia has started diplomatic pushback over the sanctions imposed on it due to special operations in Ukraine. On Monday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that relations with the United States are “on the verge.” Russia on Monday nulled a 1991 agreement that allowed Japanese citizens to visit the Kuril Islands without a visa. The Russian […]
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Slovakia to get Patriot system for transferring its S-300, but Ukraine wants modern systems
At the request of NATO, Germany and the Netherlands will transfer American anti-aircraft missile systems (SAM) Patriot to Slovakia. In return, Bratislava will send S-300 systems to Ukraine. It was announced on March 18 by the Dutch Ministry of Defense. “The Cabinet [Dutch Ed.] considers it very important to make an active military contribution to […]
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Britain to deploy Russian Su-57 stealth fighter killer Sky Saber air defense system near Poland – Ukraine border
Britain is installing a Sky Saber anti-aircraft defense system in Poland. It was announced by British Defense Minister Ben Wallace during his visit to Warsaw today. London wants to support NATO’s eastern wing and strengthen Poland’s defenses against a possible Russian attack. “We will deploy a Sky Saber air defense system in Poland with medium-range […]
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Tupolev, Antonov, Yakovlev, Sukhoi and Ilyushin are set to replace Boeing and Airbus in Russia
On February 28, the world’s largest aircraft manufacturers Boeing and Airbus announced the termination of cooperation with Russia and closed their offices due to the U.S. and European sanctions on Russia. And this means that Boeing and Airbus aircraft operated by Russian airlines are left without maintenance and spare parts. Boeing and Airbus aircraft make […]
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Turkey begins Stealth UCAV Bayraktar Kızılelma – MİUS integration, Russia may throttle the Ukrainian engines
BaykaDefense Chief Technology Officer Selçuk Bayraktar wrote on his Twitter account that after three and a half years, a larger and more agile plane had entered the production line. He said MİUS Unmanned Fighter Aircraft Bayraktar Kızılelma is on the way. He posted images of the first prototype of Bayraktar Kızılelma, which is in the […]
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Soviet era Tu-141 Strizh drone flew deep into NATO airspace unnoticed before crashing in Croatia
On the night of March 11, a UAV crashed near the capital of Croatia, Zagreb, which was identified as a Soviet reconnaissance drone Tu-141 Strizh (Swift), also called VR-2. According to some reports, it was launched from the zone of the Russian-Ukrainian armed conflict. Nobody died. It is still unclear who launched it and for […]
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A Soviet era electricity transmission line to power Chernobyl nuclear power plant
A well-preserved Belarusian power transmission line from Soviet times is set to immediately restore power to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The news comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed Chernobyl nuclear power plant situation with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko, as per news agency BelTA. The agency said that President Lukashenko had instructed the […]
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Britain freezes assets worth $20 billion of seven Russian oligarchs for their ties with Putin
Britain has frozen the assets of seven Russian oligarchs. Among them are the owner of the London football team “Chelsea” Roman Abramovich and the chief executives of Rosneft and Gazprom, Igor Sechin and Alexei Miller, the British government announced today. The seven Russians have been sanctioned for their ties to President Vladimir Putin, the statement […]
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Dirty Bomb – Ukraine hid enriched uranium until 2012; 160 kg of material could make ten nuclear weapons
Amid U.S. admission of Ukraine hosting its biological weapons laboratory, the director of Energoatom, Petr Kotin, made a stunning revelation on March 9 that his country illegally stored highly enriched uranium until 2012. He acknowledged that highly enriched uranium was stored on Ukrainian territory for several years after signing the Budapest Memorandum, based on which […]
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E.U. is outraged, Russian list of unfriendly countries tightens overseas payments
On 7th March, the Government of the Russian Federation published an updated list of states and territories that behave unfriendly towards Russia. The European Union is outraged by the appearance of the Russian list of unfriendly countries and condemns its publication, said the head of the E.U. foreign policy department, Peter Stano. But not all European […]
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The U.S. develops cold feet over Poland Mig-29 offer, Ukraine shoots down Hungarian Mig-21
Polish authorities are ready to hand over all their MiG-29 fighters to the United States. At the same time, Poland expects Washington to hand over aircraft with similar operational capabilities and is ready to start negotiations on their purchase immediately. “After consulting with the President and the Government of Poland, the Polish authorities are ready […]
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Is a Referendum in Ukraine the next Russian agenda?
For many years of its existence, Ukraine has not demarcated the border with Russia. There is an agreement of 2010 (before that, of 2004), between the two countries, on the mutual recognition of borders, which has not been implemented on the ground. Before Russia annexed Crimea and recognised the DPR and LPR as independent states, […]
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Finland defies Putin, announces readiness to join NATO
U.S. and Finnish Presidents Joe Biden and Sauli Niinistö, on Friday, March 4, during a meeting in Washington, agreed to begin the process to strengthen cooperation between the two countries in the field of security, said the White House. The leaders committed to launching a process that will strengthen U.S.-Finnish security cooperation in close consultation […]
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Did Europe go overboard with Russian sanctions?
The European Union (E.U.) countries have been sanctioning Russia following the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the war in the Donbas and the crash of flight MH17 in 2014. They have been replicating the strategy since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, with heavier sanctions than before. The current sanctions have been applied to all […]
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Russia disabled Ukranian military infrastructure with precision strikes, civilians safe
The Russian army did not carry out air missile or artillery strikes on Ukraine, said the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. “The military infrastructure, air defense facilities, military airfields, aviation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are disabled with high-precision weapons,” the ministry said. At the same time, the Ministry of Defense stressed […]
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DPR and LDR break away from Ukraine; the Russian move may lead to a border war and not an invasion
At a ceremony in the Kremlin on February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed decrees recognizing the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DNR and LNR). Speaking before this in a televised address to the Russian, he said, “I consider it necessary to make a long overdue decision – to immediately recognize the independence and sovereignty […]
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Tu-160M missile carrier to be handed over for trials ahead of schedule
The first upgraded Tu-160M strategic missile carrier built from scratch will be handed over to the military for testing ahead of schedule. “I believe that the president’s decision to resume production of the Tu-160 in a new guise was timely. We were able to complete this task as soon as possible. Because the contract initially […]
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All about REvil – Ransomware Evil aka Sodinokibi gang arrest
On Friday, a senior administration official said Russia had informed the United States of the arrest of hackers, including a person involved in a cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline pipeline in May. According to the Russian FSB, 14 potential group members were detained in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities. On Friday, a court in […]
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Cuban Missile crisis 2 – Will Russia place missiles in Venezuela and Cuba?
If Russia places its missiles in Venezuela or Cuba, some NATO allies will not like it, said the chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Robert Bauer, on Thursday. “These are not NATO territories if we talk about Venezuela and Cuba. But I think that there are states, allies that would be concerned about such […]