Section: War

      13 soldiers killed, 48 wounded in car bomb attack in Turkey
      Dec17

      13 soldiers killed, 48 wounded in car bomb attack in Turkey

      Thirteen soldiers were killed and 48 more were injured when a car bomb hit a bus transporting off-duty military personnel in the central Turkish city of Kayseri on Saturday, one week after a similar attack targeted police outside an Istanbul stadium, according to Reuters. The blast is likely to further anger a Turkish public frustrated by a...

      U.S. Army Gen. Scaparrotti surveys Ukraine`s front lines against Russia
      Dec17

      U.S. Army Gen. Scaparrotti surveys Ukraine`s front lines against Russia

      In a signal to Moscow of U.S. and NATO resolve, U.S. Army Gen. Curtis M. ”Mike” Scaparrotti ended a two-day visit to Ukraine earlier on Thursday in which he toured the combat positions of Ukrainian troops facing off against a combined Russian and separatist force, according to Military.com. On his second visit to Ukraine within three weeks,...

      Bellingcat to realese the latest report on shellings of Ukraine from Russian territory
      Dec17

      Bellingcat to realese the latest report on shellings of Ukraine from Russian territory

      The international investigation community Bellingcat December 21 is expected to release a report on the Donbas conflict titled Putin`s Undeclared War – Summer 2014. Strikes of Russian Artillery on Ukraine. Bellingcat experts used publicly available satellite imagery to analyze hundreds of craters from shells in Donbas and revealed hundreds of...

      Russian militants attacked Ukrainian positions 39 times in last day
      Dec16

      Russian militants attacked Ukrainian positions 39 times in last day

      Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 39 times in the past 24 hours, according to the press service of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters. View map in full size In the Mariupol sector, the militants used banned 120mm and 82mm mortars to attack the villages of Talakivka and Shyrokyne....

      Self-proclaimed Luhansk People`s Republic draws up lists of Ukrainian-minded citizens
      Dec16

      Self-proclaimed Luhansk People`s Republic draws up lists of Ukrainian-minded citizens

      The so-called Ministry of State Security of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People`s Republic (”LPR”) terrorist organization draws up lists of Ukrainian-minded citizens, according to the Information Resistance activist group. ”LPR” members use such notions for degrees of ”pro-Ukrainian mood” as ”unreliable” and ”Ukraine sympathizers.” ”The lists must...

      National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine unveils scenario if Russia attacked Ukraine amid missile tests
      Dec16

      National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine unveils scenario if Russia attacked Ukraine amid missile tests

      Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov says that Ukraine was ready to counter any Russian provocation during the testing of new Ukrainian missiles near Russia-occupied Crimea, according to Ukrainian news portal Liga.net. He said that had Russia launched missile bombardment of Ukrainian missile...

      Biden welcomes Ukraine`s decision to release 15 Russian militants
      Dec16

      Biden welcomes Ukraine`s decision to release 15 Russian militants

      U.S. Vice President Joe Biden says he hopes that the Ukrainian authorities` decision to unilaterally release 15 individuals taken prisoner during the Donbas conflict will give momentum to the prisoner exchange process. ”The Vice President voiced strong support for the Ukrainian Government`s decision today [December 15] to unilaterally release 15...

      ”It needs to be disguised and taken away”: General Prosecutor Office releases records of intercepted calls between two suspects in MH17 case
      Dec16

      ”It needs to be disguised and taken away”: General Prosecutor Office releases records of intercepted calls between two suspects in MH17 case

      First Deputy General Prosecutor Dmytro Storozhuk has told a Kyiv briefing that the Joint Investigation Team is ready to ensure protection of all witnesses who can provide information on those involved in the destruction of the Malaysian Airlines passenger aircraft. Also, the PGO released audio recordings of conversations between the persons...

      Suspect in alleged Montenegro coup plot pictured with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov
      Dec16

      Suspect in alleged Montenegro coup plot pictured with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov

      A suspect in an alleged plot to assassinate pro-Western Montenegrin politician Milo Djukanovic has posted a photograph of himself standing near Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov this week in Belgrade, RFE/RL reports. Nemanja Ristic, who is wanted in Montenegro for conspiracy to kill Djukanovic in an alleged foreign-organized coup attempt in...

      Civilian areas in Donbas come under Russian militant fire twice in last day
      Dec16

      Civilian areas in Donbas come under Russian militant fire twice in last day

      Civilian areas in Donbas, the east of Ukraine, came under militant fire twice in the last day, according to the press service of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters. ”Militants attacked civilian areas twice. The village of Maiorsk was shelled with the use of small arms, while mortars, anti-aircraft guns and heavy machine guns were...