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      Ukrinform journalist left without food, water on first day of arrest in Moscow
      Oct10

      Ukrinform journalist left without food, water on first day of arrest in Moscow

      Journalist from Ukraine`s Ukrinform news agency Roman Sushchenko, who has been arrested in Moscow, was left without food and water on the first day of his detention, and he has lost about six kilograms while in custody, according to Russia`s Novaya Gazeta. ”We have asked Roman if any physical pressure was applied to him. Sushchenko answered `no.`...

      Ukrainian troops in Donbas attacked almost 50 times in last day
      Oct09

      Ukrainian troops in Donbas attacked almost 50 times in last day

      Russia`s hybrid military forces in Donbas attacked Ukrainian positions 48 times in the last day, according to the press service of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) headquarters. The hottest spot was the Mariupol sector, where 27 attacks were recorded, which was the highest number since August. View map in full size The adversary repeatedly used...

      Russia says U.S. actions threaten its national security
      Oct09

      Russia says U.S. actions threaten its national security

      Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday he had detected increasing U.S. hostility towards Moscow and complained about what he said was a series of aggressive U.S. steps that threatened Russia`s national security, according to Reuters. In an interview with Russian state TV likely to worsen already poor relations with Washington,...

      Rival Syria resolutions by West and Russia defeated at UN
      Oct09

      Rival Syria resolutions by West and Russia defeated at UN

      Rival resolutions on Syria backed by the West and Russia were defeated in the UN Security Council on Saturday, offering no relief to the besieged city of Aleppo and leaving the key powers even more divided over a course of action in the war-ravaged country, according to ABC News. Russia vetoed a French-drafted resolution demanding an immediate...

      Russia moving nuclear-capable missiles into Kaliningrad: U.S. intelligence official
      Oct08

      Russia moving nuclear-capable missiles into Kaliningrad: U.S. intelligence official

      Russia is moving nuclear-capable missiles into Kaliningrad, a tiny Russian enclave sitting between Poland and Lithuania, a U.S. intelligence official said Friday, confirming Estonian news reports, according to Reuters. Russia`s reasons for shipping the 500-kilometer-range Iskander-M missiles to Kaliningrad ”could be innocuous,” said the official,...

      EU ready to consider sanctions against Russian MPs ”elected” in occupied Crimea
      Oct08

      EU ready to consider sanctions against Russian MPs ”elected” in occupied Crimea

      The European Union is ready to consider the imposition of sanctions against the so-called deputies of the State Duma, which had been ”elected” in the Russian-annexed Crimea, that`s according to Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine Serhiy Petukhov and First Deputy Minister of Information Policy Emine Dzhaparova who spoke after the completion of...

      Russian S-400 put in full operation in annexed Crimea – Russian Ministry of Defense
      Oct08

      Russian S-400 put in full operation in annexed Crimea – Russian Ministry of Defense

      The new Russian anti-aircraft missile systems have been put on combat duty in the annexed Crimea, the press service of the Southern Military District of the Russian Ministry of Defense reported October 7. ”In the middle of 2016, a regimental kit of the anti-aircraft missile system S-400 Triumph and an anti-aircraft missile-gun system Pantsyr-S...

      Russian troops attack Ukraine 30 times in last day, fire artillery on Avdiyivka
      Oct07

      Russian troops attack Ukraine 30 times in last day, fire artillery on Avdiyivka

      Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 30 times in the past 24 hours, including 16 in the Mariupol sector, 10 barrages in the Luhansk sector, and four in the Donetsk sector, according to the press center of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. In the Donetsk sector, Russia`s hybrid military force...

      173 Ukrainian troops killed in Donbas in 2016 – Defense Minister
      Oct07

      173 Ukrainian troops killed in Donbas in 2016 – Defense Minister

      173 Ukrainian military servicemen have been killed during the Anti-Terrorist Operation in the 173 Ukrainian servicemen have died since the beginning of 2016, Ukraine`s Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak said during a meeting with the Chief of the Defense Staff of the Armed Forces of Sweden Dennis Gyllensporre held in Stockholm, the press service of...

      Putin threatens to shoot down any “unidentified flying targets” over Syria
      Oct06

      Putin threatens to shoot down any “unidentified flying targets” over Syria

      More sabre rattling is coming from Russia as the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov says missiles will be downed to ”secure” the Russian military bases in Syria, according to RIA Novosti. ”I should remind the U.S. `strategists` that the air shield of Russian military bases in Hmeymim and...