Sourced : Kyiv Post Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko, in his interview with Sky News, said that there is a real war in Donbas, not a frozen conflict, the official website of the president says. “Someone is trying to call this a frozen conflict. I emphasize that it is not frozen. It is a hot Russian… Continue reading POROSHENKO : THERE IS ONGOING HOT WAR NOT FROZEN CONFLICT IN DONBAS
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CHINA AND RUSSIA DEPLOYING TROOPS AND MILITARY HARDWARE TO THEIR BORDERS WITH N. KOREA
Sourced : Already Happened China and Russia are currently deploying troops to their borders with North Korea. According to recent information China is deploying toward the borders with North Korea big number of air defence systems and ambulance vehicles. Video that has been uploaded on internet shows a large convoy of military and ambulance vehicles… Continue reading CHINA AND RUSSIA DEPLOYING TROOPS AND MILITARY HARDWARE TO THEIR BORDERS WITH N. KOREA
RUSSIA WANTS TO BUILD THE BIGGEST AIRCRAFT CARRIER IN THE WORLD TO COMPETE WITH THE USN
Sourced : Business Insider By Alex Lockie A Russian state-run media website recently reported that Moscow plans to build the “biggest aircraft carrier in the world” to compete with the US’s 11 full-sized Nimitz-class aircraft carriers. The new Russian carrier concept, called the “Shtorm,” would match the size of the US’s current carriers, displacing about… Continue reading RUSSIA WANTS TO BUILD THE BIGGEST AIRCRAFT CARRIER IN THE WORLD TO COMPETE WITH THE USN
OPERATION EUPHRATES SHIELD : A POSTMORTEM
Sourced : Al Monitor By Cengiz Candar A day before the long-awaited March 30 visit of new US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to Ankara, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim dramatically announced that Operation Euphrates Shield, Turkey’s military intervention in northern Syria, had “successfully” come to a close. A precursory postmortem of the vaunted military… Continue reading OPERATION EUPHRATES SHIELD : A POSTMORTEM
EU NATIONS, ISRAEL EYE LONGEST UNDERSEA GAS PIPELINE
Sourced : France24 Italy, Israel, Greece and Cyprus pledged Monday to move ahead with the world’s longest undersea gas pipeline from the eastern Mediterranean to southern Europe, with support from the European Union. If carried out as planned, the long-discussed $6.2 billion pipeline would take gas from Israel and Cyprus’s recently discovered offshore gas reserves… Continue reading EU NATIONS, ISRAEL EYE LONGEST UNDERSEA GAS PIPELINE
RUSSIAN AISTRIKES HIT SYRIAN REBEL OUTPOST NEAR TURKISH BORDER
Sourced : Turkish Minute Jets believed to be Russian hit an outpost run by moderate rebel forces in northwestern Syria near a major border crossing with Turkey, Reuters reported on Sunday. According to rebel sources, at least one fighter was killed and several people were wounded after Russian jet raids overnight hit an outpost near… Continue reading RUSSIAN AISTRIKES HIT SYRIAN REBEL OUTPOST NEAR TURKISH BORDER
CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS OF THE RUSSIAN DUMA CONCERNED OVER “A SMALL TURKEY” IN NORTHERN SYRIA
Sourced : Kom News Turkey’s military presence in Syria is worrying Russia, says Leonid Slutsky, Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs of the Russian Duma, in a press conference held in Moscow. “We know the situation in Northern Syria,” Slutsky said as quoted by Sputnik. “Turkish troops took al-Bab and they could take more land… Continue reading CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS OF THE RUSSIAN DUMA CONCERNED OVER “A SMALL TURKEY” IN NORTHERN SYRIA
EX-PENTAGON ADVISOR : “TURKEY HEADED TOWARDS CIVIL CONFLICT, IF NOT CIVIL WAR”
Sourced : Kom News Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and former Pentagon Staff Advisor Michael Rubin said that Turkey is headed towards “a prolonged period of civil conflict if not civil war,” in an interview with Firat News Agency (ANF) published on Wednesday. Answering a question on the 16 April referendum in Turkey,… Continue reading EX-PENTAGON ADVISOR : “TURKEY HEADED TOWARDS CIVIL CONFLICT, IF NOT CIVIL WAR”
TURKEY TO BUY 2 BATTERIES OF S-400 TRIUMF AIR DEFENCE SYSTEMS FROM RUSSIA
Sourced : Daily Sabah By Ali Ünal Turkey will buy two batteries of S-400 surface-to-air missile systems from Russia in order to fulfil the country’s urgent requirement, Daily Sabah learned from security sources. The procurement agreement will likely be concluded when the Russian and Turkish finance ministers complete the loan agreement, the sources also indicated.… Continue reading TURKEY TO BUY 2 BATTERIES OF S-400 TRIUMF AIR DEFENCE SYSTEMS FROM RUSSIA
TURKEY WILL NOT INTEGRATE S-400 MISSILE SYSTEMS INTO NATO STRUCTURE
Sourced : TASS Turkey has no plans to integrate Russian-made S-400 long-range antiaircraft missile systems into the NATO structure, if they are purchased, Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Isik said on Thursday. “The complexes that will be purchased won’t be integrated into the NATO system,” the defense minister was quoted by the TV Channel Haber 7… Continue reading TURKEY WILL NOT INTEGRATE S-400 MISSILE SYSTEMS INTO NATO STRUCTURE