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Ukraine signs arms memorandum with Pakistan for $600 million
On Wednesday, November 23, Ukraine signed an arms memorandum for $600 million with Pakistan, according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s press service.
The Memorandum of Cooperation was signed by Pavlo Bukin, the Director General of the state company "Ukrspecexport" and the Chairman of the Heavy Industries Taxila Pakistani Corporation, Syed Wajid Hussain. The arrangements concern the maintenance and modernization of tanks. In the 1990s, Ukraine sold three hundred and twenty T-80UD tanks to …
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Russian FSB detains former naval officer who is accused of passing information to Ukrainian intelligence
A former Russian officer of the Black Sea Fleet has been detained by the FSB in the Crimean city of Sevastopol for allegedly providing information to Ukrainian intelligence agencies, TASS reported.
"On November 22, Russia’s Federal Security Service detained a former officer of the Black Sea Fleet headquarters, reserves Captain II rank Leonid Parkhomenko," a source told the Russian news agency.
"Parkhomenko was fulfilling tasks given to him by the Ukrainian military intelligence, and provided …
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Russia’s Defense Ministry has buried nearly a thousand soldiers in three years
According to representatives from the Russian Defense Ministry, the burial costs of active military personnel “does not exceed 0.25%.” Most of the money was spent to pay for the funeral of the Great Patriotic War veterans and military retirees.
The Ministry of Defense originally provided other data that showed that funeral costs for active personnel amounted to not more than 5% of the RUB 20.9 billion, but later the department announced it was a typo. Taking into account the typo, the number …
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EU transferred equipment worth 2.2 million Euros to Ukraine to strengthen Belarusian-Ukrainian border
On Tuesday, the Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine transferred technical equipment and transport vehicles, worth €2.2 million, to the country’s State Border Guard Service to aid in strengthening their border with Belarus.
According to the website of the State Border Guard Service, this technical assistance is part of the second phase of the SURCAP international project, which aims to strengthen the capacities of the border agencies of Ukraine and Belarus by protecting their common …
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SBU: Russia is attempting to destabilize the situation in Ukraine
Russian security services are trying to destabilize the situation in Ukraine, creating so-called pseudo-territorial communities, as reported by Colonel Stepan Greschuk, the head of the Main Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) for the Kyiv region, in an interview with the newspaper, Segodnya.
Greschuk noted that the establishment of these sort of communities has nothing to do with the laws of Ukraine on local self-government or on the distribution of powers between central and …