• US State Department approves sale of Javelin missile systems to Ukraine

    The US Department of State has approved the sale of 37 Javelin anti-tank weapons systems and 210 missiles to Ukraine in exchange for $47 million, Radio Liberty reports.

    "The Javelin system will help Ukraine build its long-term defense capacity to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity in order to meet its national defense requirements. Ukraine will have no difficulty absorbing this system into its armed forces," the Pentagon's March 1 statement reads.

    The Department said that the …

  • Media: Russian hackers attacked German Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs

     Hacker group APT28, also known as Fancy Bear, has attacked the German Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs, reports news agency DPA citing sources in the defense sector. The magazine Focus carried the text from DPA. A number of companies in the cyber security field link APT28 with Russia.

    The agency’s source said that the attack was discovered in December 2017. It was done using malicious software, and the hackers stole valuable data. The source noted that the attack could have gone on …

  • Iraqi Ambassador: Baghdad has not yet negotiated purchase of S-400 missile systems from Russia

    Iraq’s ambassador to Russia, Haidar Mansour Hadi, denied reports of ongoing negotiations in Moscow concerning S-400 surface-to-air missile systems, RIA Novosti reports.

    “There is no delegation in Moscow to acquire the S-400 at the present time. When the government of Iraq decides to purchase the S-400, it will, of course, be announced, and there will be discussions held between the two countries,” Hadi said.

    At the same time, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said that Russia demonstrate …

  • Argentine police confirms authenticity of photo with Russian government plane being loaded with cocaine

    The photographs with the hull number of the plane from the Russia Special Flight Detachment in Buenos Aires are authentic, the Argentine Gendarmerie said on Tuesday, February 27.

    Earlier, official Russian Presidential Administration representative Elena Krylova said that the photographs are forgeries, and denied that the government airliner was involved in the “cocaine case”.

    “Journalists have drawn conclusions on the basis of unreliable information – in this case photographs which can be …

  • Polish Minister: there may be more than 2 million Ukrainian migrants in Poland

    Beata Kempa, Poland's Minister for Humanitarian Aid said that there may be more than 2 million Ukrainian migrants in Poland. 

    “According to our estimates, there may be more than two million Ukrainians in Poland. Of course, many of them stay here because of the conflict in Ukraine and this is the argument we want to present to the European Commission,” she said during an interview with Super Express in response to a question about the increasing number of immigrants from Eastern Europe and the …