The second batch of CV9035 infantry fighting vehicles, purchased in the Netherlands, arrived in Estonia, reports ERR.

On Saturday, more than ten CV9035 IFVs and three special-purpose armored vehicles modified from the Leopard 1 tank were delivered to the port of Paldiski.

The IFVs will be delivered to the military town of the First Infantry Brigade in Tapa, the press service of the General Staff of the Estonian Defense Forces said.

At the end of 2014, Estonia signed an agreement with the …

In his interview on NewsOne TV Channel, the ex-head of the Odessa Regional State Administration, Mikheil Saakashvili can be extradited from Ukraine as early as next week.  

According to Saakashvili, such a measure can be adopted if he chooses to return to Georgia instead of being expelled to Europe.

"They plan to throw me out of the country. They have a joint special operation of the Georgian special services, Russian special services and Ukrainian special services... If they even throw me …

Militants from the unrecognized Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DPR & LPR) are leaving en masse as “volunteers” to the war in Syria, where they will serve as cannon fodder, former DPR Defense Minister Igor Girkin (Strelkov) wrote on his VKontakte page.

“Molkino (a military base where the private military companies involved in combat operations in Syria are trained) is packed with former ‘corps’ fighters and other formations from the ‘separate regions’, who have retired for various …

The Latvian Social Democratic Workers’ Party (LSDWP) has prepared a petition calling for the adoption of a law that would give the Russian TV channels in the country the status of foreign agents, reported Russian newspaper Izvestiya.

The request was registered by LSDWP board member Raymond Leijnieks-Puke. According to the news outlet, the document was placed on the official social initiatives platform, where citizens can collect the necessary 10,000 signatures for the document to be …

US National Security Advisor Herbert McMaster promised that Washington will continue to supply the Ukrainian army with non-lethal weaponry.

According to him, the US should oppose Russia’s attempts to destabilize, while avoiding a global conflict.

He also emphasized that shipments of non-lethal aid will strengthen the defensive capabilities of Kyiv, which is doing a lot to implement reform.

“The Ukrainians are taking significant steps to implement government and military reform. The shipment …

On Saturday, a U.S. Navy anti-submarine aircraft made a reconnaissance flight near the Crimean peninsula on the Black Sea, reports Interfax, citing aviation websites.

According to their information, the U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft, with tail number 168437 and call sign PS026, departed from the Naval Air Base Sigonella on the Italian island of Sicily and patrolled in the area to the southwest of Sevastopol for several hours.

After taking off from Italy, the plane’s route took it over …

In Syria, as a result of the bombing that was carried out on December 3 by the Syrian military aircraft with the support of the Russian warplanes, at least 19 civilians were killed in the area of East Ghouta, located near the capital of Damascus, reports DW, citing as a source the Syrian Monitoring Center for Human Rights Observance.

According to observers, the air strikes were inflicted on several cities in Eastern Ghouta. Most of the victims of the bombings were in the city of Hammuria, …

On December 1, Ukraine transferred its last due payment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2017 at $169 million, while overall it paid $1.268 billion this year, Ukrainski Novyny reports citing  the press service of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU).

According to the schedule of debt owed to the IMF, on December 1, Ukraine repaid 114.3 million Special Drawing Rights or SDRs that amount to $169 million. In total, in 2017 Ukraine paid 858.7 million SDRs worth $1.3 billion.

Meanwhile, …