In an interview with Radio Liberty, first Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk claimed that First General-Secretary of the CPSU (Communist Part of the USSR) Central Committee Nikita Khrushchev literally forced Ukraine to take the Crimea in 1954.  According to Kravchuk, the residents of the peninsula met Khrushchev in tears prior to the adoption of this decision.

"’Nikita Sergeyevich, we cannot live here, we do not know how to work here, it's not ours, take us away from here.’ Khrushchev, …

About 10,000 Crimeans were called for military service in the Russian army over the past three years, as evidenced by the data published in a report by a Crimean human rights group.

“The number of Crimeans called up for service in the Russian army significantly increased in 2017.  In 2016, about 3,100 people and a little less than 5,000 recruits from the Crimea were sent to the Russian military in 2017. The total number of recruits called up by the Armed Forces of Russia is about 10,000 …

In an interview with the WarGonzo project, the president of the self-proclaimed South Ossetia, Anatoliy Bibilov, admitted that during almost every trip to the DPR (Donetsk People’s Republic) he visits the front line and advises "volunteers" on the front line.  

"As for my visit to the front line... I actually go there on almost every visit, especially when it concerns those guys from South Ossetia, and neighbors [in the Caucasus region] overall. Of course, I care about Ossetians. I'm …

The former first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk said in an interview with Radio Liberty that in order to stop the war that Russia is waging against Ukraine, a direct agreement is needed between the leaders of both states.

"It is necessary, first of all, no matter how difficult it is, to achieve a meeting at the level of the Russian and Ukrainian authorities, one on one. What is happening in the Donbas is the hand of the Kremlin, and until we agree with Russia... [about what] we can do, …

The Russian Federation has established an ad-hoc agency to “ensure sustainable development” of the industrial-defense complex and stable production of a state defense order “under the expected strengthening of unlawful sanctions by the United States,” Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said.

According to Rogozin, the headquarters was formed based on the Military-Industrial Commission (VPK) established in 2014 “to implement state policy in the industrial defense and to oversee the …

In 2018, the Russian Ministry of Defense will adopt Drel (“drill”) 500 kg gliding bomb cartridges, Techmash CEO Vladimir Lepin told Interfax in an interview.

“State tests of the new basic model of a gliding bomb cartridge with a 500 kg caliber, equipped with  self-targeting combat elements, began in 2016. The state tests are being carried out according to the client’s program (the Russian Defense Ministry), and after they are completed successfully in 2018, there are plans to adopt this item …

The attack of drones on Russian military facilities in Syria, is believed to be the work of US special services, as stated by the first Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security, Franz Klintsevich to RIA Novosti.

On Monday, January 8th, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the militants operating in Syria had access to advanced technologies that allow drones to drop professionally assembled explosives precisely on assigned coordinates at a distance of up …

On December 2, 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin assigned the grade rank of Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, Third Class (corresponding to the rank of Major-General) to 27-year-old Inal Ardzinba, who is wanted in Ukraine on charges of terrorism, reported the Russian news agency Sputnik.

Ardzinba is the head of the Department of the Presidential Administration for Social and Economic Cooperation with the CIS member states, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Ardzinba has been …