Lithuanian Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis discharged the Commander of the Air Force of the country, Colonel Audronis Navickas, due to his intent to repair military helicopters in Russia, as reported by Delfi.

The Minister made this decision based on the results of an official investigation. The Air Force commander was dismissed from his duties at the beginning of the investigation a few months ago.

As a result of the Minister’s decision, the Colonel is on a temporary reserve list of …

Chechen soldiers sent to Aleppo must "make contact" with the population of Syria, said the head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, during TV program "Pravda Gurnova" (“Gurnov’s Truth”) on Russia's NTV TV channel.

"They not only have the theory, but also the experience. They know how to identify, know how to find a common language with the people. Based on this, they were chosen in keeping with the work that has been carried out,” he said.

According to him, before they to go to Syria, …

Ukraine's Foreign Ministry sent a request to the Foreign Ministry and the Interior Ministry of Russia to confirm information they received about the presence of Ukrainian citizens among the detained members of the criminal group "Khimprom." This was posted on Saturday, February 11th, on the Facebook page of the Department of Consular Service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.

"The requests addressed to the Foreign Ministry and the investigative department of the Interior Ministry of Russia …

The Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Alexander Hug, stated that the number of ceasefire violations in the Donbas has decreased but still remains high.

“The number of violations has significantly decreased in recent days but it still remains unacceptably high. From midnight on February 9 to midnight February 10, the OSCE mission recorded 460 violations of the ceasefire, with 55 violations in Luhansk region alone,” Hug said at a press conference …

The Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security, Viktor Ozerov, stated that Russia will put the air defense systems of the Crimea on high combat alert during the Ukrainian missile firing exercises, RIA Novosti reported. “All our intelligence and air defense systems will be put on high combat alert in order to avoid any missiles accidentally hitting our territory,” Ozerov said.

According to him, Russia does not consider these firing exercises as a threat because the …

Lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, representing the interests of ex-CIA employee and notorious whistleblower Edward Snowden said that there was no merit to the information from western media that Moscow is considering Snowden’s extradition to the USA as a present to President Trump.

“Russia has no legal basis for extraditing Snowden. All these talks are simple speculations. This is someone’s wishful thinking,” Kucherena told Interfax on Saturday, February 12. “Someone in Washington, in the USA really …

Iran will continue to allow Russian military aircraft to pass through Iranian airspace on their way to and from Syria.

“We uphold in this regard a close cooperation with Russia by opening the airspace of Iran," the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, Ali Shamkhani, said on Saturday, February 11th.

Shamkhani also noted that Russian aircraft are allowed to use Iran’s Hamedan air base for refueling purposes.

The Secretary stated that such allowances entail complex …

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Pavlo Klimkin announced the creation of a Ukrainian Institute for Improvement of Image with representative offices in other countries. This Institute will monitor the public image of Ukraine.

“We have analyzed the experiences of European countries. This experience isn’t the same. However, how could the country present a positive image of itself abroad? Over the past three years, we have done impressive work. There are so many separate projects but we …