Two Russian Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bombers were intercepted by the fighter jets of the British Air Force. The bombers flew near the British borders without entering the country's air space, the British Ministry of Defense reported on Twitter.

"We can confirm that quick reaction alert Typhoon aircraft from RAF Lossiemouth intercepted two Russian Blackjack bombers and escorted them while they were in the UK area of interest. At no point did the Russian aircraft enter UK territorial airspace", …

Estonia has always supported establishing a relationship with Russia, stated Jürgen Ligi, the minister of foreign affairs of the Baltic Republic, in an interview with the TC channel RTV.

According to Ligi, Estonia hardly needs to fear attacks from Russia because Russian authorities realize the pointlessness of such a move.

“We have already done much for it. We have already brought defense spending to such a level where [we have a strong] collective defense. Both Vladimir Putin and Russia are …

The new 150th Motorized Rifle Division in the Rostov region will be fully formed by December 2016. In addition, it will begin receiving arms and military equipment from October. This was reported by TASS, citing a source in the Russian Defense Ministry.

According to the source, commanders of the division's units and subunits have already been appointed and the unit is now being staffed with contract soldiers.

“The construction of infrastructure facilities in the deployment areas is in its …

Russia has intensified the operational and combat training of its Strategic Nuclear Forces. This was posted by the press service of the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine on Facebook.

“Between the 19th and the 22nd of September, command and staff training of the 33 Missile Army (Omsk) of the Strategic Rocket Forces of the Armed Forces of Russia was being implemented. The purpose of the training was to determine the readiness of the Strategic Rocket Forces ( …

NATO declined Russia's proposal to always have the transponders turned on when flying over the Baltic region. This was reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing sources in the Alliance.

“This proposal will do little to improve air safety and will not help in stopping Russian aircraft from flying dangerously close to the ships and aircraft of the Western allies,” the source said.

Moscow discussed this issue during the Russia-NATO Council meeting in July. Then, NATO Secretary General Jens …

The Head of the CIA unit that watches Russia, Peter Klement, stated that the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, is concerned that instability and unrest will prevail in Russia, the Voice of America reported. Klement believes that Putin is likely to present his candidacy for elections in 2018 and will initiate a more severe style of governance because of that concern.

Klement made particular mention of reports regarding the possible major reorganization of the Russian Special …

Washington and Moscow are trying to make sense of the circumstances of the military operation in which dozens of Syrian servicemen were killed. A few days have passed since the U.S. Air Force’s botched air strike and there is still no clear understanding of who those targets were and why Russia didn’t warn the United States about the presence of Syrian soldiers in the strike area, information that only came to light after the operation was concluded.

U.S. representatives stated that they …

The Trilateral Contact Group, which was created to settle the conflict in eastern Ukraine, agreed on a "withdrawal of troops and weapons" by all parties to the conflict in the Donbas region, as stated on Wednesday, September 21, 2016, by Daria Olifer, Press Secretary of the Ukrainian representative to the group, Leonid Kuchma, on her Facebook page. This information was confirmed by the Special Representative of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Martin Sajdik. …