The Commander of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces Sergei Karakaev said that Russian Strategic Missile Forces will abandon all Soviet-made missile systems soon. More modern models will replace them, reports  the newspaper of the Russian Defense Ministry Krasnaya Zvezda.

"Today, the Strategic Missile Forces are at a historical stage, when the last Soviet-made missile systems are being withdrawn from service," said Karakaev.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry's website, the Strategic …

The US could impose sanctions on Ukraine’s state-owned defense conglomerate UkrOboronProm if the China-controlled company Skyrizon Aircraft Holdings Ltd. gains joint control over the company Motor Sich, said Yuriy Terentyev, head of the Anti-Monopoly Committee of Ukraine, in a broadcast of Radio NV.

“We could find ourselves in a completely absurd situation, if the Chinese party acquired control over this enterprise together with UkrOboronProm. The US could find confirmation that the Chinese …

Ukraine and Russia are discussing the possibility of Gazprom paying the $3 billion owed by it according to the Stockholm Arbitration Institute’s ruling using gas, said Naftogaz executive director Yuriy Vitrenko in a broadcast of Radio NV.

“[Russian Energy] Minister Novak, who was at the talks, admitted that they are discussing the matter of implementing the arbitration ruling by supplying the corresponding amount of gas. We see some progress in the public statements. We’re talking about $3 …

The US is preparing a “sanctions trick” against the Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, the German newspaper Bild reported on Saturday, citing sources and a speech given by James Risch, Chairman of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, at a security conference in Halifax.

The opponents of the pipeline’s construction plan to get sanctions imposed “in a roundabout way” on the European companies involved in the realization of the project.

Essentially, the sanctions against Gazprom’s …

An Aide to the Russian President Yuri Ushakov  said during the “Moscow.Kremlin.Putin” TV program that Russian and Ukrainian presidents Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky plan to meet during the Normandy Four Summit in Paris, but much will depend on the schedule.

"It all depends on how the situation will develop," said Ushakov, as quoted by Interfax.

Ushakov also added that the presidents "can step aside and talk for 30 minutes, or an hour and a half."

The Press Secretary of the Russian …

Despite the Russian president’s statement that Russian specialists have successfully completed the development of the latest hypersonic cruise missile Zircon, military experts from the Chinese publication Sina Military said that, in reality, the Russian missile is nothing but a smaller replica of China's DF-17 hypersonic missile, which has been in service with the Chinese Army for several years.

"When the Dongfeng 17 hypersonic missile (DF-17) was presented this year, 1.4 billion people and …

On November 30, Volodymyr Borodyansky, who heads the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, said in an interview to Mirror Weekly (Dzerkalo Tyzhnia) that the TV channel for residents of the Donbas areas that are not controlled by Ukraine will be launched in February 2020.

He specified that broadcasting of this TV channel would be carried out only in the territory of the Donbas. The new channel is created based on the UATV channel. Broadcasting will take place in Ukrainian and Russian …

The opening ceremony of the TurkStream gas pipeline, which Russia built to eliminate dependence on the Ukrainian gas transportation system (GTS), is scheduled for January 8, 2020.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced the opening date of the TiurkStream during the opening of the the Turkish-Azerbaijani TANAP gas pipeline.

The capacity of each of the two lines of the TurkStream will be 15.75 billion cubic meters. One line will be used for gas supplies to Turkish consumers. The …