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Finland expresses regret after its warship entered Russian territorial waters
Finland has expressed regret after its warship by mistake entered the Russian territorial waters, reports the Finnish Navy.
The incident happened on August 1 in the Eastern part of the Gulf of Finland. The Hämeenmaa gunboat entered Russian waters at about 600 m, realized the mistake, immediately left the territory and reported the incident. After that, Helsinki contacted the Russian authorities and expressed regret.
In September 2018, the Finnish authorities, in turn, suspected a Russian ship …
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Massive explosion rocks Syrian Shayrat airbase
A massive explosion rocked Syrian Shayrat airbase in the Homs province. According to the Syrian News Agency SANA, the cause of the incident was “a technical fault”.
According to Syrian sources, about 30 Syrian soldiers, including army officers, were killed.
However, other sources report that "the explosion occurred due to an error while handling outdated weapons".
The Syrian media stress that the incident is not a terrorist attack.
The Shayrat airport is a strategically important base for …
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Kyiv: most of Donbas residents who received Russian passports have been identified
Most of the residents of the Donbas who received the Russia passports have already been identified, Ukrainian Chief Military Prosecutor Anatoly Matios told NV.ua news outlet. According to him, more than 13,000 people have already received the Russian passports.
"We have a complete picture. We have, during the investigation, identified all those who received such citizenship in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions - these are big numbers. ...... At the moment, we have information about more than 13,0 …
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Ukrainian Defense Ministry receives seized Russian surface-to-air missile system
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) together with the Main Military Prosecutor's Office, Ukraine’s national defense corporation Ukroboronservice and the Mykolayiv Customs Service have handed over the Russian anti-aircraft missile system S-125 Pechora to Ukrainian Defense Ministry, reports SBU press service.
During the investigation, SBU established that between 2007-2010, the officials of Russia’s national defense corporation Rosoboronexport , with the help of other individuals, illegally …
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Russian S-400 missiles systems acquired by Turkey will not be integrated into NATO air defense system
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that the Alliance has no plans to integrate Russian s-400 missile systems purchased by Turkey into its missile defense system.
The Alliance has repeatedly stated that the S-400 is incompatible with NATO's air and missile systems.
"Our answer is no. There are no plans to integrate Russian S-400 systems into a single anti-aircraft and anti-missile system," Stoltenberg told reporters in Brussels.
Earlier, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said …
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Japan condemns Russian Prime Minister's visit to Kuril Islands
The visit of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to the Kuril Islands damages Russian-Japanese relations, and Tokyo opposes Moscow's actions, reads the statement of the Japanese Foreign Ministry.
"After the war, the territorial dispute with the Soviet Union and Russia was not resolved, even though more than 70 years have passed. In such circumstances, the visit of the Russian Prime Minister to the Northern territories (the Japanese description of the Southern Kuril Islands) is condemned by …
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Russia demands that Turkey complies with Syrian agreements
The head of the Russian Center for reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria, Major General Alexei Bakin said that Russia expects Turkey to fully comply with the agreements on the withdrawal of troops and weapons from the demilitarized zone in response to the initiative of the Syrian authorities on a complete ceasefire in the de-escalation zone in Idlib, reports TASS news agency.
"We expect the Turkish side to fully implement the Sochi agreements within 24 hours in response to the Syrian …
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Media: 'President' of self-proclaimed Transnistria is Ukrainian citizen
Vadim Krasnoselsky, the President of unrecognized Transnistria, is a citizen of Ukraine, and he has visited Ukraine using a Ukrainian passport, reports Rise Moldova news outlet.
State Border Guard Service of Ukraine confirms this information.
Major-General Krasnoselsky was the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Transnistria until 2016. For the last eight years, he was on a wanted list in Moldova. At the same time, almost every month he entered and left Ukraine using passports of …
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Ukrainian ambassador: Jewish organizations facilitated US’s recognition of Holodomor as genocide
For a long time, opposition from Jewish organizations prevented the US from recognizing the Holodomor as a genocide of the Ukrainian people. However, Ukrainian diplomats and the diaspora have succeeded in convincing them peacefully, said Ukrainian Ambassador to the US Valeriy Chaly in an interview with Ukrinform.
“The idea was primarily to explain the significance of this matter to our partners from Jewish organizations in the US, from other diasporas. You know that at the time, they were wary …
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Kremlin: Russia offers NATO a moratorium on deployment of intermediate range missiles
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that Moscow would like to offer the United States and NATO to declare a moratorium on the deployment of missiles of the shorter and medium range following the example of Russia, reports TASS news agency.
"We offered the United States and other NATO countries to discuss the possibility of declaring the same moratorium on the deployment of medium-range and shorter-range weapons, as the moratorium declared by Vladimir Putin," Ryabkov said. The …