Ukraine confirmed its readiness to cooperate with Thailand in armored vehicles production, particularly with the transfer of technology for producing BTR-3E1 armored personnel carriers. On Friday, the government announced the venture on the official website of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC).

During the meeting of First Deputy Secretary of the NSDC Oleg Gladkovsky with the official delegation of the Ministry of Defense of Thailand, headed by Deputy Minister Udomdej …

Latvia wants to become a participant in the “New Silk Road” transport project, taking into account the Russian company Transneft’s decision to stop exporting petroleum products through seaports in the Baltic States by 2018. This opinion was expressed by the president of the Baltic Association — Transport and Logistics (BATL), Inga Antāne, in an interview with Latvian television.

Antāne has high expectations for the upcoming November summit in Riga between the heads of the central and eastern …

NATO was surprised that Russia attacked Ukraine like it did, according to the former NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, as stated in an interview with Radio Liberty.

"I don't think that we could have foreseen this. We were very surprised that Russia attacked Ukraine like it did. When I think about it in retrospect, I believe that in 2008, three months before Russia’s attack on Georgia, the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, told us everything," Rasmussen said in …

Russian authorities easily “appoint” enemies and friends for the country, and its citizens are very vulnerable to the Kremlin’s opinion. This was the view expressed by Ukraine’s Ambassador to the Republic of Latvia, Yevhen Perebyinis.

According to him, in most cases the authorities are to blame for the conflicts between countries.

“Today, the results of the survey show that nearly half see Ukraine as Russia’s enemy. That raised the question of why people who consider themselves brothers to …

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization will deploy a new group of rapid response forces to the Baltic region in May 2017. The Chairman of the NATO Military Committee and Chief of the General Staff of the Czech Army, Petr Pavel, stated that some divisions will come to the site earlier than the main group. The statement was made following the results of the NATO Committee meeting in Split, Croatia, the Wall Street Journal notes.

There, the military leadership of the Alliance discussed the terms …