Contents tagged with USA

  • US warship entered the Black Sea

    The USS Carney, a US destroyer equipped with the Aegis missile defense system, has entered the Black Sea. This information was made available on the Twitter page of the Turkish Bosphorus Naval News Portal.

    This portal tracks the movement of ships through the Bosporus and the Dardanelles straits. The report said that “USS Carney is passing through Istanbul one day after the USS Mount Whitney left”.

    In June, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on the dangerously close encounter of the Russian …

  • The Russian Foreign Ministry responded to reports that their website was hacked

    The Russian Foreign Ministry’s website is operating normally and has not been compromised. The message from the TV channel CNN about the alleged hack was in reference to the old website, which is no longer in use. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, reported about this on October 23, 2016, TASS news agency reported.

    “The Russian Foreign Ministry’s website, which CNN reported had been hacked, worked and works normally. The website is subject to regular …

  • Peskov: Putin is ready to meet with Trump in Russia

    The Press Secretary for the President of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Peskov, said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to meet with the candidates for U.S. President, Interfax reports.

    "I want you to note the words of President Vladimir Putin. He is ready to welcome and communicate with any candidate who advocates for the development of relations and dialogue between our two countries. Russia is looking for good relations, seeking cooperation. Accordingly, Moscow is willing to …

  • US Republicans called on Obama to impose sanctions against Russia for violating the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty

    Chairmen from two committees of the US House of Representatives wrote a letter to the president of the United States asking him to impose sanctions against Russia for violating the treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation on the elimination of their intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles, and also to take reciprocal military steps.

    Its authors are both republican: Chairman of the House Committee on Armed Services Mac Thornberry and Chairman of the House Permanent …

  • US Air Force reconnaissance aircraft approached the borders of the Kaliningrad and Leningrad regions

    A U.S. Air Force strategic reconnaissance aircraft approached the borders of the Kaliningrad region and the Leningrad region on Tuesday, as reported by Interfax, citing websites that track the movement of military aircraft.

    It is noted that a RC-135W reconnaissance plane departed from the Mildenhall Air Base in the UK, followed a course along the Baltic coast of the Kaliningrad region to Estonia and into the Tartu district, where it also made a flight near the border of the Leningrad Region. A …

  • U.S. Navy ship entered the Black Sea

    On Monday, October 17, 2016, the USS Mount Whitney command ship of the US Navy entered the Romanian port of Constanta. According to Pentagon the pupose of the visit was to "strengthen the NATO cooperation in the Black Sea".

    "Strengthening alliances through port visits such as this reinforces the shared commitment to promote safety and stability within the region, while seeking opportunities to enhance interoperability with NATO allies and partners.," the statement of the U.S. Department of …

  • Russian Foreign Ministry: Moscow will respond to U.S. sanctions

    The possibility of U.S. sanctions against Russia due to the situation in Syria will not go without a response. The response may be symmetrical, the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, Sergei Ryabkov, told reporters. "Any hostile actions against Russia will not be left without a response," Ryabkov said, as quoted by Interfax.

    Ryabkov also said that "at different stages of the current sanctions policy (against Russia) Moscow has repeatedly warned that they will be answered though …

  • German politician warns of the danger of a conflict between Russia and the United States

    The Coordinator for Intersocietal Cooperation with Russia, Central Asia and the Eastern Partnership Countries, Gernot Erler, warned the United States and Russia against a possible military confrontation in Syria. "We are seeing a profound alienation between Russia and the West, and it is becoming more dangerous," the German politician said on Sunday, October 16, 2016 on the Berlin Direkt program on the socio-legal TV channel ZDF.

    As Erler said, there are serious discussions being carried out …

  • Putin hopes to improve relations with the United States after the presidential election

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he hopes US-Russian relations will improve after the US presidential election.

    “I hope that when this debate and this difficult period in the political life of the United States end, I hope that there will be chances to restore the relations of Russia and the United States," Putin said after the BRICS summit on Sunday, October 16.

    Putin also suggested that the United States is using the “tried and tested scheme” of diverting voters’ attention …

  • Media: U.S surveillance drone conducted aerial reconnaissance near the Crimea

    The RQ-4 Global Hawk strategic unmanned surveillance aircraft of the US Air Force has conducted a reconnaissance flight near the Crimea. It approached the peninsula from the side of Ukraine and the Black Sea. This was reported by Interfax news agency with reference to portals that track the movement of military aviation.

    According to the media, the unmanned  aircraft departed from the Sigonella airbase in Sicily and flew to the Crimea from the western side of the Black Sea at an altitude of 15, …