Contents tagged with USA
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Putin considers large-scale military actions in Syria unnecessary
There is every reason to believe that there will be no need for large-scale military actions in Syria, said Russian President Vladimir Putin at his meeting with the Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.
According to Putin, the Turkish side takes their obligations of the de-escalation zone operations in Idlib seriously. Ankara contributes to the withdrawal of both militants and heavy weapons.
“We work in solidarity with the Turkish partners. We see that they are also serious about fulfilling …
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Ukrainian President submits bill to extend ‘special status’ of Donbas
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is proposing to extend the law “On a special order of local self-governance in the separate regions of the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces”.
Poroshenko submitted bill No. 9153 to the Verkhovna Rada on Wednesday.
The document’s text has not yet been published on the official parliament website, but the title indicates that an amendment will be made to article 1 of the law.
The law came into force on October 18, 2014, and its first article envisaged three …
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Washington: Russian hackers preparing to attack the US energy systems
Russian hackers are actively exploring computer networks of the US energy infrastructure are capable of creating failures in US industrial systems, said Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen in Washington during the summit on cyber security.
"They conduct research. They want to know how everything works. It can be said that they are exploring the battlefield for future interference and cyber-attacks. We often detect them scanning our systems,” the Voice of America cites the Secretary …
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India to purchase S-400 anti-aircraft systems from Russia for $5 billion
India agreed to purchase five regiments of S-400 Triumf air defense systems from Russia worth about five billion dollars, stated Yuri Ushakov, Aide to the President of the Russian Federation, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports. The systems can be delivered in October after the agreement is officially signed during the Russian President’s visit to New Delhi.
At the end of July, Reuters reported that the USA opened the way for India to avoid sanctions for purchasing Russian military industrial products. …
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Kremlin: Russia completed delivery of S-300 missile systems to Syria
Russia completed the delivery of the S-300 antiaircraft system to Syria despite Israel's protests and Washington's fears that the delivery of the anti-aircraft system will strengthen Iran and will lead to an escalation of the Syrian conflict.
“The work was completed one day ago,” Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu reported to President Vladimir Putin during a meeting, a fragment of which was broadcast on the Russa-24 state-run TV channel. Shoygu added that anti-aircraft systems will serve …
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Kremlin promises to respond if US interfere with Russian trade in Middle East
A naval blockade of Russia would lead to an escalation with the USA, stated Russia's State Duma Committee on International Affairs member Anton Morozov. “We are concerned that our partners again turn to the threats, sanctions and unfriendly acts instead of agreeing on current international problems. Of course, we would have a response for it,” he says.
According to Morozov, to maintain security and peace, Russia advocates normal mutual understanding and dialogue to “deal with all challenges …
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Ukrainian politician: it would take at least 10 months to deploy UN Peacekeepers to Donbas
If the UN General Assembly adopts such a resolution, UN peacekeepers will arrive in the Donbas no earlier than 10 months after the decision is made, said Yevhen Marchuk, Ukraine’s representative to the security subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk, 112 Ukraine reports.
“Even if at this session a decision was made to send [them], according to my experience, the peacekeepers could de facto arrive in Ukraine after 10 months, perhaps a bit later,” Marchuk observed.
According to him, …
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Poroshenko thanks Putin for 'European' Ukraine
Ukraine will never return to the “Russian Empire,” Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko stated in an interview with CNN. According to him, it is Russian President Vladimir Putin who made Ukraine a more “European country” because during the conflict in the Donbas, the level of support of European integration among the population grew from 33% to 74%.
“Who did this? Putin. So, thank you Mr. Putin for making my country much more European and much more ready to protect European values, …
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United States to stop using Russian rocket engines
The United States plans to stop using Russian RD-180 rocket engines within five years period, which they have been buying since 1997.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the company Blue Origin, owned by the Amazon’s founder billionaire Jeffrey Bezos, received a contract to supply replacement for Russian power plants. It will supply the new BE-4 engines for the next-generation Vulcan launches vehicles made by the United Launch Alliance (ULA). The company scheduled first launch in 2020. …
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Kyiv: Ukraine to reinforce its Azov Sea flotilla with American boats
Two Island-class patrol boats given to Ukraine by the US will be rearmed and sent to the Sea of Azov, Verkhovna Rada First Deputy Chairwoman Iryna Herashchenko wrote on Facebook.
“The US has given Ukraine two Island-class boats which will be fitted with weapons. They are ideally suited, among other things, to reinforcing Ukraine’s military presence in the Sea of Azov… They will serve our Navy for another 25-30 years, and will protect and patrol Ukrainian waters, even Ukrainian Crimea, I …