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US Defense Secretary advises Trump against cooperating with Russia in Syria
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter advised President-Elect Donald Trump not to cooperate with Russia in Syria, Rosbalt reported.
“The Russians said that they will fight against terrorism and help to remove Bashar al-Assad from power. Nothing has been done. Moreover, Moscow assists Damascus. It only fuels the civil war in the country,” Carter stated in an interview with CBS.
Carter opposes coordinating the actions of US and Russian forces in Syria. According to him, the US President should not …
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Kremlin spokesman: Russia and the US must cooperate to defeat international terrorism
According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, neither the US nor Russia can defeat terrorism on its own, and it is necessary for the two countries to pursue cooperation, TASS reported.
During a visit to New York to attend the World Chess Championship, Peskov said, “It is impossible to defeat terrorism on your own. It requires cooperation and we have been denied this cooperation. This is the absurdity of the situation.”
Peskov pointed to the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, saying, “Had the US …
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So-called DPR creates special police battalion to protect separatist leaders
The so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) announced the establishment of Bastion, a special police regiment, to provide security for the leaders of the self-proclaimed republic and particularly important objects, separatist online resources report.
The special unit will guard objects of important infrastructure of the DPR; be responsible for the security of valuable, important and dangerous goods such as money during transit; and ensure the personal security of the leaders of the self- …
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Putin: The Russian Army does not threaten anyone
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his surprise regarding the reaction of some of Russia’s western partners to the military exercises of the Russian Army.
“Our Army does not threaten anyone. I would like to stress it again, so that everyone hears, and not only those present in this conference hall,” he stated on Saturday while talking with the workers of the Russian Avtodiesel plant, which is situated in the city of Yaroslavl and is a part of Russian GAZ company.
“But it [the Army] …
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OSCE witnessed a significant increase in violence in eastern Ukraine
OSCE observers witnessed fierce fighting in the Donbas. In the three days from November 7 to November 9, more than 4,000 violations of the ceasefire were recorded, and over the past week, more than 7,000, as stated by the principal deputy chief monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, Alexander Hug, at a briefing in Kyiv, UNIAN reported.
“The security situation along the line of contact in eastern Ukraine remains unstable. Over the past few days SMM observers witnessed …