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Passenger plane disappears from radar over Ukraine, reappears near Moscow
A mysterious and potentially tragic incident occurred today in the air over Ukraine.
Volunteers and amateurs monitoring flights in real time through the FlightRadar portal sounded the alarm after observing the strange and dangerous behavior of VIM Airlines flight NN346 traveling from Simferopol to Moscow.
The airplane, immediately after takeoff, suddenly went off course. It was headed towards Krasnodar, then turned over Kuban, crossed the Ukranian border and went straight into the ATO zone …
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OSCE Observers Fired upon near Kominternovo
Members of a special OSCE monitoring mission in Ukraine were fired upon near the settlement of Kominternovo in the Volnovakhsky district of the Donetsk region, as reported by the Press Service of the SMM on Sunday evening.
The incident occurred on Sunday, December 27th, at around 11:20. The observers’ cars came under fire by small arms munitions and were forced to return to the separatist-controlled Donetsk region. No members of the mission were injured in the attack.
"Today, December 27, 20 …
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Ankara looking to improve relations with Moscow
The Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs said in Antalya that his country is making efforts to resolve the conflict with Russia. At the same time, President Erdogan has criticized Moscow's policy in Syria.
Turkey has made considerable efforts to restore relations with Russia, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, on Sunday, December 27th during his visit to the Russian Cultural Society in Antalya. "We are making great efforts to work through this stage. The time …
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Taliban denies cooperation with Russia in fight against Islamic State
Al Jazeera reported that the Taliban denies allegations that it is cooperating with Russia in the fight against the so-called Islamic State.
“We can destroy the Islamic State without any help from anyone. We are having talks but not about the fight against the Islamic State. We want foreign forces out of our country, that is what we are talking about at the moment,” a Taliban representative stated.
He also noted that the number of Islamic State fighters isn’t significant in Afghanistan and it …
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9 Killed as Russian Aircraft Bomb Syrian School
The Russian Air Force carried out another raid on the Syrian city of Idlib. Nine people were killed, including children while 11 more were wounded. A representative of the civil defense forces of the area, Dzhardzhanaz Mahmoud Dagim, reported that the local school building was bombed.
This is not the first Russian air raid on Idlib. On December 20th, dozens of people were killed as Russia carried out air strikes on the marketplace as well as several administrative and residential buildings. …