The White House said on Wednesday that it is "quite clear" that Russia and the separatists in eastern Ukraine are not honoring the terms of the ceasefire agreement signed last week in Minsk. The US administration warned that in such a situation “they risk facing more ...
Lithuania is calling on other states to help arm the Ukrainian army, which is fighting Russian-backed separatists in the east of the country, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said Wednesday. The minister also said that Lithuania, whenever possible, supports the Ukrainian army, but he specifically ...
The approval of the new State Armaments Program (GPV) is postponed from 2015 to 2018. Until now, the cost of purchasing equipment for the army, along with social costs, remained an inviolable budget item. At different levels - in the Kremlin, in the government, in the Ministry of Defense - ...
Photos from social networks The name of one of the dead Ukrainian soldiers who defended the Donetsk airport and received the name "cyborgs" for their courage was identified by a personal badge. Yatsina Evgeniy Viktorovich, born on January 25, 1989, previously studied at the Kiev National Linguistic University at the Economic ...
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko volunteered to become an intermediary between the Ukrainian military and separatists in Donbass to end the fighting in Debaltseve. He proposed "to withdraw all the servicemen of Ukraine from there under our guarantees that they will never fight again." “If someone is strained by the weapons that Ukrainian military personnel possess today, ...
“The withdrawal of troops from Debaltseve is carried out in a planned and organized manner,” the commander of the Donbass battalion said on his Facebook page. “All the fairy tales about control over Logvinovo turned out to be fairy tales - the pumpkin did not turn into a carriage. We do not control the Debaltsevo-Artemovsk highway precisely because of Logvinovo.…
According to the document, in 2015, regular conscriptions of citizens for urgent military service will take place in April-May and October-November. For compulsory military service, men fit for health reasons will be called up for military service in peacetime, male citizens of Ukraine, who by the day of departure ...
In the army, the number of cases where soldiers escaped from military units has doubled, and the number of malingerers evading military service has tripled. This is stated in the Rosstat report, which was at the disposal of Kommersant - they cover 2013 and the first...
On March 18, demobilization from the Armed Forces of Ukraine will begin, primarily of those military personnel who have served for almost a year. This was announced by Deputy Head of the Information Technology Department of the Ministry of Defense Sergei Galushko. He said: “The demobilization process will begin on March 18. The approaches are as follows: a person must...