The Russian army grouping in the Arctic will be strengthened by the end of 2015, said the country's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. “Currently, work is underway in this region to build up the aviation and air defense forces. By the end of the year, it is planned to complete the formation of the ship’s fighter and...
The American ground forces have a lot to learn from their Ukrainian counterparts, who are often more efficient at using American equipment than the Americans themselves. This was stated by the commander of the US Army in Europe Ben Hodges. According to him, he was amazed at the seriousness of the Ukrainian ...
The two women became the first graduates of the US Army Ranger School. They have successfully completed the world's most challenging military training program and earned the right to wear the patches of this elite unit. Initially, 19 entered the most difficult course of combat training, which started in April this year ...
232 new immigrants arrived this morning, August 18, to Israel from New York as part of the Nefesh be-nefesh (soul to soul) program. Among them are 59 young men who came to serve in the Israeli army. They will receive the status of a lone soldier, since everyone...
Following the completion of a series of training flights by the Israeli Air Force in Greece, joint exercises with American pilots as part of a squadron of F-15 all-weather tactical fighters have begun in recent days. We are talking about a joint exercise called “Red Flag” at Nellis Air Force Base...
The Supreme Court of Russia on Thursday will consider a class action lawsuit by lawyer, chairman of the Freedom of Information Foundation Ivan Pavlov, Russian journalists and activists against Vladimir Putin. The plaintiffs demand that the presidential decree, by which he classified the losses of Russian military personnel “in peacetime in...
The Federal Gazette of the US Government has published a full list of individuals and entities that have come under extended sectoral sanctions against Russia. Thus, the sanctions took effect. Ukraine's Ambassador to the United States Valeriy Chaly announced this on Facebook. To the extended sanctions list ...
As a result of repelling an attack by militants in the Starohnatovka area of the Donetsk region, the enemy was thrown back two to three kilometers. The head of the press service of the General Staff, Vladislav Seleznev, spoke about this. “In certain areas there was a very serious situation, there was close combat, that is, in some places the distance between...
“With tensions between Moscow and the West steadily rising, Russia has announced a $60 billion military overhaul as it faces the threat of NATO missiles and air strikes,” Mark Bennetts tells The Times readers. “Now under unified leadership...
The Air Force of Russia and the Aerospace Defense Forces are united in a new type of the Armed Forces - the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation. The new structure includes all types of aviation, air defense and missile defense forces, as well as units of space forces responsible for launching and managing the military ...