Turkey has to decide by the end of July what it will buy: Russian S-400 anti-aircraft systems or American fifth-generation F-35 fighter-bombers. Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan put forward this ultimatum in a letter to his Turkish counterpart Akar Hulusi, BBC writes. By…
Saudi Arabia and its allies have supplied militants associated with the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda, Salafi groups and other criminal groups waging the war in Yemen with American weapons, in violation of their agreements with the United States. According to CNN, the weapons fell into the hands of fighters fighting ...
Representatives of the Russian foreign policy department are alarmed by the plans to supply lethal weapons of American production to Ukraine. This was stated by State Secretary - Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Grigory Karasin in an interview with the Russian news agency. According to the Voice of America, the Russian diplomat stressed that the recent decision ...
The Armed Services Committee of the US Congress approved the allocation of $200 million to supply weapons to the Ukrainian army and to train military personnel “resisting Russian aggression.” 60 committee members voted for this decision, 2 voted against. In May, this issue will be considered by the whole...
Republican senators have submitted to the US Congress a bill that grants the American president the right to decide on the supply of defense weapons to Ukraine. This was reported on the website of the TV channel "TSN". This bill was initiated by a senior Republican on the Congressional Senate Armed Services Committee ...
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called on NATO countries to supply weapons to Kiev, saying in a newspaper interview that civilian casualties and the escalating conflict give the Western alliance ample reason to come to Ukraine's aid. Senior officials in the Obama administration said Monday ...
The United States believes that economic sanctions remain the best way to influence Russia in the wake of the Ukraine crisis, and that supplying weapons to Kiev does not guarantee a solution to the problem. This was stated by Ben Rhodes, Deputy White House National Security Advisor. “We still believe ...