The supplies to Ukraine are part of the support that Washington provides to Kiev to protect the country's sovereignty from Russian aggression, the US Embassy said, DW writes. The United States supplied Ukraine with weapons and military equipment worth a total of $ 60 million, reported on Wednesday, June 17, ...

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) presented its next report on the global arms trade. It notes that the United States and Russia remain the largest exporters in this area. Since 2004, the volume of arms trade has grown steadily, and over the period ...

Earlier, the US Air Force Secretary said that Washington plans to increase its military presence in Eastern Europe by deploying F-22 fighters. Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov noted that there is a feeling that NATO colleagues are pushing Russia into an arms race. "NATO countries...

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 - ...