McFaul's publication sparked a lively discussion, including provocative statements by users with Russian profile names.
The radar will improve RAF and NATO understanding of the airspace north of Britain and further out across the Norwegian Sea, improving the UK's sovereign capability at a time of heightened Russian military activity.
Russia’s aggression in Ukraine remains the biggest threat to European security, and demands continued transatlantic unity in confronting that threat, U.S. State Secretary Rex Tillerson has told a press conference in Brussels where a NATO foreign ministers’ meeting was held, VOA reports.
Russia began early preparations for aggression against Ukraine and started amassing a military grouping along Ukraine borders after the war in Georgia, former head of the Main Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (2008-2010) and ex-chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Service (2014-2016) Viktor Gvozd told a Kyiv press conference Monday.
Given that Vladimir Putin very much hopes to get a new political boost like the one he received following the Crimean Anschluss, there is “a high degree of probability” that he will seek to incorporate into the Russian Federation a portion of some other post-Soviet state, EuromaidanPress reported citing a Moscow-based blogger.
Jim Inhofe, the senior United States senator from Oklahoma and a member of the Republican Party, has visited the Oklahoma National Guard in Ukraine and has written a letter addressing U.S. President Donald Trump over the Ukrainian issue, according to the Ukrainian service of Voice of America (VoA).
A group of European Parliament deputies from the Czech Republic sent a letter to the President of the country, Milos Zeman, appealing that he apologize to Ukraine for his recent statements, according to Radio Svoboda.
Russia's hybrid military forces on Sunday, October 8, resorted to proscribed weapons near the village of Shyrokyne close to the Ukrainian-controlled strategic port city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters.
International community should not turn a blind eye to the actions of aggressor states, including Russia, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite said at the General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly September 19, 2017.
United States Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations Kurt Volker believes the Russian aggression in Ukraine has failed to reach its goals, having the opposite effect, according to an UNIAN correspondent, reporting from the 14th Yalta European Strategy Annual Meeting (YES) in Kyiv on September 16.
Russia is preparing to send as many as 100,000 troops to the eastern edge of NATO territory at the end of the summer, one of the biggest steps yet in the military buildup undertaken by President Vladimir Putin and an exercise in intimidation that recalls the most ominous days of the Cold War, according to The New York Times.
Thousands of followers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate, led by Ukrainian Patriarch Filaret, performed a traditional cross-bearing procession in Kyiv on July 28 to mark the Day of the Christianization of Kievan Rus, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
The latest observations by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine near Novoazovsk, Donetsk region, on numeroues “military type” vehicles moving near the checkpoint, along with statements from the Ukrainian Armed Forces and social media reports within a few days of the SMM’s report, indicate a possible Russian military buildup along Ukraine’s eastern border, the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab wrote in a report titled “Crossing In Plain Sight.”
Ukraine's First Deputy Defense Minister Ivan Rusnak estimates total losses from the destruction of infrastructure in war-torn Donbas caused by Russian aggression are estimated at about US$50 billion, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has announced the death toll of the Armed Forces of Ukraine since the beginning of the war in Donbas in 2014, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
U.S. senators have announced a bipartisan agreement on legislation to impose new sanctions on Russia over human rights abuses, for arming Syria, and for allegedly meddling in the U.S. presidential election, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL).
Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak assures there are no plans to retake Russian-occupied areas in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, using military means, according to the Ukrainian-language service of Germany's Deutsche Welle.
Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Viktor Muzhenko says NATO and the EU have offered Ukraine non-standard approaches to counter Russian aggression.
Ukraine's Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters has reported escalation in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, as Russia's hybrid military forces attacked Ukrainian troops 50 times in the past day, resulting in one killed in action and nine wounded in action.
Congress has authorized a new $100 million effort to counter "Russian influence and aggression" and to support civil society organizations in Europe and Eurasia, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) says it will issue a ruling on April 19 on Kyiv’s bid to block Russia from sending money, weapons, and troops to eastern Ukraine, according to Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL).
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has thanked the European People's Party (EPP) for an emergency resolution on the long-term support plan for Ukraine, which was adopted at the EPP Congress in St. Julian's, Malta, held on March 29-30, 2017.