Author: Steven Sahiounie

According to Acting Governor Yevgeny Balitsky, the enemy does not have enough forces to advance in the area Russian forces have repelled an attack by two Ukrainian assault brigades in the Zaporozhye Region, Acting Governor Yevgeny Balitsky said. “The enemy sent two assault brigades to attack our positions near the Staromayorskoye settlement in the Vremevka area. Our troops pushed the enemy back. The enemy suffered significant troop losses,” he wrote on Telegram. According to Balitsky, the enemy does not have enough forces to advance in the area. “Our defenses are strong; our troops are well-trained and have high morale,” he…

Poland claims more than 100 members of the private military company have been deployed near the border with Belarus The Wagner private military company is preparing a “hybrid attack” on Polish territory from Belarus, Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has claimed. “According to our information, more than a hundred Wagner group mercenaries have moved out towards the Suwalki Gap near Grodno in Belarus,” Morawiecki said during a press conference on Saturday. The Suwalki Gap is an area immediately southwest of the border between Lithuania and Poland, which separates Belarus from the Russian Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad. The alleged move…

Earlier, media outlets reported that Russian fighter jets had allegedly conducted dangerous maneuvers close to the United States’ MQ-9 Reaper drones involved in operations against the Islamic State terror group in Syria The United States will continue to maintain contact with Russia on operations in Syrian airspace, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said. “We’ll continue to engage using the established channels to convey our concern and will continue to engage senior leadership as appropriate. But again, we will continue to operate as we have always operated in the airspaces and we will protect our interests and our resources,” Austin…

The terrorist attack on the Sayyidah Zeinab area in Damascus, orchestrated by the ISIS terrorist group, was a horrifying act of violence that shook the region. ISIS claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack that targeted a hotspot for Muslims who visit Syria’s Sayyidah Zeinab to perform religious pilgrimages, commemorating the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (AS), the grandson of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) on Thursday. The announcement came in a statement broadcasted by the terrorist organization on Telegram. The group also claimed responsibility for another attack in the same area earlier this week, which resulted in the injury of two individuals. The explosion that…

Addressing the African leaders, the Russian president said: “Your approach, your ideas – all this echoes the points of the Chinese peace plan for Ukrainian settlement, presented in February” Russia is ready to look of ways to achieve the peaceful resolution of the situation around Ukraine, despite the Western course towards acting solely in their own interests in any international conflict, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with African national leaders. “Have they forgotten that they destroyed the situation in Sudan? Have they forgotten what they did in Syria? They could not care less about the UN Charter,…

African states still suffer from displays of colonialism – in economy, in particular, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during the plenary meeting of the Russia-Africa Summit. Meanwhile, Russia makes efforts to ease the debt burden of African nations. The African leaders spoke about the importance of cooperation in security, food security included, while Russia shared its plans to increase its democratic presence on the continent. Here are the key events and statements of the Summit. Moscow writes off debts Russia will allocate more than $90 mln for lowering the debt burden of African countries, with their indebtedness written off by…

According to Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov, “it will be released as soon as it is agreed” Russian President Vladimir Putin and members of the African peace mission will adopt a joint statement following their talks on Ukraine, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. “A brief joint statement is being prepared following the meeting. It will be released as soon as it is agreed,” Peskov said. The meeting kicked off at about 11:15 p.m. on Friday. Putin and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered their addresses during the open part of the event. According to Peskov, the meeting ended at about 2:00 a.m.…

The US launches a new initiative to assist in the manufacture and export of missiles by Australia during talks with Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles. Following meetings between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin in Brisbane, the Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles confirmed on Saturday that Washington would want to increase its declining weapons stockpile by assisting Australia in manufacturing and exporting missiles. Marles said, “We hope to see manufacturing of missiles commenced in Australia in two years’ time,” adding that “We are really pleased with the steps that we are taking in respect of establishing a guided…

Four airmen are missing after their MRH90 crashed into the ocean off Queensland on Friday The crash occurred at around 10:30 pm local time on Friday, Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles said, noting that the MRH90 helicopter was flying a two-aircraft mission as part of the Talisman Sabre 2023 drills with the US Marines. “Sadly, the four aircrew who were on board are yet to be found,” Marles said in a joint statement with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. The Australian Defense Ministry later said “military and civilian search and rescue aircraft and watercraft” were conducting search and rescue efforts near the site of…

Extremist Israeli settlers set large swathes of Palestinian-owned lands on fire today near the village of Burin, in the West Bank province of Nablus, according to local sources. The sources told WAFA that a group of army-guarded Israeli settlers set hundreds of trees ablaze and destroyed them, adding that the settlers attacked Palestinians who were trying to fend off the attack. Violence and vandalism by Israeli settlers are commonplace in the occupied West Bank, and are never prosecuted by the occupation authorities. Source: WAFA