Author: Steven Sahiounie

French President Emmanuel Macron, during a meeting with EU defense ministers on the sidelines of the Paris Air Show, urges military equipment manufacturers to develop warfare systems independent from US systems. French President Emmanuel Macron has urged European nations to establish independent air defenses and reduce EU reliance on US equipment during the one-day summit of defense ministers and senior military leaders from 20 European nations in Paris. “We need to know what the threat situation is…And then, what are we, Europeans, able to produce? And what do we then need to buy?” Macron stressed on Monday. Macron recommended that…

“We proposed to enshrine this decision in the joint statement,” Kazakh Deputy Foreign Minister Kanat Tumysh said The 20th international meeting on Syria being held in Kazakhstan’s capital will be the last within the framework of the Astana format, Kazakh Deputy Foreign Minister Kanat Tumysh said. “We’ve decided to officially declare the 20th international meeting on Syria as the last within the framework of the Astana format. We proposed to enshrine this decision in the joint statement,” he said at a plenary session on Wednesday. An international meeting on Syria in the Astana format is being held in Astana on…

According to an entry, uploaded to the Russian Interior Ministry’s database on Tuesday, Dmitry Mishov “is wanted on criminal charges” that were not specified The Russian Interior Ministry has issued an arrest warrant on unspecified charges for Dmitry Mishov, who requested asylum in Lithuania saying that he was a Russian military pilot. According to an entry, uploaded to the ministry’s database on Tuesday, Mishov “is wanted on criminal charges” that were not specified. BBC earlier reported that Russian citizen Dmitry Mishov, who earlier served at a helicopter unit of the Russian air force, has crossed into Lithuania. The country’s Deputy…

Moscow’s regional governor confirms that two drones were shot down near a military base just 50 km from Moscow city. Russia shot down two drones approximate to a military base near Moscow in the early hours of Wednesday morning, while three other drones were downed by electronic warfare on the outskirts of the country’s capital. Moscow’s regional governor, Andrei Vorobyov, said on his Telegram channel that the UAVs shot down close to the military base did not cause material damage nor resulted in the fall of victims. “Two drones crashed today at 5:30 and 5:50 in the morning on approach…

The final statement of the 20th International Meeting on Syria in the Astana format affirmed that the guarantor states renew their firm commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Syria and to the goals and principles of the United Nations Charter. The statement added that the guarantor states renew their determination to continue joint action to combat terrorism in all its forms and manifestations and to reject separatist agendas aimed at undermining Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. The statement stressed that the guarantor states condemn the activities of terrorist organizations and armed groups of different names in…

The top military official stressed that the use of these weapons outside of the special military operation zone would trigger immediate strikes by Russia on decision-making centers in Ukraine and would imply the full-fledged involvement of the US and UK in the conflict Ukraine’s armed forces command is plotting to deliver strikes on Russian territory, including Crimea, with HIMARS rockets and Storm Shadow missiles, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said at a ministry board meeting on Tuesday. “According to our data, the leadership of the Ukrainian armed forces is planning to deliver strikes on the territory of the Russian Federation,…

As the authors noted in an explanatory note, the wording about the victory over militaristic Japan “should be fixed at the level of a federal law, which reflects the principle of historical justice” The State Duma at a plenary session on Tuesday adopted in the second and third readings a bill to rename the Day of Military Glory (September 3) to the Day of Victory over Militaristic Japan and the end of World War II. The document was introduced by a group of deputies last June. The changes are to be made to the law On the Days of Military…

The top diplomat said that the two sides had an hour and a half-long conversation with the president of Belarus The West sees the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) as a threat to its dominance in the international arena, which explains why it has been trying to split its ranks, as well as to breed discord within the BRICS group (Russia, Brazil, India, China and South Africa) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the media after the meeting of heads of delegations participating in the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) session with Belarusian…

Scandal-plagued Andrey Melnik served as Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister for seven months Former Ukrainian deputy foreign minister Andrey Melnik, who caused controversy during his tenure as Kiev’s envoy to Germany, has been named as his country’s new ambassador to Brazil, according to a decree published on President Vladimir Zelensky’s website. Melnik lasted seven months as deputy foreign minister after being appointed to the role last November. Prior to that, the 47-year-old had served as Kiev’s envoy to Germany for seven years, before he was sacked last July following a series of scandalous remarks. During his time in Berlin, Melnik repeatedly…

The Iranian left Iran last night for Doha, the Foreign Ministry announced in a statement. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, left Iran for Doha to meet with a number of senior Qatari Officials to discuss bilateral regional and international issues, the Iranian Foreign Ministry announced in a statement on Telegram. “Iranian Foreign Minister Abdollahian flew from Tehran to Doha as head of the delegation to meet and hold talks with senior Qatari officials,” the ministry said.  Earlier this week, the Iranian Foreign Minister welcomed his Saudi counterpart in Tehran, where they agreed to form joint political and economic…