Author: Steven Sahiounie

The US Marine Corps’ MV-22B Osprey was taking part in NATO drills in Norway and went down on Friday All four crew members on board an MV-22B Osprey aircraft belonging to the US Marine Corps that crashed in Norway on Friday died in the accident, local police reported on Saturday. The aircraft, which is a cross between a regular helicopter and a turboprop plane, was taking part in NATO’s Cold Response military exercise in the Scandinavian country. According to a statement issued by the Norwegian military, the V-22 Osprey was conducting a training flight, and was supposed to arrive at…

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Russian Defence Ministry on Saturday released video footage showing the destruction of a Ukrainian reconnaissance and sabotage unit with precision weapons. “The video shows a strike on a reconnaissance and sabotage unit of Ukrainian armed formations, carrying out reconnaissance and search operations on four US-made all terrain military vehicles. After the strike with precision missile weaponry, the group was destroyed”, the Defence Ministry said. The sabotage group was transported in US-made Humvee military vehicles, the ministry added. The filming was carried out from a drone. Source: Sputnik

Moscow has deployed Kinzhal missiles for the first time since the start of its military operation The Russian military has said it used its state-of-the-art Kinzhal hypersonic missiles to destroy an arms depot near the city of Ivano-Frankivsk in western Ukraine. The strike with the air-launched missile system took place on Friday, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said during a briefing. It targeted “a large underground depot of missiles and aerial munitions of the Ukrainian forces” in the village of Deliatyn, he added. Kinzhal, which means ‘dagger’ in English, was used by the Russian military for the first time since the…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator In an effort to understand the events in Ukraine, Steven Sahiounie of MidEastDiscourse interviewed Shahzada Rahim, a geopolitical analyst based in Islamabad with specialization in Eurasian politics, Middle East and Russian Foreign Policy. He is the founder and CEO of think tank and news website the Eurasian Post. He is a close confidante of the former special representative to Kremlin, Professor Alexander Dugin. #1. Steven Sahiounie (SS): The Azov battalion is one of the Nazi groups in Ukraine, and has been integrated into the national army. How are these Nazis perceived by the Ukrainian population? Shahzada Rahim…

London says the move will protect Warsaw against “Russian aggression” UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace has announced that London will deploy Sky Sabre air defense missile systems in Poland in response to Russia’s attack on Ukraine. “We are going to deploy the Sky Sabre medium-range, anti-air missile system to Poland with about 100 personnel,” Wallace said on Thursday, during a news conference with his Polish counterpart, Mariusz Blaszczak, in Warsaw. Wallace added that the move would help Poland in “protecting her airspace from any further aggression by Russia.” Blaszczak thanked London, noting that 350 British soldiers had already arrived in the country…

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russian Su-25 attack aircraft have destroyed military warehouses of the Ukrainian forces overnight, the Russian defence ministry said on Thursday.The ministry has released footage of the aircraft destroying the Ukrainian military infrastructure. The Russian Defense Ministry published footage of the destruction of the Ukrainian army infrastructure at night by Su-25 attack aircraft “The crews of Su-25 attack aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed warehouses with weapons and ammunition,” the ministry said in a statement. Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on 24 February in response to calls from the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics…

While the Ukrainian officials made a bet on the informational warfare, the ongoing military operations in Ukraine unveiled their complete incompetence. All the main provocations aimed at blaming the Russian military of inhumane actions against civilians and used by Zelenskiy as the pretext for yet another plea for more military supplies from the West were revealed before Mr Zelenskiy released his daily video appeals to his Western counterparts. Even superficial analyses are sufficient to reveal the lies spread by Kiev, even by the Ukrainian top officials. Sometimes, there was even no need of any analyses, as the “actors” involved in…

The video belo shows the actions of Ukrainian military or foreign mercenaries in the Kharkov region of Ukraine that led to the destruction of a Russian military truck. A civilian car, probably an LC-200, drove past two already damaged Russian Armed Forces trucks, then the driver saw a Russian Ural coming towards him. The driver decided to move out of the line of sight into the footway and then turn into the nearest alley. The driver and passengers of the truck did not pay attention to the civilian car’s manoeuvre. Then the AFU soldiers stopped in the alley, put a…

Russia denies that “significant progress” has been made in talks with Kiev The Kremlin has said that a report in the Financial Times about a supposed 15-point draft peace plan with Ukraine was false. The sides held several rounds of talks after Russia attacked Ukraine on February 24, later switching to regular discussions via video link. Replying to a reporter’s question on Thursday if Russia and Ukraine were close to sign a peace deal, Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesman, said: “No, the work continues [on the matter].” He added Russia will inform the public of any breakthrough in the talks. The statement comes…

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – More Americans would understand the reasons behind the current crisis in Ukraine if they learned more about NATO expansion eastward and the 2014 change of power in the country, US human rights activist and coordinator of the Odessa Solidarity Campaign Phil Wilayto told Sputnik. “Most people here in the US don’t know anything about either the NATO expansion or the coup. If they did, they might be able to understand why we are in the present crisis. Even so, it’s clear there is no appetite here for direct US involvement in the war,” Wilayto said. The activist…