Author: Steven Sahiounie

Slovakia reported delivering its only S-300 weapons system to Ukraine last week Russian forces have destroyed foreign-supplied S-300 anti-aircraft launchers in a number of precision strikes on Ukraine, the Defense Ministry, in Moscow, claimed on Monday. Days earlier, Slovakia reported the donation of a battery of old Soviet-made S-300 air defense missiles to Kiev. In its regular briefing on the ongoing military action in Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry reported hitting a hangar “on the southern outskirts of the city of Dnepropetrovsk,” where “equipment from an S-300 battery supplied to the Ukrainian regime by one of the European nations” was hidden. The barrage of…

Dmitry Peskov noted that the prerogative to comment on the course of the special military operation is left to the Defense Ministry Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday declined to comment on Chechen Head Ramzan Kadyrov’s statement that a Russian offensive on all Ukrainian cities to destroy Banderites is imminent. “We traditionally don’t talk with you about the course of the special military operation,” the spokesman told reporters, when asked to comment on the statement. “We are leaving this prerogative to the Defense Ministry.” He said the Defense Ministry has news conferences on the special operation twice a day. “I…

Washington acts based on ad-hoc rules that violate international law, foreign minister claims Russia’s military action in Ukraine is meant to put an end to the US-dominated world order, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has explained. Washington has been seeking supremacy by imposing ad-hoc rules and violating international law, he claimed, in an interview aired by Russian television on Monday. He was referring to America’s attempts to impose its own so-called “rules-based international order,” which have met with strong resistance from Moscow and China. “Our special military operation is meant to put an end to the unabashed expansion [of NATO]…

Taras Bobanich, a senior figure in the Right Sector group, was killed by Russian commandos, the Russian defense ministry said Russian commandos have killed a prominent member of Ukraine’s ultra-nationalist Right Sector group, the Russian defense ministry claimed on Monday. Taras Bobanich was accused by Moscow of causing hundreds of civilian deaths in eastern Ukraine during hostilities in 2014. A Russian recon team killed the top Neo-Nazi while on patrol about 5km south from the city of Izium in Ukraine’s Kharkov region, the ministry statement explained. It said he was a deputy commander of the Right Sector responsible for reserve operations. The…

An infighting has erupted between Turkish occupation-backed terrorist groups, west of Ras al-Ayn City in Hasaka northern countryside which led to the injury of a number of them. Clashes with machine guns erupted between terrorists of the so-called “Brigade 20” and “al-Hamza Brigade” which are backed by the Turkish occupation in Makhtala village, west of Ras al-Ayn City due to disputes among them on establishing control over the smuggling routes into the Turkish territory and on distributing the property of the displaced civilians, local sources told SANA’s reporter. The sources added that a number of terrorists were injured in the…

“Nationalists” are holding the crews hostage in Mariupol, the Donetsk People’s Republic says The Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) said on Sunday that Ukrainian fighters seized two foreign ships in the Azov Sea port of Mariupol and are holding their crews hostage. DPR forces backed by Russia have been fighting with Ukrainians for control of the port since late February. Mariupol is part of the Donetsk region and has been controlled by Ukrainian forces since 2014. According to DPR military spokesman Eduard Basurin, “a group of retreating Ukrainian nationalists” from the Azov Battalion boarded two foreign ships, the Lady Augusta and the Tsarevna.…

Several people, including terrorists, were wounded in a car explosion in Al-Bab City, which is under the control of the Turkish occupation forces and its terrorist mercenaries in Aleppo northeastern countryside. An explosive device planted in a car went off near one of the checkpoints of the Turkish occupation mercenaries at the entrance to the city of al-Bab in the northeastern countryside, wounding several people, including a number of terrorists, and causing material damage to property, local sources told SANA. In areas controlled by terrorist groups backed by the Turkish regime, there are manifestations of chaos and lawlessness as a…

Iranian lawmakers have set conditions for the revival of a 2015 nuclear pact, including legal guarantees approved by the U.S. Congress that Washington would not quit it, Iranian state media reported on Sunday. Iran and the United States have engaged in indirect talks in Vienna over the past year to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement between Tehran and world powers which then-U.S. President Donald Trump left in 2018 and Iran subsequently violated by ramping up its nuclear programme. Negotiations have now stalled as Tehran and Washington blame each other for failing to take the necessary political decisions to settle remaining…

Russia’s MoD has revealed that 86 Ukrainian military facilities were destroyed by the Russian combat air force. According to Russian Defense Ministry Spokesperson Igor Konashenkov, Russian high-precision sea-based weapons targeted Ukraine’s nationalist battalion Dnipro in Dnipropetrovsk. During a briefing, Konashenkov detailed how “during the night, in the settlement of Zvonetskoye, Dnipropetrovsk region, high-precision sea-based missiles destroyed the headquarters and the base of the nationalist battalion Dnipro, where new foreign mercenaries have recently arrived.” 86 Ukrainian military facilities were destroyed Additionally, Konashenkov revealed that 86 Ukrainian military facilities were destroyed by the Russian combat air force on the evening of April…

The Israeli occupation forces opened fire on a Palestinian woman near Beit Lahm claiming she was trying to carry out an operation, resulting in her martyrdom. Today, on Sunday, a 35-year-old woman was shot by the Israeli occupation forces in Husan village, west of Beit Lahm. The head of the Husan village council, Mohammad Sabateen, told Wafa that the occupation forces opened fire on the woman, a widow and mother of six, at the eastern entrance of the village. The woman, according to eyewitnesses in the area, was just walking by when Israeli occupation forces shot her and severely injured her. She…