Author: Steven Sahiounie

The US president is scheduled to meet with his Polish counterpart in Warsaw US President Joe Biden is set to travel to Poland this week to discuss further efforts to support Kiev and punish Russia for its military offensive in Ukraine. According to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Biden will meet with Polish President Andrzej Duda in Warsaw on Friday to discuss how the US and its allies are “responding to the humanitarian and human rights crisis that Russia’s unjustified and unprovoked war on Ukraine has created.” The meeting will reportedly take place after Biden has traveled to Brussels,…

Authored by Dave DeCamp Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren said Friday that the Netherlands is sending a Patriot missile defense system to Slovakia and that Germany is also sending two Patriot systems as NATO looks to bolster its forces near Ukraine. The Dutch will send a small contingent of 150-200 troops along with the Patriots. Ollongren’s announcement comes after Slovak Defense Minister Jaroslav Nad said on Thursday that Slovakia was ready to “immediately” send its Soviet-designed S-300 missile system to Ukraine if it receives a “proper replacement.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked for the S-300 air defense system in a plea…

Last week, Donald Trump argued that the Ukraine conflict could escalate even further, purportedly because under the Biden administration, the White House does not have “anybody to talk to” Russian President Vladimir Putin. Ex-POTUS Donald Trump has accused US President Joe Biden of failing to tackle Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine due to Washington’s concern over Moscow’s nuclear potential. Speaking at a rally of his supporters in Florida on Saturday, the 45th American president described the Ukraine crisis as “a disaster” and “madness” that should be stopped by the US. He pointed the finger at Biden, arguing that POTUS…

More than 100 Ukrainian special ops troops and foreign soldiers of fortune were eliminated, according to Moscow Russian forces hit a Ukrainian special forces training center early on Sunday, killing more than 100 local troops and foreign mercenaries, the Ministry of Defense has said. A Ukrainian Special Operations Forces training center near the town of Ovruch in the northern Zhytomyr Region, which hosted the mercenaries, was targeted by “high-precision air-launched missiles,” ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said during a briefing. The airstrike has eliminated more than 100 Ukrainian special ops troops and foreign soldiers of fortune, he added. A week ago, Russia destroyed…

Foreign volunteers arriving to fight in Ukraine are being turned away for lack of experience, a foreign legion spokesperson said Foreigners who want to volunteer on the front lines in Ukraine should not show up in the country if they have not had previous training and real “live combat experience,” the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine (ILDU) has warned. Speaking to Canadian news channel CTV News on Saturday, ILDU spokesperson Damien Magrou said the foreign legion, set up to attract volunteers from around the world, would only accept fighters who already “know their way around a battlefield.” “Right now we’re looking…

Russian forces and the Donbass militias continue to advance in Ukraine. On Saturday 19 March, the Russian Air Force targeted 59 Ukrainian military infrastructure objects and downed 5 UAVs, the Defence Ministry said. Russia launched an operation in Ukraine on 24 February, after Kiev intensified attacks in Donbass, prompting the mass evacuation of civilians from the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. President Vladimir Putin stressed that the op was started to stop the genocide of the people in the region, adding that Russia’s goal is the demilitarisation and denazification of Ukraine. Source: Sputnik

The press service of the DPR military released a POV video of the battle tank work near the town of Mariinka in the sector east of Donetsk city. At least two battle tanks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were eliminated in this battle. Earlier, on March 19, pro-DPR sources reported that DPR troops already entered this important stronghold of Kyiv’s forces and engaged them in clashes inside it. The potential fall of Mariinka will allow DPR forces to kick off the operation to push back Kyiv troops from the sector east of Donetsk thus preventing them from further strikes on…

South Korea’s National Security Council has held an emergency meeting following the action North Korea appeared to fire four shots from its multiple rocket launchers into the Yellow Sea early on Sunday, military officials in Seoul have said. “There were shots believed to be that of North Korea’s multiple rocket launchers this morning,” a South Korean military official told Yonhap news agency. “We are maintaining our defense readiness posture, while closely following related developments,” he added. Four shots were fired in the span of an hour from an unspecified location in North Korea’s Pyongan province, with the projectiles landing in the Yellow…

The S-400 issue has been a prickly topic in US-Turkish ties since Ankara inked a contract with Moscow for the supply of the Russian-made missile defence systems in 2017. Washington claims that the S-400s pose a threat to NATO and are incompatible with the alliance’s military hardware, something that Turkey rejects.Washington and Ankara discussed “the unlikely possibility” of Turkey delivering its Russian-made S-400 missile defence systems to Kiev’s forces in order to help them fight Russian troops amid Moscow’s ongoing special operation in Ukraine, according to Reuters. The news agency cited three unnamed sources as saying that “US officials have floated…

Late on March 19, a large-scale attack with suicide drones targeted vital facilities in the southern region of Saudi Arabia. The Saudi-led coalition said that the attack targeted a water desalination plant in the city of al-Shuqaiq and an oil facility of Aramco near the city of Jizan. The coalition didn’t provide any details on the damaged caused by the large attack. However, it claimed in two separate statements shared by the Saudi Press Agency that five suicide drones were intercepted over the Kingdom’s southern region by its air defense means. According to the coalition, the drones were launched by…