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The aircraft that came from Ukraine was an unarmed “toy” that could only be used for reconnaissance, the defense minister said Romania’s defense minister downplayed the incident in which a drone entered its airspace from Ukraine and landed in a rural area. In an interview on Monday evening, Vasile Dincu dismissed the aircraft as so small and unthreatening that he initially thought reports of its discovery were a prank. The mystery drone was recovered by villagers in the Bistrita-Nasaud County in northern Romania on Monday from some bushes where it was stuck. Speaking to Digi24 news, the minister said the drone was…

Moscow has announced sanctions against US leadership, including Joe Biden, as well as the chiefs of the Pentagon and the CIA Russia on Tuesday sanctioned US President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Tony Blinken, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, and ten other administration officials and political figures. Moscow has said that the sanctions are a reciprocal measure, imposed after Washington blacklisted top Russian leaders, including President Vladimir Putin. The latest additions to Russia’s “stop list” were announced by the Kremlin on Tuesday, and were described as a “counter reaction” to the “extremely Russophobic course taken by the current US administration.” Appearing at the top of the…

Last week, the Ukrainian president said he had “cooled down” on the idea of Kiev’s membership in the Western bloc “a long time ago,” saying he didn’t want to be the leader of a country “that is begging for something on its knees.” As recently as January, NATO indicated that Ukrainian and Georgian membership in the bloc was just a matter of time. Kiev has heard loud and clear that it will not be joining NATO, and this is a reality which Ukrainians must come to terms with, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. NATO opened the door to Ukraine and Georgia’s “Euro-Atlantic…

BEIJING (Sputnik) – Beijing calls on Washington to avoid damaging China’s interests when trying to settle its relations with Russia, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said on Tuesday.On Monday, US State Department spokesman Ned Price raised concerns over alleged China’s attempts to use the Ukrainian crisis “to advance Beijing’s long-term interest in its competition with the United States” and warned Beijing that any support extended to Russia, including “helping to avert sanctions imposed by the US and its allies, “would have implications not only for China’s relations with the United States, but for “its relationships around the world.” “The…

The United States and its allies have already delivered well over $3 billion in military equipment to Ukraine in recent years, and committed to send hundreds of millions of dollars more after Russia and its Donbass allies began an operation to demilitarize the country late last month.The State Department is ‘working to identify’ which countries have access to Soviet-made S-300 air defence system and brainstorming how they can be sent to Ukraine, sources said to be familiar with the matter have told CNN.Sources further indicated that Washington was not sure at the moment where they would get the missiles used…

The legislation was signed amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine and could see people jailed for up to 15 years Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a law that allows for the jailing of anyone helping Russia amid its ongoing military offensive against Ukraine, the deputy speaker of Ukraine’s parliament said. Speaking to Ukraina 24 on Tuesday, Alexander Kornienko argued that the punishment should also apply to around 20 “unpatriotic” MPs, who he said have fled the country in the face of the Russian attack that began on February 24. The law, which was passed by parliament in early March, provides…

A cacophony of Western lawmakers and media figures have called on their leaders to institute a no-fly zone over Ukraine, notwithstanding the risks of sparking a war between NATO and Russia. President Putin stressed last week that Moscow would see any attempt to set up a no-fly zone as “participation of the respective country in an armed conflict.” Any effort to institute a no-fly zone over Ukraine would require approval from the United Nations Security Council, and the only alternative is war with Russia, European Union military committee chairman Claudio Graziano has said. “The decision can only be taken by…

The Russian Defense Ministry has claimed that the city of Mariupol was unblocked. Forces of the DPR, with the support of the Russian military, destroyed almost all firing points of Ukrainian nationalists in the suburbs of Mariupol. Special forces eliminated the main nationalist forces in residential areas in villages around the city, the Russian Defense Ministry said in an emergency statement. The successful operations made it possible to secure humanitarian corridors for civilians from 3 p.m. Moscow time on March 14. Mass evacuation of civilians who had been held hostage by Ukrainian nationalists began. Source: South Front

Written by Khaled Iskef Cooperating with the SDF, the US forces transported dozens of ISIS detainees to the prisons of the northern countryside of al-Hasakah in preparation for releasing them and employing them in terrorist operations. Sources said that the US forces transported a number of ISIS detainees from “Camp al-Bulgar”, “Al-Shaddadah”, and “Al-Sour” prisons in the southern countryside of al-Hasakah to other prisons to the north of the city. The sources clarified that the transporting process was carried out by large trucks provided with weapons belonging to the US forces accompanied by 4wd cars of the SDF, where the detainees…

Russia’s military “do not exclude” taking surrounded Ukrainian cities under their “full control” Russia’s President Vladimir Putin at the beginning of the military attack on Ukraine ordered armed forces to refrain from an immediate assault on the country’s cities, including Kiev, in order to prevent heavy losses among the civilian population, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov claimed. Speaking to the journalists on Monday, Peskov said that planning of the “military operation” in Ukraine involved taking into account the strategy of “armed nationalist formations” allegedly deploying weapons in densely populated residential areas. He apparently refuted the Ukrainian authorities’ accusations of indiscriminate shelling…