NATO jets scramble three times in a week as Russian warplanes fly “invisible” toward Kaliningrad
Russian aircraft violating aviation rules over the Baltic Sea were An-12 and An-72 cargo planes, Su-35 fighters, and Si-24MR recon aircraft.
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ISW: Ukraine unlikely to have hit Russian helicopter in Transnistria
According to the ISW, Ukraine is unlikely to have struck the Russian helicopter in Transnistria amid Russia's hybrid operation to destabilize Moldova.
Ukraine anticipates Russian provocations on 23-24 February – Air Force spox
The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) believes that Russian provocations and missile attacks are…
The political dimension of Russia’s spy war in Ukraine
Since the beginning of the undeclared Russian-Ukrainian war in early 2014, the secret services of both countries have…
The language issue, high-profile killings, social cleavages: ex-SBU general on how Russian FSB plans to destabilize Ukraine
- Where would it be possible to destroy the country? How might this take place? How to counteract…
Rash of arson attacks on Moscow Churches in Ukraine directed from Russia – SBU
When the arsons began As early as at the night of 6 February 2019, unknown persons set fire…
Attack on Hungarian centre in Ukraine: three Poles charged with terrorism in German journalist-planned plot
Since Russia unleashed its hybrid war on Ukraine back in 2014, it has been trying various means to…
Moscow media outlets today with disturbing unanimity say Ukraine readying chemical weapons attack against Donbas
On Western Christmas when too few outside of Moscow and Kyiv are paying close attention, the Moscow media…
Moscow may be preparing a ‘Syrian type’ chemical weapons ‘provocation’ in Ukraine, Ikhlov says
One of the clearest early warning signs of Moscow’s plans are suggestions in the Russian media that the…
Moscow’s next provocation against Ukraine likely to involve use of air power, Starykov says
Pointing to a buildup in Russian forces near the border, the Ukrainian military says that the Russian threat…
Russia betting on internal conflict in Ukraine
The Ukrainian state has taken two independent actions which have obliged Russia to accelerate its preparations for intervening…
Moscow’s ‘little green men’ stage provocation in Moldova, republic’s Defense Minister says
Moldovan Defense Minister Eugen Sturza says that Russian forces, without identifying markers, have carried out massive maneuvers involving…
Trump’s challenging of broad consensus on Crimea will lead to a broader war, Skobov says
Even if Donald Trump doesn’t recognize as legitimate Vladimir Putin’s Anschluss of Crimea, the US president’s hints that…
Moscow planning provocation in occupied Crimea to discredit Ukraine, general says
Likely with an eye on the Helsinki summit, the Russian authorities are preparing some sort of provocation in…
Putin can’t ‘catch up and surpass West’ — he can only exploit divisions and spread chaos, Yakovenko says
For more than 200 years, Russian leaders were inspired by the idea that their country could “catch up…
Putin’s Reign of Terror on Russia’s New Dissidents: “Cossacks” Attack Navalny Family as Police Watch
On May 17, 2016, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his family and colleagues from the Anti-Corruption Fund…
Terror and intimidation in Donetsk
Denys Kazansky, journalist and blogger from Donetsk, believes that the recent kidnappings staged by Russian proxies were carried…
Moscow won’t succeed in using Ukrainian radicals to destabilize Kyiv, Portnikov says
Having failed to find the number of backers for the "Russian world" in Ukraine it expected, Moscow in…
Moscow mulling ‘nuclear provocation’ against Ukraine, Kyiv analyst says
To overcome the stalemate on the ground and to get itself out of the diplomatic corner it has…
Vitali Klitschko warns of Communist Party recruiting pensioners for provocations in Eastern Ukraine
Kyiv mayor candidate Vitaliy Klitschko warns that the Communist Party is preparing massive separatist provocations in Eastern Ukraine. Information…