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Losses include fighter pilots, who are the elite of any army. The training of one specialist can take 15-17 years and cost 12-14 million dollars. By the end of July, the Russian Air Force had lost at least 50 fighter pilots. The Russian Air Force Service maintains a list of officially recognized Russian military casualties. […]
The US Congress called on Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to recognize Russia as a country that supports the policy of terrorism. The US Parliament requires its government to recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. In particular, this week the speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, made such a demand […]
On Tuesday, the United States added Russia to the list of countries that have a policy or practice of human trafficking. The list was published in the State Department’s annual report, Reuters reports. For the first time in the report, as mandated by Congress in 2019, a section on ‘State-sponsored human trafficking’ appeared. Russia features […]
Russia has decided to withdraw the world’s largest nuclear submarine ‘Dmitry Donskoy’ from its navy. This is reported by the Russian publication ‘RIA Novosti’ with reference to its own sources in the defense-industrial complex. Previously, the Russians planned to withdraw this submarine from the Russian Navy in 2020, but, apparently, they later decided to postpone […]
Turkey and Russia will discuss abandoning the dollar in payments for Russian energy carriers, sources told Bloomberg. According to them, Ankara expects that the transfer of payments to lira will help slow down the reduction of its gold and foreign reserves. Moscow, in turn, will be able to receive currency that is safer from the […]
To ‘hunt’ for systems with a firing range of up to 84 kilometers, the Russian military is going to use strategic cruise missiles with a flight range of more than 5,000 kilometers. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that its commander and war criminal Sergei Shoigu ordered the use of ‘high-precision weapons’ […]
The Ministry of Defense of Russia has again destroyed the HIMARS rocket launcher system. But this time together with a transport-charger. However, there is a nuance. According to the Ministry of Defense, the American rocket salvo system was destroyed from the Donetsk region. Together with it, it was possible to eliminate the transport and charging […]
On Thursday, the occupiers launched a rocket attack on Vinnytsia. For this, they used Kalibr cruise missiles. According to Oleg Katkov, a military expert who is the editor-in-chief of the online publication Defense Express, in 99% of cases, Calibers are launched in pairs. For example, if three rockets reached Vinnytsia, then four were launched. It […]
At the beginning of July, the Armed Forces of Ukraine knocked out the Russian army from Zmiiny Island. During the retreat, the Russians decided to blow up the equipment, but some survived. In this regard, the Russian military leadership decided to destroy the remains of the equipment with the help of strike aircraft. In particular, […]
The European Union may present the seventh package of anti-Russian sanctions within a week. The new rules should close the old loopholes. This is reported by EURACTIV. According to the publication, the preparation of the seventh package of sanctions will take place on July 14 and 15, and the member states can approve it by […]