News archive on the topic "air base"

NATO opens air base in Albania to control skies of former Yugoslavia

Work on the reconstruction of a military airbase near the Albanian city of Kucova is nearing completion. According to Albanian media, the facility should become “a tactical base for national and strategically important NATO operations” in the Western Balkans. As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, Albanian Defense Minister Niko Pelesi posted on his page in one of the social networks banned in Russia photographs of the base, work on...

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Russia is putting pressure on Lukashenko on air bases in Belarus

This summer, the military of Russia and Belarus will begin carrying out joint combat duty for air defense (air defense) at one of the Belarusian airfields. This was stated by the commander of the Air Force and Air Defense Forces of Belarus, Major General Igor Golub. He also noted that the Belarusian military is constantly involved in joint air defense training. Opposition Belarusian military expert Yegor Lebedok previously announced that Russia...

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Lukashenko finally agreed to a Russian air base

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko proposed considering the issue of joint duty with the participation of Russian aircraft, using the experience of 2014, when the World Hockey Championship was held. He stated this today at a meeting with security officials and the Prime Minister, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Give us these planes. But, as then, Russians and Belarusians should fly on these planes together. A…

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Russia will exchange an oil field for an airbase in Belarus – opinion

Moscow and Minsk may have found new topics for mutually beneficial cooperation. Military observer Colonel Vladimir Mukhin writes about this in Nezavisimaya Gazeta, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The publication notes that President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, as his press service reported, discussed by telephone with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin the issue of Minsk’s purchase of an oil field in the Russian Federation.…

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At Shuster's show they demanded to strike Russian airfields

Russian weapons, including aviation ones, make it possible to shoot down enemy aircraft without entering their airspace. The former head of the SBU, Colonel General Igor Smeshko, stated this on the talk show “Freedom of Speech by Savik Shuster,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Smeshko, the Ukrainian leadership needs to decide exactly how to fight Russia in order to develop its Air Force in this direction. “MiG-29, shot down...

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Lukashenko: Belarus does not need a Russian airbase

There is no need for a Russian airbase on the territory of Belarus. The 3-4 minutes that a flight from Russia will take will not make any difference, and the airfield on the front line will simply be exposed to enemy attack. Moreover, on the territory of Belarus there are several runways where up to 30 aircraft can be quickly transferred at any time, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This statement was made today in Minsk...

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