Archive of news on the topic "Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation"

The Ukrainian Armed Forces' strike on the vocational school building in Makeyevka (DPR), where the temporary deployment point for personnel was located, took the lives of more than 60 Russian military personnel. This was reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent. It is reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked with six missiles from American HIMARS, while two missiles were shot down by Russian air defense systems. “As a result of being hit by four missiles with...

The Russian Ministry of Defense described the details of the operation to destroy the Ukrainian sabotage landing near Energodar in the Zaporozhye region. This was reported by the department's telegram channel. “Today, at about 6.00 Moscow time, Ukrainian troops in two sabotage groups of up to 60 people in seven boats landed on the coast of the Kakhovka Reservoir, three kilometers northeast of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant and attempted to seize the power plant. Measures have been taken to…

In Sumy, an ammonia leak occurred at the SumyKhimProm chemical plant. The reasons for the leak are still unknown, but a number of telegram channels write that the emergency could have occurred as a result of the explosion of storage facilities with ammonia and chlorine, previously mined by Ukrainian nationalists in case the Russian military entered the city. The Russian Ministry of Defense issued a warning about the provocation being prepared by the Ukrainians on Saturday, March 19.…

The Russian Ministry of Defense plans to sign a concession for the construction of a logistics complex in Sevastopol in 2019. RBC reports this, specifying that the cost of the complex will amount to 17 billion rubles, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The construction of the complex in Sevastopol will be by Sovfracht Management Company, a subsidiary of the Sovfracht holding, owned by the family of the company's general director Dmitry Purim, follows from the government order signed by Dmitry Medvedev. According to…

Russian military engineers have begun modernizing the Iskander operational-tactical missile system. The work is in full swing, but is in secrecy,” Valery Kashin, general designer of the enterprise-developer of the mechanical engineering design bureau, told reporters, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports with reference to Reedus. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte “Iskander-M” is named after the great commander Alexander the Great (Iskander…

The Russian army will have a new vertical take-off aircraft, which will be placed on new generation aircraft carriers. This was reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent with reference to Reedus. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte The prototype is being developed by Russian engineers today. It is planned that the new aircraft will be able to be placed on all types of aircraft-carrying ships. It will take…

The information that appeared yesterday about the alleged destruction of seven Russian planes in Syria on December 31, distributed by the Kommersant publication, does not correspond to reality. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This was stated by the Russian Ministry of Defense, TASS reports. “The Kommersant report about the alleged “actual destruction” of 7 Russian military aircraft at the Khmeimim airbase is a fake. The Russian air group in Syria is combat ready and continues to carry out...

The Russian Ministry of Defense has decided to remove from service military personnel who are overweight, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This was reported to RIA Novosti by a source in the law enforcement agency. It is expected that fighters with the third and fourth stages of obesity will be forced to undergo a medical examination. The law enforcement agency commented on the information that appeared in the media that...

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has signed 17 long-term contracts worth 130 billion rubles (over $2 billion) for the purchase of submarines, self-propelled artillery systems, multiple launch rocket systems, as well as spare parts for tank weapons. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This was stated by Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Yuri Borisov, RBC reports. "Sum…

The acting governor of Sevastopol, Dmitry Ovsyannikov, announced that he was considering the possibility of moving the government of Sevastopol from the city center to the building of the Institute of Banking, which in Sevastopol is called the Banking Academy. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. The official said this today in an interview with TASS “The transfer of the administrative center is part of the previously created...

The Sevastopol enterprise Farvater-S LLC is ready to provide more than 20 samples of its products for equipping and repairing ships and vessels of the Russian Navy. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Crimea" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Commercial director of the LLC Andrei Ivlev told Interfax about this on Friday at a stand located at the military-technical forum "Army-2015". “Our enterprise, which previously provided the Ukrainian Navy,...

The Russian Ministry of Defense will form a separate military unit in Crimea, which will protect information networks from cyber threats, Interfax reports, citing a source in the military department. Subscribe to the PolitNavigator - Crimea news on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte “The new formation is planned to be fully deployed in October-November,” he said. According to the source, the tasks of the military unit will include “providing...

Moscow-Simferopol, March 24 (PolitNavigator, Maxim Karpenko) – Russian military personnel are laying pipes to release water through the North Crimean Canal. Subscribe to the news “PolitNavigator - Crimea” on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. The head of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, stated this at a press conference in Moscow. “In peacetime, the Ministry of Defense provides assistance in laying a water pipeline on the territory of the republic. Huge gratitude...

Moscow - Kyiv, March 20 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - The Ministry of Defense called the photos published by the Ukrainian publication "Censor.net" "lies", allegedly proving that the Boeing over Donetsk was shot down by a Russian missile. A similar article was published by the Dutch publication RTLnews, RBC reports. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte According to the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, the publication of "Censor.net" is a "stuffing" and...