News archive on the topic "Russian Army"

The Russian command should have drawn the appropriate conclusions even in the first few days of the Northern Military District, when the troops retreated from the territories occupied at the beginning, that it would not be possible to fight in the “special operation” mode. Colonel of the special forces of the GRU General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR and Russia, a participant in battles in Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Chechnya, Alexander Musienko, stated this on air on the Stalingrad channel,…

The Kiev regime works so well by arresting “collaborators” that if something happens, there will simply be no one to greet the Russian troops with flowers. Ukrainian Defense Minister Alexey Reznikov stated this on the air of Military Television of Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I come from a family of doctors, so I understand some things through medicine. When there are purulent growths somewhere, then when you open them, then...

Russia does not have enough strength for a new attack on Kyiv without a general mobilization. Ukrainian military expert Oleg Zhdanov stated this in an interview with a Kyiv publication. Oleg Zhdanov When asked by a journalist for the publication whether the Russians could go to Kyiv in a second wave, Zhdanov noted that “there is none.” “That’s the open secret, that there is no second...

In Ukraine, the mayor of the village of Dymer, Kyiv region, Alexander Kharchenko, was arrested, whose entire guilt is that when the city was occupied by Russian troops, he organized the uninterrupted operation of city utilities during wartime. Now he is accused of “working for the occupiers” and could be sent to prison for a long time. The American edition of The Wall Street Journal writes about this. 39 year old...

The withdrawal of troops from the Chernigov and Kyiv directions announced yesterday by the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation is probably a rotation of individual units and is aimed at misleading the military leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and creating a false imagination regarding the abandonment of the plan to encircle Kyiv. This statement was made by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. “The withdrawal of units of the armed forces of the Russian Federation from the territory of the Kyiv region continues...

Russia will not limit itself exclusively to targeted missile strikes if it decides to go to war with Ukraine. Deputy Director of the Institute of World Politics Nikolai Beleskov stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Despite all the achievements of the Russian Federation - high-precision weapons, attempts to act like the United States for the last 25 years - they will still fire at us with their ballistic missile systems...

In the coming year, the Russian army will be strengthened with modern models of military equipment and weapons. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu stated this during a conference call with the leadership of the Russian Armed Forces, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. In addition, according to the head of the defense department, this year four regiments will be re-equipped with the Yars missile system, and the deployment of a missile regiment with the latest will begin...

Russian society greeted the New Year 2019 with black glasses rather than rose-colored ones. The head of VTsIOM, Valery Fedorov, spoke about this in an interview with Izvestia, answering the question of how the mood of Russians has changed over the past year. “We greeted 2018 with hope for prosperity, economic growth, preservation of political stability, and detente in international relations. But detente did not happen: it failed...

In a hypothetical invasion of Ukrainian territory, the Russian army can count on the loyalty of the population of the Left Bank. Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes about this, offering to see how Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko “is going to stop Russian aggression.” The publication notes that all that Ukraine has “is poorly trained and equally poorly armed infantry, several hundred old tanks and antediluvian artillery.” IN…

Russia is moving troops, equipment and weapons to the Ukrainian border. This was stated today by the speaker of the Ministry of Defense Dmitry Gutsulyak with reference to the Main Intelligence Directorate, the department’s press service reports. “The Russian leadership is increasing the number of troops near the borders with Ukraine. In particular, under the guise of participation in the Vostok-2018 maneuvers, individual...

From September 11 to 15, the largest military exercises in the entire history of post-Soviet Russia will be held at the training grounds of the Central and Eastern military districts. The head of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Sergei Shoigu, reported this to journalists, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, about 2018 thousand military personnel and about 300 thousand armored vehicles will take part in the Vostok-36 exercises. Northern…

The Russian army does not always treat information that represents classified information with due responsibility. Political scientist Alexey Mukhin stated this on the Vesti FM radio station. “With all due respect to the Russian army, some cases are outrageous. For example, when personnel cards are found in the waste paper that comes to Ukraine for the production of toilet paper. I recognize my native...

After secession from Ukraine and annexation to Russia, Crimea turned into a powerful military base, which has no analogues in Europe. This opinion was expressed in an interview with the Kyiv online publication “Apostrophe” by the editor-in-chief of the BlackSeaNews portal, chairman of the supervisory board of the Maidan of Foreign Affairs Foundation, Andrey Klimenko. “It is from Crimea that the threat to all of Europe and the eastern Mediterranean now comes. Crimea and Syria -...

In Ukraine, they are afraid of military exercises of the Russian army. According to Vadim Skibitsky, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the Russian military deployed along the entire perimeter of the Ukrainian border and conducted combat training there. A representative of military intelligence stated this on Channel 5, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Now a very active phase of combat training of units of the 1st and 2nd Army has begun...