News archive on the topic "S-400"

The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine announced the defeat of the S-400 air defense system in Crimea in the area of ​​Cape Tarkhankut, accompanying the message with footage of an explosion filmed from the air. Before this, Ukrainian public pages distributed footage of smoke allegedly taken near the village of Olenevka. There are no official comments from the Russian side. However, the telegram channel “Rybar”, founded by Mikhail Zvinchuk, confirms the Ukrainian strike, but, having studied the Ukrainian video, comes to...

Russia supplied S-400 air defense systems and Iskander operational-tactical missile systems to Belarus. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko stated this today at a joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Minsk, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We discussed some important details of cooperation in the field of military security. Special thanks to you, and not only from me and the military, for...

The American Haymars MLRS delivered to Ukraine won a convincing victory in the confrontation with Russian air defense. This opinion, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, is expressed by military expert, head of the Ukrainian Center for Security and Cooperation Sergei Kuzan. “American weapons showed a high class and defeated all the laudatory reports that the Russians used to address their S-300, S-400 that they are invincible. AND…

The Russian military destroyed a helicopter that the day before fired at the village of Klimovo in the Bryansk region. Official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense Igor Konashenkov stated this at a briefing in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Also, according to Konashenkov, Ukraine lost another Su-27 fighter. “Russian air defense systems in the area of ​​the settlement of Gorodnya, Chernigov region, when returning to the air base by anti-aircraft missiles...

Belarus will receive Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems at the prices at which this complex goes to the Russian army. One of the leading Russian military experts, editor-in-chief of the magazine Arsenal of the Fatherland, Viktor Murakhovsky, said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He was asked why the Russian Federation’s closest ally, Belarus, would receive the S-400 later than Turkey. “The need for this system in its military doctrine...

Even under pressure from Washington, India will not refuse to purchase the Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile system and is not going to become an unambiguous ally of Washington. This was reported by the PolitNavigator correspondent, said by Sergei Lunev, professor of the Department of Oriental Studies at MGIMO. “India will not refuse to purchase the S-400 under any circumstances. It is pursuing a policy of balancing and has no intention of becoming an ally of the United States. In India they understand...

Russia and Germany benefit from the delay in the launch of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline - this allows Moscow to maintain record high gas prices, and Berlin to confirm its status as a key player in the European Union, making the rest of the EU member states dependent. At the same time, the fate of the Ukrainian gas transportation system is predetermined - after the launch of SP-2, only the largest and...

Over the past decades, the Ukrainian leadership has been trying to flirt with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, as if not noticing that the Union State was created back in 1999. At the same time, Viktor Yushchenko, Petro Poroshenko, and Vladimir Zelensky naively believed that their contacts were enough to neutralize threats from the Union State. Nevertheless,…

More than a third of the time of negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin was devoted to security issues and arms supplies. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko told reporters about this during his participation in one of the elements of the active phase of the Zapad-2021 exercises, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. “We are negotiating and planning deliveries of the S-400. We focused on defense and security issues with Vladimir Putin...

Russian S-400 systems have taken up joint combat duty as part of the newly created combat training center (CTC) for joint training of the Air Force and Air Defense Forces of Belarus and Russia. The second training center in Baranovichi houses Su-30SM aircraft. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of Belarus, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “It has finally become clear that the Russian military presence of combat units in Belarus has ended...

The Indian military will go to Russia for training in the operation of S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, Kommersant writes, citing the Russian Ambassador to India Nikolai Kudashev. “A meeting with Indian military specialists at the Russian embassy in Delhi on the eve of their trip to the Russian Federation confirmed: the implementation of the contract for the supply of five S-400 regimental sets to Delhi at a cost...

The administration of US President Donald Trump has introduced new restrictions on military-technical cooperation with Turkey for its acquisition of Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems, applying the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) to Ankara. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, Kommersant writes. “Today, the United States is imposing sanctions on Turkey's Defense Industry Authority for knowingly entering into significant transactions...

NATO countries themselves decide which air defense capabilities they will acquire, but this does not apply to the Russian S-400 air defense system. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stated this at an online press conference on the eve of the summit of the alliance's defense ministers, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I am concerned about Turkey’s decision to purchase the S-400, I raised this issue, including during my meetings in Ankara.…

Russia should not have sold the S-400 air defense system to Turkey, and in general, Russian policy towards this country is wrong. Doctor of Military Sciences, reserve colonel Konstantin Sivkov stated this on the air of the Roy TV Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “What did Erdogan show? Erdogan has shown that planning foreign policy actions, long-term actions with huge costs and huge security risks...