Day: September 18, 2017

The first US military base in Israel, opened In southern Israel on Monday opened the first permanent U.S. base. As the press service of the Israeli army, it will serve American soldiers and officers. “For the first time in the history of the state of Israel, the Israel defense forces, we have created a permanent US military base, over which flies the American flag,” — said at the opening ceremony, the commander of the defense forces of Israel Zvi Haimovich. It is reported that the American base is integrated into the location of one of the Israeli air defense units. U.S. representative major General John Gronski said that the military of the two countries now “will be side by side to live and to serve”. Earlier it was reported that the militants organization “Islamic state” (IG, is prohibited in Russia) attacked a us base near the village of al-Karaj in

The defense Ministry explained the flight Il-76 across the border of Lithuania “thunderhead” Fly across the air border of Lithuania Russian Il-76 has deviated from the route due to weather conditions, said the Ministry of defence. Earlier Vilnius in connection with the incident handed Moscow a corresponding note. Statement of the Vilnius about the willful violation by the Russian military transport aircraft Il-76 of air space of Lithuania in the framework of the exercises “West-2017” are “politicized”, said the Ministry of defense of Russia, reports “Interfax”. Planes, as explained in the defense Ministry, has deviated from the route because of the “storm front”, which “directly threatened the security of the” Il-76 “to their crews.” The authorities of Russia, the Ministry added, made a “verbal request zonal center airspace control in the city of Vilnius” in order to make the deviation from the route. After obtaining permission from the Lithuanian side,

Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Gennady Gatilov © Alexander Shcherbak/TASS UN, September 18. /TASS/. Russia considers it necessary to work on optimization of expenses of the UN and is ready to participate in it. This was stated on Monday, Deputy foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov on the sidelines of the 72nd session of the General Assembly of the organization.

Photo: Reuters Deputy Chairman of the Russian state Duma Committee on nationalities Ruslan Balbec believes that “tapping a foot in the door of the nuclear club”, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko may provoke retaliatory tough steps. “The statement of the Ukrainian President on nuclear munition is an ultimatum to the Western countries. One nuclear warhead is not a panacea for all the ills of Ukraine. The Ukrainian President apparently thinks that by having the nuclear club, it will begin to swing with impunity and no one is going to knock the weapon out of your hands? This is the biggest misconception,” said he, reports RT. Earlier, Poroshenko said that the world has seen that signature under the Budapest Memorandum gives less security than a nuclear weapon. The President said at the 14th annual meeting of Yalta European strategy in Kiev. “If someone thinks that when finally the war is over