Day: September 19, 2017

Photo: IGOR SAMOKHVALOV The Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko said that he sees no logic in the suggestion of the US state Department to place UN peacekeepers on the border of Russia and Ukraine. “No logic in this sentence, I do not see” — said the head of the upper house of Parliament, reporters, reports TASS. Valentina Matvienko has reminded that the Russian leader Vladimir Putin instructed the foreign Ministry to appeal to the UN with the request to place the peacekeeping contingent in the conflict zone in the Donbass. Thus it was that today on the territory of DND and LNR, as well as in the area of the contact work with representatives of the OSCE, said the Senator. Matvienko added that peacekeepers are needed to ensure the safety of the OSCE mission, because the organization does not have armed protection to those employees who participate in

Photo: RIA Novosti The Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on international Affairs, head of the Commission for the protection of the sovereignty Andrei Klimov believes that reports about the fall in the Donetsk region Russian drone can be a provocation, reports RT. “I do not rule out a provocation when someone’s camera will intentionally be issued for Russia, given the disinformation, which is now in its third year Kiev is spreading around the world about non-existent Russian army on the territory of Ukraine”, — he said. Ukraine said about the fall in the Donetsk region of the drone Russian-made “Orlan-10”. This was reported on the page of the headquarters of the ATO in Facebook. The fall of the machine, produced in Russia, regarded as another proof that Russia is involved in the war against Ukraine. “This UAV Russia often applies in the Donbass for reconnaissance and adjustment of

Photo: RIA Novosti The official representative of the defense Ministry major-General Igor Konashenkov denied the information about the applied videoconferencing impact on the Syrian opposition, RIA Novosti reported. “Syrian government forces backed by the Russian space forces for more than a week lead successful battles to elimination of the last foothold of ISIS in Deir ez-Zor. In order to avoid unnecessary escalation, the command of the Russian forces in Syria, according to the existing communication channel in advance, brought to the American partners of the boundaries of the military operation in Deir ez-Zor”, he said. As noted Konashenkov, in the context of the operation destroyed the manpower, armored vehicles and terrorist targets on the Western and on the Eastern Bank of the Euphrates. Russian aerospace forces, inflicting precision strikes in areas controlled by ISIL (ISIS, is prohibited in Russia) regions to destroy firing points of terrorists from which leads a