Day: February 15, 2018

Britain has accused Russia of cyber attacks The Deputy head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of great Britain, Tariq Ahmad said that the Russian authorities were implicated in the cyber attack, which used the virus NotPetya, reports RIA “Novosti”. “The British government believes that the Russian authorities, in particular, the Russian military was responsible for the destructive attack by the virus NotPetya in June 2017. The reckless use of the virus disrupted the work of organizations across Europe and cost hundreds of millions of pounds… We call on Russia to become a responsible member of the international community,” said Ahmad. The virus has struck several countries, mostly affecting the Ukrainian company. The attack was subjected to IT systems, oil and energy, telecommunications, pharmaceutical companies and government bodies. Evidence of Russian interference Ahmad failed. Earlier it was reported that the CIA has attributed to Russia’s cyber attack virus NotPetya in

Syrian air defenses forced the Israeli aircraft to flee the country MOSCOW, 14 Feb — RIA Novosti. Syrian air defense on Wednesday forced an Israeli reconnaissance plane to leave the country’s airspace after the aircraft was spotted in the skies over El Kuneitra, reports the state Agency SANA. “The Syrian air defense on Wednesday opposed an Israeli reconnaissance plane in the skies over the town of Quneitra and forced him to leave the Syrian airspace,” the Agency reported citing its own correspondent. The Israeli side has not commented on the likely incident. Earlier, the Israeli military announced the interception over the North of the Iranian drone and attacked in response of the UAV base in Syria, faced with the opposition of defense and lost the F-16. Its crew ejected over their territory. Syrian state media, in turn, said that the air defense system of the country repelled an attack by

NATO decided to create a new command and the cyber operations center Defence Ministers of countries—members of NATO decided to create the Atlantic command, support command for logistics in Europe, as well as the control center of cyber operations. This was stated by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. According to Mr. Stoltenberg, the command of the Atlantic will help to protect sea lines of communication between North America and Europe. The cyber operations center will create at the military headquarters at SHAPE (Supreme headquarters of the command of the United armed forces of NATO in Europe). Jens Stoltenberg also said that to expand the command of the Alliance will require an increase in funding. Where will be located the new headquarters, NATO has not yet decided. The Agency DPA, citing its own sources said that the new logistics centre can be built on the territory of Germany: in Cologne or

Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov © Anton novoderezhkin/TASS MOSCOW, February 15. /TASS./ Russian President Vladimir Putin has not made a decision on how to classify information about those killed in Syria. This was reported by press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov. “No, the President didn’t make the decision. All we can say on this topic, we have said, we have nothing to add,” – said the representative of the Kremlin.

The head of the Federation Council Committee on international Affairs Konstantin Kosachev © Sergei Savostyanov/TASS MOSCOW, February 15. /TASS./ Russia is grateful to Turkey for assistance in the return of the body in Syria shot down su-25 Roman Filipov. This was stated on Thursday the head of the Federation Council Committee on international Affairs Konstantin Kosachev at the meeting with the Ambassador of Turkey in Russia by Huseyin Dirioz.