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Photo: RIA Novosti In the Victory parades in three cities of Crimea — Sevastopol, Simferopol and Kerch — will involve 3 thousand soldiers and 80 pieces of equipment. On Friday, April 7, reports “Interfax” with reference to the headquarters of the black sea fleet (BSF). In parades in three Crimean cities will take part about 3 thousand, 2 hundred of which — the military, the defence Ministry said the Russian black sea fleet headquarters. A solemn March will be held, in particular, the young students of the Sevastopol presidential cadet school and school pupils — participants of movement “Uname”. As noted by the representatives of the strategic enterprises in the mechanized part of the parade will be involved military equipment of coastal armies and army corps, part of the black sea fleet and the armaments of the army, air force and air defense of the southern military district. The rehearsal

Photo: Video screenshot In the defense Ministry told about the injuries suffered by the Syrian air base Shirt as a result of hitting the United States. It is reported by RIA Novosti. Defense Ministry representatives said that the missile attack had destroyed school building and six MiG-23 were in the maintenance hangars. Ships of the U.S. Navy April 7, struck by Tomahawk missiles at the air base of the Syrian government forces. In all there were more than 50 rockets aimed at the runway, aircraft Parking and refueling facilities. Human rights activists said that the airfield was almost completely destroyed. According to various sources, the attack killed four to six people, perhaps some of them are civilians. The US President Donald trump said that the decision to strike is answered “vital national interests” of States. In his opinion, the attack will prevent the proliferation of chemical weapons. In Russia, the

The Russian foreign Ministry commented on the cancellation of the visit of Boris Johnson to Moscow Moscow. April 9. INTERFAX.RU — the Russian-British dialogue, London needed no less than Moscow, say the Russian foreign Ministry, commenting on the decision of the foreign office to cancel the visit to Russia by Minister Boris Johnson. “The Ministry of foreign Affairs of great Britain announced that the Minister Boris Johnson has decided not to make a visit to Moscow on April 10, as planned, under the pretext of “fundamental change of the situation in connection with events in Syria.” Judging by the statements of Boris Johnson, now he’s got other priorities, namely the discussions with the partners in the “seven” of the situation in Syria and “Russian support of the Assad regime”, — is spoken in the comment of Department of information and press of the Russian foreign Ministry. “There is a fundamental

In South Ossetia began presidential elections TSKHINVALI, April 9 — RIA Novosti. All 77 polling stations in the presidential elections in South Ossetia opened at 08.00 local time (same as GMT), told RIA Novosti Secretary of the CEC of the Republic of Kristina Vlahova. Candidates for the highest office of the country was the current President Leonid Tibilov, speaker of Parliament Anatoly Bibilov and KGB officer Alan Gagloev. They all advocate the further strengthening of relations with Russia. “Each of the 72 plot on the territory of South Ossetia and five outside the Republic were opened at the appointed time,” said Vlahova. Outside the country, one precinct opened at the embassies in Moscow and Sukhum, two in Consulate of South Ossetia in Vladikavkaz and one in the Prigorodny district of North Ossetia. The areas will be closed at 20.00 local time. In addition to the presidential elections in South Ossetia

Photo: RIA Novosti The militants of the terrorist groups “the Islamic state and Jabhat al-Nusra”* launched an offensive on the positions of Syrian troops immediately after the missile attack of the USA on the Syrian air base Shirt. About it reported in a press release of the Ministry of defense of Russia. “Immediately after applying massive missile strike on the Syrian air base began a major offensive of terrorist groups “IGIL” and “Dzhabhat EN-Nusra” on the positions of Syrian troops”, — stated in the message. * “Dzhabhat EN-Nusra”, “Islamic state” (ISIS) is a terrorist organization banned in Russia.

Photo: RIA Novosti The state Duma intends to draw attention of international structures to the effects of US air strike on the air base Shirt used by government forces in Syria. This was announced by the speaker of the lower house of Parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin “the parliamentary newspaper” on Friday, April 7. He instructed during the day to prepare a draft appeal to the parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE and the Council of Europe. “European countries must understand that all that is doing now United States of America, striking at Syria, may very well backfire against all of us, European countries”, — said Volodin. In particular, it can lead to a new flow of refugees in the EU, he added. Earlier it was reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin called the incident of aggression against a sovereign state in violation of international law under false pretenses. The head of the

The head of the Federation Council Committee on international Affairs Konstantin Kosachev © Valery sharifulin/TASS MOSCOW, April 9. /TASS/. The head of the Federation Council Committee on international Affairs Konstantin Kosachev called sabotage statement of U.S. permanent representative to the UN, Nikki Haley about the impossibility to find a political solution in Syria with President Bashar al-Assad at the helm. “Calling a spade a spade, this is a direct sabotage of the efforts of the international community to start the process of political negotiations between the authorities and the opposition. The opinion of the United States reads in the ranks as moderate, and the armed opposition. And what’s the point then to go to Astana or to Geneva, will they ask?”, – the politician wrote on his official page in social network Facebook.

Haley was named one of the U.S. priorities shift, Syrian regime US Ambassador to the UN added that regime change is not the only priority. Moscow. April 9. INTERFAX.RU — the U.S. Permanent representative to the UN, Nikki Haley said that the change of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad remains a priority of the American administration. “We do not see a peaceful Syria with Assad,” she told the TV channel CNN. This statement was made after the missile attack on the United States air base, the Syrian Air force in HOMS province, the basis for which the US called that from the airfield of this base flew the planes that allegedly previously attacked with chemical weapons in Idlib province, which led to numerous casualties. The envoy added that regime change is not the only priority. “There are several priorities. The removal of Assad is not the only one”,