Contents tagged with NATO
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Ukrainian Chief of General Staff: Ukraine has created four new battalions in accordance with NATO standards
The Chief of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Viktor Muzhenko, reported that four battalions have been created in Ukraine according to NATO standards and that a fifth one was also being formed.
As he said on Saturday, October 15, in an interview with TV Channel 5, "quite a high level of training, with quite positive feedback reciived from American and Canadian instructors regarding our military personnel’s competence and motivation."
Muzhenko also added that Ukraine is now …
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Montenegro: Russia funds the campaign against our accession to NATO
The Prime Minister of Montenegro, Milomir Đukanović, accused Russia of funding the campaign against the accession of Montenegro to NATO. As Reuters reported, according to Đukanović, Moscow provides the opposition – the Democratic Front – with money from several pro-Russian and pro-Serbian parties, which are against Montenegro’s membership in the European Union and NATO.
“The Parliamentary elections in Montenegro will take place tomorrow. The Kremlin believes that these elections are the last …
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NATO will continue strengthening its defenses in response to the transfer of Iskanders to Kaliningrad
NATO is deeply concerned about the placement of Russian missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads near alliance borders and will continue its policy of strengthening defenses and engaging in political dialogue, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.
“In recent weeks, Russia has placed a system of missiles that can carry nuclear warheads near the borders of NATO. This is a manifestation of large-scale military activity and exercises near our borders. The allies are deeply concerned …
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US experts: Russia exerts covert pressure on eastern European countries
A report from US private research groups shows that the governments of five eastern and central European countries are under pressure from the Russian Federation, threatening their pro-Western orientation. The US experts have been conducting a 16-month long joint investigation with the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), which is based in Washington, and the Centre for Democracy Studies (CDS), based in Bulgaria.
The researchers concluded that Russia has organized a campaign …
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Stoltenberg presents NATO’s position on Russia’s deployment of Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad
The Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Jens Stoltenberg, expressed the opinion that Russia has followed a habitual course of action by deploying Iskander-M missile systems to Kaliningrad.
“We saw that they deployed missile systems in the Kaliningrad region. This is all part of a mosaic that is being assembled over a certain period of time,” TASS quoted Stoltenberg as saying.
According to him, the military bloc has already conducted the strongest program of …
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NATO AWACS reconnaissance aircraft will arrive in Lithuania
A new NATO reconnaissance aircraft with long-range radar detection and AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) will land at the Lithuanian Air Force airbase in Šiauliai this week, the Lithuanian authorities reported.
“It will be a symbolic visit of the NATO E-3A reconnaissance aircraft to Lithuania, one of more than a thousand flights conducted by its crew members to ensure the security of NATO’s eastern borders since the beginning of the Russian Federation’s aggressive actions in Ukraine," …
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US reconnaissance aircraft approached Russian Navy ships in the Mediterranean
Interfax.ru reported that on Tuesday, the US Navy’s P-8A Poseidon anti-submarine aircraft conducted another reconnaissance flight in the area of the eastern Mediterranean Sea. According to websites that track the movement of military aircraft, this is presumably where the ships of the permanent task force of the Russian Navy are situated.
According to their information, the aircraft, which had the tail number of 168859, left the Sigonella airbase in Sicily on Tuesday morning. The aircraft then …
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NATO criticized transfer of Russian Iskanders to Kaliningrad
NATO has sharply criticized the transfer of Russian Iskander-M tactical missiles to a Kaliningrad region which borders both Poland and Lithuania.
“The placement of missiles, which are equipped with nuclear warheads, to an area bordering member countries of the Alliance does not promote a reduction of the level of tensions,” this was said by a spokesman for NATO during an interview with dpa on the 9th of October.
“We need an increase, and not a decrease, in the level of transparency. We also …
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Russia warns Montenegro and Bosnia not to join NATO
The expected accession of Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina to NATO will damage the relations of these countries with Russia. Interfax reported that this was said by the Director of the Department of European Cooperation of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Andrey Kelin.
“NATO is currently adhering to an extremely unfriendly policy towards Russia. In addition, foreign troops are being placed on the territory of the Baltic states. An accession to NATO in this situation will not aid in stability, …
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During the 1970s, the Soviet KGB attempted to recruit Jens Stoltenberg
Soviet intelligence once tried to recruit the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Jens Stoltenberg, to the Committee for the State Security of the Soviet Union, or the KGB. Stoltenberg wrote this in his autobiography, NRK reported. Stoltenberg explained that he had been in contact with employees of the Soviet Embassy since the late 1970s and repeatedly talked with Soviet Cultural Attaché Boris Kirillov.
The Secretary General of NATO recalls how he met with the erudite …