One of @TRF_Stories' sources said that the contractors flew to Venezuela not from Russia, but from "third countries where they were conducting missions". @TRF_Stories looked at several flights, including a Ilyushin-96 that arrived in Cuba on 23 Jan Russia, Senegal, and Paraguay respectively.
Venezuela has "the full backing" of Russia, Maduro says.
Yevgeny Shabayev, leader of a local chapter of a paramilitary group of Cossacks with ties to Russian military contractors, said he had heard the number of Russian contractors in Venezuela may be about 400.
Acting president @jguaido: The US Embassy stays in Venezuela, with the doors open. And hopefully all will stay, the Russian, the Chinese.
Tu-214SR RSD047, the Russian communication relay and command plane
The Russian Foreign Ministry announced the US plans for the use of space for military operations
#DDoSecrets has added: Dark Side of the Kremlin (108 GB), hundreds of thousands of messages and files from Russian politicians, journalists, oligarchs, religious figures, and nationalists/militants in Ukraine.
Russia offers mediation between the Venezuelan government and the opposition
"There was no real progress in the meeting" because Russia did not change its position that its 9M729 does not violate the INF, says @jensstoltenberg after meeting the Russian delegation.
After the NATO–Russia Council with Russia Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg calls the meeting "useful and professional", focused on 2 topics: Ukraine and the #INFTreaty. "On both of these issues, Allies and Russia fundamentally disagree."
SG @jensstoltenberg: the NATO-Russia Council discussed tensions in the Sea of Azov. NATO Allies made clear they "will not recognise the illegal annexation of Crimea", and called on Russia to "immediately release" Ukraine's sailors and ships they seized in November.
Kremlin spox: Putin did not discuss possible financial or military aid to Venezuela during call with Maduro.
3 week agoThe Turkish billionaire's plane. Caracas, Venezuela -Moscow, Russia, Just getting airborne again from Moscow VKO.
3 week agoSecurity Service of Ukraine: Russian military intelligence units help to disperse democratic protests in Sudan
The teenager opened fire near a school in the village of Abalakovo in the north of the Krasnoyarsk Krai, the region's Ministry of Education reported
The Swedish military says a Russian reconnaissance plane escorted by two Russian fighter jets briefly violated Sweden's air space on the country's Baltic Sea coast.
Heavy lift - Inbound Latakia Air Base, Syria Russia Russian Air Force IL76 RA78830 RFF7339
[email protected] says U.S. has presented Moscow with a plan for a "verifiable" test of the the 9M729's range. Moscow has countered with an unacceptable proposal. "They would have controlled the environment," she said on the Russian plan
Vladimir Putin expresses his support for Nicolás Maduro in a telephone conversation
Police patrol was attacked in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkarskaya Republic of Russian Federation. 2 attackers killed, 2 wounded, at least 1 policeman also wounded
3 week agoTheoretical layout and specs of Russia's new Ohotnik-B stealth UAV from Russian Paralay forums.
3 week agoU.S. soldiers began working with Russian D-30 howitzer at Fort Hood
3 week agoRussian President Putin's chief economic adviser Glaziyev: "Dollar is a toxic currency, we need to abandon it. Russian economy needs new, digital roubles. Digital rouble can be linked to some sort of material equivalent - for instance, in energy area, as Venezuela did."
3 week agoA Finnish Air Force F/A-18 on QRA was scrambled to intercept two Russian Air Force Suhoi SU-27 fighters in international airspace above the Gulf of Finland on Thursday 24th January at around 11:30 am. The airspace of Finland was not violated.
Chechen and Dagestani authorities have announced the formation of a committee to "specify" the border between the two republics. Moreover, Dagestani govt has said it will create similar committees to discuss its other borders: with Stavropol and Kalmykia.
3 week agoRussia's Lavrov in Algeria
US embassy: Russian MoD's missile presentation convinced nobody; it was attempt to conceal INF Treaty violation, create appearance of transparency.
3 week agoRussian combat UAV Ohotnik
3 week agoPhotos from the crash place of a Tu-22M3 bomber in the Murmansk region of RussiaRussia. January 22,2019.
Kremlin: We have not received a request for military assistance from Venezuela
