Gazprom summoned @GK_PGNiG to the Arbitration Tribunal in Stockholm. Gazprom demands a retroactive increase in the prices of the Yamal contract (8/12/2017) as part of its renegotiation proposals
Investigation is still ongoing but the Security Service of Ukraine has obtained preliminary indicators suggesting that hacker groups associated with the Russian secret services may stand behind today's massive cyberattack on government websites
1 year agoEchelon according to comments heading to Valuyki in Belgorod region
We have info that indicates Russia has already pre positioned a group of operatives to conduct a false flag operation in eastern Ukraine. The operatives are trained in urban warfare & using explosives to carry out acts of sabotage against Russia's own proxy forces. - @PressSec
Kirby: "We have information that [Russia has] pre-positioned a group of operatives to conduct what we call a "false flag" operation, an operation designed to look like an attack on them or their people - or Russian speaking people in Ukraine - as an excuse to go in
US government official: The White House requests an increase in the number of US military advisers and trainers in Ukraine
Ukraine National Security & Defense secretary tells @VOANews @MGongadze "only one country that can do it today on such a scale, it's the Russian Federation"
Wendy R. Sherman:.@OSCE Secretary General @HelgaSchmid_SG and I discussed Russia's ongoing aggression towards Ukraine and welcomed the Polish Chairman-in-Office @RauZbigniew's proposal to launch a revitalized discussion on European security at OSCE to reduce tensions
Ukrainian President has proposed meeting with presidents of Russia, Ukraine and the U.S - Kyiv
The US has information that indicates Russia has prepositioned a group of operatives to conduct a false-flag operation in eastern Ukraine, a US official told CNN on Friday, in an attempt to create a pretext for an invasion
1 year agoRussian Mi-8 and Ka-52 today over Bza'a, east of al Bab
1 year agoMilitary echelon in Koltsovo
1 year agoCombat vehicles roll on the streets of Visby
The FSB, after request from the United States, detained a group of hackers behind ransomware attacks(allegedly REvil group) - FSB
Investigators detained in Moscow a suspect in financing a terrorist organization in Syria and Iraq
A source with knowledge of recent cybersecurity initiatives in Ukraine told BuzzFeed News hours before the cyberattack that Kyiv & Washington had recently seen a "substantial uptick" in Russian cyber activity targeting Ukrainian systems & planting malware
1 year agoMiltiary echelon filmed in Kranoyarsk Krai. Witnesses reporting multiple echelons every day
Lavrov on the possibility of Kazakhstan joining the Union State of Russia and Belarus: we do not have the habit of calling someone forcibly, we are polite people
US NATO ambassador @USAmbNATO @Julie_C_Smith says still looking into Ukraine cyber attack but confirms cyber is "certainly" a criteria to trigger threatened western sanctions against Russia for any further aggressive action against its neighbor
1 year agoGerman Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock: At my first personal meeting with my colleague from Lithuania, @GLandsbergis, I talked on Ukraine, Russia and China
Putin to attend the opening of the Beijing Olympics on February 4, to hold talks with Xi Jinping - Lavrov
Lavrov: the participation of Western instructors in the conflict in Donbass will cross all red lines and mean a direct clash between the "Russian people" and the NATO military
The United States has had a direct hand in the current crisis in Orthodoxy, - Lavrov said
Lavrov: there are several hundred U.S. and British military in Ukraine
The EU military training mission in Ukraine is essentially aimed at training anti-Russian units, Lavrov said.
Lavrov on the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO: we categorically do not accept the emergence of an alliance on Russian borders, this is a real red line
Lavrov: even if Ukraine will not join NATO, the appearance of strike weapons and US military bases in the Sea of Azov is the second red line
1 year agoRussian prominent opposition activists Leonid Volkov and Ivan Zhdanov are included in the list of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring
The Russian Federation did not try to play any games when it put forward US and NATO proposals on security, - Lavrov said.
Major General Andrei Koban, head of the radio-technical troops of the Russian Aerospace Forces, arrested in Moscow in connection with a bribery case
Russia warns the US and NATO: we will not wait forever for an answer
Lavrov about Finland and Sweden in NATO: the Russian Federation respects the sovereignty of these countries, but it is not respected by those who want to provoke their entry into the alliance
Lavrov: Russia's patience with the actions of the West has come to an end, we have been harnessing for a long time - now is the time to go
Russia rejects the West's demand to return Russian troops to the barracks, the West has gone too far - Russian FM Lavrov
Lavrov: Western countries will increase the mobilization of their forces on our borders
There is reason to believe that NATO in the coming months may begin to build up forces next to the Russian Federation under the pretext of the situation in Ukraine, - Russian FM Lavrov
Russia prepares for any development of events while waiting for a response from the US and NATO on security guarantees - Lavrov
Lavrov said NATO is artificially luring Ukraine and the Scandinavian countries into its ranks
1 year agoAfter a week of intense high-level talks on Ukraine-Russia crisis, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said nobody expected to solve the issue in a few days. EU foreign ministers will continue discussions on the situation at Ukraine's border in Brest today
Jens Stoltenberg: Good call with @IEA's @fbirol(International Energy Agency). We discussed Russia's cynical manipulation of the energy markets. I briefed him on the meeting in the NATO-Russia council
1 year agoUS Army Artemis ISR watching Crimea very closely
Ukraine Foreign Ministry spokesperson: As a result of a massive cyber attack, the websites of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a number of other government agencies are temporarily down. Our specialists have already started restoring the work of IT systems, and the cyberpolice has opened an investigation
Russian Eastern Military district launched sudden combat readiness check
A number of formations and units of the Eastern District for are transferred to unfamiliar training grounds at a considerable distance from the points of permanent deployment - Ministry of Defense
1 year agoRussian 5th Tank Brigade route
1 year agoUkrainian e-government services website down, Cabinet of Ministers site not responding, Foreign Ministry site hacked: Defence Ministry, Rada, and other sites OK for now
1 year agoUkrainian government websites hit by a major cyberattack this morning. Below is the screenshot from Foreign ministry website. It says in Ukrainian, Russian and Polish: 'Ukrainian, be afraid and prepare for the worst. All your personal data has been uploaded to the web'
1 year agoMilitary echelon filmed in Chita
1 year agoMilitary echelon filmed in Ulyanovsk
1 year agoMilitary echelon filmed in Bryansk region
The VTV announcer at this time assures that the information that indicates that Russia does not rule out the mobilization of troops to Cuba and Venezuela is fake news
Asked by @marthamaccallum if U.S. willing to scale back military activities in Eastern Europe as part of talks with Moscow, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby says, "We would be willing, if there's reciprocity on the Russian side," including reducing forces on Ukraine border
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan: "We saw this playbook in 2014. They are preparing this playbook again," said Sullivan, adding that the administration will share more on this will the press in next 24 hours
Biden's National Security Advisor Sullivan says intelligence community sees that Russia may be preparing for fabricating pretext of an invasion of Ukraine. He adds that the US has not determined yet that Putin has decided on military path forward
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan says the admin will be sharing with press "in the next 24 hours" what US officials have seen Russia doing in terms of disinfo to create a pretext to invade Ukraine
US doesn't believe Russia "definitively decided" on Ukraine invasion, Sullivan says
1 year agoOn Russia aggression to Ukraine, we're ready either way, said @JakeSullivan46 - diplomacy or "respond robustly to any naked aggression that might occur"
Iran chief negotiator had bilateral meetings with Joint Commission coordinator Mora & Russia chief negotiator. Bagheri also had a meeting with E3 negotiators. Experts had bilateral & multilateral sessions to discuss different issues. Talks to continue tomorrow on Friday
Pentagon says about 2/3rds of the Russian troops around Ukraine came from other parts of Russia. About a third were already in the western or southern military districts
U.S. Defense Secretary Austin spoke with his Ukrainian counterpart and reaffirmed Washington's commitment to helping Ukraine defend itself, Pentagon says
1 year agoMilitary echelon with MLRS was filmed in Chita
1 year agoMilitary convoy was filmed near Ussuriysk, Primorskiy kray
1 year agoMilitary echelon filmed in Dimitrovgrad
The first units of Russian paratroopers from the CSTO forces returned from Kazakhstan to the home base in Ivanovo - Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
Servicemen of the 331st Guards Parachute Strike Kostroma regiment of the 98th Guards Airborne Division returned from Kazakhstan, - the press service of the head of the Kostroma region reported
1 year agoRussia's Syria campaign continues: Russian Navy Project 1171 Black Sea Fleet 197th Landing Ship Brigade Tapir (NATO:Alligator) class LST Orsk 148 transited Bosphorus towards Mediterranean carrying APCs en route to Russian naval base Tartus
The United States and NATO face a choice - either the indivisibility of security, or a confrontation that could have irreversible consequences - Russian Foreign Ministry
Mass bomb threats in the Sverdlovsk region were made from abroad to spread panic - FSB
Kremlin's spokesperson: Putin has regular updates on security talks. Overall results are clear, but Kremlin will wait until written response
Russia's rep to OSCE says today that Russia's proposals are "essentially a moment of truth that should determine whether we will agree on those lines that cannot be crossed. or the situation will follow a scenario that can lead to catastrophic consequences
1 year agoMilitary echelon filmed in Omsk
1 year agoMilitary echelon in Kanash
The President of the Russian Federation will be comprehensively reported on negotiations with the United States and NATO on security guarantees, he will determine the readiness for further steps - Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the OSCE Lukashevich
1 year agoKhabarovsk. If to believe the caption, it appears that T-80BVM tanks from the 64th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade (Knyaze-Volkonskoe) are heading west
1 year agoMilitary echelon in Taishet
1 year agoMilitary echelon filmed in Krasnoyarsk
The Rosselkhoznadzor has imposed restrictions on the import of live poultry and poultry products from Europe.
Nationalist statements of the new Minister of Information of Kazakhstan Umarov are unacceptable - Russian Foreign Ministry
1 year agoMilitary echelon filmed in Sverdlovsk region
Russian Defense Minister Shoigu reporting to Putin: withdrawal of CSTO troops from Kazakhstan will be concluded on 19th January
Foreign Minister of Ukraine Kuleba: Ukraine and the OSCE are unanimous - Russia must implement the Helsinki Accords
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany Baerbock to meet Russian FM Lavrov in Moscow in 18th January to discus Russian security guarantees proposals
The Russian Federation will not discuss the unacceptable demands of the United States about the "withdrawal to the barracks" of Russian troops on its territory, - Lavrov said
Japan protested to the Russian Federation over the shooting exercises, which, according to the Japanese side, have been held since January 11 in the waters near the island of Kunashir
The situation with Nord Stream 2 shows that Germany has no freedom to pursue its commercial interests, - Russian FM Sergei Lavrov
Borrell, top European diplomat, says Nord Stream 2 and Ukraine are indeed connected. "As you'd imagine, you can't sanction Russia with one hand and open that infrastructure" with the other
The United States has promised that next week will "put on paper" a response on security guarantees, NATO Secretary General promised a response within a week - Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov
Russian foreign minister says Moscow will respond to any U.S. sanctions
Lavrov claims that the United States and Britain made promises to Moscow not to expand NATO(in the past)
Russia will withdraw CSTO troops from Kazakhstan with 20 flights of transport aviation per day, Kyrgyzstan troops will leave by ground
Lavrov: the freedom of some states to join unions should not undermine the security of other states
Russian Foreign Minister: The talks showed the danger of a confrontation in the world
The US and NATO categorically reject Russia's right to claim guarantees of non-expansion of the alliance, - Russian FM Sergei Lavrov
Lavrov on the negotiations with the United States and NATO: they showed the seriousness of the confrontation on the world stage, but - despite the uncompromising position of the West - they were businesslike, it is likely that the United States will comprehend the outcome of the meeting
Negotiations with the United States on security guarantees have passed in line with Moscow's expectations, - Russian FM Sergei Lavrov said
French Defense Minister: We(EU) agreed to respond to any Russian aggression on Ukraine with a package of severe sanctions
Ryabkov: the most unthinkable things may come to the heads of the Ukrainian authorities, it is necessary to put an end to this
Military offered Putin options in case of deterioration of situation around Ukraine, but diplomacy must be given a chance - Russian deputy FM Ryabkov
Moscow will not allow other to held Russia responsible for possible provocations around Ukraine - Russian Foreign Ministry
1 year agoLithuania's Minister of National Defence: At the meeting of EU Defence Ministers we are talking a lot about EU missions and operations, also, the destabilising effect of Russian Wagner's mercenaries. In fact, Wagner are the same 'little green men' who help Russia to expand its spheres of influence in the world
