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Jul 30, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
⚡️Ukrainian drone hits the Moscow International Business Center (Moscow-City) office building in #Moscow. Moscow-City (Moskva-City) in morning.
Dec 5, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
Military situation around #Soledar on 5/12/22. Footage shows an unsuccessful counterattack by Ukrainian army from Soledar towards Bakhmutske village on 2th Dec.
Dec 5, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
Donbas Front,#Donetsk axis on 5/12/22.#Ukraine
Military situation around Pervomaiske-Vodyane. Image Latest gains in #Pervomaiske Image
Mar 28, 2022 5 tweets 3 min read
Detailed map of the situation in Mariupol' on 28/3/22. #Mariupol #Ukraine Image DPR- controlled area of Kalmiuskyi district. #Mariupol
Oct 22, 2019 7 tweets 2 min read
Putin meets Erdogan to discuss Syria. It's clear what Turkey will not be able to take control of a large 'Safe zone' 444 km wide. Also Turkey will not remove Turkish backed militants from the occupied small 'safe zone' about 150 km wide.
Jan 23, 2019 5 tweets 2 min read
New Russian Sukhoi 'Okhotnik' heavy strike unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV). The 'Okhotnik' is Strike-Reconnaissance Unmanned Complex. Supposedly, the UAV has a mass of about 20 tons.
Jan 21, 2019 5 tweets 2 min read
Syria’s air defenses destroyed more than 30 cruise missiles and guided bombs during Israel’s night strike on Jan 21. Four Syrian military were killed and six others were wounded,partially damaged the infrastructure of the Damascus international airport .– Russian MoD Syria’s air defenses foiled 1st Israeli attack and Israeli AF returned back at night to destroy Syrian air defenses SAM sites.
Dec 26, 2018 6 tweets 2 min read
Russia MoD calls Israel’s airstrikes 'provocative acts by the Israeli Air Force endangered two passenger jets' when six F16s carried out airstrikes on Syria from Lebanese airspace on 25 December. Six Israeli F-16s fired 16 missiles at Damascus, Syria’s air defenses intercepted 14 of them.
The IDF’s F-16 flew in as civilian jets were landing at Beirut and Damascus airport. Damascus air traffic control divert one of the passenger jets to a reserve airport in Khmeimim.
Dec 10, 2018 4 tweets 3 min read
Two Russian Air Force Tupolev Tu-160 heavy strategic bombers arrived to Venezuela🇻🇪to conduct exercises with the Venezuelan Air Force. Two Russian Air Force Tupolev Tu-160 heavy strategic bombers arrived to Venezuela after 10,000-kilometer flight from Russia.
Nov 25, 2018 16 tweets 6 min read
Russian Coast Guard of the Border Service closing Kerch Strait between #Azov and #BlackSea traffic in order to ensure safety,after 3 Ukrainian warships intrude into Russia’s territorial waters from Black Sea in violation of Articles 19,21 of the UN Convention of Sea Law. Russian Coast Guard patrolling the Kerch Strait Bridge area.The Kerch Strait has a procedure for permitting the movement and anchorage of ships, in accordance with the schedule of the movement and deployment of ships, which needs approved by the captain of the Russian seaport.
Oct 2, 2018 4 tweets 1 min read
The S-300 air defense system and dozens of additional hardware pieces have been delivered to Syria.(Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu) The S-300 SAM system hardware supplied to Syria consisted of 49 pieces of military equipment, including radars, control vehicles and four launchers.
Sep 27, 2018 4 tweets 3 min read
The #RuAF An-124 transport aircraft carrying components of S-300 SAM system landed at Hmeymim airbase. 28/09/18 2nd #RuAF An-124 transport aircraft carrying components of S-300 SAM system landed at Hmeymim airbase.
Sep 24, 2018 5 tweets 1 min read
Russian Minister of Defense S. Shoigu announces that Russia will complete the delivery to Damascus of an S-300 air defense system within two weeks. Russian President V. Putin ordered the defense ministry to take several measures in response to the incident with Il-20:
1-Russia to supply S-300 to Syria (In 2013 on a request from the Israeli side suspended the delivery)
Sep 23, 2018 11 tweets 4 min read
Russian MoD presented a detailed 3D timeline of Il-20 downing in Syria on September 17. Israeli Air Force had notified Russia of its planned attacks on Syrian targets simultaneously with the beginning of the strikes (1 min before), violating 2015 bilateral agreements to prevent incidents in Syrian airspace.
Air traffic on 17 Sep 2018 at 21:40
Sep 18, 2018 11 tweets 2 min read
Russian MoD released graphic showing how the Il-20 was shot down.Israeli AF F-16s masked themselves behind a Russian Il-20 during their airstrike against Syrian industrial facilities in #Tartus & #Latakia. Israel also used French Navy’s frigate Auvergne in area as cover. 4 Israeli F-16 jets attacked targets in Syria on Monday evening, approaching from Mediterranean at a low altitude. The Il-20 was on patrol in the same area.The warning came just a minute before the attack started,which did not leave time to move the Il-20 plane to a safe area.
Sep 17, 2018 4 tweets 1 min read
Russian Il-20 aircraft with 14 servicemen on board went off the radars during an attack by four Israeli F-16 jets on Syria’s Latakia province.
Russian radars also registered the launch of missiles from a French frigate Auvergne in in the Mediterranean. Air traffic controllers at the Khmeimim Air Base lost contact with #RuAF Il-20 aircraft over the Mediterranean Sea, 35 kilometers from the coast of Syria, when returning to Khmeimim base in moment attack of Israeli 4xF-16 fighters on Latakia region.
Sep 17, 2018 5 tweets 1 min read
Russia and Turkey have agreed a demilitarized zone between militants and Syrian Army troops in Syria’s Idlib. Agreed to create a demilitarized zone between SAA and militants before October 15. The zone will be 15-20km wide, with full withdrawal of hardline militants from there, including the Jabhat Al-Nusra.
Sep 13, 2018 4 tweets 3 min read
Active phase Vostok 2018 maneuvers at the Tsugol training ground.
30+ Mi-8/Mi-26/Ka-52/Mi-24
~150 towed 152 mm howitzer
20+ IL-76 military transport aircrafts
Airborne forces
Mechanized infantry
Tank Brigades Vostok 2018 maneuvers at the Tsugol training ground.
Tank and motorized rifle troops.
Sep 13, 2018 4 tweets 3 min read
Vostok 2018 maneuvers, Tsugol training ground. Vostok 2018 maneuvers, Tsugol training ground.
Aug 14, 2018 6 tweets 5 min read
Armed group in Bariqa and Bir Ajam villages #Quneitra, started to hand over their medium weapons to SAA today, the reconciliation is still ongoing. Only Bariqa and Bir Ajam villages remain under control armed groups in #Quneitra.