Defence`s Feeds

A spokesperson for the Libyan National Army (LNA), Ahmad al-Mismari, said on Wednesday that the LNA has eliminated one of the ringleaders of the Daesh* terrorist group in North Africa.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday proposed a sub-regional public health initiative that would involve the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took further action against the network of Kremlin-connected Russian operative Yevgeniy Prigozhin (Prigozhin), by targeting entities and individuals working on behalf of Prigozhin to advance Russia's influence in the Central African Republic (CAR). Concurrently, OFAC is targeting those that have supported the Russian Federal Security Service directly, as well as those

A strait between the Danish island of Zealand and Sweden, connecting the Kattegat with the Baltic has become a place of a ship collision incident.

Russia's Ministry of Defense says its paratroopers have parachuted into Belarus as part of joint military exercises.

In late 2019, Russian Strategic Missile Forces commander Col-Gen Sergei Karakaev confirmed that the first Avangard-equipped regiment had been stationed at the Yasnensky missile compound in the Orenburg region, about 1,200 km southeast of Moscow.

Two Russian fighters Su-27 were scrambled to intercept two US Air Force bombers over the Black Sea, the Russian Defence Ministry's National Defense Control Centre (NDCC) said on Wednesday.

Russia said on September 23 that it is expanding a list of barred European officials in response to what it called "hostile steps" against it and its citizens.

Today, the United States imposed sanctions on a network connected to Russian operative Yevgeniy Prigozhin by targeting entities and individuals working on his behalf to advance Russia's influence in the Central African Republic (CAR).

The U.S. Treasury has announced sanctions against people and entities with links to the Kremlin-connected organizer and financier of the so-called Russian troll factory behind suspected assaults on U.S. and other foreign elections.

Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny has been discharged from the Berlin hospital where he was being treated for what Germany has said is a case of poisoning with a Soviet-style nerve agent.

France has received a request from Russia regarding Russian political opposition figure Alexei Navalny and it is currently under review, the French Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.

The German hospital that had admitted Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny with alleged poisoning says he has now been discharged.

On the morning of August 20, Georgy Alburov was having breakfast at the Xander hotel in Tomsk. An employee of Aleksei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), Alburov had stayed in the Siberian city with three colleagues after Navalny's departure for Moscow that morning, to gather material for the organization's latest investigation into official graft.

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Prime Minister, chaired today the Cabinet's virtual session.

Taiwan's psychological defenses have been breached after the Chinese Foreign Ministry said the so-called "median line" of the Taiwan Straits is non-existent, Chinese mainland observers said on Wednesday, warning that a military conflict is inevitable if Taiwan secessionists insist on that line.

A senior spokesman for the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces says Iran plans to fortify Syria's air defense.

Bulgarian Chief Public Prosecutor Ivan Geshev has officially informed the country's Foreign Ministry about the results of the probe into actions of two Russian diplomats expelled from Bulgaria earlier in the year, noting that the two were engaged in espionage activities to obtain information on the army modernisation plans.

Bulgaria has expelled two Russian diplomats accused of military espionage and ordered them to leave the country within 72 hours, the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry said on September 23.

Today, EDA Chief Executive, Jiří Šedivý, was in Luxembourg where he was welcomed at the Directorate of Defence and visited the Luxembourgish satellite hub at Betzdorf. Luxembourg marks the third visit of Mr. Šedivý’s ‘tour des capitales’ which will see him meet officials in all Member States in the months to come. 

Mr. Šedivý was received by Luxembourg’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, François Bausch, Director of Defence, Tom Köller, Deputy Director of Defence, Rol Reiland and Paul Nilles, Head of the Strategic planning and capability development. 
Discussions focused on the EU defence initiatives, EDA’s role in supporting all Member States and Luxembourg’s defence priorities. The official visit concluded at the Luxembourgish satellite hub in Betzdorf, where Mr. Šedivý was welcomed at the home of the Société Européenne des Satellites (SES) and Lux GovSat. 

“I am delighted to have this opportunity to visit Luxembourg as it is an important stakeholder in EDA’s success through its dedicated support and active participation in the Agency’s work. With Minister Bausch, I expressed my gratitude for Luxembourg’s value-added leadership on satellite capabilities, green defence and the circular economy. In these challenging times, I particularly welcome the strong support from Luxembourg to EDA and European defence cooperation.” Mr Šedivý commented.

Luxembourg’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, François Bausch, said: “We welcome very much EDA’s contribution to advancing the development of European Defence through cooperation and concrete and tangible results. We look very much forward to further deepening cooperation through the EDA Project Arrangement for governmental satellite communications. Besides that, we are planning to start a new cooperation with EDA trying to promote the principles of circular economy in European Defence.”