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Armed conflicts and attacks. Russian invasion of Ukraine. Belarusian involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko reports that nearly one third of the Belarus Army is deployed along the Belarus–Ukraine border, in response to Ukraine stationing more than 120,000 troops at the border.
RT (formerly Russia Today or Rossiya Segodnya; Russian: Россия Сегодня) [8] is a Russian state-controlled [1] international news television network funded by the Russian government. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] It operates pay television and free-to-air channels directed to audiences outside of Russia, as well as providing Internet content in ...
UK intervention. On 30 September 2015, Russia launched a military intervention in Syria after a request by the government of Bashar al-Assad for military support in its fight against the Syrian opposition and Islamic State (IS) in the Syrian civil war. [ 155 ][ 156 ] The intervention was kick-started by extensive air strikes across Syria ...
Russian fighter jets flew dangerously close to several U.S. drone aircraft over Syria on Wednesday, setting off flares and forcing the MQ-9 Reapers to take evasive maneuvers, the Air Force said.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Russia put forward a rival proposal on Friday for a six-month extension of U.N. Security Council approval for aid deliveries to northwestern Syria from Turkey, reviving a ...
v. t. e. Russia has supported the administration of incumbent President Bashar al-Assad of Syria since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in 2011: politically, with military aid, and (since September 2015) with direct military involvement. The 2015 deployment to Syria marked the first time since the end of the Cold War in 1991 that Russia ...
The Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war started on 30 September 2015, with 4,000 Russian military personnel being stationed in Syria. The Russian forces also consisted of 25 strategic bombers, [2] 20 tactical bombers, [3] 12 attack bombers, [4] 8 fighter aircraft, [5] [6] 16 attack helicopters [7] [8] and various other aircraft.
The Palmyra offensive (March 2016) was a military operation of the Syrian Arab Army, supported by Russian airstrikes, [ 39] to recapture from the Islamic State the city of Tadmur (near the ruins of the ancient city of Palmyra ), which was strategically important for both forces due to its position in central Syria. [ 40]