Military security

Government army repelled an attack in the direction of the village of Nayrab.

“This is a temporary exacerbation, the situation is threatening. There are four wounded and one dead,” the Minister of Defense Andriy Zahorodniuk said.

According to Kelly Craft, Washington accuses Moscow and Damascus of escalating the tense situation.

The need for a new ship is explained by the fact that Ticonderoga class cruisers are ageing and should be decommissioned in the near future.

“We intend to continue using our working contacts with Turkish colleagues in order not to allow the situation in Idlib to develop further along the path of escalation,” Dmitry Peskov concluded.

The reasons for the redeployment are not indicated.

Earlier on February 18, Kiev reported that armed groups attacked the positions of the Ukrainian military on the demarcation line.

Moscow welcomes Rome’s intention not to refuse Russian President’s proposal to begin a dialogue on a moratorium on the deployment of intermediate-range nuclear missiles.

The head of the UN Support Mission in Libya Gassan Salame said that the countries, which participated in the Berlin conference, violated their own arms embargo.

At least two servicemen died and three were wounded.