Russia will next month hold its biggest war games in nearly four decades, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told Russian news agencies on Tuesday, a massive military exercise that will also involve the Chinese and Mongolian armies. The exercise, called Vostok-2018 (East-2018), will take place in central and eastern Russian military districts and involve almost 300,000 troops, over 1,000 military aircraft, two of Russia’s naval fleets, and all its airborne units, agencies quoted Shoigu as saying. Source: Reuters
Saudi and Iranian officials held direct talks this month in a bid to ease tensions between the two foes, a senior Iranian official and two regional sources said, as Washington works to revive a 2015 nuclear pact with Tehran and end the Yemen war. Source Reuters
- Defence official says the self-ruled island is looking to acquire Lockheed Martin’s AGM-158
- Beijing has ramped up pressure as it tries to force Taipei to accept its claims of sovereignty
Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian railways) stated about the deficit of fuel. The rest amount of diesel is enough for four days as Ukrzaliznytsia reported.
“Ukrzaliznytsia has two contracts on the supply of 10,000 tons of diesel fuel. Meanwhile, due to the refusal of the suppliers to load out fuel on the contracts, the company owns a stockpile for four days,” the message said.
However, the company noted that currently, the work is held on ‘provision of stable work of the railroad transport’, the company controls the situation and has a firm plan for the provision of necessary volume of fuel soon. Source 112 UA
