NATO ambassadors, acting on a recommendation from the alliance's top military commander US Air ForceGen. Philip Breedlove, gave the go-ahead to the flights on Monday, a NATO spokesman said.
Voice of Russia, Reuters
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_03_10/NATO-to-fly-AWACS-over-Poland-Romania-to-monitor-Ukraine-crisis-3305/
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Nato jets to monitor Ukraine border...
ReplyDeleteNato is to deploy reconnaissance planes in Poland and Romania to monitor the Ukrainian crisis.
It gave the go-ahead for the flights on Monday, a Nato spokesman said.
"All Awacs [Airborne Warning and Control System] reconnaissance flights will take place solely over alliance territory," the official said.
It comes as Russia cements its control of Ukraine's Crimea ahead of Sunday's referendum to join Russia. Ukraine and the West say this is illegal.
In the latest move on Monday, armed men - said to be Russian troops and local militias - seized a military hospital in Crimea.
The attackers marched into the hospital in the regional capital Simferopol, threatening staff and some 30 patients.
Pro-Russian troops are also blockading Ukrainian troops across Crimea, which is an autonomous region.............................http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26521311
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L'Ukraine et la Roumanie ont signé lundi un accord afin d'améliorer la coopération militaire, a indiqué le ministre roumain des Affaires étrangères, Titus Corlatean....
ReplyDeleteCe dernier et son homologue ukrainien, Andrii Dechtchitsa, ont signé l'accord à Kiev, quelques jours avant le référendum en Crimée. Le parlement pro-russe de Crimée a convoqué ce référendum pour décider d'un rattachement éventuel de la péninsule à la Russie.
La Roumanie est membre de l'Otan depuis 2004.
Belga
http://www.rtbf.be/info/monde/detail_la-roumanie-et-l-ukraine-ont-signe-un-accord-de-cooperation-militaire?id=8219375
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NATO says does not plan supplying Ukraine with data from AWACS jets...
ReplyDeleteNATO does not plan supplying Ukraine with the data of radar surveillance in Crimea obtained with the aid of the aircraft assigned to the Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS), which are due to begin flights over the territories of Poland and Romania as of Wednesday, March 12, a diplomatic source in Brussels told Itar-Tass Monday.
Earlier on the same day, NATO Council passed a decision on launching regular flights of AWACS jets for watching the situation in Crimea and in Ukraine, in line with a recommendation issued by General Philip Breedlove, NATO’s supreme allied commander for Europe.
He claimed that the radar surveillance data would make the North-Atlantic pact members more informed on the situation in Ukraine and especially in Crimea and would make it possible to get all the necessary information on movements of combat units in that region.
According to Gen Breedlove, the measure would also respond to the concerns on the part of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland about the operative situation the borders of the pact
"These flights will enhance the alliance's situational awareness and all will take place solely over alliance territory," he said.
AWACS forces report directly to the staff of NATO’s allied force in Europe, and that is why their flights can begin very soon after a decision is taken to bring them into action.
Flights will be made from bases in Britain and Germany.
Washington said earlier it was sending up to eighteen F-16 fighter jets and several refueling jets to the former Soviet Baltic republics and Poland.
Voice of Russia, TASS
Turchynov: Ukraine to ask security guarantors for military aid...
ReplyDelete"We have our armed forces fully operational," Turchynov said
Ukraine will turn to security guarantors for technical and military aid, Ukraine's parliament-appointed president, Verkhovna Rada speaker Oleksandr Turchynov told the national legislature on Tuesday.
“The parliament’s primary task is to ask countries that are guarantors of our security to fulfill their commitments,” said Turchinov.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs will provide for all urgent needs of the Ukrainian National Guard which is to be established according to Tuesday’s decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, yet Ukraine would need the guarantors’ technical and military aid, Turchynov added.
“We have our armed forces fully operational, we carried out training and have a clear understanding of our armed forces’ condition. We are starting to restore the army,” he said.
http://en.itar-tass.com/world/722952
11/3/14
The UK will send a surveillance drone of the Royal Air Force to Ukrainian borders, the Defense Ministry of the UK reported on Tuesday.....
ReplyDeleteThe drone would perform flights in the air space of Poland and Romania, the representative of the ministry specified. He added that Great Britain detached its surveillance drone to take part in the NATO mission aimed at raising the patrolling level over the Baltic States.
As reported earlier, the NATO Council took the decision on starting regular flights of AWACS radar surveillance planes to monitor the situation in the Crimea and in Ukraine at large. The planes will be departing from two air bases: from Waddington, Lincolnshire, and Geilenkirchen in western Germany near the German-Belgian border.
Earlier, Washington announced that in order to raise the defense capacity of Poland and the Baltic States the US would sent to these states up to 18 F-16 fighters and several aerial tankers.
Read more: http://indian.ruvr.ru/news/2014_03_11/UK-drone-Poland-Romania-Ukraine/
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