Sources: Pravda
Ukrainian FP-5 Flamingo and drones strike Oryol in Oryol Oblast, Russia, damaging several cars and apartments, while several drones are shot down by air defense. 2025-11-13
The first ship with Ukrainian grain leaves the port of Odesa for Lebanon after an agreement was signed with Russia. 2022-08-1
Six Pakistani crew members and a Russian and a Serbian soldier are killed as a MONUSCO helicopter crashes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The rebel March 23 Movement group is accused of being behind the crash. The group has denied their involvement. 2022-03-29
Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces that the UK's nuclear weapon arsenal will increase from 180 to 260 warheads, and that the UK will shift its foreign policy focus to the Indo-Pacific region, while remaining committed to NATO. The government's review also identifies Russia as the "most acute threat" to British security. 2021-03-16
France claims that a Russian military plane made a low pass over the warship "Aquitaine" off the Lebanese coast, claiming the aircraft was in deliberate breach of international law. 2018-04-10
Following Russian airstrikes, the Syrian army and allied Lebanese Hezbollah militia take control of a highland area in Idlib province close to insurgent-held positions, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. 2015-10-11
A man is killed and more than 6,000 people are evacuated following an explosion at an arms depot in the Samara Oblast in central Russia. 2013-06-19
The Russian government organizes an evacuation for some of its citizens by transporting them to Lebanon and then flying them to Russia. 2013-01-22
A Russian Mi-8 helicopter working for the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is shot down and crashes near Likuangole in the South Sudanese state of Jonglei. 2012-12-21
Russian engineers start loading fuel into Iran's first nuclear reactor at Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant. 2010-08-21