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Concerns about a troop deployment on the Ukrainian border continue to escalate. Russia completes a maneuver. Johnson, Blinken and Erdoğan are trying to talk. According to Russia, it has completed a military exercise involving more than 6,000 soldiers. The exercises took place in the south of the country, for example in the Rostov and Volgograd regions, and air force units from the southern military district were involved, as the Ministry of Defense in Moscow announced. In addition, 20 warships of the Black Sea Fleet have returned to naval bases in Novorossiysk and on the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which was annexed in 2014. However, Poland sees signs that Russia will increase its future military presence in Belarus. The planned maneuvers by Russian and Belarusian troops there in February are known, said Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau during a visit to the Estonian capital Tallinn. But his ministry is even observing "tendencies that may indicate that we will be ...

The United Arab Emirates says it has defused and destroyed a ballistic missile fired by Houthi rebels in Yemen. The UAE Ministry of Defense claimed from its Twitter account that a ballistic missile fired from the Yemeni province of Al-Jawaf on Sunday night was intercepted by its defense system in the air at 00:20 (local time). Local time) destroyed.  The UAE has also released a video of the successful missile destruction. According to the Ministry of Defense, there were no casualties in the Houthi attack and the remnants of the missile fell out of populated areas. The Houthi attack comes as Israeli President Isaac Herzog is in the United Arab Emirates on his first visit. The Israeli president arrived in the UAE on a two-day visit on Sunday and the missile was fired just hours after he arrived in the UAE. North Korea fires medium-range missile The United Arab Emirates is part of a Saudi coalition fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen. In recent weeks, the Houthis have carried out several ...

The isolated country ignores international sanctions and is testing a medium-range missile again for the first time. The projectile is said to have flown 800 kilometres. Despite international sanctions, the self-declared nuclear power North Korea has undertaken its largest missile test since 2017. North Korea fired a medium-range missile on Sunday that flew about 800 kilometres toward the open sea, the South Korean Armed Forces General Staff said. Immediately after the test, South Korean President Moon Jae In accused the neighboring country of coming a step closer to completely breaking its self-imposed moratorium on long-range missile tests. Joe Biden Wants To Send More US Troops North Korea's ruler Kim Jong Un declared in April 2018 that nuclear tests and tests with medium- and long-range missiles were not necessary for the time being. A decision by the Central Committee later only mentioned a test ban for ICBMs. Medium-range missiles are missiles with a range of 800 to 5,500 kil...

The US President wants to move troops in the short term, but it is about "not too many" soldiers. Boris Johnson and his Foreign Secretary are planning a trip to the region. In view of the Ukraine conflict, the US President wants to increase the military presence in Eastern Europe. "I will be relocating soldiers to Eastern Europe and the NATO countries at short notice," said Joe Biden. However, only a small number of soldiers will be deployed. US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chief of Staff Mark Milley had previously called for de-escalation to prevent a "appalling" war. At first, Biden did not specify how many soldiers he wanted to transfer to Eastern Europe. It's about "not too many" soldiers, he told journalists. Biden did not give any details at the time either. The USA had already put 8,500 soldiers on alert to strengthen the NATO presence. However, Biden had emphasized that it was a precautionary measure that no US soldiers would...

The US President speaks of the "strong possibility" of a Russian invasion. The number of soldiers on the Ukrainian border continues to increase. US President Joe Biden has warned his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy that Russia may be planning an invasion in February. Biden made it clear to Selenskyj in a phone call that there was a "strong possibility" of such an invasion, said National Security Council spokeswoman Emily Horne in the White House. In the conversation, Biden again assured Selenskyj of his support in the event of a Russian invasion. According to the White House, he reiterated the US' readiness to "react decisively, together with its allies and partners, if Russia invades Ukraine further." The government in Washington is therefore examining "additional macroeconomic support to help the Ukrainian economy under the pressure of Russian military build-up". The strength of Russian troops on the Ukrainian border continued to ...

With the demand for security guarantees, Russia had no success with NATO. The government in Moscow is disappointed, but also willing to talk. After the rejection of its core demands, Russia sees little hope of an easing of the tension in the Ukraine conflict: the responses from the USA and NATO to the security guarantees demanded give "hardly any cause for optimism," said government spokesman Dmitry Peskov. It will take some time for the government to analyze the letter. But there are "always prospects for a continuation of a dialogue". This is in the interests of Russia and the United States. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the US response contained some elements that could lead to "the start of serious talks on secondary issues." But there is "no positive reaction to the main concern," he added, referring to Russian demands for NATO to turn away from eastward expansion and the stationing of weapons, which Russia sees as a threat. Testing Ba...