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Armenian Defense Ministry calls on media to stop live coverage of Karabakh
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Yerevan [Armenia], October 3 (ANI/Sputnik): The Armenian Defense Ministry urged the media on Saturday to stop broadcasting the Nagorno-Karabakh events live, citing risks to the military operations and civilian lives.
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Armenian military says 3 Azerbaijani jets downed in Karabakh
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Yerevan [Armenia], October 03 (ANI/Sputnik): Three Azerbaijani jets were shot down in Nagorno-Karabakh on Saturday morning as fierce fighting continues in the conflict-torn region, the Armenian Defense Ministry reported.
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Azeri-Armenian clashes: Nagorno-Karabakh Army seizes 11 Azerbaijani armour
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Yerevan [Armenia], September 28 (ANI/Sputnik): The armed forces of self-declared Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) have seized an Azerbaijani BMP-3 tank and 10 other armoured vehicles with military hardware, Armenian Defense Ministry spokeswoman Shushan Stepanyan said on Sunday.
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Ukraine military plane crash caused by engine failure
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Kiev [Ukraine], September 26 (ANI/Sputnik): The crash of the An-26 military aircraft in the Kharkiv Region was caused by an engine failure, local newspaper depo.ua reported, citing a source in the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.
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Ukrainian military plane An-26 crashes near Kharkiv
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Kharkiv [Ukraine], September 26 (ANI/Sputnik): Ukrainian military plane An-26 crashed near the city of Chuguev in the Kharkiv Region, local news agency Depo Kharkiv reported, citing a source in the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.
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South Korea raising combat readiness after killing of fisheries official b
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], September 25 (ANI/Sputnik): The South Korean troops have raised combat readiness after it turned out that the country's fisheries official had been shot dead in North Korea, the Defense Ministry said on Friday.
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Two Afghan pilots killed in military helicopter crash in Baghlan
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Baghlan [Afghanistan], September 25 (ANI/Sputnik): Two pilots of the Afghan Air Force were killed as a result of a military helicopter crash on Thursday in Baghlan province, the Afghan Defense Ministry said.
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Security services find rockets, launchers of IS in western Iraq
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], September 23 (ANI/Sputnik): The Iraqi security services have discovered five rockets and three launchers belonging to the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group in a building near the western city of Rutba, the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
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Japan's Defense Ministry to request record USD 51.7 bn budget for fiscal y
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], September 22 (ANI/Sputnik): The Japanese Defense Ministry intends to request another record budget of 5.4 trillion yen ($51.7 billion) for the fiscal year 2021, which begins on April 1 next year, the Kyodo news agency reported, citing military sources.
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Russian fighter Su-27 scrambled to intercept 3 NATO spy planes
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], August 29 (ANI/Sputnik): Russian fighter Su-27 was scrambled to intercept three targets over Baltic Sea, which turned out to be reconnaissance aircraft from the United States, Sweden and Denmark, the Russian Defense Ministry's National Defense Control Center said on Friday.
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Sixth International Defense Industry Forum ARMY-2020 to open in Russia tod
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], Aug 23 (ANI/Sputnik): The sixth international defense industry forum ARMY-2020, organised by the Russian Defense Ministry, will open in Moscow on Sunday and present state-of-the-art weaponry and military hardware.
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Aircraft with 26 Russian children taken out of Syria lands in Moscow regio
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], Aug 18 (ANI/Sputnik): For the first time since the introduction of coronavirus-related restrictions, a Russian Defense Ministry aircraft with 26 Russian children taken from the orphanages of Syria's Damascus landed at the Chkalovsky airfield near Moscow, the press service of
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