south front
Den ukrainske præsident Petro Poroshenko og hans amerikanske masterminds planlægger at løse Donbass problemet, forbigående Minsk aftalen om en negotieret fred. Donetsk republikkens talsmand for forsvarsministeriet Eduard Basurin sagde at ukrainske styrker havde forsøgt at bryde igennem militsens forsvar i retning mod Marupol den 10. August ved brug af tunge våbe, tankvogne og morter. Kievs forberedelser for en offensiv er bekræftet af den lov som Poroshenko underskrev tirsdag, som øgede militærudgifterne med $250 millioner. Ukraines militærudgifter i 2015 har allerede nået $5.5 milliarder. USA har lovet at tildele yderligere $500 millioner til financieringen af træningen af Ukraines militære divisioner og Pentagon planlægger at træne fem battalioner i alt. Imens har Ukraines viceforsvarsminister Petro Mekhed ikke udelukket er der kunne blive holdt endnu tre mobiliseringer.



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The next humanitarian aid convoy of the Russian Emergencies Ministries will leave for the war-torn Donbas region on August 20, Head of the ministry's National Crisis Management Center Viktor Yatsutsenko said. The 35th humanitarian aid convoy for residents of Donetsk and Luhansk was dispatched to Donbas on August 14. The Russian Emergencies Ministry has delivered more than 43,000 tons of humanitarian aid to the region since last August.

Russia has delivered 6~MiG-31 fighter jets to Syrian government to help the Arab country in its battle against Islamic State and other terrorist organizations. The Mikoyan MiG-31 is a supersonic jet, and one of the fastest fighter planes in the world. Jets have a target range of approximately 200 kilometers. Russia delivered the fighter jets to the Syrian government according to the deal signed in 2007. The deal~features the sale of a total of 8 MiG-31 jets. Thus, Russia is pushing for a broad international coalition in the fight against the ISIS~in Middle East, inlcuding Syria.

A group of militants that receives training from the US military to fight the Syrian government has called al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front terrorists brothers. In a statement that has appeared on social media, the US-backed group, which goes by the name Division 30, declared that its rival al-Nusra Front has released seven of its members whom the al-Qaeda-affiliated group had kidnapped in northern Syria during fighting back in July. In telltale wording, the group said in the statement, Seven Division 30 fighters who were being held by the brothers in al-Nusra Front have been freed. Thus, so-called 'moderate rebels' one more time showed that they are just terrorists backed by the US.

Novorossia Military Reports