Four years on, the ground battle in eastern Ukraine is showing no signs of abating. And now, a new theater may be opening: the Sea of Azov.
https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/ukraine-and-russia-take-their-conflict-sea
The Russian announcement that they will supply the S-300 to Syria is a troubling development for Israel.
https://www.newsweek.com/tel-aviv-diary-what-next-israel-and-russia-opinion-1135127
The Kremlin is throwing money at a strategically important region. That isn’t buying loyalty.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-09-24/putin-is-losing-russia-s-far-east
It has a satellite-linked operations room, a warehouse full of life-saving equipment, and climbing walls for training purposes.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/24/dispatchrussias-murky-humanitarian-foray-serbia/
https://ru.krymr.com/a/krym-vitrina-velichiye-rossia/29502172.html
https://ru.krymr.com/a/tsenovaya-anomaliya-pochemy-dorozhaet-hleb-v-krymu/29506318.html
http://www.kasparov.ru/material.php?id=5BA8C84DF2569
http://www.kasparov.ru/material.php?id=5BA883A8B5B39
http://www.kasparov.ru/material.php?id=5BA871808C843
https://www.gazeta.ru/comments/2018/09/24_e_11994313.shtml