NATO will start using a Russian air base in the Volga region city of Ulyanovsk on August first to transport supplies to and from Afghanistan.
This is confirmed by Kommersant daily reported on Monday, citing a senior official.
Preparations will be complete by then for transit to “go on continuously,” Russia’s acting NATO envoy Nikolai Korchunov was quoted as saying.
There were “no plans” to use “foreign military personnel” at the facility, Korchunov said.
“No explosive or dangerous cargo will be transported,” he added.
The Russian government gave the go-ahead for the facility last month.
Moscow announced plans to create a NATO transit hub in Ulyanovsk in March. The decision sparked protests in the city, the birthplace of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin.
Veteran Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov has called the deal “humiliating” for Russia.
But both NATO and Russian officials have sought to allay fears the hub would turn out to be a fully-fledged base.
“We have no intention of establishing a base in Russia,” NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in a video link-up with RIA Novosti in March.
“This is a pragmatic arrangement which allows us to transport non-lethal weapons and troops to benefit our operation in Afghanistan.
Source: Rian.ru
My comment:
It is an illusion to believe that the US and Russia are enemies.
A global elite of one per cent of mankind are all good friends, and they control between 80 and 90 per cent of all values on Earth.
Once in a while, some mad dictators enter the stages and create a revolution or start a World wide war.
For the Russians, it is not difficult to join America in their war on the rebellious Muslims in the Taliban. The Russians lost the war against Islam, they started in Afghanistan in 1979. A rematch seems to be in the pipeline.
Funny that NATO is also loosing its war against the tribal people, the US supported as long as they crippled and killed Russians.
This end time union of Washington and Moscow is also Biblical. The day Moscow removes its support of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the dictator will be removed just like Gaddafi. Both Russia and the USA will form the final army that will enter Israel from the north.
The emerging One World Government will make the “perfect peace plan” for Israel.
For all who believe in the Word of God, the formation of this union is wonderful news. Let the children of the devil speed up and get their work done. So all believers can enjoy the second coming of the Messiah Jesus.
2 Thessalonians 2: 7-10.
And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing.
For all the rest, who do not believe. You better pay attention to what I just shared with you.
Written by Ivar