Breaking News, 16th of July, 2018

The terrorists of the Taliban movement refuse to negotiate with the Afghan authorities, said Zamir Kabulov, a special Russian advisor on Afghanistan and the director of the second department of the Russian Foreign Ministry for Asia. According to him, the Taliban do not want to negotiate with Kabul, because they consider the current government of the country to be «puppets, put in there by the Americans.» The Taliban do not recognize the legitimacy of the current Afghan authorities, so they want to negotiate not with Kabul, but instead »with the Americans, separately.» — the newspaper Kommersant reports.

The terrorists of the «moderate opposition» continue to surrender heavy armored vehicles and weapons in the Syrian province of Deraa. Recently, the Islamists surrendered tanks and armored personnel carriers of Czech production to the Syrian military. While they surrender their weapons — the terrorists continue to leave Deraa and head to Idlib, following the terms of the agreement with the Syrian authorities.

Israel launched an air strike on the position of the Syrian army in the Neirab airport area, TASS reported while citing the SANA news agency. According to SANA — the missile strike of the Israeli Air Forces inflicted only material damage — there were no dead or injured. According to the representative of the Syrian military command, Israel made a «desperate attempt to help the terrorist gangs» while the Syrian army is being close to victory in Deraa and Quneitra.

Syrian mass media reported that the residents of the city of al-Nimr in the province of Quneitra raised the flags of Syria and declared their readiness to welcome the government army. Al-Nimr, located south of the liberated Tell Haraa, is the next target for the Syrian army.

Ukraine is demonstrating the new transport plane An-178 at the international aerospace show »Farnborough Airshow-2018′ in the UK, RT reports while quoting »Ukr-oboron-prom». A single military transport aircraft made by »Antonov» company will perform a demonstration flight in the skies of Great Britain. Back in 2017 it was reported that «Antonov» company plans to make, within five years, 20 AN-178 aircraft for customers from the CIS countries, Asia, Africa, and Turkey.

Vladimir Putin has arrived at a meeting with Donald Trump in the presidential palace in Helsinki on the new limousine »Aurus» of the project «Cortege». Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and an advisor of the Russian president Yuri Ushakov have also arrived to the negotiations. According to the American side, the issues of trade and nuclear weapons will be discussed during the meeting, as well as the topic of China.