Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has enacted a decision taken by the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine on September 2 to introduce sanctions against Russia, presidential press secretary Svyatoslav Tsegolko tweeted. "The president has signed an order to introduce sanctions against Russia. It will...
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine has reported that militants from the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic ("LPR") in the country's east have massed heavy weapons, including 43 Grad multi-launch rocket systems at their training area. "At a Luhansk People's Republic training...
Officers of the Security Service of Ukraine together with the regional police have discovered one of the largest ever revealed consignments of arms in Luhansk region. During an inspection of premises of the meat processing plant in the village of Polovynkyne, law enforcers discovered 50 different kinds of weapons. Security...
The North Korean authorities have announced they are ready to deal with US hostility "with nuclear weapons any time” and are working to improve the country’s nuclear weapons “in quality and quantity.” "If the US and other hostile forces persistently pursue their reckless hostile policy towards...
U.S. Senator John McCain, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, turned down on Monday, September 14, the invitation by LPR terrorist organization leadership to monitor self-styled local elections in the militant-held eastern Ukrainian region. “While I do not typically monitor the elections of imaginary...
Public executions have been carried out in Horlivka, the militant-controlled town in the war-torn Donetsk region, the head of the Information Resistance group and military and political analyst Dmytro Tymchuk wrote on his page on Facebook on Monday, September 14, according to Ukraine Today. According to Tymchuk, Russian...
Foreign ministers of the "Normandy Quartet" countries, i.e. France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine, expressed hope for an early signing of the agreement on withdrawal of arms with a caliber of less than 100mm from the line of contact in eastern Ukraine, after their meeting in Berlin on September 12, Ukrainian online...
At least 12 people were killed and 10 injured when a convoy transporting Mexican tourists through Egypt’s Western Desert was mistakenly attacked by the military. The tourists were taken for Islamist militants, whom the forces had been pursuing, Cairo said. “A joint force from the police and military, whilst chasing...
The United States is ready to impose new sanctions against Russia if the Minsk agreements on the settlement of the situation in Donbas continue to be violated, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland said during the Yalta European Strategy Annual Meeting in Kyiv on Saturday. "The...
A list of political parties that have decided on their participation in 2015 local elections has been released on Central Election Commission's website. The list of political parties willing to participate in Ukraine's local elections includes under No. 138 a political party "My Maiemo Metu!" (We Have a Goal!...
The "Normandy Four" foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany will meet in Berlin on September 12 and the meeting of the "Normandy Four" leaders will take place in early October in Paris. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko held a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel,...
No Ukrainian soldiers were killed but six were wounded in the Donbas conflict zone over the last 24 hours, head of the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) headquarters, Colonel Oleksandr Motuzianyk said at a briefing on Thursday. "On Wednesday, the situation was most tense. Over the last day, from 06:00 to...