POLITICS
No elections under muzzles of Russian guns: Yatsenyuk names conditions for Donbas elections
Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk named four conditions for the holding of local elections eastern Ukrainian Donbas on a Ten Minutes with Prime Minister TV show on Sunday, October 18. "The first condition – no one will hold elections under the muzzles of Russian machine guns. They have to withdraw from the...
Turkey downs «unidentified aircraft» on Syria border: BBC
Turkey says its warplanes have shot down an unidentified aircraft which intruded into its airspace near the border with Syria, according to the BBC News. Media reports quote officials as saying the aircraft was a drone. There are no further details so far, BBC News reported. The Turkish military said the unknown aircraft...
Iran airs unseen footage of secret underground missile base (VIDEO)
For the first time ever, Iranian television has broadcast footage of a secret underground tunnel, stocked with missile and launcher units. Officials have said it is one of several such bases in the Islamic republic. Located at a depth of 500 meters under the mountains, the footage shows a very long tunnel which appears to be...
Vladimir Putin condemns US for refusing to share Syria terror targets
Russian leader Vladimir Putin has issued a caustic defence of his country's bombing raids in Syria, accusing the West of stonewalling requests for help on terrorist targets and failing to grasp the basic facts on the ground. "We asked them to give us the information on the targets that they believe to be 100 percent...
Ukraine started to receive defensive non-lethal weapons from foreign partners, — Poroshenko
President Petro Poroshenko thanked foreign partners for providing non-lethal defensive weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. "…we are grateful for the defensive non-lethal weapons that has finally started to arrive," Poroshenko said Wednesday morning when opening the exhibit of modern weapons and equipment at...
Syria ‘near miss’ prompts US-Russia air safety talks
The US and Russia are to hold new talks on air safety in Syria after it emerged combat aircraft from both nations came within miles of each other on Saturday. The planes were in visual contact with each other, 10 to 20 miles (15-30km) apart, a US defence spokesman told reporters in Washington DC. It will be the third round of...
Savchenko’s sister barred from entering Russia until 2020
Vira Savchenko, the sister of captive Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko, who is in jail in Russia now, has been barred from entering Russia until 2020. " returning to Ukraine. At the Chortkovo-Milovoye check point on the border with Russia, a border guard told me, Vira Savchenko, that a ban on travels to Russia has been...
SBU: Terrorist attack prevented in Dnipropetrovsk
SBU detains "DPR" terrorist trying to plant a 11-kg strong C4 bomb in a public place in Dnipropetrovsk. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in Dnipropetrovsk region together with the local police has detained a local resident – an agent of the self-styled secret service of the Donetsk People's Republic...
U.S. to start training Ukrainian Armed Forces in November
In November, the U.S. will launch a unique multi-million dollar program designed for training Ukrainian armed forces and special units, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said in his address to the nation broadcasted on Sunday evening. "During my visit to New York, I agreed with the U.S. leadership on supply of...
OSCE: Several UN organizations have no access to border with Russia
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) and a number of UN organizations have difficulties with access to the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier said in an interview with Russian newspaper Kommersant. "Unfortunately, we still cannot get to the whole territory,...
Ex-SBU officer: One of «major» powers has satellite images of MH17 crash
One of the "major" powers has satellite images of the MH17 crash, ex-chief of the SBU's Main Investigation Department Vasyl Vovk said in an interview with Russia's Novaya Gazeta. "There were no Russian satellites over these territories at the time of launching Buk missiles. Whose satellites were there?...
Pentagon: Russia and U.S. to resume Syria air safety talks
Read more on UNIAN:http://www.unian.info/world/1148910-pentagon-russia-and-us-to-resume-syria-air-safety-talks.html Russia has agreed to resume talks with the U.S. on air safety during Syria bombing campaigns, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said, according to the BBC. "The talks are likely to take place as soon as this...