POLITICS
Poroshenko names condition for elections in Donetsk, Luhansk
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko noted that the OSCE ODIHR official who was present at the meeting of the Tripartite Liaison Group (TLG) in Minsk expressed his clear view that coincides with the Ukrainian position. President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that elections in the Donetsk and Luhansk will only be held when...
Yemeni rebels release 2 Americans, 2 Saudis and 1 Briton
Yemen's Houthi rebels have released foreigners held hostage for several months, including at least two Americans, two Saudis and a Briton, several media outlets reported. One of them is said to be a reporter accused of working in the country without proper documents. There are no details on the identities of the released....
No casualties among Ukrainian troops in Donbas in last day
No Ukrainian soldiers were killed or wounded in the Donbas conflict zone in the past day, presidential administration press secretary for Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) issues Colonel Oleksandr Motuzianyk said. "Over the last day, no Ukrainian soldiers were killed or injured as a result of military clashes,"...
Center-2015: Russia’s biggest military drills of the year enter final stage (PHOTOS)
The year’s largest military drills in Russia are concluding, with nearly 100,000 servicemen preparing to return to home bases. The exercise involved all the armed forces. The firing range saw Iskander missile complexes testing strike precision. On Sunday, troops and military vehicles are making the last accelerated march...
Ukrainian interest. Long-awaited sanctions, bargaining Putin, and taming of Gazprom
Ukraine imposed sanctions against Russian businesses and individuals, as well as some foreigners, actively involved in the annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea and in destabilization in Donbas. The Russian president is trying to sell to the world community the recipe of Syrian conflict settlement, for his own benefit. Gazprom...
Migrant crisis: Thirteen die in ferry collision off Turkey
At least 13 migrants, including children, have died after their dinghy and a ferry collided off Turkey, the coastguard there says. The accident happened close to the port of Canakkale. The boat was on its way to the Greek island of Lesbos. In a second incident, Greece's coastguard said 26 people were feared missing from a...
Taliban militants attack mosque at air force base in Pakistan, killing 16
Militants raided an air force base Friday in northwest Pakistan, killing 16 people praying inside a mosque. The attack on the 10-acre Badaber base outside Peshawar is the largest assault on military personnel this year. It's the highest-profile assault in the area since terrorists killed 145, mostly children, during a...
Calm night in Donbas: only one militant attack recorded
The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine only once overnight, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) wrote on Facebook on Friday. "The last day was almost calm in the Donbas conflict zone. The only shelling of our positions was recorded in the direction of...
Migrant crisis: Croatia closes border crossings with Serbia
Croatia has closed seven of its eight road border crossings with Serbia following a huge influx of migrants. Officials said they had no choice after more than 13,000 people entered the country since Hungary fenced off its border with Serbia earlier this week. Many have been taken by bus to reception centres but some say they...
Moscow sends troops to Syria without consent: media
Some Russian military contractors are not willing to be deployed to another hotspot, this time in the Middle East, from Novorossiyck military port, according to the Russian online newspaper gazeta.ru. "We don’t want to go to Syria, we don’t want to die there,” said one of the lieutenants from a military...
Ukroboronprom deputy chief: Javelins are a myth from action movies
Serhiy Pinkas, deputy chief of State-owned Ukroboronprom, which unites major defense industry enterprises, has told about supplies of military equipment to the ATO zone, integration of Ukrainian arms industry with NATO, and connection between Porsche, Mercedes, Audi, and Ivano-Frankivsk-based Karpaty factory. Earlier this year,...
Ukraine Bans Silvio Berlusconi for Three Years After Crimea Visit: Reports
Ukraine's security service on Thursday banned former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from entering the country for three years, according to Ukrainian and Russian media reports, after Berlusconi visited the Crimean Peninsula with Russian Presdident Vladimir Putin last week. The Italian media mogul spent two days in...