Russia has started to upgrade the Russian naval base in Syrian Tartus, announced Viktor Ozerov, chairman of the defense committee in the Federation Council, as reported by Interfax.

“As far as Tartus is concerned, I won’t conceal the fact that even during our visit (of Russian senators in Syria in October 2016) I was shown a development plan for the port where facilities and docks would be built. This work has already been prepared, and today it is being put into action,” he said.

When asked …

The organizers of blockade of the Donbas announced their intention to stop the work of Ukrainian subsidiary of Russian Sberbank  within two weeks, as announced at a press conference by the second commander of the Donbas Battalion, Anatoly Vinogorodsky.

"In two weeks, if the government does not close this bank, we will close it ourselves and all its branches in Ukraine," he said.

"We are giving two weeks’ notice to all clients of Sberbank of Russia, so that they can withdraw all their deposits. …

Diplomats are working to organize a soon forthcoming meeting between Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and his American counterpart Donald Trump, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Konstantin Yeliseyev said on Friday, March 10, in an interview with hromadske.ua.

"Currently, our diplomats are actively working to ensure that this meeting will be held as soon as possible. But it is fundamentally important that it take place before the upcoming meeting between President …

The Ukrainian military members, detained by the LPR and accused of killing the so-called head of the People's Militia of the Republic, Oleg Anashchenko, are servicemen from the Special Operations Forces (SOF) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as reported by the press service of the SOF.

"On March 10, 2017, the representatives of the so-called MGB (Ministry of the State Security) of the self-proclaimed republic, which controls a part of the Luhansk region of our state, posted a video of the …

Representatives of the US Army studied two sites in Northern Germany for the potential placement of new US military bases in Europe, as reported by Deutsche Welle, citing a source in the Command of the US Amy Garrison stationed in Wiesbaden.

According to the source, the military visited facilities in Bad Fallingbostel and Bergen in Lower Saxony. These cities are situated near the largest German training site, which is also used for NATO exercises. The number of military personnel that could be …

Another Russian soldier was killed in Syria, as reported by Russian blogger from St Petersburg, Anatoly Nesmiyan, also known under the alias “el murid”.The post on Nesmiyan’s LiveJournal page points to VKontakte (Russian social network ) post  with the picture of the killed soldier and the details of the incident.

The soldier, 39-year-old Alexander Zangiev, native of the city of Krasnodar, was killed in the explosion when the armored personnel carrier, he was in, hit a road side bomb. A few …

Ukraine is waiting for an affirmative answer from Canada on the supply of lethal weapons, Ukrainian Ambassador to Canada Andriy Shevchenko said.

“We need both lethal weapons and satellite reconnaissance data; nothing has changed in this regard since 2014, when we first put forward such a request. And the recent flare up in the East [of Ukraine] confirms this need,” Shevchenko said.

He added that he ultimately expects an affirmative answer from Canada to Ukraine's request of arms supplies.

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The UN Special Rapporteur on issues of hazardous materials warned of the high risks of a chemical spill in eastern Ukraine, which is fraught with disastrous consequences for the health of the local population and the environment, reported the UN News Center.

Baskut Tuncak, the Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes, reminded that there are large chemical and industrial plants located in the …