During his visit to the Kharkiv Plant of Transport Machinery, President Petro Poroshenko stated that Ukraine would resume production of Soviet-era armored vehicles, specifically the multi-purpose, light-armored towing vehicle or MT-LB.

"Recently the state defense order for 2017 was approved. There is work for the Malyshev [plant], as well as the Lviv, Mykolaiv, Kyiv and Zhytomyr armored machinery plants. The good news is that there is also an order for the Kharkiv Plant of Transport Machinery. …

Russia is ready to continue the fight against ISIS, without the help of the United States, as stated by the Press Secretary of Russian President, Dmitry Peskov, while commenting on the report by the Associated Press that US President Donald Trump plans to postpone the “deal with Russia.”

“Moscow will continue the fight against ISIS,” Peskov said, as reported by TASS.

It was reported earlier that Trump discussed minimizing the interaction with Russia in the fight against ISIS with his allies …

The Deputy Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, British General Adrian Bradshaw, called on the Alliance to intensify opposition to Russian cyber attacks, propaganda and political agitation.

According to the General, the West needs a common strategy to confront these threats. Bradshaw stated that the answer to such so-called "hybrid warfare" should be "hybrid deterrence." As an example of such deterrence, he specifically cited economic sanctions against Russia.

Additionally, according to …

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reached an agreement with Ukraine on an updated Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies. As a result, during the second half of March, IMF’s Executive Board will consider the allocation of another tranche of $1 billion to Kyiv, as was indicated in the Fund’s press release on Saturday, March 4th.

In March 2015, the IMF approved a four-year loan program worth USD 17.5 billion to support economic reforms in Ukraine. It provided for quarterly …

Iran conducted a successful test of its Russian made S-300 surface-to-air missile system.

According to Iranian Tansim news agency, the Iranian military carried out tests against a wide range of aerial targets, as well as worked out the detection, identification, interception and destruction of targets.

Additionally, IRNA news agency reported that the missile systems successfully hit targets during conditions of radar jamming and the appearance of decoy targets. During the test firing the …

According to the Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States, Valeriy Chaly,the new bill of the House of Representatives providing for the allocation of $150 million in military aid to Ukraine is only part of $350 million previously approved for this purpose in the budget of the Pentagon, as reported by Ukrinform news agency.

Chaly stated that the remaining funds will be allocated after October 1, 2017.

"There is a budget for 2017. The current budget allocates $350 million in aid [to Ukraine] …

The second regiment of S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems will be stationed in the Crimea during the second half of 2017, reported the Russian News Agency TASS, citing a source in Russian military.

"Defense in the Crimea will be strengthened in the second half of 2017 by a second S-400 regiment,” the agency reported. According to TASS, the regiment will be located in the western part of the Crimean peninsula.

TASS’s source noted that in 2018, the combat strength of two regiments of …

Yehor Soboliev and Semen Semenchenko, deputies of the Verkhovna Rada from the Samopomich party, went to Konotop on Saturday. Judging by their communication on Facebook, they are preparing to block the railway line to this cross-border station.

“Only today, at least three hundred train cars came over from Russia with liquid gas, fertilizers and coal. The local railway workers are not allowed to show us documents about the contents of the closed wagons and the destination stations. Veterans of …