• Kremlin: Russia will never discuss the territorial jurisdiction of the Crimea

    Russia will never discuss the issue of the Crimea’s territorial jurisdiction and is ready to wait until Europe and the USA realize it, as stated by Russian President Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, during an interview with the Associated Press.

    "No one in Russia will ever be ready to start any discussion on the Crimea", he said. As noted by the agency, during the interview, Peskov objected to Russia’s actions in the Crimea being called "annexation" and stated that this is a region of …

  • NATO worried that Trump will withdraw US troops from Europe

    NATO fears that Donald Trump, as president of the United States, will reduce the presence of US troops in Europe, Spiegel reports.

    According to the newspaper, this is one of the scenarios described in the report from the headquarters of the secretary general of the alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, who has “enormous” concerns about the election of the American billionaire.

    “Nowhere is concern over the election of Trump as US President greater than in NATO. Now the alliance, as became known to …

  • Commander of Russian Mediterranean flotilla: Nobody dares to fly over us

    According to the commander of the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, captain Sergey Artamonov, the naval strike group of the Russian Navy is maneuvering in the eastern part of the Mediterranean.

    “The ships of the strike group have moved into the designated area in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, near the western shores of Syria,” said Artamonov in his interview with “Saturday News” on the Russia 1 TV channel.

    The captain of the other ship of the flotilla, the Pyotr Velikiy battle …

  • DPR announces that six have been detained for assassination of separatist commander known as Motorola

    The self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic has declared that members of Misanthropic Division group, whose representatives have claimed responsibility for the murder of Arsen “Motorola” Pavlov, have been detained, Korrespondent.net reported.

    “On the 11th of November, six active members of the Ukrainian nationalist organization Misanthropic Division, whose leaders have claimed responsibility for the murder of legendary Commander of Sparta Battalion, Arsen Pavlov, commonly known as Motorola, …

  • US Defense Secretary advises Trump against cooperating with Russia in Syria

    US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter advised President-Elect Donald Trump not to cooperate with Russia in Syria, Rosbalt reported.

    “The Russians said that they will fight against terrorism and help to remove Bashar al-Assad from power. Nothing has been done. Moreover, Moscow assists Damascus. It only fuels the civil war in the country,” Carter stated in an interview with CBS.

    Carter opposes coordinating the actions of US and Russian forces in Syria. According to him, the US President should not …

  • Kremlin spokesman: Russia and the US must cooperate to defeat international terrorism

    According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, neither the US nor Russia can defeat terrorism on its own, and it is necessary for the two countries to pursue cooperation, TASS reported.

    During a visit to New York to attend the World Chess Championship, Peskov said, “It is impossible to defeat terrorism on your own. It requires cooperation and we have been denied this cooperation. This is the absurdity of the situation.”

    Peskov pointed to the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, saying, “Had the US …

  • So-called DPR creates special police battalion to protect separatist leaders

    The so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) announced the establishment of Bastion, a special police regiment, to provide security for the leaders of the self-proclaimed republic and particularly important objects, separatist online resources report.

    The special unit will guard objects of important infrastructure of the DPR; be responsible for the security of valuable, important and dangerous goods such as money during transit; and ensure the personal security of the leaders of the self- …

  • $1 billion remains in accounts belonging to Yanukovych and Azarov in Ukrainian banks

    The Chairman of Oschadbank, Andriy Pyshnyy, stated in an interview with Livyi Bereh news agency that over 1 billion dollars remains in the accounts of the former President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, and the former Prime Minister, Mykola Azarov.

    According to Pyshnyy, the accounts belonging to Azarov and Yanukovych have “quite significant sums.”

    “Over $1.15 billion.  Due to bank confidentiality, I cannot comment on some things. But I ask you to understand this. This is a strict legal …

  • UK Ambassador in Kyiv: Despite Brexit, we will continue to support Ukraine

    The Ambassador of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland to Ukraine, Judith Gough, assured that the possible exit of Great Britain from the EU will not have a significant impact on relations with Ukraine, including military cooperation, as the diplomat stated at the commemorative ceremony for those killed in past wars, which is celebrated on November 11, UNIAN reports.

    “I don’t think that this will have a significant impact. If you remember one of the first visits of our Secretary for Foreign …

  • Putin: The Russian Army does not threaten anyone

    Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his surprise regarding the reaction of some of Russia’s western partners to the military exercises of the Russian Army.

    “Our Army does not threaten anyone. I would like to stress it again, so that everyone hears, and not only those present in this conference hall,” he stated on Saturday while talking with the workers of the Russian Avtodiesel plant, which is situated in the city of Yaroslavl and is a part of Russian GAZ company.

    “But it [the Army] …