A hypothetical referendum on NATO membership for Ukraine shows that almost 78% of Ukrainians support membership in the Alliance.

This information was obtained from a survey conducted by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiative Foundation and the Razumkov Centre Sociological Service in May.

Among those who declared their willingness to participate in the hypothetical referendum in May 2016, 77.7% of respondents would support NATO membership, 17.4% would be against, the rest are undecided.

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American Heritage Foundation experts called on the leadership of NATO to deepen cooperation with Ukraine.

“The upcoming NATO summit in Warsaw represents an opportunity to provide a real and substantial support for Ukraine,” Luke Coffey and Daniel Kochis of the Heritage Foundation wrote.

According to experts, the fact that Ukraine will not become a NATO member in the near future shouldn't mean the isolation of the country.

“It's in the interests of NATO to help Ukraine to withstand Russian …

Sociologists have investigated the social well-being of the population of the Donetsk region.

Two years after the beginning of the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine, a quarter of the residents of the Donetsk region are still suffering from a shortage of medicines, one in five residents are in need of food products, and one in ten suffers from a lack of essential non-food items.

These shortages are reflected in the results of sociological research conducted in May-June 2016 in the Donetsk …

Russian Interfax news agency reported that Russia may attempt to compensate for the increase in NATO’s military activity by placing two new radar stations in the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, which would be able to control the 200-mile coastal zone.

"It is expected that modified Podsolnuh (Sunflower) over-the-horizon radar units will start combat duty in the Baltic Sea in 2017," Interfax’s source said, adding that similar radar could be deployed in the Crimea in 2017. “It can see any warship …

The Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Jens Stoltenberg, announced the issues that will be discussed during the Russia-NATO Council meeting that will take place in Brussels on the 13th of July. The meeting, which will be held for the second time since 2014, will be devoted to the discussion of the crisis in and around Ukraine and the need for full implementation of the Minsk Agreements.

“We will also consider military activity, putting special focus on …

Russian troops, waging war against Ukraine in the Donbas, continue to bear significant losses. According to the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense, eight Russian servicemen were killed earlier this week.

“On the 5th of July, eight Russian servicemen of the 3rd Independent Motorized Rifle Brigade (Horlivka), the 11th Independent Motorized Rifle Regiment (Makiivka), the 9th Independent Assault Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Naval Infantry (Novoazovsk) and the …

NATO fighter jets patrolling Baltic State airspace identified and intercepted two Russian military aircraft, the Latvian Armed Forces reported on Twitter. “On the 5th of July, fighter jets serving in the Alliance’s air policing mission identified AN-26 and TU-134 aircraft belonging to the Russian Federation over the Baltic Sea near Latvian borders,” the report said.

Russian warships and military aircraft have been increasingly spotted near the air and sea borders of the Baltic States since the …

The Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers has extended the reciprocal measures in response to Russia's prolonging the food embargo until the end of 2017, as reported by Interfax-Ukraine.

This decision was made during the Government’s meeting on July 6th, giving its support to the proposal by the Ukrainian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (MEDT).

As was reported, on June 29th, Russian President Vladimir Putin extended the food embargo against countries that imposed sanctions against Russia …