During its visit to NATO headquarters, the Ukrainian delegation provided information about the possible arrival of chemical weapons from Syria to the Crimea, as stated by the Head of the Permanent Delegation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Iryna Friz, Krym.Realii reported.

According to her, a clear example is the arrival of the Nadalina ship in the port of Feodosiya at the end of October, which was unloaded in high-security conditions.

Friz said that, "all …

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu stated during his visit to Beirut that Bashar al-Assad can’t remain in power in Syria. According to Çavuşoğlu, the Syrian President is responsible for 600,000 deaths and that is why Bashar al-Assad has lost the right to be the President of Syria, Reuters reported.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey also called the situation in Aleppo critical, calling for an immediate ceasefire in the country.

As Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu noted, Ankara is negotiating …

Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak pointed out the worsening of the security situation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which has taken place lately.

"I see no progress. Yesterday there were 42 shellings. I do not think it is an example of improving the situation in the East of Ukraine,” Interfax-Ukraine quoted Poltorak as saying.

The minister noted that the Russian Federation showed no initiative to resolve the situation. Moreover, according to Poltorak, the Kremlin has made every …

NATO will work closely with Georgia to strengthen security measures in the Black Sea region, which is of strategic importance to the alliance, as stated by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a joint press conference with the Prime Minister of Georgia, Giorgi Kvirikashvili.

"We will continue to work with Georgia on the challenges that we see in the Black Sea region. We have made an assessment of the security situation in the Black Sea region and, of course, Georgia is one of the …

Volodymyr Kryzhanovsky, the head of the press service of the "South" Air Command, said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces intend to continue carrying out missile tests not far from the Crimea, as that territory is the optimal test range for such exercises, UNIAN reported.

"The last time such exercises took place was 4 years ago. We had a special testing site on Cape Chauda in the Crimea, but because of the annexation of the peninsula, we lost it. But now we have a new test ground and this place …

According to the US Ambassador to the OSCE, Daniel Baer, Russia is attempting to escalate the violence in eastern Ukraine in order to improve their position at the negotiating table and to gain concessions in their favor, Unrinform reported.

“Russia has escalated tensions on the line of contact in an attempt to wrest concessions from Ukraine by force,” Baer stated.

At the same time, he noted that fighting further complicates achieving political progress during the Minsk negotiations.

“If …

The State Border Service of Ukraine said that a Russian warship, Pytlivy, is blocking the path to oil rigs in the Black Sea. This was said by the Chief of Staff of the 1st Sea Guard detachment Captain Ihor Zapyantsev at a press conference in Odessa, UNIAN reported.

According to Zapyantsev, on December 1st, when the border guards conducted a special naval operation in the exclusive (maritime) economic zone in the Odessa gas field located in the Northwestern part of the Black Sea, the Russian …

An RQ-4A Global Hawk strategic unmanned aerial vehicle of the U.S. Air Force made a reconnaissance approach to the demarcation line near Donetsk yesterday morning, according to websites that track the movement of military aircraft.

The drone reportedly flew from north to south along the demarcation line near Donets

The US long-distance unmanned aerial vehicle with call sign UAVGH000 reportedly departed from the Sigonella Air Force Base in Sicily. According to existing information, it entered …