The former German Foreign Minister, Sigmar Gabriel, who had just left his post, proposed for an investigation into the circumstances of the assassination attempt on Sergei Skripal, to be conducted by an international group of experts, as he indicated on Thursday, March 15th, at an official ceremony of the German-Russian Forum, dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the creation of this non-governmental organization.

According to the former Foreign Minister of Germany, international experts …

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has sharply condemned the use of nerve gas in the United Kingdom against former GRU employee Sergei Skripal and his daughter, reports Voice of America.

Speaking at the launch of NATO’s Annual Report for 2017, Stoltenberg called the poisoning of Skripal "the first offensive use of a nerve agent on Alliance territory since NATO’s foundation."

He described the attack as part of "a reckless pattern of Russian behavior …

President Petro Poroshenko has welcomed the introduction of new US sanctions against Russia.

"Every unlawful and illegitimate act of the Kremlin, whether in the Crimea, the Donbas or Salisbury, will continue to receive our solid, firm and resolute response on both sides of the Atlantic," the President wrote on Facebook.

He stressed that interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states, including electoral processes, has already become routine for Moscow.

"Ukraine has fully felt this …

As the press service of the regulatory body reported, the National Bank of Ukraine has decided to extend sanctions against Ukrainian subsidiaries of Russian state-owned banks.

The National Bank extended sanctions in order to put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defense Council on March 1st.

Earlier, President Petro Poroshenko emphasized that sanctions towards banks with Russian capital are effective and should be extended.

On March 23, 2017, Ukraine imposed sanctions …

On March 15th, at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the situation in the annexed Crimea, representatives of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the United States, and other countries called on Russia to return the Crimea to Ukraine and confirmed that sanctions imposed on Russia would not be lifted while the peninsula remains under Russian control. The event was broadcast on the United Nations website.

The representative of Great Britain to the United Nations recalled the …

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will prepare a report and a resolution on racial discrimination by Russia of the Crimean Tatars in the annexed peninsula, as reported by Volodymyr Ariev, head of the permanent delegation of the Ukrainian parliament in PACE, on Facebook.

“PACE has unanimously decided that the Assembly will prepare a separate report and resolution about racial discrimination of Crimean Tatars by Russia in the Crimea. The day before yesterday the PACE Monitoring …

A new armed forces division is to be created in eastern Poland, as announced by Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak on Thursday, during the annual meeting between the defense department and the army command.

According to him, in order to strengthen Poland’s eastern flank, there are plans to partially “relocate forces from the west to the east”. “I plan to create a new division of the professional army in the east,” Błaszczak emphasized. He also noted that Poland hopes to increase the …

Estonian Prime Minister Jüri Ratas has decided not to visit Russia this spring on account of the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, announced Estonian government spokesperson Urmas Seaver, as cited by the Estonian news outlet Postimees.

According to Seaver, the organizers of Estonia’s 100 year anniversary celebrations suggested that the prime minister take part in the Estonian culture days in Krasnoyarsk between May 16-21. However, in light of the developments surrounding Skripal, …