The Ambassador of Ukraine to Australia, Mykola Kulinich, noted that the Australian Ministry of Defense and the Antarctic Division are interested in the possibility of using Antonov transport aircraft.

After the debut of the An-225 Mriya strategic airlift cargo aircraft, Australia showed a keen interest in establishing ties with the Ukrainian State-Owned Enterprise Antonov. In an interview with Ukrinform news, Ambassador Kulinich said that "We have already proceeded to the first concrete steps …

OSCE observers continue to detect the military equipment positioned in the residential areas in eastern Ukraine as stated by the by the Deputy Head of the Special OSCE monitoring mission in the Donbas, Alexander Hug. In particular the military equipment of the separatists was detected in Novohryhorivka and Debaltseve. The information on the locations of the equipment was gathered by the OSCE UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles).

“Needless to say that where there are weapons there is violence,” said …

The leader of the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR), Igor Plotnitsky, was wounded on Saturday as a result of the explosive device exploding near his car.

According to the report issued by OSCE SMM observers who visited the area shortly after, “the explosion had likely been caused by an improvised explosive device (assessed as approximately 1kg of high explosives) placed next to or in, a lamp post about two meters away from the vehicle, which was damaged and downed, at the side of the …