Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko expects that the US will allocate an additional $500 million in financial assistance to Ukraine’s security and defense sector, Evropeyskaya Pravda reported.

He stated this during a ceremony in which Ukraine received AN/TPQ Firefinder radar systems from the US.

The President also thanked the US and the EU for extending sanctions against Russia.

Permanent representatives of the NATO-Russia Council will meet on July 13th, right after the Alliance's summit in Warsaw, reported the website of the Ministry of Defense of Russia.

"Currently, the inclusion of the issue of safe flights over the Baltic Sea in the agenda of the Russia-NATO Council… is being worked out,” the statement said. It is also reported that Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu ordered a proposal prepared "about developing a system of confidence-building measures that …

The Head of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Sergey Shoygu, ordered that the Russian Air Force ensure air traffic security of its fighting aircraft over international waters. 

“A number of relevant organizational and technical measures are being developed, including the Russian Air Force flying missions with their transponders activated,” the Russia Defense Ministry press and information office reports. Thus, flight control services in the Baltic States will be able to identify Russian …

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Russia is an “unpredictable” danger because “it is ready to use force to change its borders.”

Stoltenberg made these remarks during an interview with Bild, RBC-Ukraine reported.

“We face unpredictable risks and complex issues, including Russia, which is ready to use force to change its borders,” the Secretary General said.

He also stressed that NATO does need seek a confrontation with Russia.

The Alliance’s summit will be held in Warsaw next …

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that an aid package for the Ukrainian sector of security and defense will be approved during the NATO summit in Warsaw.

“A special participation of our country in the NATO summit this year will be the fact that Ukraine is the only partner country of the Alliance that will have a separate meeting at the highest level: the Ukraine-NATO Commission. This shows the high attention paid by the Alliance countries to our country, loyal support of our country by …

Buildings used for electric facilities in Horlivka have been seized by armed men.

Members of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic stormed the premises of the Ukrainian state-owned power grid company Ukrenergo in Horlivka, which is not controlled by the Ukrainian government, the company’s press service reported.

The capture of the buildings happened on June 30, Korrespondent.net reported.

“According to unofficial information, these actions were carried out as a result of the execution of …

The United States handed over a new batch of counter-battery AN/TPQ Firefinder radar systems to Ukraine. The radars can locate enemy weapons, following the trajectories of projectiles, missiles and mines. Ukraine received four AN/TPQ-36 systems and ten AN/TPQ-49 systems.

The handover ceremony took place at the Boryspil airport on Saturday. It was attended by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the US Ambassador to Ukraine, Jeffrey Pyatt.

Last year, the first batch of US counter-battery …

A resident of Perm has been ordered to pay a fine of 200,000 rubles for the "rehabilitation of Nazism."

In Russia, the court found a resident of Perm guilty of publically denying the decisions of the Nuremberg trials and the dissemination of false information about the activities of the USSR during the Second World War, Kommersant reports.

The court ordered a resident of Perm, Vladimir Luzgin, to pay a fine of 200,000 rubles on charges of rehabilitation of Nazism.

The grounds for the …