As of March 6, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES) has counted over 1 million internally displaced persons in Ukraine, including the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine and Crimea, according to the message of the state agency.

"Since the start of anti-terrorist operations on the East of Ukraine, 1,018,484 people including 996,553 from Donetsk and Luhansk regions, 21,931 people from Crimea and Sevastopol have been resettled," the ESS reported. Those registered among displaced people from …

One out of five Russians think it is likely that they could be fired in the next two or three months. Downsizing has become a real concern, according to the fund “Public Opinion”, citing research results conducted towards the end of February. Interfax reported the results on March 5th of a poll of 1,500 respondents in 104 settlements of the Russian Federation.

31% of respondents believed that there is no chance that they will lose their job in the coming months. Out of those concerned about …

The founder of Russia’s Ren-TV company, Irena Lesnevskaya, has written an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin asking for the release of Ukrainian citizen, Nadia Savchenko.  Savchenko was charged in Russia with the murders of two Russian journalists.

The letter was posted on Facebook on Sunday.  “While the whole world is looking, Nadia Savchenko is dying as a result of her dry hunger strike in a Russian prison.  I call on every humane and Christian part of you to stop this …

The Prime Minister of Ukraine, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, stated during a meeting with the Head of the Poltava Regional State Administration that the World Bank plans to allocate $200 million for the construction of roads in Ukraine, the Government Portal reports.

Yatsenyuk noted that capital spending will not be in the project estimates in 2016 but will be directed solely to projects to be commissioned in the current year. The part of capital expenditure would be directed to the repair of roads. …

Border guard officers have resumed operations at the Marinka checkpoint which was temporarily closed yesterday due to a sniper attack by pro-Russian separatists, according to the Ukrainian State Border Service's website.

"It was due to a situation in this direction; in particular, because of provocative attacks by militants and risks to lives and health of civilians crossing the border",  the statement said.

According to border guard officers, yesterday in the morning there were 10 vehicles …

The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported that the bodies of 15 Russian servicemen who were killed in the Donbas were delivered from Donetsk to Russia.

Ukrayinska Pravda cited the Directorate on March 6th as claiming that the bodies were removed from the morgue of the Donetsk Regional Hospital on March 4th. Ukrainian intelligence also reported that in the occupied Donbas, the Commander of the 3rd Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade (Horlivka) is actually …

On Sunday, thousands of demonstrators formed a human chain six kilometers long from the Russian Embassy to the square in front of the government administration building in Tbilisi in order to protest negotiations between Georgia and Gazprom.

The action was organized by the United National Movement opposition party of the ex-President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, and its supporters. "The Georgian people will not allow the government to undermine the country's energy security," said one of …

The Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported that the Russian Federation is planning to deploy a new batch of Su-34 strike fighters to the Syrian airbase Hmeimim as well as flight and maintenance personnel from the 47th Aviation Regiment (Buturlinovka) of the 6th Air Force and Air Defense Army of the Western Military District on the 9th of March.

“The activities directed towards ensuring the specific grouping of the Russian Armed Forces in Syria includes …