In Sevastopol, on December 28, more than 40 ship crews from the Russian Black Sea Fleet practiced preparation for an extended naval, the use of weapons and technical equipment, as reported by the press service of the Southern Military District of Russia.

"The crews are training to work for the survivability of the ship when berthing at the pier, practicing counter-sabotage and anti-aircraft defense," the report said. The training tasks include daily organization of service; routine and rest of …

The creation of the WannaCry and Lurk computer viruses was supervised by employees of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia, said Russian hacker Konstantin Kozlovsky, who was arrested in connection with the Lurk case, reported Dozhd TV.

Russia denied its involvement in the emergence of WannaCry, which infected hundreds of thousands of computers around the world. Nothing was reported about the role of Russian special services in the creation of the Lurk virus as well, which was used to …

Gazprom will pay Ukraine 2-3 times more "than it can receive for the sale of its gas," to transport it through Ukraine, according to a Facebook post made by the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of Naftogaz, Yuriy Vitrenko, UNIAN reports.

Vitrenko reported that the price of gas for Ukraine will be calculated according to the German market. "For those who like to count who and how much will be paid, Gazprom pays us 2-3 times more for transit than it will be able to receive for selling its gas," he …

During questioning in the court case against former President Viktor Yanukovych, who is accused of high treason, Ukrainian Commander of the Navy Ihor Voronchenko said that the Ukrainian military had been ready to fire from two tanks in the building of the Crimean Verkhovna Rada on February 27, 2014 in order to prevent the annexation of the peninsula by Russia, Ukrainski Novyny News agency reports.

Voronchenko, who served as Chief of the Coastal Defense Administration at the time, said that on …

Over the past three years, 13 Ukrainian analog TV channels have started broadcasting in the Donetsk region, as stated in a report titled, "The state of the information space of the Donetsk region: challenges and prospects," RBC-Ukraine reports.The report was prepared by the Public Association ‘Analytical Center, Thought Factory of the Donbas’, in cooperation with the Ministry of Information Policy and the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting.Analog television has been restored …

Russia will sell Turkey four anti-aircraft S-400 defense systems for $2.5 billion, as announced by Sergey Chemezov, the General Director of the state corporation Rostec, in an interview with Kommersant.

"This is the first country in NATO to acquire our newest air defense system S-400," Chemezov said.

He also said that Turkey will pay 45% of the total amount of the contract as an advance, while 55% will be with Russian credit funds.

"We plan to begin the first deliveries in March 2020. The …

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) is conducting a pre-trial investigation in regards to the possible embezzlement of property by the head of Oschadbank management board and his subordinates by writing off $ 20.98 million from Cyprus's Opal Core Ltd. The funds were declared as State property with the purpose of their further confiscation.   The criminal scheme was described in the statement of the Solomensky District Court of Kyiv from December 6, 2017, published on December 1 …

The biometric control system has begun operation at Ukrainian airports, as reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine on its Facebook page.

"The project involves the collection of personal biometric data and the storage of [this data] in the databases of the State Tax Service of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Security Service of Ukraine, as well as the capture of the biometric data of foreigners and stateless persons during border control," …