The European Union does not believe that the military conflict in Syria is over, as stated by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, reports Deutsche Welle.

"We know very well that the fighting in Syria continues, and that civilians suffer from attacks," she said.

According to Mogherini, there is no reason to agree with the notion that the war in Syria has come to an end and that the situation may soon normalize.

In this regard, the …

The fugitive Ukrainian businessman, Serhiy Kurchenko,said that he “does not know and does not want to know” the ex-governor of the Odessa region, Mikheil Saakashvili, and filed a lawsuit against the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko for spreading slander, reported Komsomolskaya Pravda in Ukraine, citing as a source Kurchenko’s press service.

“On December 5, in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Prosecutor General Yury Lutsenko irresponsibly stated that Serhiy Kurchenko financed the …

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu said that the Russian military has already begun to return from Syria, RIA Novosti reports.

The minister was not able to mention a specific date when all forces would be withdrawn. According to him, this will “depend on the situation”.

Earlier on Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the Khmeimim airbase in Syria, where he gave the order to begin withdrawing Russian forces from their permanent stationing points in Syria. He also met with …

The Pecherskyi District Court of Kyiv did not grant the request of the prosecutor’s office to take the preventive measure of placing former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, leader of the Rukh novyh syl (Movement for New Forces) Party, under round-the-clock house arrest during the investigation, reported the news agency Interfax-Ukraine on December 11.

“The petition of the prosecutor…about the application of the preventive measure in the form of round-the-clock house arrest concerning …

Ukraine and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have not formally prepared for a December meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the NATO-Ukraine Commission, reported the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

The Ministry notes that events at the level of the Foreign Ministers of NATO are usually held twice a year: once in April or May, and a second time within the first ten days of December.

The meeting of the Foreign Ministers in December was envisaged by an annual national program …

To date, 52 people are being held in detention centers in the annexed Crimea for political reasons; and since 2014, at least 70 people have become political prisoners, as reported in an expert study conducted by the Crimean Human Rights Group (CHRG), Krym.Realii reports.

"To date, 52 people continue to be held in prisons and detention facilities in Crimea or Russia; three are under house arrest, and this figure is inconclusive, because there are other criminal cases in the Crimea in which …

The US State Department supports Ukrainian anti-corruption bodies and is extremely unhappy with the conflict between the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO), stated  the Head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAP), Nazar Kholodnytsky.

"The first key message we heard from the US State Department was, "We support you 1000 %." These are their exact words. Their second statement is that all conflicts should be resolved through …

The Ambassador of Poland to Ukraine, Jan Pieklo, believes that Ukraine was the first country to start the practice of creating “black lists” for Poles, the diplomat told the Delovaya stolitsa newspaper.

“As for non-grata persons, Ukraine was the first who started this practice. A year ago, the Mayor of the Polish city of Przemysl, Robert Choma, was denied entry to Ukraine. A little bit later the same happened to a Polish professor from Lublin. Then Poland retaliated and denied entry to …