The court in the Kherson region has arrested two people whom the Ukrainian Border Guard Service has called "lost Russian border guards", Interfax-Ukraine reported.

The representative of the State Border Service of Ukraine, Oleg Slobodyan, said that the court ruled to arrest them for 15 days.

Ukrainian border guards, with the assistance of Ukrainian army servicemen, detained two people on the night of June 30. According to the State Border Service of Ukraine, at 2:30 they moored by boat to the …

Due to the flooding of mines and rising water levels in the Donbas, the level of radiation will increase, making it necessary to gradually resettle people from the region, as stated by the Deputy Minister for Temporarily Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons, George Tuka, on Channel 5."It's not about saving the Donbas at all. We can forget about it. We are talking about the gradual resettlement of the people from the region, because people will not be able to live there for 10 …

The mother of 22 year-old Russian Viktor Ageyev, who was captured in the vicinity of Ukrainian Luhansk, has asked for help in the release of her son, Radio Svoboda reported on June 29.

Svetlana Ageyeva’s appeal was sent to Alexander Goncharenko, chair of the Altaic division of the “Yabloko” party, who forwarded it to party leader Boris Vishnevsky at the Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersberg.

Vinshevsky reportedly sent a letter to Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu with a request to …

The Russian ambassador in the USA, Sergey Kislyak, may leave Washington at the end of July. In recent months, the diplomat has been linked to a series of scandals about possible ties between members of Donald Trump’s campaign team and the Kremlin.

On Thursday, the Director of the Institute for US and Canada Studies, Sergey Rogov, spoke about the plans of the Russian ambassador.

“He will return to Moscow in late July,” Rogov said, speaking at the Primakov Readings international forum in Moscow. …

NATO will retain its military presence in Afghanistan after 2017 and strengthen it, as stated by the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance Jens Stoltenberg, on Thursday, following a meeting of NATO Defense Ministers on Afghanistan.

"We will continue our mission of 'Resolute support' after 2017. Today I can confirm that we will also strengthen our presence," he said, noting that 15 NATO countries committed themselves to increasing their contribution to the mission in Afghanistan. "We …

The State Executive Service of Ukraine received $3.069 million from Gazprom, which will become part of the state budget, as part of the fine imposed by the AMCU (Anti-Monopoly Committe of Ukraine) on the Russian company, as reported by Serhii Shklyar, the Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine on Executive Service.

“The decision on Gazprom, which was made by the AMCU for $ 6.5 billion and which was later the subject of consideration in the economic courts, was submitted to the State Executive …

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has not yet made a final decision on the application of sanctions against Ukraine due to the refusal to allow Russian singer Yulia Samoylova to participate in Eurovision 2017, as reported by the head of the Public Relations and Mass Media Department of the National Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine (PBC), Victoria Sidorenko, Ukrinform reports. According to her, if the fine is imposed, the PBC will appeal it. Sidorenko said that the issue of imposing …

The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko responded to a public petition demanding to unlock the Russian social network VKontakte, as reported on the website of the President Administration.

“I do not think it is possible to support the electronic petition to unlock the Internet resource Vkontakte,” he said in response to the petition. As Poroshenko noted, the application of special economic and restrictive measures to the Russian holding Mail.ru Group and other Russian Internet companies for …