• UNICEF: 750,000 children in Donbas could be cut off from drinking water

    Almost 750,000 children in Eastern Ukraine could be cut off from clean drinking water as a result of military actions in areas where important facilities of civil infrastructure are located, a representative of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said, as reported by the UN News Center.

    “Nearly 3 million people in eastern Ukraine rely on water infrastructure that is now in the line of fire. We expect more families will be cut off from safe drinking water, putting children at severe risk of disease, …

  • Long-term support plan for Ukraine to be presented at Eastern Partnership Summit

    A long-term plan of support for Ukraine (the so-called “Marshall Plan for Ukraine”) will be presented at the Eastern Partnership Summit in November, Lithuanian MP Andrius Kubilius told the newspaper Segodnya in an interview.

    “We will present the ‘Marshall Plan for Ukraine’ at the Eastern Partnership Summit in November, where, we hope, mention of this document will appear in the final declaration of the summit,” he said.

    “We are working towards there being not only a declaration, but also real …

  • Media: thousands of Russian soldiers are currently stationed in the Donbas

    The total number of military personnel from the Russian Armed Forces who are active in the separatist-held territories of Eastern Ukraine is currently 5-6 thousand, wrote journalist and military expert Yuriy Butusov on ZN.UA news website.

    “Nominally assigned to the command posts, the local separatists carry out, in the best case, the functions of students and ‘advisers’, or are otherwise ‘talking heads’ for propaganda. Russian mercenaries are the linchpins in all the military subdivisions of …

  • International Maritime Organization condemns Russia for opening fire at Ukrainian An-26 aircraft in February

    19 delegations of the member-countries of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) condemned the actions of the Russian Federation in connection with the firing at the An-26 aircraft of the Ukrainian Naval Forces over the Black Sea in February this year, as stated in a message on the website of the Embassy of Ukraine in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

    On June 15, the Ukrainian delegation addressed a meeting of the Maritime Safety Committee of the International …

  • Ukrainian Ministry of Defense reports 1700 deaths of those fighting for the separatists in the Donbas

    The Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has collected information about the separatist casualties in the Donbas. According to the SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) and the Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) of the Ministry of Defense, 35,000-40,000 armed separatists of the self-proclaimed "republics" and 4,000-5,000 of the Russian military are members of the DPR (Dontesk People’s Republic) and LPR (Luhansk People’s Republic) army corps.

    "We collect data …

  • The Ukrainian Prosecutor’s General Office has demanded that Russia extradite the ex-commander of the Berkut Special Police

    The Prosecutor General's Office (GPU) has asked Russia to detain and extradite Serhiy Kusyuk, the former chief of the Kyiv Special Police Regiment, Berkut, as reported by the head of the GPU Department of Special Investigations, Sergei Gorbatyuk on 112 Ukraine.

    “A request was sent to the Russian Federation to detain and extradite him,” he said.

    So far, there has been no answer from the Russian Federation.  

    Gorbatyuk also noted that Kusyuk was made aware of GPU’s suspicion during seven …

  • Russian schoolboy was dissatisfied with Putin's answer to the question about corruption

    A schoolboy named Danila, from Nefteyugansk, remained dissatisfied with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s response to his question about corruption.

    During the ‘Direct Line with Vladimir Putin’ Q&A TV show, the young man asked Putin how the President could solve the problem of corrupt officials. The teenager also expressed the opinion that placing corruption suspects on house arrest does not yield results, yet the problem affects most of the country's population.

    He added that in the Khanty- …

  • USA congratulated Russian Federation on Russia Day with a three-day delay

    According to the Voice of America, the United States congratulated Russia on their national holiday, but only after three-day delay accompanied by complaints from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

    On Thursday, the State Department issued a statement by the Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, in which he, on behalf of President Donald Trump and the American people congratulated “all the residents of Russia on the Day of Russia.”

    The statement by the Department of State was dated June 15 …

  • Media: Assad’s forces bombard areas of Syria that are part of de-escalation zones

    The forces of Bashar Al-Assad resumed the bombardment of the areas controlled by the opposition, Anadolu news agency reports. According to the agency, air strikes have continued on neighborhoods in Idlib, Latakia, Hama, Homs, Daraa, and Damascus, all of which are part of the de-escalation zones in Syria.

    According to media reports, the towns of Jisr al-Shugur and Bdama, the Kurdag region, the northern region of Latamna, the central part of Dar’a, and districts in East Ghouta and Jobar have …

  • Former US Secretary of State stresses importance of providing Ukraine with defensive weapons

    President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko met with a delegation from the National Democratic Institute of the United States (NDI), which was headed by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the organization, former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, as reported by the Press Service of the President of Ukraine.

    "Madeleine Albright stressed the importance of providing Ukraine with defensive weapons in order to ensure the lawful right of a sovereign state to self-defense in accordance with …