• Vladimir Putin accused the US of supporting Chechen militants

    The President of Russia announced that the US "used terrorists to swing the domestic political situation in Russia."

    In his interview with Oliver Stone, published by the Showtime network, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that United States intelligence supported militants in Chechnya to destabilize the situation in Russia.

    "When we started having problems in Chechnya, unfortunately in the Northern Caucasus, the Americans supported these processes," the Russian leader said.

    "We had an …

  • Kremlin warns the US against entering into a ‘sanctions spiral’

    The intention of the US Congress to introduce new restrictive measure against Russia can result in a new wave of mutual sanctions, as stated by the press secretary Russian President, Dmitry Peskov. 

    «We would not like to enter into a sanctions spiral again, but this is not our choice», — said Peskov

    He also noted that in the meantime it is still early to make any judgments since the statements of the American Senators have not been followed up yet by any concrete steps.

    “They make so many …

  • Media: Ukrainian President will meet with Trump next week

    The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, will meet with the US President, Donald Trump next week, as reported by the Evropeyskaya Pravda news website with reference to its own sources in the diplomatic circles.

    "This is a full-fledged state visit of Poroshenko to Washington, which will include meetings with key persons, including President Trump," one of the sources told Evropeyskaya Pravda.

    Another source also added that Poroshenko's trip to the United States had already been agreed on …

  • Ukrainian officer sentenced to 12 years for attempting to steal Su-24 plane and fly it to Russia

    The Kmelnitskyi city district court sentenced a major of the Ukrainian Armed Forces who tried to steal a plane and take it to Russia in September 2014.

    The case was considered repeatedly in court. The first time, the major was sentenced to 11 years of imprisonment, but for procedural reasons, the ruling of the Starokonstantinovsky court did not come into force, and a new trial was appointed, the press service of the Military Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine reported.

    In the second …

  • Russia begins large-scale military exercise in South Ossetia

    Divisions of the Russian 58th Combined-Arms Army started command and staff exercises in the territory of South Ossetia, as announced by Vadim Astafyev, spokesperson for the Southern Military District, TASS reports.

    “Military personnel are working on the actions of divisions during an air raid of an imaginary enemy, overcoming contaminated sections of terrain under conditions of weapons of mass destruction and radioelectric suppression being used by an enemy,” Astafyev explained.

    The drills …

  • US Congress introduces bill for new sanctions against Russia

    The US Congress has introduced a bill for new sanctions against Russia. Anti-Russian measures are being considered in the form of an amendment to a draft law on sanctions against Iran.

    It follows from the document that under the sanctions, the financing period for Russian banks under sanctions could be limited from 90 to 14 days.

    Additionally, US companies and individuals will be banned from "all transactions involving the provision of financing and other business relationships involving a …

  • Turchynov: Ukraine must transition to a new format of defense against Russia’s hybrid aggression

    Secretary of the Defense and Security Council of Ukraine (NSDC), Oleksandr Turchynov believes that Ukraine needs to end the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) and transition to a new format of national defense against Russia’s hybrid war.

    “Military actions have been going on in the east of our country for three years already, and they have escalated both in duration and in the massive format of the military operation (ATO). At the same time, it must be pointed out that the anti-terrorist operation …

  • Ukrainian politician claimed Putin is a good godfather to his daughter

    RIA Novosti reported that the representative of Kyiv in the humanitarian subgroup on the Donbas issues, the leader of the All-Ukrainian Social Movement "Ukrainian choice - the right of the people," Viktor Medvedchuk said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a good godfather to his daughter.

    "When I'm with my family in Russia, I meet with President Putin, of course, not only there. These meetings are primarily dictated by Ukraine's interests, and this channel of communication could be used …

  • EU advised Ukraine not to think about membership yet

    As reported by DW, the EU advised Ukraine not to think about membership yet. The EU is confident that the Ukrainian state needs to concentrate on reforms, and any other questions will create "illusions in Ukraine," said Hugues Mingarelli, the Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine.

    According to Mingarelli, the issue of Ukraine's membership in the EU is not on the European Union’s agenda. "This issue is not on our agenda, to put it bluntly. And I do not think that anyone should raise this issue," …

  • Residents from the Donbas and the Crimea need to provide additional identification documents to obtain biometric passports in Ukraine

    Residents from Donbas and Crimea need to provide additional identification documents to obtain biometric passports, as stated by the Press Secretary for the State enterprise, Document, Volodymyr Polishchuk, on Espreso.TV.

    “To obtain biometric passports, citizens who register in the occupied territories of the Donbas and the Crimea need to provide additional documentation to support their identification”, he said.

    Polishchuk stressed that the additional check is due to the impossibility of …