Enterprises under Ukrainian jurisdiction which are in the separatist-held areas of the Donbas are now being administered by separatists.

“As of midnight on March 1, Ukrainian enterprises in the jurisdiction of the DPR (Donetsk People’s Republic) are under state administration,” reported Russia's Interfax news agency citing a source in the Council of Ministers of the Donetsk People's Republic.

The LPR (Luhansk People’s Republic) also confirmed to Interfax the change to a new administration.

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National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov declared that Ukrainian troops have waited enough months to liberate the Donbas.

According to Secretary, the battles for the Svitlodarsk salient and Avdiivka have shown that the Ukrainian army is stronger than the "hybrid Russian troops".

"With today's balance of forces, we need only a month to completely clear the area of ​​the Donbas," said Turchynov during an interview with Censor.net.

At the same time, the NSDC …

The Russian Navy plans to deploy to Buk self-propelled, medium-range surface-to-air missile systems to the Crimea.

The 1096th air defense regiment based in Sevastopol will first receive the Buk-M2 missiles and then later, the more modern Buk-M3. Currently, the 1096th regiment is using the Osa missile system.

The BUK-M2 system is designed to destroy tactical and strategic aircraft, ballistic and aerial rockets, helicopters and other types of aerial precision weapons. It is capable of hitting …

The Polish government intends to challenge the actions of the Russian Federation in the International Court of Justice in The Hague. For more than seven years, Russia has been unable or unwilling to transfer to Poland the wreckage of the Tu-154 plane that claimed Polish President Lech Kaczyński’s life.

President Kaczyński perished with 96 other people when his Presidential plane crashed under mysterious circumstances not far from the Smolensk North Airport on April 10, 2010. He and his …

Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov said that Kyiv has a plan to regain sovereignty over the Donbas. "We have a very specific plan with regard to the Donbas, which has nothing to do with the concessions to Putin's regime," the head of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine stated in an interview with TSN news program on Sunday evening, February 26, Deutsche Welle reported.The Minister added that the strategy will be implemented if Russia, "under the pressure from the West" shows …

The debt accrued by Belarusian companies for gas delivered by Russia has reached almost $600 million, according to Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich.

"We believe that this money should be paid in full," Dvorkovich stressed in a lobby interview with RBC during the Russian Investment Forum in Sochi.

According to the Deputy Prime Minister, negotiations with the Belarusian side are difficult. "We have a different understanding both of the letter and the spirit of the existing agreement, a …

The representative of Ukraine to the Trilateral Contact Group on the resolution of the situation in the Donbas, former President of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, stated that Russia’s recognition of documents issued by the separatist areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions will lead to the freezing of the conflict in the same way it did in Transnistria, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

“In my view, Russia made the decision long ago to create conflict in the post-Soviet area, similar to their intervention …

Russia could implement "targeted and very specific" actions through an information campaign against Latvia before the start of parliamentary and local government elections, according to Delfi’s report on the concerns of Security Police Chief Normunds Mežviets.

According to Mežviets, Russia could try to discredit the Latvian state, its policies and its leaders to support its anti-state sentiments and pave the way for political organizations that offer an alternative model of the political …