NATO will work closely with Georgia to strengthen security measures in the Black Sea region, which is of strategic importance to the alliance, as stated by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a joint press conference with the Prime Minister of Georgia, Giorgi Kvirikashvili.

"We will continue to work with Georgia on the challenges that we see in the Black Sea region. We have made an assessment of the security situation in the Black Sea region and, of course, Georgia is one of the …

Volodymyr Kryzhanovsky, the head of the press service of the "South" Air Command, said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces intend to continue carrying out missile tests not far from the Crimea, as that territory is the optimal test range for such exercises, UNIAN reported.

"The last time such exercises took place was 4 years ago. We had a special testing site on Cape Chauda in the Crimea, but because of the annexation of the peninsula, we lost it. But now we have a new test ground and this place …

According to the US Ambassador to the OSCE, Daniel Baer, Russia is attempting to escalate the violence in eastern Ukraine in order to improve their position at the negotiating table and to gain concessions in their favor, Unrinform reported.

“Russia has escalated tensions on the line of contact in an attempt to wrest concessions from Ukraine by force,” Baer stated.

At the same time, he noted that fighting further complicates achieving political progress during the Minsk negotiations.

“If …

The State Border Service of Ukraine said that a Russian warship, Pytlivy, is blocking the path to oil rigs in the Black Sea. This was said by the Chief of Staff of the 1st Sea Guard detachment Captain Ihor Zapyantsev at a press conference in Odessa, UNIAN reported.

According to Zapyantsev, on December 1st, when the border guards conducted a special naval operation in the exclusive (maritime) economic zone in the Odessa gas field located in the Northwestern part of the Black Sea, the Russian …

An RQ-4A Global Hawk strategic unmanned aerial vehicle of the U.S. Air Force made a reconnaissance approach to the demarcation line near Donetsk yesterday morning, according to websites that track the movement of military aircraft.

The drone reportedly flew from north to south along the demarcation line near Donets

The US long-distance unmanned aerial vehicle with call sign UAVGH000 reportedly departed from the Sigonella Air Force Base in Sicily. According to existing information, it entered …

The Ukrainian and Polish Presidents, Petro Poroshenko and Andrzej Duda, released a statement in which they said they were shocked by the European Commission’s decision to expand Gazprom’s access to the OPAL pipeline, which provides an opportunity for the Russian company to increase their flow of gas to Europe, bypassing Ukraine.

"We believe that the decision contradicts the rules and principles of the energy community and contradicts the achievement of the organization’s fundamental goal: the …

Amid growing concerns in Oslo over Russia’s recent military expansion in the Arctic region, the Norwegian Defense Ministry has called on US President-elect Donald Trump to put forth a clear and predictable policy towards Russia as soon as possible, Reuters reported

"What is most important to us right now is to have both a predictable and a very clear policy on Russia," Norwegian Defense Minister Ine Eriksen Soereide told Reuters.

"The earlier and the clearer that the new administration comes …

Russian Foreign MinisterSergey Lavrov stated the the American Secretary of State, John Kerry, while at the meeting in Rome, presented new proposals regarding the situation in Aleppo.

According to Lavrov, the previous proposals of the United States “supported the immunity of Jabhat al-Nusra, who is at the head of the terrorists in Aleppo, from any strikes.”

At the same time, the new proposals presented by Kerry, “are in line with the position of the Russian experts at the talks with the …