The agreements made between the US and Russia with regard to Syria does not signal the beginning of a deepening of their military partnership. This was said by the US Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter.

On the 26th of July, AFP reported Carter as saying that discussions on military cooperation in Syria are only being carried out to “coerce Russians to make the right steps”, specifically to support a political solution to the conflict in Syria.

However, according to Carter, Russia is “still …

On July 26, Ukrainian Naval Forces’ coastal surveillance spotted two ships from the Russian Black Sea Fleet – the Pytliviy frigate and Ekvator medium reconnaissance ship – near Ukrainian territorial waters, the Navy headquarters reported. According to a representative from Navy headquarters, a Naval helicopter was immediately deployed to the area and identified the targets. Soon thereafter, the Russian warships left the area.

As it turned out, the Pytliviy frigate and Ekvator medium …

According to research conducted at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, 41.4% of Russians believe that they do not have enough money to buy food or clothing. 23.2% consider their financial situation to be bad, or very bad, RBC reported.

These numbers are up from the same research conducted in May, which concluded that 40% of the population could not afford basic goods such as food and clothing, and 21.1% considered themselves to be in a poor personal financial …

The German Minister for Foreign Affairs called for the settlement of the Transnistrian conflict by granting special status to Transnistria.

The acting chairman-in-office of the OSCE, German Minister for Foreign Affairs, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, stated the need to resolve the Transnistrian conflict before it escalates further.

“Old conflicts that we call frozen, they aren’t so frozen. There are always risks of these conflicts transitioning into the ‘hot’ stage. We saw it in the case of the …

On the 23rd of July, Ukraine increased daily imports of gas from Europe to 27.957 million cubic meters compared to 22.243 million cubic meters the day before, PJSC Ukrtransgaz reported. The import from Slovakia alone accounted for 22.084 million cubic meters. According to Eustream, the request for gas imports on the 24th-25th of July also makes 22.1 million cubic meters per day. The import from Poland amounts to 3.61 million cubic meters while imports from Hungary make 2.263 million cubic …

The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs calls on foreigners to enter the Russian-annexed Crimea solely in accordance with the laws of Ukraine and international law, as was stated in an address posted on the Ministry’s website on 25 July.

The MFA of Ukraine reminds that foreigners may enter and leave the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine through entry/exit border checkpoints only with special authorization of competent authorities.

“Ukraine considers the disregard for Ukrainian …

The Advisor to the Head of Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), Yuri Tandit, stated on the 112 Ukraine TV Channel that more than 300 people from the list received from separatists have never been in Ukraine. According to him, the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) stated that Ukraine holds 602 prisoners. “We don’t understand where these figures came from,” Tandit said.

Tandit clarified that Ukrainian officials received data on 1102 prisoners in Minsk in 2015. SSU analyzed this information. “I took …

Ukrainian State border guard officers recorded evidence of Russian gas drilling platforms in the Ukrainian maritime economic zone, the press service of the Agency reported.

”While monitoring the sea surface from the air, the employees of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine registered Russian self-elevating drilling offshore platforms, fixed platforms and supply vessels in the Odessa and Holitsynske gas fields,” the report says.

The presence of supply vessels under the Russian flag on …