According to the June 14 edition of New Sevastopol, Sevastopol Sea Port Director Sergey Yemelyanov reported that his seaport has shipped its first 3,800 tons grain delivery from Krasnohvardiiske for delivery to Syria.

At the same time Yemelyanov did not name the Syrian port to which the grain will be delivered. According to local media reports, the Port Director forbade journalists from photographing the ship "so that the ship owner does not have problems with sanctions."

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A convoy of Russian military equipment heading towards the Ukrainian border has been reported by social media users.

"A convoy of Russian armored vehicles, having left the base of the Russian Arme Forces, is moving on the Tiraspol - Ribnița Highway, a few kilometers away from the Ukrainian border. This is the security zone. They are not allowed to be there,"  expert Artem Filipenko wrote on Facebook. He also posted photo and video of the convoy.

"On June 14, starting at 08:30, on the route …

The Appropriations Committee of the US House of Representatives has proposed to increase its estimated fund allocation in the 2019 US federal budget reserved for Department of State and Department of Defense programs to support Ukraine, reports the Ukrainian Embassy in the United States.

The Appropriations Committee of the US House of Representatives has proposed allocating $250 million to help Ukraine in the field of security, including for lethal weapons of a defensive nature. This amount is …

Russian-controlled military formations continue to violate the ceasefire in the Donbas, using heavy mortars and artillery that are prohibited by the Minsk Agreements, the press service of the Ukrainian Joint Forces Operation (JFO) reports.

 According to the Ukrainian military, On Friday, June 15, seven armed provocations by the enemy were recorded. Soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were actively defending their positions and had opened retaliatory fire to suppress the enemy shelling.

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The US Department of State expressed concern on about reports that Syrian government forces are conducting operations in one of the de-escalation zones in southwestern of Syria in violation of previously-reached agreements.

"The United States remains concerned by reports of impending Syrian government operations in southwest Syria within the boundaries of the de-escalation zone [that had been] negotiated between the United States, Jordan, and the Russian Federation last year and reaffirmed …

The Russian Defense companies were instructed to complete the production of S-400 surface-to-air missile systems that will be delivered to Turkey before May 2019, a military-diplomatic source told TASS news agency.

"The companies working on the order were instructed to finish the production of systems before May 2019 to begin supplying Turkey in July," the source said. The Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation of Russia and Rosoboronexport (Russia’s arms exporter) have not …

The Stockholm Arbitration Institute’s ruling obligating Gazprom to pay Naftogaz Ukraine $2.6 billion has threatened to disrupt the Russian gas company’s foreign loan plans. The loans in question would be used to finance the construction of pipelines to China, Turkey and around Ukraine.

Due to the seizure of its assets in Switzerland and the Netherlands at Naftogaz’s request, Gazprom was forced to cancel its placement of eurobonds scheduled for the middle of June, an informed source told …

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko welcomed the resolution adopted by the European Parliament on Thursday condemning Russia’s massive violations of human rights, including on the temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories.

Poroshenko had high praise for the “consolidated, powerful voice of MEPs in the protection of more than 70 Ukrainian political prisoners, who continue to be forcibly held and tortured by the Kremlin regime,” he wrote on Facebook. He reiterated that Ukraine is fighting for …