Russian President Vladimir Putin asserts that he and Poroshenko conferred over the case of the RIA Novosti Ukraine Editor-in-Chief, Kirill Vyshinsky, during a telephone conversation.

Putin said that he discussed with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko the possibility of extraditing Kirill Vyshinsky, Editor-in-Chief of RIA Novosti-Ukraine, to Russia. According to Putin, "the fate of the Russian journalist" was brought up during the last telephone conversation between the heads of state.

"We …

In an interview with Bild, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said that he expects difficult negotiations on the settlement of the conflict in the east of Ukraine in the so-called Normandy format that includes Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine.  After a 16-month break, a meeting of the foreign ministers of the four countries will take place in Berlin.

The lack of progress in the implementation of the Minsk Agreements has complicated the situation for people in the east of Ukraine who want …

Iran has warned Europe that the time to save the multilateral agreement on Tehran’s nuclear program is running out, and reiterated its criticism of the US for Washington’s unilateral withdrawal from the agreement.Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that the US’s attempts to “impose its policy on others increase the threat for us all”.

Speaking at a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a regional group of countries led by Russia and China, with Iran as an observer, Rouhani …

The Hungarian Air Force was put on alert after a small Ukrainian plane illegally entered Hungarian airspace on the night of June 9th, reported on Mukachevo.net news outlet.

“The border guards immediately sounded the alarm and informed the relevant NATO security agencies. In addition, Swedish fourth generation Saab JAS 39 Gripen multi-role fighters were immediately sent up,” the report stated.

The incident occurred on the Ukrainian-Hungarian border in the area of the Luzhanka-Beregshuran …

U.S. President Donald Trump’s arguments about Russia returning to the G8 were unconvincing, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a broadcast on television station ARD.

“I cannot say exactly what motivated him (Trump)…Of course, we asked him, but the answer was not convincing,” Merkel said.

According to her, the American leader said that “Russia plays an important role in matters of war and peace, which, of course, is indisputable,” but in the G7 format are “governments that share …

On Sunday, June 10, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government forces carried out airstrikes on targets in the the Idlib province, including a hospital in the town of Taftanaz, Anadolu news agency reports. Strikes were also directed against the towns of Binnish and Ariha, and Ram Hamdan and Beni Iz villages. 17 civilians were killed in the attack.

According to one of the agency’s correspondents, aircraft attacked the province during the latter half of the day, in the afternoon.

Members of …

The Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Andriy Parubiy will visit Washington where he will discuss with his counterparts from the United States, Georgia, Lithuania and Moldova the ways of preventing the implementation of the Nord Stream 2 project.

"At the end of this month... I will be in Washington. We will have a meeting with [Speaker of the US House of Representatives Paul Ryan]; with the speakers of Georgia, Moldova, Lithuania and I hope Poland. One of the topics of our meeting will be …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that Russia never asked to be allowed back into the Group of Eight (G8) and considers the Group of Twenty (G20) as the most promising format for the future.

"We never asked to be allowed back," Lavrov said on Russia's Channel One, Interfax reports. He said that when Western partners decided that Russia would be excluded from the summit and that they would return to the G7 format, Moscow accepted "their decision."

"We have been working well in …