There are many Russian tanks without identifying information in the uncontrolled territories in the Donbas, and NATO is aware of this, as stated on Wednesday, February 14th, on Echo of Moscow radio by the former Deputy Secretary General of NATO, Alexander Vershbow.

He noted that although there are "a lot of tanks in the Donbas that do not have Russian markings, but we are aware of where they come from."

Also, NATO knows about the Russian military, who are in the Donbas.

"In fact, we are …

Sanctions imposed on the Kalashnikov concern (part of the Rostec state corporation, the Russian Federation) have cut off the company’s access to 70-90% of the global civil arms market, Interfax-Ukraine reports.

“Sectoral sanctions imposed against Kalashnikov concern in 2014 by the United States, European Union states, Canada, Japan, Australia, and other countries have decimated the company: the sanctions cut off Kalashnikov’s access to 70-90% of the world’s market of civil weapons,” according …

It will be difficult for Turkey to integrate Russian S-400 missile systems into NATO’s air defense system, as stated by NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg at a press conference in Brussels, a correspondent of Evropeyskaya Pravda reports.  

According to him, during the ministerial meeting, Turkey’s air defense was discussed and it has been said that NATO is strengthening it by deploying their Patriot batteries.

"We have discussed the situation with the acquisition of the S-400 complex  …

Gazprom Export intends litigate in Stockholm with the German company Uniper, its largest Europen gas client. Gazprom’s trading division notified Uniper that an arbitration procedure would be initiated, with the demand to revise the gas price according to the contract starting on February 1, 2018. “Approaching arbitration to resolve a contract dispute is a standard practice, envisaged by such contracts,” reads Gazprom’s statement, as quoted by RBC news agency.

The official Gazprom Export …

Poland, which opposes the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline between Russia and Germany, intends to build its own gas pipeline along the bottom of the Baltic Sea.

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper reported that the Baltic Pipe project will run from the Polish coast to Denmark, and will allow the state-owned Polish gas transportation company Gaz-System to connect to Norway’s gas pipeline network.

The newspaper notes that in late 2017, the Polish energy company PGNiG …

NATO Defense Ministers approved the decision to create two new command structures, as stated by Jens Stoltenberg, General Secretary of NATO, at a press conference in Brussels. Stoltenberg said, “We decided to modernize NATO's command structure. The security environment in Europe has changed, and NATO responds."

NATO will create a new command center for the United Forces for the Atlantic to protect the sea lanes between North America and Europe. The other new command center will support …

The Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission (LRTK) has decided to require re-broadcasting companies to suspend broadcasting by Russian TV channel RTR-Planeta in Lithuania for a period of one year, reported Delfi news outlet.

The Commission claims that over the past year, three cases have been identified in which three separate violations were recorded linking RTR-Planeta programs with incitement to war and hatred.

For example, according to the information provided by the LRTK, one RTR- …

The Humanitarian Coordinator of the subgroup of the contact group on conflict settlement in the Donbas from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM), Toni Frisch did not report to the Trilateral Contact group the outcome of his meeting with Russian Presidential Aide Vladislav Surkov, said First Deputy Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada Iryna Herashchenko, Ukraine's representative in the humanitarian sub-group of the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG).

"Ukrainian representatives were baffled that …