On 19 January another batch of new military equipment was delivered from Russia, as stated on the website of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan.

“A large batch of modern military equipment and ammunition delivered by sea from Russia to the port of Baku will be soon transferred to military units stationed at the front lines”, — the Ministry said.

The Ministry stated that the deliveries of modern military equipment to Azerbaijan from the Russian Federation continue under the …

The National Bank of Ukraine believes that if Ukraine doesn’t receive the next tranche from the International Monetary Fund by July, the cooperation program will probably end, as expressed during an interview with Dmitry Sologub, NBU deputy head, with Ukrainian news.

Sologub added, "We are reevaluating, as much as possible, but technically, the first quarter does not look viable anymore. It's more realistic to receive a tranche in the second quarter. When we receive a tranche, in the first or …

The Moldovan authorities plan to hire an international law firm to assess the damage from Russia's military presence in Transnistria, as stated by the Speaker of the Moldovan Parliament, Andrian Candu, in an interview with the Latvian newspaper Latvijas Avize.

According to him, Moscow might be presented with a bill which will amount to billions of dollars. "We intend to hire an international law firm to calculate the losses caused by the Russian presence in Transdniestria for 25 years. The …

President Petro Poroshenko held a meeting with Irakli Kobakhidze, Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia, during the latter’s official visit to Ukraine, as reported on the President's website.

Both sides stressed the importance of implementing the Declaration on the Establishment of a Strategic Partnership between Ukraine and Georgia, signed during a visit by Poroshenko to Georgia in July 2017.

“They expressed mutual interest in the enhancement of inter-parliamentary ties between the two …

At the UN press conference in New York, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has stated that a line of communication between the United States and Russia “largely” contributed to the eradication of the Islamic State (ISIS), Interfax reports.

“We established a line of military communication with regard to Syria; this cooperation has largely contributed to the fact that ISIS did not materialize as a caliphate and was destroyed,” said Lavrov.

The Russian Foreign Minister noted that the United …

Sergey Lavrov, the Head of the Foreign Affairs Ministry of the Russian Federation, described the new U.S. National Defense Strategy as "confrontational," at a press conference in New York, Interfax reports.

"It is regrettable that instead of engaging in a normal dialogue, instead of using the basis of international law, the United States is indeed striving to prove their leadership through such confrontational concepts and strategies," Lavrov said.

It was reported earlier that the Russian …

During a broadcast on the television channel Inter, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said that President Petro Poroshenko will meet with his American counterpart, Donald Trump, at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

 “Certainly, the President will speak with Trump,” said Klimkin, while speaking about the Ukrainian leader’s upcoming meetings at Davos.

The minister specified the format that the meeting between the two presidents will take.

“What can be said in a general meeting format? …

According to Western aviation resources, on Friday, January 19, two US B-52H strategic bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons carried out training flights in Estonia's airspace near the Russian border, Interfax reports. It was noted that the aircraft were flying near the Gulf of Finland. According to reports, American bombers flew out from the Fairford base in the UK. Before the flights which took many hours and were carried out in the Baltic region, training ammunition was loaded onto …