• Large-scale NATO cyber exercise have started in Estonia

    In Estonia, a large-scale NATO Cyber Coalition exercise began, as stated in a message on the NATO website.

    The exercise includes more than 700 participants from 25 member states, as well as partner countries, the EU, and industry and academia representatives. This is the 10th annual occurrence of these exercises.

    The goal of the exercises, which will end on Friday, is to test the capabilities of NATO and Alliance partners to counter cyber attacks, as well as to improve the interaction of …

  • Ukrainian Foreign Minister: U.S. prepares new list of Russian companies to be sanctioned

    Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said that in January the U.S. Treasury Department will prepare a new list of Russian businessmen and companies that may be subject to restrictive measures, reported news agency UNIAN.

    “At the end of January, the United States Department of the Treasury along with American institutions must have this list prepared. This list will, in itself, be a very important leverage in influencing and putting pressure on Russia,” the Minister said.

    He added that …

  • US Representative for Ukraine Volker: Negotiations with Russia put on pause

    US State Department Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker announced that the next meeting with Russian Presidential Advisor Vladislav Surkov on bringing an end to the war in the Donbas will not take place before December. Until this time, the parties are pausing, following the lack of success of the previous negotiations. Volker spoke about this in an interview with LB.ua, recorded for the VIII National Expert Forum.

    “During the first two meetings, I had the feeling that we were …

  • Moscow court rejects Seimens’ request to seize turbines in Crimea

    A Moscow arbitration court refused to impound four gas turbines which were manufactured by Siemens and sent by Technopromexport to the annexed Crimea in violation of sanctions,TASS reported, referring to the court’s decision.

    “The court refuses to approve the application of Siemens Gas Turbine Technologies (a Siemens subsidiary),” TASS quoted the court as saying.

    The Siemens subsidiary demanded the seizure of the gas turbines and wanted Technopromexport and other parties to be prohibited from …

  • Journalist: Pilots who provided evidence in court against General Nazarov have been dismissed from the Ukrainian air force

    Two military experts, 1st class test pilots Colonel Victor Lukyanchuk and Colonel Oleksandr Pakholchenko, who signed a conclusion about the reasons for the death of the 49 soldiers on board the Il-76 near Luhansk and about responsibility for this of the command of headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), were fired from the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the grounds of "staff reduction", as reported by journalist Yuriy Butusov on Facebook.

    Butusov said that the trial information on the …

  • Ukraine completes factory testing of new infantry fighting vehicle

    The Zhytomyr Armored Plant that is part of the Ukroboronprom state military industrial company has completed a full cycle of industrial testing for the new BMP-1UMD (infantry fighting vehicle - IFV).

    The new armored fighting vehicle is a thoroughly revamped earlier version BMP-1, and is equipped with a modern combat module, a digital fire-control system, and powered by a German Deutz engine, according to information provided on the Ukroboronprom website.    

    The military enterprise states …

  • Heraschenko: OSCE observer’s friendly demeanor toward separatists was not a simple coincidence

    During a meeting of the Tripartite Contact Group (TCG) in Minsk, Ukraine plans to raise the issue of an "imprudent" OSCE observer who exchanged a friendly greeting with a militant, as stated on Facebook by Iryna Herashchenko, First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada and Ukrainian Humanitarian Envoy to the TCG.

    "The OSCE is making justifications for its observer, who, greeted the militants as if they were family. They say this is was just an oversight. Of course, this is not an oversight, …

  • Vilnius: Lithuania is interested in deepening cooperation with Ukrainian military educational institutions

    Lithuania is interested in enhancing cooperation with the military educational institutions of Ukraine, as stated by the Chief of the Joint Staff of the Lithuanian Armed Forces, Vitalijus Vaikšnoras, in a meeting with the Minister of Defence of Ukraine, Stepan Poltorak, the web-portal of the Ukrainian government reports.

    As noted, during the meeting enhancing cooperation and the exchange of experiences between the two countries' governmental universities were discussed.

    "We are interested in …

  • Russian authorities recommend that local schools in Krasnoyarsk prepare themselves to operate in wartime conditions

    The Ministry of Education of the Krasnoyarsk Territory (Russia) has sent out guidelines to regional schools for operation "during mobilization, in wartime, and under martial law",  reported Govorit Moskva radio station.

    The document refers to bringing "subordinate institutions into readiness for operation during mobilization, in wartime, and under martial law."

    The radio station further specified that a photograph of the document was published the day before, on the Internet. Its authenticity …

  • Kremlin: Polish scholar was expelled from Russia in response to deportation of Russian historian from Poland

    The Russian Foreign Ministry said that Polish historian, Henryk Glebocki, was expelled from the country in response to Warsaw’s "unfriendly act,” as stated in a comment by the Press Secretary of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, and posted on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

    "We would like to remind that on October 11th, Polish authorities expelled a Russian historian from Poland, who was engaged in teaching there, on absurd charges, and the measures taken against …