On August 25 Ukrainian armed forces and pro-Russian separatists reached a “beginning of school year” ceasefire agreement. The truth did not last long: according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO), the separatists breached the agreement 5 times by opening fire at the Ukrainian soldiers.

Furthermore, UNIAN Information Agency reported that 2 Ukrainian soldiers were wounded during confrontation with the separatist militants.

Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo has confirmed that her country counts on military reparations from Germany.

"This is a reminder of justice for our country, which was a victim of World War II," Polskie Radio quotes the Premier as saying.

Szydlo noted that Poland did not receive adequate compensation for the damage inflicted during the war. "This damage was not reimbursed to us in any way – just the opposite. Speaking of reparations today, we are reminded of justice and of what Poland is due, …

Ukraine will file a new lawsuit against Russia through the World Trade Organization (WTO) before the end of the year. It will concern the supply of agricultural products, stated Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade, Nataliya Mykolska, during the inaugural economic forum "Support for Ukraine's Economic Development: Cooperation Between the Ukrainian Government and the Diaspora", which met in Kyiv on Friday.

"We are completing the final work to file a lawsuit regarding …

Russia plans to completely stop navigation through the Kerch Strait from August 28 to 31, 2017 due to the construction of the Kerch Bridge. The corresponding order has been published on the site of the Kremlin-controlled Black Sea Ports Administration.

"Beginning 00:00 local time on August 28 to 00:00 local time on August 31, the navigation of all ships and vessels will be prohibited in the restricted area of construction within the waters of the Kerch Strait, with the exception of ships and …

The British company Finastra, which produces software that allows banks to access SWIFT (Society for World Interbank Financial Telecommunication) system, discovered that one of its clients was the Russian National Commercial Bank (RNCB) operating in the Crimea and decided to stop this cooperation.

According to Russian Vedomosti newspaper, the bank can switch to another interface for accessing SWIFT, but if it does not manage to do this before August 31 when the license for the Finastra …

The Russian news outlet Kommersant reported that its journalists have uncovered the scheme according to which Siemens gas turbines were transferred from Russia to annexed Crimea, in circumvention of EU sanctions. As the media claims, this took place by means of resale.

According to the publication, it follows from the arbitration court documents that the scheme involved two Russian companies with the same name: JSC Foreign Economic Association Technopromexport, which is a subsidiary of the …

The United States should be helping Ukraine with arms supplies, said Lithuanian Minister of Defense Raimundas Karoblis on Thursday on national radio.

"Assistance from the US should not be just symbolic, but also be the supply of specific weapons that would help neutralize modern Russian weapons available in the Donbas," Karoblis said.

The head of the Defense Ministry expressed hope that "sooner or later such a decision will be made by Washington. Then, perhaps, the example of the United …

Alliance 90/The Greens is asking the head of the Foreign Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany, Sigmar Gabriel, to explain the dinner with Russian President Vladimir Putin and former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who is supposed to join the supervisory board of Rosneft.

Gabriel was asked to respond before the September elections to the Bundestag, reports DW.

"The Foreign Minister should dispel suspicions that Schröder is trying to use him to promote the interests of Putin and …