The General Committee of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA) on Political Affairs and Security approved a draft resolution during a session in Minsk, which calls for the return of the Crimea to Ukraine.

The author of the document entitled "Enhancing mutual trust and co-operation for peace and prosperity in the OSCE region," is the deputy head of the Swedish delegation, Margaret Söderfelt. In the near future, the draft will be submitted for a general vote by the assembly. According to the …

The police and the SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) detained more than two dozen people who were planning an armed protest at the Polish embassy in the center of Kyiv, as reported by Serhiy Knyazev, the Chief of National Police of Ukraine, on Facebook.

According to him, the detainees were armed.

“More than two dozen irresponsible citizens, who had become an instrument in the hands of the Kremlin propaganda, were detained. Weapons, cartridges, gas cartridges, electric shockers, knives, …

Russian citizen Nikolai Filipchenko has been sentenced by the district court of Vilnius (Lithuania) to 10 years in prison on charges of espionage, Delfi news agency reports.

According to investigators, Filipchenko, who was detained in Lithuania in 2015, is an employee of the Russian FSB.

The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office detained him on a transit train during a trip through Lithuania from the Kaliningrad region to Belarus. The Russian citizen, according to the Prosecutor's Office, …

Russia is restoring facilities for the storage of nuclear weapons in the annexed Crimea, Channel 5 Ukraine quotes Viktor Muzhenko, the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as saying.

At the same time, he noted that there is no information currently available on the movement of nuclear munitions.

"The building of a military presence in the Crimea probably involves the deployment of weapons of mass destruction; [thus] work is being carried out to restore capacity for …

Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump agreed to create a joint channel for the settlement of the situation in the Donbas, based on the Minsk agreements, stated Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a press briefing.

"It has been agreed to create a channel between a representative of the Russian Federation and a representative of the United States, in order to take advantage of this opportunity, as well as opportunities the US has to advance a resolution based on …

The Polish state-owned company PCO S.A. will help modernize the optoelectronic equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

According to a press release by Ukroboronprom, the contract states that Poland will supply modern optical and electronic equipment to Ukraine – including optical sights, periscopes and night vision devices – in order to re-equip more than 30 armored vehicles, including the BMP-1, BMP-1KSH, and BRM-1K.

The report notes that the signing of the contract was preceded by almost …

The National Police of Ukraine in the Donetsk region received 70 mobile metal detectors from the US Embassy, which will be used at the checkpoints, reported by Vyacheslav Abroskin, Chief of the Main Directorate of the Police in the region.

“Yesterday, my friends from the US Embassy handed 70 mobile Garrett metal detectors to the police of the Donetsk region, that in the near future will be handed over to the police for work at the checkpoints, a kind of outpost,” Abroskin wrote on his Facebook …

The seizure of financial guarantees for the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest was made at the request of the international television channel Euronews, Zurab Alasania, chairman of the National Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine (UA:PBC), confirmed to journalists. To ensure the preparation and holding of the Eurovision Song Contest, Kyiv provided the European Broadcasting Union with 15 million euros in financial guarantees. The Debt Enforcement Office of Geneva seized these funds in June. …