Residents from Donbas and Crimea need to provide additional identification documents to obtain biometric passports, as stated by the Press Secretary for the State enterprise, Document, Volodymyr Polishchuk, on Espreso.TV.

“To obtain biometric passports, citizens who register in the occupied territories of the Donbas and the Crimea need to provide additional documentation to support their identification”, he said.

Polishchuk stressed that the additional check is due to the impossibility of …

The Military Prosecutor's office of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) forces of Ukraine banned the publication of the court's decision to confiscate $1.5 billion allegedly connected to the inner circle of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, as stated by the Acting Director General of the state enterprise "Judicial Information Systems" Dmytro Dubinko, Ukrainska Pravda reported.

"The decree of the Military Prosecutor's Office of the ATO forces on applying security measures to persons …

The widow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s cousin asked for asylum in Germany and is waiting for the decision on her case at one of the centers for refugees in the west of the country, as reported by German DPA news agency citing the local authorities.

Officials of the Warendorf region of the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Western Germany) were faced with the unusual request for asylum. According to the DPA, the woman with a Syrian and Lebanese passport was attacked by other …

President of the United States Donald Trump will discuss the situation in eastern Ukraine with his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda during his visit to Poland. This was reported by Poland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Witold Waszczykowski, reported Radio Poland.

According to him, Trump will arrive in Poland on the evening of July 5, and his visit will last until the early afternoon hours on July 6. Waszczykowski said that one of the goals of Trump's visit will be a personal meeting with Duda. …

The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, signed a law passed by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, which prohibits the public demonstration and production of St. George's ribbons (Guards). Violations of this law would result in fines up to 172 EUR.

President Poroshenko signed the law passed by the Verkhovna Rada on May 16th. It prohibits the production and public use of Saint George ribbons. As reported on Monday, June 12th by the press service of the head of the Ukrainian state, the law will …

The newspaper Yomiuri claims that a Russian vessel has conducted a survey within the exclusive economic zone of Japan, in the area of ​​the Strait of La Perouse between Sakhalin and the island of Hokkaido, without the permission of the Japanese side.

According to its information, the Russian-owned vessel was less than 50 km from Cape Soya (the northernmost point of Hokkaido) on June 5. It is alleged that the vessel supposedly dumped research equipment into the water, which was recorded by the …

Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram Messenger, said that he encountered close scrutiny by American Special Services during a trip to the US. According to Durov, they tried to bribe the employees of Telegram, while the FBI attempted to put pressure on him, he wrote on Twitter.

According to Durov, US special services twice offered bribes to employees working for him. "During the week of our team's trip to the US last year, US intelligence agencies twice tried to bribe our developers; plus, I …

US General Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), said that the biggest challenges for the US Armed Forces are Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and also extremism. He made this statement in his introduction which was prepared for the hearings at the US House Committee on Armed Services.

“In today’s strategic environment five key challenges – Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and violent extremist organizations – most clearly represent the challenges facing the Joint …