Russian Special Forces have arrived at an airbase in western Egypt. According to Reuters, the special unit plans to intervene in the conflict in Libya. Servicemen, who are apparently members of a Russian special unit and new unmanned aerial vehicles, are stationed near Sidi Barrani, approximately 100 kilometers away from the border with Libya, Reuters reported citing diplomatic sources in the United States and Egypt.

According to the Egyptian Security Services, a Russian unit of 22 servicemen …

The Ukrainian Security Service will check the authenticity of information regarding possible visits by the Russian singer Yulia Samoylova to the Russia-annexed Crimea. This was stated by Security Service spokesperson Olena Gitlyanska.

“In response to numerous requests in connection with Yulia Samoylova, I want to say that the Security Service will investigate the matter and make an informed decision with regard to her entering Ukrainian territory,” wrote Gitlyanska on her Facebook page.

She …

On Monday, NATO and Swedish Air Force reconnaissance aircraft conducted flights near the Russian border in the south of the Baltic Sea, according to Western websites that monitor flights of military aircraft, Interfax reported.

According to their information, the E-3A AWACS airborne early warning and control aircraft departed from the Geilenkirchen NATO base in Germany and approached the southern borders of the Kaliningrad region. Initially, it conducted a reconnaissance flight along the …

President Petro Poroshenko intends to convene the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) on March 15 on the issue of possible sanctions against Sberbank.

Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov spoke about this during an interview with the television channel ZIK.

"As far as I know, the President is gathering the National Security and Defense Council on Wednesday, and I think that this issue will there be included and considered," Avakov said.

The Minister hopes that in this way, the …

On March 13, human rights activists and relatives of Ukrainian prisoners in Russia urged the European Parliament to increase international pressure on Moscow.

“In authoritarian Russia, getting justice is impossible. The only chance for our relatives to return home and put a stop to the increasing political repression in the annexed Crimea is to increase international pressure on Moscow, which deliberately disregards the principles of international law,” the statement said.

Human rights …

Russia is not yet prepared to brief NATO on the upcoming military exercises, said Andrey Kelin, Director of the Department of European Cooperation of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in an Interfax interview on Monday.

“We have not yet moved forward in establishing our relations to the extent that we can take steps such as the prospective explanation of such situations,” Kelin said, commenting on the words of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who expressed the hope on Monday …

The trade blockade Headquarters redoubt at the Kryvyi Torets railway station in the Shcherbynivka locality of the Donetsk region was captured by members of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the Rapid Operational Response Unit (KORD) of the National Police on March 13. The blockade Headquarters posted about this on its Facebook page. [The blockade of the uncontrolled Donbas territories was started by war veterans in Eastern Ukraine at the end of January 2017, with the demand for …

The Director of Communications for the Foreign Ministry of Norway, Frode Overland Andersen, said that the country condemns Moscow's for ban the entry of Norwegian journalist Thomas Nielsen into Russia.

As reported by NRK news agency, this act is considered in Norway to be unlawful and unreasonable, and will not be left unanswered.

"We believe that it is unreasonable and unlawful to use EU restrictive measures as a pretext for refusing entry to Russia for Norwegian citizens," Andersen said. …