The separatists tried to storm the Ukrainian position in the Avdiivka industrial zone, as reported by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. Separatist groups were pushed back, and the Ukrainian military reached and secured the enemy’s front positions, a spokesperson of the Ministry of Defense related issues, Oleksandr Motuzyanyk, said.

According to him, the fighting still continues.

"Building on the success and preventing further aggressive actions by the enemy, the anti-terrorist operation …

The Polish Foreign Ministry has been attacked by hackers. The Ministry believes that the cybercrime was committed by Russian hackers, as reported by the Polish newspaper, Rzeczpospolita.

According to the newspaper, in December 2016, several employees of the Polish Foreign Ministry received an email which allegedly contained a message by NATO General Secretary, Jens Stoltenberg, regarding a meeting of the NATO Council on Russia. Opening the attachment led to the installation of the Trojan virus …

The Prosecutor’s Office of the Dnipropetrovsk region reported that the indictment in the case of the downed IL-76 against the two Commanders of the LPR battalions, Andrei Patrushev and Alexander Gureev, and the Head of the Lugansk People’s Republic, Igor Plotnitsky, was sent to the court.

“The Head of the LPR terrorist organization, who was the Commander of the illegal armed group Zarya at the time the crime was committed, together with Patrushev (his then Deputy) and the Commander of the …

Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of Poland's ruling party, Law and Justice (PiS) believes that the future of Polish-Ukrainian relations is "questionable" because of the way Ukraine interprets its own history, in particular, the role of the UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army).

He stated this on Radio Rzeszów in the Polish city of Rzeszów, the Onet web portal reported. According to Kaczyński, the future of Ukrainian-Polish relations depends on Ukraine’s attitude toward history. "Polish-Ukrainian …

The Ukrainian oligarch, Dmytro Firtash, spent almost $800,000 on lobbying on behalf of his interests in the United States, as outlined in the article “The battle for Washington. Lobby of Dmitry Firtash,” published by Ukrayinska Pravda.

“Dmytro Firtash has transferred $80,000 to the account of influential, as he believed, U.S. lobbyists two weeks before the presidential elections in the United States. By that time, the tycoon had already spent $700,000 on their services,” the article says.

It …

The State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine (SFMS) has identified hundreds of financial transactions that may be related to the legalization of the profits made illegally by the former president Viktor Yanukovych and his associates.

This was stated in the report on the work of the department in 2016, published on the official web-portal of the Ukrainian government.

It was noted that during the entire period of the investigation, which lasted from March 2014 to December 2016, 547 …

Four central offices of the Russian banks PIB, Sberbank, BM-Bank, and Alfa-Bank are being blocked by members of the National Corps party, which was created by members of a public organization, Civil Corps Azov, as was reported by Interfax-Ukraine.

Clients of the bank are met with balalaikas and posters reading, "Welcome to Russia."

Activists also glued the posters over bank windows calling for account holders to withdraw their money, close Ukrainian banks related to the Russian Federation, …

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia is not discussing deals with the US to lift sanctions, TASS reports.

"It is hardly possible to talk about any agreements now. First we have to decide on a date and place for the meeting of the two Presidents," Peskov said. Peskov told journalists that during the recent conversation between the two Presidents on Saturday, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump discussed the fight against terrorism.

According to a representative of the Kremlin, the issue of …