On the 15th of November, the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, stated that Russia’s annexation of the Crimea is still one of the main stumbling blocks in their relations with Moscow.

“We will never accept any violation of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine,” he said.

When asked for his thoughts on a telephone conversation between newly elected US president, Donald Trump, and Russian President Vladimir Putin held on the 14th of November, Stoltenberg responded that …

The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, stated that the European Union still believes that it is strategically important to maintain the role of Ukraine as a transit country for gas, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

“The EU Council previously noted that it believes it to be strategically important for Ukraine to maintain their status as a transit country for gas,” Mogherini said at a press conference in Brussels, replying to a …

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine has summoned the country’s president, Petro Poroshenko, for questioning about the crimes committed against Maidan activists in January and February of 2014. “A notice has been sent to the president’s administration for November 29,” the head of the Special Investigation Department of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, Sergiy Gorbatyuk, said on Tuesday, November 15. Poroshenko was invited as a witness.

The fact that high-ranking politicians …

Russian forces in Syria have been reinforced by seven S-300 air defense systems, the Russian Federation defense minister, Sergey Shoygu, stated, as reported by Interfax.“As you know, we have an S-400 system, which has worked for a long time. Apart from this, we have added seven S-300s to cover the marine area practically to Cyprus,” he said at a meeting between the Russian president Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation Armed Forces senior management.In October, the Russian Defense Ministry …

Members of the US House of Representatives have approved a bill imposing sanctions against countries and companies who provide financial assistance to Syrian authorities.

The chairperson of the Committee of the House of Representatives on Foreign Affairs, Ed Royce, explained that the main objects of the bill are Russia and Iran. “We learned a painful lesson in people’s suffering. Even the UN described what is happening as a crime of historic proportions,” Royce said.

The proposed sanctions …

A US Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft flew a reconnaissance mission near Russia’s borders in the Black Sea region on Wednesday, Interfax reported, citing websites that track military aircraft. On the same day, another Poseidon carried out a similar mission near Russia’s naval flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea.

A P-8A Poseidon with tail number 168 434 reportedly took off from the Singonella airbase in Siciliy and proceeded to the Black Sea where it circled near the Crimea, dropping its altitude from …

The republican senator John McCain warned US president-elect Donald Trump against softening relations with Russia. McCain stated that any “reset” of these relations will be a dangerous step.

The remarks of John McCain, the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and an avid critic of Russia, showed rising tensions between Trump and the republicans in the senate with regard to Russia. McCain referred to a recent phone conversation between Trump and the Russian President Vladimir Putin …

During the meeting of the Third Committee of the General Assembly, the United Nations approved a resolution called "Situation of Human Rights in the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea and the City of Sevastopol,” initiated by Ukraine.

Seventy-three countries voted in favor of the resolution, 23 were against and 76 countries abstained, reported Krym.Realii.

The document condemns the massive human rights violations in the occupied Crimea and calls for Russia as a state-occupier to adhere to …