In an interview with Zerkalo Nedeli, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch stated that Kyiv needs to expand the powers of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and establish an anti-corruption court.

"The wave of public indignation at corruption points to the need to preserve and expand the powers of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau… and create an anti-corruption court as soon as possible. We are ready to support the Ukrainian government's efforts to fight corruption and are …

While monitoring the war in the Donbas, the OSCE counted more than 20 vehicles transporting the bodies of Russian soldiers back to Russia, as announced by the U.S. representative to the organization, Ambassador Daniel Baer, Ukrinform reported.

Prior to that, on October 27th, observers noticed another car transporting the dead in Gukovo and Donetsk. According to them, it was crossing the border between Russia and the separatist controlled territory.

"And this is just the last one of more than 2 …

A large Russian Black Sea tanker, Ivan Bubnov, passed through the Bosphorus Strait on Saturday en route to the Mediterranean Sea, as reported Turkish portals tracking the movement of ships.

Turkish sites believe that the tanker will join the Russian Mediterranean flotilla headed by the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier

According to the latest information of Automatic Identification System the International (AIS), the Russian ships are currently located to the east of Crete.

On Friday a …

The Estonian Government has decided to revoke the citizenship of Viktoria Dressen, wife of the former security police officer, Aleksei Dressen, who was found guilty of treason, reported Postimees.

Viktoria Dressen was also accused of high treason and being an accessory to the transfer of classified information and received a suspended sentence of six years in prison. The probationary period is five years.

The prime minister of Estonia, Taavi Rõivas, reported at a press conference that the …

The Russian Foreign Ministry’s deputy director of Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights, Grigory Lukyantsev, accused the UN Human Rights Council of becoming a platform for lambasting certain countries and settling political scores, TASS reported.

"We have to note that the Council’s agenda has become an instrument for promoting conjunctural interests of several countries and groups. Discussions more and more often turn to settling political scores, mentorship, defamation of states. Moreover, …

The Leninska Kuznia plant, which is indirectly owned by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, received two contracts for the repair of ships totaling 64.02 million hryvnia ($2.5 million), Nashi Groshi reported with reference to the Prozorro system (an online system tracking Ukrainian Government expenditures, purchases and tenders). It was reported that the State Enterprise Maritime Search and Rescue Service ordered an overhaul of marine hardware and hull structures of the rescue ship Sapphire …

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has condemned Russia’s ratification of a treaty on establishing a joint armed force with Abkhazia, a breakaway region in Georgia, according to a White House statement.

During a phone conversation with Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili, Biden “reiterated U.S. support for Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders.”

On Wednesday, the Russian State Duma ratified the agreement establishing a joint armed …

A U.S. Air Force reconnaissance aircraft flew over Russia’s Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad on Saturday, Interfax reported, citing websites that track the movement of military aircraft.

A U.S. RC-135W with tail number 62-4139 reportedly took off from RAF Mildenhall in the U.K. and flew off the coast of Kaliningrad.

Also on Saturday, a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft with tail number 168 761 flew over Russia’s Tartus naval base in Syria.

The Poseidon, which took off from the …