The Parliament of Transdniestria announced the establishment of a Commission for Deputy Investigation of the reasons of the currency crisis in the unrecognized republic. The Parliamentary press-service informed TASS that in the last few days, a crisis started in the domestic exchange market of Transdniestria.

According to the data of the central bank, March 1st currency reserves in amounted to the equivalent of $12.35 million. In February it was at $18.75 million and in December it equaled $32. …

The foreign ministers of G7 countries recently discussed the situation in Ukraine and called upon Moscow to become more involved in the peace process by influencing pro-Russian separatists in the Donbas.

On April 10th to 11th, the G7 countries’ ministers of foreign affairs met in Hiroshima, Japan. Representatives of Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Canada, USA, France and Japan discussed global terrorism problems, the migration crisis, the issue of the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and …

Alexander Khodakovsky, the commander of the separatist Vostok battalion, says that in many ways the fighting in the Avdiivka industrial zone can be compared to the battle for the Donetsk Airport*, though the current situation is unique.

"The strategic difference between the fight in Avdiivka and the Airport is that then we had to only even the curve of the front in a more favorable way for us. We had to push the enemy further from the city," Khodakovsky wrote on his LiveJournal page.

"Here, …

The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that the first S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems were delivered to Iran, as reported by Kommersant citing a statement made by the Press Secretary of the Iranian MFA, Hossein Jaberi Ansari. Iranian television showed footage of the transportation of the missile systems on eight heavy tractors with platforms. Rosoboronexport (state intermediary agency for Russia's exports/imports of defense-related and dual use products, technologies and services) …

Consultations on the candidature of a new Prosecutor General of Ukraine will begin immediately after a new Prime Minister and government are approved by the Verkhovna Rada. This was stated by President Petro Poroshenko in an interview with Ukrainian TV channels.

"Immediately after the Prime Minister's and the government elections, I will begin consultations with the leaders of all parliamentary parties on the candidature of a new Prosecutor General," Poroshenko said.

Earlier, the MPs said …

Russia has blocked the transit of Ukrainian confectionery products to Georgia and Azerbaijan, the president of the association Ukrkondprom, Alexander Baldynyuk, said on Saturday, April 9th, Deutsche Welle reported.

"Almost fifty wagons of Ukrainian products destined for Azerbaijan stood for more than a month at the customs station Derbent in Dagestan, and only at the beginning of April were they turned around back to Ukraine. A few days ago Russian customs stopped all shipments at the customs …

During the last 24 hours, the ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh was violated 125 times. The use of heavy machine guns was reported. The Trend publication disclosed this, quoting the statement of the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan.

Baku clarified that the Armed Forces of the Republic answered the enemy with 125 response fire strikes.

At the same time, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) reported that the ceasefire …

Ukrainian Intelligence stated that Russia continues to allocate funds from the state budget to support separatists in the occupied part of Ukraine.

"It has been established that in the beginning of April, occupied territories received about 800 million rubles from the Russian budget. Of these, 775 million was allocated for the administrative apparatus and the security forces of the so-called DPR and LPR, where local residents are under the control of the Russian occupying power," the press …