Vitaliy Kasko has resigned from his post as the Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine. Kasko announced this at a recent briefing attended by an RBC-Ukraine correspondent, who reported Kasko as stating, “I have decided to resign from the Prosecutor’s Office. Here is my resignation notice, signed February 15th.” According to him, he consulted with foreign partners before making a final decision.

“I consulted with our foreign partners, who have been supporting me morally for all this time. We came …

Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski said that on Monday, during his visit to the U.S., he will ask for Washington's help with the investigation into the Smolensk disaster that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski in 2010.

"We'll ask whether the U.S. has any data that could be useful in the investigation of the crash... Perhaps their satellites recorded something at the moment of the disaster, or whether U.S. intelligence has received information which could be important," as quoted …

The President of Finland, Sauli Niinistö, has said that Russia could face the same influx of refugees that Turkey is witnessing.  This was reported by Interfax on the 14th of February, with reference to a statement made by Niinistö in the Finnish edition of MTV News during the Munich Security Conference.

"If Turkey closes its border, or its running stream is under control, the uncontrollable wave of people will move somewhere else," Niinistö said.  "In this sense, Russia could become the next …

The leaders of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) previously stated that they sought to hold elections in the spring. A representative of the so-called LPR, however, recently said that the elections can be conducted no sooner than December.

Vladislav Deinego, the representative of self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic, made the announcement during the forum entitled "Minsk Agreements as the Basis of Donbas Sovereignty".

According to Deinego, …

In December, Russia started the process of creating the Third Army Corps, which is meant to be comprised of Ukrainian citizens

The new corps is meant to be staffed entirely with Ukrainian citizens, as stated the Head of Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), Vasily Grytsak, during an interview with Ukrainian Channel 5.

"As far as we know, in December 2015, the Russian Federation began to create the Third Army Corps which will be deployed on the territory of the Rostov region. The chief of this …

The Chairman of the Transcarpathian Regional State Administration, Gennady Moskal, has appealed to the Ukrainian government to make a decision with regard to Russian trucks that travel through Ukraine to the European Union.

According to Moskal, after activists started blocking the transit of Russian cargo transport in several parts of Ukraine, the situation in the Lower Gates, which is the entrance to Transcarpathia from Lviv at the Veracom Pass, is normal.  Beginning on Saturday morning and …

A video of a conversation about the state procurement of backpacks for the use of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine was posted to YouTube. One of the participants in the conversation looks like the son of the Minister of Internal Affairs (MIA), Alexander Avakov, another one looks like the former Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Sergey Chebotar.

This video was allegedly shot with a hidden camera in the office of Sergey Chebotar. Before he was fired in May 2015, he was in charge of …

Recent information which has appeared in the media demonstrates that the Russian authorities responsible for media oversight, among which are Roskomnadzor and the Prosecutor General's Office, are trying to censor any discussion about the return of Crimea; especially when the leaders of the Crimean Tatars are the authors of such ideas.

Recently, Roskomnadzor sent notifications indicating that several unrelated media websites have been blocked. In particular, Roskomnadzor sent a letter to the …