Ukraine, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia will not be attending the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), the five delegations said in a statement published by the Ukrainian MP Elizaveta Yasko.

The démarche was prompted by PACE’s decision in June to restore the Russian delegation’s voting right, despite Russia’s ongoing occupation of Crimea and the eastern regions of Ukraine.

“We are announcing the creation of …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced during a press conference that Ukraine has approved the Steinmeier Formula, which was the “final obstacle” to a new Normandy Format summit.

He said that the Steinmeier Formula consists of several provisions. Approving these terms assumes that a special manner of local self-governance will be implemented in several Donbas regions and that elections will be held there. The details of the implementation of this plan will be formulated during the …

Brigadier General Dror Shalom, head of the Research Division of Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate (“Aman”), told Israel Hayom in an interview that Israel has entered a “dangerous cycle” with Iran.

“We are in a far more complex reality than before, and it is only getting worse,” the head of research observed. According to him, Tehran only needs two years to build nuclear bombs. “The processes they are doing now enable them to strengthen their muscles, such that when they do decide, it …

The headquarters of the Swedish Navy have been relocated to an underground base on Muskö island, 40 km from Stockholm, The Guardian reports, citing a naval spokesperson.

“The Muskö base is unique from a fortification perspective, it is an underground area as big as the old town in Stockholm,” said Remecca Landberg, head of communications for the Swedish Navy.

She pointed out that the naval command must be reliable and function even under attack, which makes Muskö the “best option”. “The armed …

Oleh Sentsov, a Ukrainian filmmaker who until recently was imprisoned in Russia, has described his conversations with militants from Russia and from the Donetsk People’s Republic while in prison. They did not hide the fact that, from the very start of the aggression, all of the fighting against the Armed Forces of Ukraine was done by the Russian Army. Regular Russian troops prepared for the annexation of Crimea, Novaya Gazeta reports.

According to Sentsov, he met a soldier from Russia’s GRU in …

Russia carried out a combat training launch of the intercontinental Topol-M ballistic missile. The purpose of the missile launch from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome was to confirm the flight performance of the missile system, reported the Russian Defense Ministry. According to the Ministry, "the combat unit arrived at the specified landing point on the Kamchatka Peninsula."

Washington and NATO believe that the Russian Federation violated the INF Treaty with the 9M729 missile, capable of hitting …

The Ukrainian Deputy Oleksiy Honcharenko, who was a part of the former Ukrainian delegation to PACE, said that the new delegation of Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada decided not to participate in the plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Only four of the twelve Ukrainian delegates will participate in consultations with colleagues in the PACE.

The decision of the Ukrainian side was made due to the return of Russia to PACE. Such a step contradicts the principles …

Russia has banned Malgorzata Gosiewska, Deputy Marshal of the Sejm of Poland, from entering the country.

Gosiewska learned this on Sunday, September 29, while crossing the Polish-Belarusian border, Polish Radio reports.

“Crossing my border took longer than usual. They also informed me that they are not happy with me and, more specifically, that I am banned from entering Russia. It’s not clear why Belarusian border guards informed me of this,” the deputy marshal explained.

She also said that …