Ukraine will toughen border control along the Transnistrian border
The Ukrainian government decided to extend the measures to toughen the border controls in the Transnistrian part of the Ukrainian border, reported by Serhiy Yarovyy, the First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs during a meeting with the delegation of the Kyiv Association of Military Attaches and the military attaches of more than 30 foreign states.
According to him, the Kharkiv part of the border is being completed within the framework of the European Rampart program. Work has begun in the …
Former Ukrainian President Yanukovych refuses to participate in high treason trial
Former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych refuses to participate in the trial for high treason, withdrawing his defenders from. He made that statement on the air during the Time program on the Russian First Channel on Wednesday.
“I do not want to take part in an allegedly adversarial process, whose outcome is predetermined. I decided to withdraw my defenders from the process. There are no doubts about their qualifications but lawyers are powerless in a country where justice has been …
Russia, Iran and Turkey failed to agree on security zones in Syria
As reported by diplomats on Wednesday, Russia, Turkey and Iran could not come to an agreement on zones of de-escalation of violence in Syria during the talks in Kazakhstan.
Russia and Iran, who support the Syrian President Bashar Assad, agreed to cooperate with Turkey, which provides assistance to the insurgents, in order to create four zones of "de-escalation" in the war-ravaged country.
The country-participants of the negotiations hoped to come to an agreement by the end of August, before …
A Russian citizen who was extradited from Latvia to the United States was put into an American prison
A Russian citizen, Yury Martyshev, who was extradited by the Latvian authorities to the US, is now in an American prison in Alexandria, Virginia, as reported on Wednesday by the Russian Embassy in the US, according to TASS.
Preliminary information indicates that the Russian is suspected of cyber fraud, for the theft of personal information of credit card holders.
The diplomatic mission noted that "they consider this arrest as another case of the kidnapping of a Russian citizen by US …
The US has not yet decided whether to provide weapons to Ukraine
The United States has not decided on whether to provide weapons Ukraine to yet, though Washington is aware of Kyiv’s requests, as relayed to journalists by a representative of the State Department on Wednesday during a teleconference briefing.
"The US has not decided on supplying weapons to Ukraine yet," he said. At the same time, the US representative did not specify which weaponry is in question - defensive or lethal.
"The talks [with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko], which took place …