The withdrawal of troops and weapons along three areas of the contact line has started, said Yevhen Marchuk, the Ukrainian Special Representative in one of the subgroups of the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine. He hopes that withdrawal along the remaining four areas will follow.

Ukraine started preparations for the withdrawal of the troops and weapons along the frontline in the Donbas region. Withdrawal will take place along three areas defined in the framework agreement of the Tripartite …

The Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, called on Ukraine to speed up the reform process, warning that some European countries are waiting for a reason to remove the sanctions against Russia.

“We know that there are at least five countries that will refuse to participate in the continued extension of sanctions against Russia, should Ukraine give the European Union a reason to do so,” Biden said in his speech before the Foreign Affairs Council in New York on the 21st of September. …

Ukrainian border guards recorded the flights of seven Russian helicopters on September 21st in the area of the administrative Crimean border, reported the Ukrainian State Border Service press-service.

“Yesterday border guards from the State Border Service of Ukraine again observed Russian Armed Forces activity near the administrative border with the temporarily occupied territory of the Crimea. In particular, servicemen from the Kherson and Berdiansk units traced seven Russian military …

On September 22, NATO fighter jets patrolling the skies over the Baltic Sea escorted a Russian AN-12 military transport aircraft flying near the borders of Latvia, the National Armed Forces of Latvia reported on Twitter.

"On September 22th, NATO patrol fighter jets detected a Russian AN-12 transport plane belonging to the Russian Armed Forces over the Baltic Sea near the borders of Latvia," the statement read.

Since the start of the conflict in Ukraine and the deterioration of relations …

Media sources recently reported on alleged Russian spies and the advocacy against Swedish servicemen. “Such incidents related to security happen every week,” stated Mikael Frisell, the Head of the Northern Military District of Sweden. One piece of information that drew special attention was about the incident that took place in Lulea, a coastal city in Swedish Lapland where Russians threatened a NATO officer at the local bar, demanding information about military drills that were held at that …