The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) believes that some of the Ukrainian prisoners were captured by separatist commanders, as indicated by the Advisor to the Head of the SSU, Yuriy Tandyt, 112 Ukraine reports.

According to him, they expect the release of 47 Ukrainian prisoners in the near future. These POWs have been held in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

"I am confident that these men will be released. We have confirmed 47 hostages from Donetsk and Lugansk. We sent a list of 109 hostages, …

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary summoned the Russian Ambassador due to the format of the Russian television coverage of the anniversary of the 1956 uprising, the Associated Press reports.

Hungary has expressed dissatisfaction with the way the Russian state media described the anti-Communist revolution of 1956. In particular, in one of the TV programs, the revolt was described as a "massacre" and the first "color revolution." In the program, it was reported that the events in Hungary …

During a meeting of the National Reforms Council, the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Volodymyr Groysman, stated that the Ukrainian government will introduce a strategy for reforming the Ukrainian customs policy, to start from January 1, 2017, reported Telegraf.

“We will submit proposals to the National Reforms Council to approve the strategy for the reform of Ukrainian customs, and we would like this large-scale process to start on January 1, 2017,” Groysman said.

Earlier, it was reported that …

At least ten NATO member states have pledged to contribute soldiers to the alliance’s four multinational battalions in the Baltic States and Poland.

Speaking to reporters following a meeting of the alliance’s defense ministers in Brussels, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced that Albania, Italy, Poland, and Slovenia agreed to contribute to the battalion stationed in Latvia, where a Canadian contingent is already located; Belgium, Croatia, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and …

Russia's Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications, also known as Roskomnadzor, will strive to block the LinkedIn social networking service. According to officials, the website, where approximately 400 million people are registered, violates the requirements of the law on the protection of the personal data of Russian citizens.

Rambler News Service reported that the agency had applied to the Tagansky District Court of Moscow in …