• Russia may send more warships to Mediterranean

    The Russian Navy will maintain an effective and balanced size of the fleet in the Mediterranean Sea, Naval Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Korolev said after the ceremony in which a replica of the ship Poltava was launched into the water in St. Petersburg.

    “The Navy will support a size of the flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea which will be effective and balanced, so that this group will maintain self-sufficiency, that is, it can successfully and effectively collaborate with aircraft, carry out …

  • US representative for Ukraine Volker: DPR and the LPR are 'wholly sustained' by Russia

    The conflict in the Donbas has recently moved into an active phase - a "hot war" - and responsibility, as well as the keys to the end of the conflict, lies with Russia.

    US State Department Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker noted this from London during a telephone press briefing to international journalists, writes Krym.Realii.

    "This is still a very hot war. This past week we had virtually a record number of ceasefire violations. OSCE calculated over 7,000 for the week. That is …

  • Turkey allows Russia's Gazprom to extend Turkish stream pipeline to the EU

    Turkey has concluded an agreement with the Russian Energy Corporation Gazprom regarding construction of the Turkish stream pipeline’s second-string land section, which involved an arrangement to supply gas to the EU, RIA Novosti reports. This agreement will enable Russia to extend its gas pipeline across the territory of Turkey and into the EU border.  

    At the end of April, Gazprom announced the completion of the Turkish stream’s first-string section. The first-string of this Russian gas …

  • NATO considers imposing restrictions on Russian-owned foreign assets

    At the spring session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Warsaw, a proposal was made to impose restrictions on foreign assets of wealthy Russians, the special presenter of the Assembly from Britain, Thomas Jopling stated, RIA Novosti reported.

    The draft report on countering the "hybrid threats from the Russian Federation," which was considered in Warsaw, proposes to respond to them by imposing restrictive measures against the assets of Russian citizens.

    The report talks about a need to " …

  • Ukraine reports on Russia’s development of biological weapons to NATO

    Ukraine provided NATO with information on the possible development by Russia of biological and chemical weapons. The Ukrainian delegation handed over the corresponding report to the members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the North Atlantic Alliance ahead of their meeting in Warsaw on May 28. The Chairperson of the delegation and People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Iryna Friz wrote about the separate provisions of the document on her Facebook page on Saturday, May 26.

    According to Friz, the …