• Assad: Russia is the only real force against ISIS in Syria

    In an interview with the Chinese Phoenix News television channel, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad called Russia the only force that is effectively fighting against the Islamic State.

     According to Assad, while U.S. President Donald Trump has called the fight with the so-called Islamic State one of his political priorities, Damascus has not seen any concrete actions to combat jihadists from the US.

    "The only serious side in this respect is Russia, which is effectively fighting ISIS in …

  • Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the UN: the normal relations between Russia and the US are unlikely

    Ukraine’s Ambassador to the UN, Volodymyr Yelchenko, expressed his opinion on why the US has not reached any deals with Russia. He stated in his interview to Apostrophe news web site that American officials have changed their opinion of “Russia’s behavior”.

    “And when the new American officials, who started to deal with the Russian issue, read information in the media which they had not seen until now, and they saw Russia’s behavior before and now, many of them, I think, changed their opinion …

  • Media: Russia financed anti-Ukrainian groups in Poland

    Belarusian Alexander Usovsky received 100 000 Euro from Russia in order to finance the activity of anti-Ukrainian groups in Poland. The amount was uncovered by the Ukrainian hacker groups CyberHunta and Cyber Alliance, Gazeta Wyborcza writes.

    According to the newspapers’s source, the hackers hacked Usovsky’s email and gained complete access to his personal correspondence with Russian officials and the leaders of Polish nationalist groups.

    “This was the first concrete evidence that Russia is …

  • Russia begins to upgrade its navy base in Syria

    Russia has started to upgrade the Russian naval base in Syrian Tartus, announced Viktor Ozerov, chairman of the defense committee in the Federation Council, as reported by Interfax.

    “As far as Tartus is concerned, I won’t conceal the fact that even during our visit (of Russian senators in Syria in October 2016) I was shown a development plan for the port where facilities and docks would be built. This work has already been prepared, and today it is being put into action,” he said.

    When asked …

  • Ukrainian President wants to meet with Trump before Putin

    Diplomats are working to organize a soon forthcoming meeting between Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and his American counterpart Donald Trump, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Konstantin Yeliseyev said on Friday, March 10, in an interview with hromadske.ua.

    "Currently, our diplomats are actively working to ensure that this meeting will be held as soon as possible. But it is fundamentally important that it take place before the upcoming meeting between President …