• US and Ukraine begin planning Sea Breeze-2017 naval exercises

    The initial conference of dedicated to planning of the Ukrainian-American exercises Sea Breeze-2017 has been completed in Odessa. The theme of the exercises will be the planning and conducting of the international peacekeeping operation in the crisis area.

    The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense reported on their web site that Ukrainian and American servicemen as well as representatives of Georgia, Poland, Azerbaijan, Netherlands, Romania, Canada, Great Britain, Bulgaria, Moldova and Turkey took …

  • Erdogan proposes making trade payments with Russia in national currencies

    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated on Saturday that Ankara proposed making trade payments with Russia in national currencies.

    “I proposed to the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin to make our trade in our national currencies. I will pay in rubles for everything I buy from you and you will pay in Turkish liras for everything you buy from me,” Erdoğan said, speaking at the opening ceremony of a shopping mall in Istanbul.

    Erdoğan added that Turkey also proposed a …

  • Ukraine appeals to Interpol over exhibition of Scythian gold in Amsterdam museum

    Ukraine sent an appeal to Interpol regarding an exhibition of Scythian gold in Amsterdam that Kyiv insists is Ukrainian property, as reported by the Ukrainian Prosecutor's Office of the Crimea.

    "The Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea carries out… a pre-trial investigation into criminal proceedings based on Allard Pierson Museum of the University of Amsterdam’s refusal to return the museum exhibits of the ‘Crimea – the Golden Island in the Black Sea’ exhibition, which are …

  • US intelligence: Russia spreads fake news

    US intelligence services believe that Russia helped to disseminate fake and distorted news to undermine the credibility of the elections in the United States, BuzzFeed News reported, citing two sources from intelligence services.

    "They do it all the time, it is a known fact," one source stated.

    "It goes beyond propaganda, as far as I can understand it,” another intelligence source stated.

    The author of the article noted that neither intelligence source answered how, exactly, Russia spreads …

  • Ukraine tells NATO that chemical weapons from Syria were possibly delivered to Crimea

    During its visit to NATO headquarters, the Ukrainian delegation provided information about the possible arrival of chemical weapons from Syria to the Crimea, as stated by the Head of the Permanent Delegation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Iryna Friz, Krym.Realii reported.

    According to her, a clear example is the arrival of the Nadalina ship in the port of Feodosiya at the end of October, which was unloaded in high-security conditions.

    Friz said that, "all …