The United States advocates that if a UN peacekeeping mission is deployed in eastern Ukraine, it should not include Russian representatives. US special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volcker said this in a commentary to the Washington Post. According to him, Washington's idea is ...
US Special Representative Kurt Volcker, having visited the zone of the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) in eastern Ukraine, said that the situation in the region is at the stage of a hot war, not a frozen conflict. During the visit, Volcker met with the military, representatives of the military-civilian administration of the region, and ...
On June 20, the first meeting between Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and US President Donald Trump took place in Washington. During a short conversation, the heads of the two states discussed the resolution of the conflict in Donbass, reforms and the fight against corruption in Ukraine, RIA Novosti reports. “President Trump met today with President Poroshenko...
One of the leaders of Russian-separatist forces in eastern Ukraine, Arseniy Pavlov (Motorola), died in Donetsk on October 16. This information was confirmed to the Interfax agency by the Ministry of Defense of the Donetsk People's Republic. According to preliminary data, a homemade explosive device went off in the elevator of the building where Arseny Pavlov lived.…
Russia wants to change the established world order and poses a “long-term existential threat” to the United States and Europe. This was stated by the head of the NATO Supreme Command in Europe, General Philip Breedlove, writes The Hill. “Russia is not just challenging the agreed upon rules...
The sanctions against Russia could be lifted in the coming months if the agreements on the implementation of the Minsk agreements are implemented. This was announced by US Secretary of State John Kerry during the World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland), RIA Novosti reported. "At the beginning…
A Moscow court sentenced three activists detained after a pro-Ukrainian action on a skyscraper on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment to ten days of administrative arrest. The activists were found guilty of disobeying a lawful order from a police officer. On Monday, a group of five people hung the Ukrainian flag on the scaffolding ...
American congressmen condemned attempts to interfere by “external forces, especially the Russian government,” in the Ukrainian election process. The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives passed a resolution calling on President Barack Obama's administration to speed up aid to Ukraine in what lawmakers describe as a continued occupation of "significant territories...
Negotiations of the “Normandy Four”, which includes the presidents of Russia, France, Ukraine - Vladimir Putin, Francois Hollande, Petro Poroshenko - and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, ended in Paris. In total, the leaders of the four countries talked for five hours - three times...
As it became known from sources, over the past year, Russian troops entered the territory of Ukraine at least four times, where they took part in battles against the Ukrainian anti-terrorist forces. This is reported by a number of media outlets, citing an anonymous source close to the pro-presidential Russian party ...