Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree introducing a new type of sanctions against Russia and other countries “involved in the annexation of Crimea and aggression in the Donbass.” In contrast to previous decisions of the Ukrainian authorities, which restricted the entry into the country of certain foreign, mainly Russian,...

The authorities of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) receive 2,5 billion rubles from Russia monthly to pay pensions, Bloomberg reports, citing two sources in the local administration. Worried about their own safety, the interlocutors of the publication refused to publish their names. Meanwhile, the director ...

  US Vice President Joseph Biden condemned Donbass militants for their intentions to expand their controlled territory and hold elections, ignoring Ukrainian laws, the White House press service reports following Biden's talks with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. In addition, it is noted that the parties discussed the day before in ...

The United States of America places full responsibility for yesterday's shelling of the outskirts of Mariupol on Russia and joint Russian-separatist troops. Miroslav Gongadze reports this with reference to US State Department representative John Kirby. “A State Department spokesman just said that the United States has...

This week the situation in eastern Ukraine has deteriorated sharply again. After a temporary lull and a conditional armistice according to the Minsk agreements - more than 150 shelling per day. The militants used heavy weapons of large calibers, including multiple launch rocket launchers. They fired on not only positions ...

US Secretary of State John Kerry, in a telephone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, expressed concern about a sharp increase in the number of attacks by separatists operating in eastern Ukraine. Details of the meeting of the ministers on Thursday were provided by the US State Department. According to the agency, Kerry ...