The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairmanship in Ukraine, Swiss diplomat Heidi Tagliavini, has resigned, Swiss authorities report. According to the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Tagliavini intends to “complete her mandate in the near future,” but the department did not specify a specific date. Also, the department...

The national armed forces of Latvia would be ready to contribute to the EU peacekeeping operation in Ukraine, if the relevant decisions were made by the UN Security Council and the Latvian Seim, Defense Minister Raimonds Vejonis told BNS. President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko earlier called for the introduction of peacekeepers ...

"The United States condemns the ongoing clashes in the Debaltseve area and other cities in eastern Ukraine that violate the ceasefire agreement," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a daily briefing, noting that, according to Ukrainian authorities, pro-Russian separatists violated the agreement more than 250 times ...

A two-hour meeting of the trilateral contact group on the settlement of the situation in eastern Ukraine ended in Minsk. The talks, which began after 21:00 local time (18:00 GMT), were held in a closed format for the press in the mansion for diplomatic receptions in the center ...

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Wednesday, January 28, decided to extend the sanctions against the delegation of the Russian Federation and deprive it of the right to vote and participate in the governing bodies of the Assembly until April 2015. TASS reports. The corresponding amendment was adopted by ...