Russia will respond to the US sanctions imposed against eleven Russian citizens, and six Russian companies, reports the press service of the Russian Foreign Ministry. The reason for sanctions was Washington’s accusation of cyber fraud. The Russian Foreign Ministry pointed to the “politicization” of the US claims. Diplomats note that if Washington’s representatives had “real evidence,” they would have appealed

The Ukrainian police investigate the murder of an elderly woman in the capital Kiev. The crime exploded after the alleged perpetrator of his new girlfriend had shown the corpse on a date. The 23-year-old suspect was caught. The couple had met according to findings of the police on the Internet. For the first date, the man invited his new acquaintance

Another two bodies were found under the rubble. Photo from UNIAN The total number of the victims officially recognized as dead as a result of a fire that broke out in Odesa’s Economics, Law and Hospitality College on December 4 has grown to seven people. Another two bodies were found under the rubble, according to the main department of Odesa

During the meeting with top German managers in Sochi on December 6, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the launch of a new gas pipeline does not mean that Russia will stop gas transit through Ukraine. Representatives of the German business insisted on maintaining the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine. “Time is running out. It is important to maintain

Russia – Ukraine war updates from the war zone in southeast Ukraine as of December 7, 2019 by Joint forces operation HQ data: EMPR highlights. (1) Russian hybrid forces increased to 14 the number of attacks in the war zone in eastern Ukraine for the last 24 hours. The enemy continue to use forbidden 120-mm and 82-mm mortar launchers fire against Ukrainian troops. (2)

The U.S. military believes that an unarmed American drone reported lost near Libya’s capital last month was in fact shot down by Russian air defenses and it is demanding the return of the aircraft’s wreckage, U.S. Africa Command says. Such a shootdown would underscore Moscow’s increasingly muscular role in the energy-rich nation, where Russian mercenaries are reportedly intervening on behalf of east

Executive Director of NJSC Naftogaz Ukrainy Yuriy Vitrenko positively assesses hearings held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on the forced recovery of $3 billion from Russia’s gas giant Gazprom in pursuance of the Stockholm arbitration award, awaiting a positive final decision on February 25, 2020. (C)INTERFAX UKRAINE 2019

On the “Freedom of Speech by Savik Shuster” TV program, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed his bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Yes, all presidents will have bilateral meetings,” he said. Volodymyr Zelensky said that during the Normandy Four Summit in Paris, all leaders will hold personal meetings. The Ukrainian President also added that he is not nervous before

Elections in the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions will be held only after its de-occupation and in accordance with the Ukrainian legislation. The press service of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine released the corresponding statement. According to NSDC Secretary Oleksiy Danilov, the efforts of the Ukrainian authorities are aimed at the implementation of the

PHOTOS07.12.2019 13:49 The report on human rights abuses in the context of imposition of Russian citizenship in occupied Crimea was presented in The Hague. An expert meeting was held at the Embassy of Ukraine in the Netherlands, an Ukrinform correspondent in The Hague reports. The report was prepared by experts of the Open Society Justice Initiative. In particular, it deals with

Zelensky says the Trilateral Contact Group should have representatives of Donbas who moved to Kyiv or other cities. REUTERS Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukraine will not talk with Russian-led forces and supports the inclusion of representatives of IDPs from the occupied territories of Donbas in the negotiations of the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) in Minsk. Read also Zelensky confirms

Task Force Juvigny, along with NATO allies: Canada, Denmark, Finland, Great Britain, Lithuania, and Poland are in Ukraine to aid and support Armed Forces Ukraine’s training abilities along with increasing NATO interoperability with Ukraine. REUTERS The U.S. Army has announced that earlier this month approximately 160 American soldiers with the 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team headquarters company deployed to Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ruled out the possibility of discontinuation of transmission of Russian natural gas on transit through Ukraine to European countries after the launch of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline. This was reported by the Russian publication, Kommersant, Ukrainian News Agency reports. “I want to emphasize that it (the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline) is purely a commercial

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he hopes that France and Germany will support Ukraine at a meeting of the leaders of the Normandy Four countries and is ready to do everything to make them stand on the Ukrainian side if something goes wrong. He stated this live on the talk show “Freedom of Speech of Savik Shuster” on Friday,