In a statement, published on its website, the ministry said it was “perplexed” by the Monitoring Mission’s opinion about the results of the September 7 swap of detainees The Russian Foreign Ministry headquarters in Moscow© Mikhail Japaridze/TASS MOSCOW, December 16. /TASS/. Moscow rejects the report by the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, which accuses Russian security service FSB

The judge decided to satisfy the motion by defense team representing ex-chairman of the Party of Regions faction Oleksandr Yefremov, former MPs Serhiy Hordienko (Communist Party), and Oleksandr Stoyan (Party of Regions). Photo from UNIAN The Pechersk District Court in Kyiv has ruled to drop charges off ex-deputies of the Verkhovna Rada regarding their adoption of “dictatorial laws” in 2014,

French President Emmanuel Macron will attend the Victory Day celebrations in Moscow on May 9, said the French Ambassador to Russia Sylvie-Agnès Bermann in an interview with Echo of Moscow radio station. “The president said that he will attend the Victory Day in Moscow on May 9,” she said. According to the diplomat, Macron has already given a positive answer. (C)UAWIRE 2019

On Sunday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to close two American strategic military bases in Turkey after Washington warned of sanctions over Ankara’s purchase of Russian weapons. “If necessary, we can close the Incirlik and Kurecik bases,” Erdogan said on the pro-government Television Channel A Haber. The bases are located on the southwest coast of Turkey, near the border

Speaking to Russian “volunteers”, Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkov  made it clear that the services of the mercenary militants may again be needed on the “fronts” of occupied Donbass. This was told by author of the WarGonzo project, Russian propagandist Semion Pegov. According to him, Surkov traditionally visited the closed part of congress of the Union of Donbass Volunteers, organized

U.S. Congressmen Joe Wilson and Emanuel Cleaver introduced a bill to Congress to oppose violations of religious freedom in Ukraine by Russia and armed groups commanded by Russia. The text of the document was published on the Congress website. “According to the Department of State’s International Religious Freedom Reports, and other reporting, violations of religious freedom in the Crimea region of Ukraine

Between July 1 and December 13, 2019, Ukraine exported 27.36 million tonnes of grain and leguminous crops, which is 32.9% more than in the same period last year, UkrAgroConsult consulting agency has reported. “Ukraine since the beginning of the marketing year 2019/2020 (July 2019 -June 2020) as of December 13, 2019 exported 27.36 million tonnes of grain and leguminous crops, which

During the first half of December, the Russian-occupation troops in eastern Ukraine suffered 44 casualties. “According to the information from the intelligence of the Joint Forces, the armed formations of the Russian Federation suffered 44 casualties from December 1 to December 15, 2019. Twenty-two invaders were killed. Twenty-two more people accounted for sanitary losses of the enemy,” the press service

16.12.2019 16:46The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry strongly condemns the attempts of any contacts with the so-called “republics” from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Kateryna Zelenko said this while commenting on a meeting between Ulrich Oehme, a Bundestag deputy and PACE member, with representatives of separate areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in Minsk. “We strongly

It says there are several dozen such captives in the territory controlled by the so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic.” Screenshot TV channel Russia-1 has broadcast a story about three captive Ukrainians held in a penal colony in the Russia-occupied city of Donetsk. Read also Ukraine’s army HQ discloses enemy death toll in Donbas over two weeks It showed a man introducing

Commander says “a lot of what the Russians are doing at the moment we don’t understand, and is obscure.” By Thomas Nielsen Vice-Admiral Clive Johnstone, Commander of NATO’s Maritime Command, says in an interview with IHS Jane’s that the Alliance sees “more activity from Russian submarines than we’ve seen since the days of the Cold War. The patrols in the