Gazprom started 2020 by significantly reducing its gas deliveries to Europe. During the first eight days of January, Russian gas exports dropped by 20%, writes Kommersant, citing statistics from gas operators. Transit through Ukraine has dropped by nearly two thirds, from 262 to 91 million cubic meters per day. On January 7, Gazprom supplied only half the average volume stipulated by its

Iraq has resumed its talks with Russia on the purchase of Russian S-300 anti-air systems, RIA Novosti reports, citing Mohammed Ridha, head of Iraq’s parliamentary defense and security committee. According to the Iraqi MP, negotiations should have been resumed a long time ago, and the systems should have been purchased already. Ridha noted that he does not know exactly which stage the

The minister says the victims’ families will get insurance payments and support from the state. Minister Prystaiko / Photo from UNIAN Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Vadym Prystaiko says that the Ukrainian side will demand that those guilty be held liable and financial compensation be paid if it is proved that a Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) plane was shot

insight-ukraine.org Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland upheld the decision of the arbitrage in Geneva, which obliged Russia to pay $81.1 million to 12 Ukrainian companies as the compensation for losses sustained in the result of the confiscation of all assets in Crimea after the annexation in 2014 as SWI reported. Two proper court decisions were published on January 9. They reject the appeal

The Russian leader said he experienced “a feeling of joy and satisfaction for the work done with a good result,” when he was crossing this bridge © Alexei Druzhinin/Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/TASS MOSCOW, December 29. /TASS/. The Crimean Bridge has been built using the latest technologies and can operate for centuries, if it is maintained properly, Russian President

According to the website, pilots of aircraft A321-200 with tail number VQ-BRS requested emergency landing in Antalya due to detection of smoke Airbus A321-200 aircraft© Shutterstock/FOTODOM, archive MOSCOW, January 10. /TASS/. A passenger aircraft belonging to Russia’s Nordwind Airlines traveling from Moscow has performed a hard landing in Antalya on Friday, Turkish portal Airporthaber informed. According to the website, pilots

10.01.2020 16:22 Ukrainian officers of the Joint Forces detained a militant who was guarding the MH17 crash site in Donbas. “From the end of August 2014, he guarded the site of crash of MH17 flight which had been downed by Russian troops. In addition, he was selling the picked aircraft wreckage and personal belongings of crash victims to the militants

At an awards ceremony yesterday, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said that the situation surrounding the price of Russian gas, in which Russia’s Gazprom earns “three times as much” from supplying fuel to Belarus as to Germany, is abnormal. Commenting on the gas price negotiations, Lukashenko accused the Russian concern of earning three times as much in Belarus as in Germany.

Ukrainian experts are considering two theories regarding the crash of the Ukrainian International Airlines plane in Iran which, if proved, could point to Russia, wrote Yuriy Butusov, journalist and editor-in-chief of Censor.NET, on Facebook. According to him, experts are considering a theory in which a Russia-produced Iranian Tor-2ME anti-air system fired a missile by mistake, and another theory in which there

Yuriy Butusov, journalist and editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian publication Censor.NET, wrote on Facebook, citing a source in the Ukraine’s State Investigative Commission, that the plane wreckage at the crash site is being bulldozed, and expressed doubt that Iran is interested in thorough investigation into what happened.   According to Butusov, at 12.00 pm, his source informed that the Ukrainian experts were

CNN has obtained video on Thursday that appears to show a missile being fired into the Tehran sky and striking an object, around the same time that a Ukrainian plane crashed just after taking off from the city’s airport. News of the video comes hours after the leaders of Canada and Britain said that they have intelligence that the Ukrainian

A rescue helicopter crashed onto the roof of a hospital near Novosibirsk, Russia. Shortly after the crash the hospital’s roof collapsed, killing the helicopter crew and all patients in the hospital. So far 22 people are believed to have been killed. The accident happened when the helicopter tried to land on the roof. But shortly before it was able to