NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg expressed concern about the increase in the number of ceasefire violations in the Donbas, and once again stressed the necessity of implementing the Minsk Agreements.

"We are concerned about the increase in the intensity of attacks in Eastern Ukraine. But the only way to resolve the conflict is to fully implement all points of the Minsk Agreements," he said in an interview with the Inter TV channel show Details, which aired on Sunday evening.

In response …

The Chairman of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, Mustafa Dzhemilev, doesn’t see military force as the best way to end the occupation of the Crimea. In an interview with the Voice of America, Dzhemilev expressed his opinion that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is their best hope for dealing with Russia’s aggression. However, NATO has not been sufficiently decisive. “NATO could show the same determination that they did during the genocide in Kosovo but this doesn’t happen,” …

The German Foreign Minister hopes that the meeting of the NATO-Russia Council will help to clarify the decisions made in Warsaw and resume a dialogue with Russia

In the run-up to the meeting of the NATO-Russia Council to be held on 13 July, the German Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, stated that it is important to clarify with Moscow all decisions made at the Summit in Warsaw and resume a dialogue.

“This is a chance to clarify all the decisions made in Warsaw and then restore a …

The National Armed Forces of Latvia reported on Twitter that NATO fighter jets on patrol encountered and escorted a Russian bomber over the Baltic Sea. “On the 10th of July, fighter jets of NATO patrol police identified a Russian IL-22 bomber over the Baltic Sea near the Latvian border,” the report said.

Russian warships and military aircraft have been increasingly encountered near the air and sea borders of the Baltic States since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine and the deterioration …

The Commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy & Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, told reporters that the European Commission intends to allocate 50 million euros to support Ukraine’s fight against corruption, Rosbalt reported.

"In the next few days the Commission will adopt a program to support anti-corruption initiatives in Ukraine ... As far as I remember, the size is about 50 million [euros]," Hahn said at a press conference in Kiev.

The Commissioner explained that the program …

Over the last 24 hours, one Ukrainian soldier was killed and ten were wounded as a result of the fighting in the Donbas, Interfax-Ukraine reported, citing the Speaker of the Ukrainian Presidential Administration on issues in the conflict area, Andrei Lysenko.

According to him, the number of attacks by pro-Russian separatists has increased dramatically, as the Ukrainian side recorded a total of 94 attacks on Sunday, the highest since mid-April.

Lysenko explained that the attacks occurred in …

Ukraine and Canada have signed a free trade agreement. The Canadian Minister of International Trade, Chrystia Freeland, and First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and the Minister of Economic Development and Trade, Stepan Kubiv, signed the agreement. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko noted that the work to expand this agreement will start immediately. According to him, the Free Trade agreement will come into force immediately but will be implemented over the next seven years.

In July 2015, …

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) rejected almost all applications from Russian track and field athletes to participate in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Of the 136 athletes, only jumper Darya Klishina received an approval. She will compete as an independent athlete. This was reported by R-Sport.

The All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) believed the criteria used by IAAF to decline the athletes’ applications were unfair.

“The main reason for refusal to the …