The Black Sea Fleet of Russia has started naval exercises. Their press service announced on Wednesday that the exercises would last until August 27th. According to their press release, “At the initial stage, Naval Forces will perform anti-submarine tasks, deploy anti-mine forces and carry out minefield operations.”

Crews of the mine-sweepers Turbinist and Ivan Golubets will search and destroy minefields mainly by shooting at floating mines. The guard ship Admiral Grigorovich and small anti- …

Kiev and Tehran are discussing the possibility of Iran supplying oil to Ukrainian and European refineries, as reported by Trend, citing a source in the Ministry of Energy and Coal Mining of Ukraine.

The transport route of the oil supplies and the economic details of the project have not been specified yet.

Earlier, Ukrtransnafta announced that the transit of the Iranian oil to markets in Central and Eastern Europe are under consideration as well as the supply of raw materials for processing …

Ukraine and Estonia are considering the possibility of holding joint military exercises in 2017. This was discussed during a meeting between the Ukrainian Defense Minister, Stepan Poltorak, and his Estonian counterpart, Hannes Hanso, which was held in Kiev on the 24th of August. This was reported by the press service of the Defense Ministry.

“The General of the Army of Ukraine, Stepan Poltorak, discussed the importance of the development and continuation of cooperation between the defense …