• Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin to visit Iran

    The Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pavlo Klimkin, will visit Iran on May 29th to 30th at the invitation of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic, Mohammad Zarif, according to the press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.

    "The purpose of the visit is to discuss the current state of and prospects of developing bilateral cooperation between Ukraine and Iran. Among other things, the parties will exchange views on current regional issues and challenges of our time on a global …

  • Poroshenko and Savchenko discuss sanctions list

    The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, met on Saturday, May 28th with Nadiya Savchenko. They discussed the "Savchenko-Sentsov" sanctions list and coordinated joint actions to speed up the release of Ukrainian prisoners.

    "We are in the active phase of the release of our hostages and we have no right to stop the work. On the contrary, we must intensify it," the press office of the President said, quoting Poroshenko.

    The President also passed on congratulations from US Vice President Joe …

  • Separatists prevented OSCE's movement by firing warning shots in the air

    Members separatist groups continue to obstruct the activities of the Special Monitoring Mission of the OSCE in Donetsk and Luhansk, said First Deputy Head of the Mission Alexander Hug at a briefing in Mariupol on Saturday.

    "Today at lunch time on the way to Novoazovsk to the east, on approach to the DPR checkpoint, the checkpoint staff fired warning shots into the air. The patrol had to turn back to Mariupol," news portal Novosti Donbassa quotes Hug as saying. According to Hug, the majority of …

  • Turchynov: Putin publicly threatened Ukraine

    Ukrainian Secretary of National Security and Defense Alexander Turchynov stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin resorted to publicly blackmailing Ukraine when he said that firing in the Donbas will not stop until the constitution of the country is changed and separatists are given amnesty, the press-service of the National Security and Defense reported on Saturday, May 28th.

    "Taking responsibility for ceasefire and Minsk Agreements violations, Putin publicly threatened Ukraine with …

  • Russian firing range opens in Crimea

    A Naval firing range for Russian aircraft has opened in Crimea, TASS reported with reference to Russian Air Force Commander Viktor Bondarev.

    According to him, the Chauda Polygon, a former landfill, has had naval targets installed.  The shooting range is located on the southern end of the Kerch Peninsula.

    "The polygon is in excellent condition… It’s the first time that we got a real naval shooting range, which has all the telemetry. It is possible to take pictures of any result of the bombing …