• Monument to energy blackouts to be erected in Crimea

    It was decided to immortalize the memory of energy cutoffs in Yalta. A sculpture made of two huge bulbs will be mounted in one of the city squares, as reported by the head of city administration, Andrey Rostenko.

    "It is the initiative of a local businessman, quite an interesting and creative project," he explained and added that the construction will be an automatic watering system, and the "bulbs" will become an original "monument to the blackouts," tells Kryminform.

    According to Rostenko, …

  • Obama calls for a resolution to the war in Ukraine

    During a joint press conference with UK Prime Minister David Cameron, US President Barack Obama called for a resolution to the war in Ukraine.

    “We have to continue to invest in NATO so that we can meet our overseas commitments, from Afghanistan to the Aegean.  We have to resolve the conflict in the Ukraine and reassure allies who are rightly concerned about Russian aggression,” the US President stated.

    Obama also stressed that all NATO member states need to work towards contributing more of …

  • Scaparotti: The US must provide Ukraine with weapons

    The U.S.A. must provide Ukraine with the weapons it needs, including Javelin anti tank missiles, as stated by General Curtis Scaparotti who may become chair of the European NATO and U.S.A. command after Philip Breedlove, Reuters reports.

    Scaparotti emphasized that he agrees with other Generals that Russia poses the biggest threat for the U.S.A. and Washington should strongly defend their rights.

    Speaking in the Senate, the General emphasized that he believes that the U.S.A. should provide …

  • Savchenko could be exchanged for Alexandrov and Yerofeyev before the end of May

    It became known to RBC that Moscow and Kiev have agreed on a mechanism for the release of pilot Nadiya Savchenko and two Russians that are considered “GRU soldiers” in Ukraine. They will be transferred to Russia to serve their sentence at home in synchronization before the end of May.According to RBC, and a federal official source close to the leadership of the Federation Council confirmed, Moscow will transfer Nadiya Savchenko to Ukraine to serve her sentence and Kiev will return two convicted …

  • Ukrainian authorities present new wall along Russian border

    The Zhuravlevka and Goptovka border crossing points along the Ukrainian-Russian border have been modernized as part of ‘The Wall’ project; the new enhancements were presented recently in the Kharkov region.

    The First Deputy Chief of the State Border Service, Vasily Servatyuk, showed journalists the new engineering structures, samples of military equipment and the capabilities of the ‘smart border’ which will be used to protect military equipment, as reported by Correspondent.

    Over 230 …