The US plans to strengthen the military potential of its Eastern European allies in the framework of bilateral cooperation by supplying equipment, in particular, JASSM air-launched cruise missiles

"Regrettably, it often happened that as soon as OSCE monitors had left populated localities shelling resumed", Russian Permanent Representative at the OSCE said

Former US Ambassador to Russia and career diplomat Thomas Pickering said that US policy toward Russia over the Ukraine crisis is better served with engagement rather than sanctions.

"Only correspondence with their prosecutor’s office. They write to us and we write to them," Aksyonov said, recalling a recent letter to his address on the part of the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office

A petition addressed to the Ukrainian president, parliament and government asking for the liberalization of private gun ownership has gained the necessary 25,000 votes within one week of the day of its submission and will now be sent to the president for consideration.

"Due to Kiev’s machinations and manipulations at the Odessa customs office, the state’s treasury has fall short of 400 million hryvnias a month,"Odessa region governor said

In an interview for Polish news website PortalSpozywczy.com, Roman Jagielinski, a former minister of agriculture and the current president of the Roja fruit company, admitted that Polish apple growers have been unable to find an effective replacement for their exports to Russia.

The Russian response to EU sanctions is absolutely legitimate as the international law allows the use of counter-measures to protect and restore legitimate interests of a state, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry.

The republic’s defence ministry said Kiev’s military had organised several provocations

Russian Foreign Ministry said that Contact Group on Ukrainian reconciliation noted during video-conference talks on Friday the general consistency of the ceasefire regime in eastern Ukraine.

According to the Russian president, Ukraine’s constitutional amendments envisaged by the Minsk agreements are not agreed with Donbas as they should be