• Russian senator: Trump was not ready to meet with Putin

    Russian senator Aleksey Pushkov commented on Twitter about a meeting held between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump at a reception held in honor of the APEC Summit leaders, calling the meeting a “record for brevity”.

    "The meeting between the leaders of Russia and the United States in Da Nang was a record for brevity. Trump was not ready for the talks - he is bound hand and foot," Pushkov said.

    The senator also stressed that the relationship between the US and …

  • Trump leaves APEC Summit reception without talking to Putin

    US President Donald Trump left early from an official reception in honor of the APEC Summit leaders, and did not speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin, RIA Novosti reported.

    Before his departure, Trump was photographed with leaders of other countries. Putin and Trump communicated with the closest neighbors at the table; they did not talk to one another, said the agency.

    White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that Putin and Trump were not scheduled to meet during the …

  • Bomb threat phone calls cause mass evacuations in Ukrainian airports

    On Friday, November 10, a wave of phone calls about bomb threats in airports swept across Ukraine.

    Service was suspended in particular at Odessa International Airport, one of the largest airports in the country.

    "Today at 12:00, an unknown man called to the Director's office at Odessa International Airport and said that there [was] a car in a parking lot near the airport that contained explosives," the local police website said. Explosives specialists and service dogs were sent to the …

  • Lithuanian Minister of Defense: Lithuania will continue to supply lethal weapons to Ukraine

    The position of Lithuania regarding the supply of lethal weapons to Ukraine remains unchanged, Ukrinform reports, citing Lithuanian Minister of Defense Raimundas Karoblis.

    "Regarding lethal weapons, we already provided them several years ago. And our position remains unchanged: we are ready to provide [weapons] in the future, but, of course, based on our capabilities," he stressed.

    Karoblis recalled that Lithuania provides Ukraine with all kinds of assistance, from training of Ukrainian …

  • Tahrir al-Sham claims that its suicide bomber hit Russian military convoy in Syria

    Tahrir al-Sham stated that a suicide bomber affiliated with the group drove a car full of explosives into a Russian military convoy near Khmeimin airbase.

    Several images of the explosion have been posted on Twitter showing Russian military vehicles travelling on the Bustan al-Basha road near Khmeimin Air Base and the subsequent blast.

    Later, Al-Masdar News reported that Syrian military officials denied the information.

    According to them, the images of the explosion were fabricated and taken …

  • The US made the first delivery of oil to Poland

    The first American oil tanker arrived in the Polish port of Gdansk. The vessel, Saint Helen delivered almost 80,000 tons of "black gold" from Texas, Polish Radio reports.

    The Vice President of the Lotos Group, Yaroslav Kawula declared that so far, this is a one-time delivery, but "it is possible to sign urgent contracts to diversify the oil sector."

    "We want to show that we can process raw oil at any time," he said.

    The President of the Management Board of the Lotos Group, Marcin Jastrzebski, …

  • Ukraine to increase number of its troops in Afghanistan

    Ukraine will increase its contingent in Afghanistan, said Vadym Prystaiko, the Head of Ukraine’s Mission to NATO, to reporters in Brussels, as a correspondent of LB.ua reports.

    Prystaiko did not specify how many Ukrainian troops are already in Afghanistan or how many people would be added. He did say that it would be less than a hundred.

    “It might be military, including, for example, military instructors and not just coaches. It might be police coaches, it might be security forces, and it …

  • Russian embassy accuses US of 'double standards' with RT

    In a statement on the Facebook, the Russian embassy accused the US of “double standards” due to Washington’s demand that the Russian TV channel RT register as a foreign agent.

    “Our signals have been ignored. The RT affiliates in the US have still been given an ultimatum to register as foreign agents by November 13… The RT team’s journalistic work in the US has already been disrupted” the diplomats’ statement reads. In their opinion, the American authorities have “set a dangerous precedent”. …

  • IMF refuses loan to Belarus

    The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has advised Belarus to abolish the so-called "tax on parasitism".

    Based on the outcomes of the Fund's mission in Minsk, the IMF also proposed that the Belarusian authorities abolish the target for the monthly salary, which should be reached by the end of 2017. Instead, the IMF recommends for Belarus "to allow enterprises to adjust their salaries based on labor productivity."

    The head of the IMF mission, Peter Dolman, also reported on the suspension of …

  • Poland denies entry to Ukrainian historian

    The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland barred entry into the country for the Director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, Volodymyr Viatrovych, as reported by dziennik.pl.

    A few days ago, the head of the Polish Foreign Ministry, Witold Waszczykowski announced that Poland had begun the procedure for imposing a ban on entry on an official who blocked the exhumation of Polish victims killed in Volhynia.

    The Polish edition confirms that the ban was precisely for Viatrovych. …