More than 1,700 recruits or about 65% of the total number of conscripts have already arrived for the spring draft-campaign to serve in the Black Sea Fleet of Russia, the press service of the Southern Military District of the Russian Defense Ministry reports.

The Ministry also reported that the recruits from the military commissariats went through a medical examination and psychological and sociological testing in Sevastopol.

"The questionnaire showed that more than 95% of young people came to …

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Sevastopol could receive budgeted funds two to three times larger than in the past. However, according to him, this cannot happen, because the city is not able to cope with such a large amount of money properly.

"Sevastopol is not ready to accept such a large amount of money," Putin explained on Wednesday at a meeting with teachers. The inability to master all the money received can lead to theft of funds, Putin added.

At the same time, he …

The Kremlin said that there are still no preparations for the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump.

However, Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin speaker, expressed confidence that, if necessary, everything will be coordinated although there is not much time left before the expected date of the meeting on July 7.

According to Peskov, Trump and Putin will be present that day at the G-20 summit in Germany and Moscow "does not exclude" the possibility that both …

The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, said at a press conference in Washington that the US Congress would speed up the consideration on the resolution on recognizing the Holodomor (a man-made famine) of 1932-1933 as the genocide of the Ukrainian people, the Presidential Press Service reports.

“First of all, the result of the meeting is that I raised the issue of considering in Congress of the Resolution on recognizing the Holodomor as the genocide of the Ukrainian people,” said …

The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, announced the signing of agreements on defense purchases and the military-technical cooperation between Ukraine and the US in the near future, as he stated during a press conference in Washington.

“For 36 hours, meetings have been held with key players in the new US Presidential Administration. There was a very long conversation with the President, where two important things were noted, the support of the United States for Ukraine's sovereignty, …

The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is a political project and threatens the diversification of sources of the energy supply in the region, as stated by Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski during a session of the Council of the Baltic Sea States in Reykjavik, the Polish Foreign Ministry reported.

“The Nord Stream 2 project creates a major risk to the diversification of gas supply sources in the region,” Waszczykowski said.

He added that in the area of regional energy security, solutions …

The Polish company GAZ-System has reported a cutoff of gas from the country's pipeline system originating from the reverse side of the Yamal gas pipeline. According to the company's statement, the reason for refusal of the gas injections is their low quality.

GAZ-System's official representative, Tomasz Pietrasienski, explained to RIA Novosti that the issue is "about Russian gas" coming through reverse delivery.

"The gas does not currently meet the quality parameters. The provider of the gas …

Moscow will not continue bilateral consultations with the US on improving relations after the expansion of US sanctions, as stated by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Ryabkov ,reports the Press Service of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

"It had been planned to continue, in the coming days, bilateral consultations on 'irritants' that have accumulated in Russian-American relations, in order to search for solutions to the extremely difficult situation toward which the American …