The U.S. Congress intends to allocate $350 million in the next fiscal year for military assistance to Ukraine. This amount has already been incorporated into the draft defense budget, as reported to TASS on Tuesday by a representative of the Armed Services Committee.

"$350 million has been allocated for Ukraine. These funds could be used to provide military assistance," he said. At the same time, the representative of the committee stated that the decision on how to use these funds will be …

The Press Secretary for Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov, stated that the Kremlin is concerned about the trend towards restricted freedom of expression due to the adoption of the resolution regarding certain Russian media outlets and intends to take measures in response.

“Of course, the trend towards attacks against the media, which are in fact, restrictions of press freedom, and freedom of expression, is a cause for deep concern. It contradicts the common understanding of …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that "nobody is thinking" about the OSCE police mission in the Donbas, and "the question is no longer relevant."

"The question is no longer relevant, such a need does not exist. Today [at a meeting of foreign ministers of the Norman Four in Minsk] nobody talked about it. No paramilitary missions of the OSCE or any other organization, about which Kyiv is periodically talking, nobody thinks about them," Lavrov said.

Yesterday, the foreign ministers …

The press secretary of the US Department of Defense, Peter Cook, stated at the regular briefing for journalists that the United States has no intention of cooperating with Russia in airstrikes on terrorist positions in Syria. “Currently, we have no intention to cooperate with Russia in this direction,” Peter Cook noted, speaking about joint airstrikes on militants.

Representatives of the US administration previously stated that such operations are impossible after the suspension of agreements …

The Turkish Army has entered Syria to end the rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. This was stated by the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as reported by Turkey's Hurriyet Daily News.

“According to my estimates about 1 million people have died in Syria. People continue to die without any exception: children, women and men. Where is the United Nations? What is it doing? Is it in Iraq? We preached patience but we could not tolerate it any longer and we had to enter Syria together …

Ukrainian analytical group InformNapalm reported that Russian S-300VM "Antey-2500" anti-ballistic missile system were spotted in the Crimea. The group states that the appearance of the missile systems in the Crimea is linked to the scheduled missiles tests by Ukraine near the peninsula.

The systems were transported along one of the Crimean intercity freeways and were headed to an unknown destination.

The S-300VM "Antey-2500" missile system is intended to strike tactical, theater and medium …

The Director of the Center for Analysis of Middle East Conflicts at the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Alexander Shumilin, stated in an interview with Rosbalt that John Kerry’s mission will probably fail. The U.S. Secretary of State is trying to reach new agreements with Russia on Aleppo in the remaining month and a half before the withdrawal of the current U.S. administration.

“Everything that Kerry attempts to do today is being undertaken merely …

NATO knew even before 2012 that Russia was planning to deploy Iskander missile systems to Kaliningrad because the previous-generation Tochka missile systems had become obsolete. However, Moscow is now describing the deployment of the missile systems as a response to the expansion of the alliance.

Russia deployed the Iskander missile systems to Kaliningrad last month. The official representative from NATO negatively assessed the deployment of the Russian missile systems, stated the vice …