The European Parliament (EP) will support the European Commission (EC) in its actions against Poland, Polskie Radio reports.

The European deputies have adopted a resolution to support the first stage of the procedures provided for in Article 7 of the EU Treaty. In December 2017, the EC issued a statement regarding the measures criticizing judicial reform in Poland. The Polish reforms, in the opinion of the European commissioners, threaten the independence of the courts.

The resolution says …

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ratified the Agreement between the governments of Ukraine and Moldova on the joint control of persons, vehicles, goods, and articles in joint border crossing points through the Ukrainian-Moldovan state border, UNIAN reports.

234 deputies voted in favor of this decision, whereas the minimum required number of support votes is 226.

The law (No. 0175) provides for the ratification of the Treaty, concluded on October 6, 2017 in Moldova.

According to the explanatory …

If the Russian company Gazprom does not pay Ukraine as per the Stockholm arbitration court’s ruling, Naftogaz Ukraine must have Gazprom’s assets seized, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said during a session of the National Security and Defense Council in Kyiv.

“It effectively means that Gazprom must pay Naftogaz just over two and a half billion dollars… If Gazprom does not pay as per the ruling of the Stockholm arbitration court – which it was supposed to start doing yesterday already – …

The US Department of State has approved the sale of 37 Javelin anti-tank weapons systems and 210 missiles to Ukraine in exchange for $47 million, Radio Liberty reports.

"The Javelin system will help Ukraine build its long-term defense capacity to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity in order to meet its national defense requirements. Ukraine will have no difficulty absorbing this system into its armed forces," the Pentagon's March 1 statement reads.

The Department said that the …

Gazprom received a prepayment for Russian gas supplies in March 2018 from Naftogaz and returned them to the Ukrainian company, due to the absence of an amendment to the contract, Alexander Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian gas holding, told journalists.

"Gazprom has indeed received funds from Naftogaz of Ukraine to pay for March deliveries of gas. However, as they say, an egg is dearest at Easter. Today an additional agreement to the existing contract with the state-run JSC Naftogaz of …

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s stories about the latest types of Russian strategic weaponry are similar to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s attempts to safeguard his power by launching ballistic missiles. Such was the opinion expressed by Russian oppositionist and former State Duma MP Gennady Gudkov in an interview with InfoResist.

According to the former MP, Russia cannot threaten the world with nuclear weaponry now.

“More and more, this resembles the attempts of the North Korean …

The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) has extended restrictive measures against subsidiaries of Russian banks in Ukraine, the NSDC said.

Earlier on Thursday, Poroshenko called for this measure on his Twitter account. “Banks with state-owned Russian capital are already winding up their business in Ukraine, and their withdrawal from the market is only a matter of time,” he said.“I would like to inform you that during 2017, the net assets of Ukrainian banks with Russian …

Russia is testing a new cruise missile with nuclear propulsion, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced in an address in front of the Federal Assembly.

He showed a video of the missile being tested. According to Putin, the new missile has an unlimited range and an unpredictable flight trajectory.

“No one else has such a weapon,” Putin observed. And when it appears “our boys will think up something new”, he added.

The new missile has not yet been assigned a name. Putin encouraged people to …