The UN Security Council was unable to adopt a resolution for a 30-day ceasefire in Syria. Due to Russia’s position, voting on the measure was not held on Thursday, February 22nd.

The permanent representative of Moscow in the Security Council, Vasily Nebenzya, made it clear that he would not vote for the resolution submitted by Sweden and Kuwait, and proposed a number of changes to the document.

Since Russia has the right of veto and can block any resolution of the UN Security Council, the …

The elite 72nd Brigade of the Slovenian Armed Forces has failed the NATO combat readiness test, calling into question Slovenia’s ability to fulfill its obligations to the Alliance, reports  Delo.si news outlet.

Slovenia is supposed to ensure the combat readiness of the 800 soldiers of the 72nd Brigade of its Armed Forces by April 1. However, last week, the soldiers of this grouping failed a combat readiness test, and some soldiers received frostbite due to poor-quality equipment. …

Novosti Donbassa news outlet reported that Igor Plotnitsky, the former head of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic, is in St. Petersburg's Kresty prison, as indicated by Vladlen Zaruba, a colleague of Valery Bolotov, the late ex-head of the LPR.

According to Zaruba, in the detention facility, Plotnitsky has provided evidence and testimony. Bolotov’s associate also suggested that it was because of these statements that Oleg Mkrtchian, General Director of the Industrial Union of Donbas, …

During an interview with Radio Liberty, Vyacheslav Moskalevsky, general director and minority shareholder of Roshen Corporation, said that Roshen Confectionery Corporation sells its products to Sheriff company of the unrecognized Transnistria Moldovan republic. Moskalevsky said "Well, yes, we trade, of course, and not only we; the fact is that we trade with them as residents of Moldova, understand?"

On the remark that Transnistria is a separatist region, Moskalevsky replied, "Actually, I'm not …

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has deemed it necessary to prolong sanctions on banks carrying Russian state capital, said the Chairperson of the NBU Financial Stability Department, Vitalii Vavryshchuk, as RBC-Ukraine reports.

The sanctions against five Russian bank subsidiaries - VS Bank, Sberbank Ukraine, VTB, BM Bank, and Prominvestbank - were imposed by a decree signed by President Petro Poroshenko in mid-March 2017, for one year, expiring this March.

“Yes, we deem it necessary to …

Boris Rotenberg, a Russian businessman close to Russian President Vladimir Putin owns two villas in the commune of Èze in France. The villas have a total area of 1300 square meters. Rotenberg also owns another villa under construction. This was stated in a joint investigation of Novaya Gazeta, Le Monde and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project or OCCRP.

Rotenberg filed his application to construct the first two villas in 2009. He planned to build a tennis court, a swimming pool …

The US will not agree to a deal on Ukraine without its consent and will help restore its territorial integrity and independence, as stated by US Deputy Secretary of State, John Sullivan, during a speech in front of Ukrainian students, Interfax-Ukraine reports.

"The Crimea is Ukraine, Donbas is Ukraine, we will never agree to exchange one region for another, we will never agree to sign agreements on Ukraine without the consent of Ukraine ... We will help restore territorial integrity and ensure …

The former governor of the Odessa region, Mikheil Saakashvili, is prohibited from entering Ukraine until February 13, 2021, as stated in a letter by the Deputy Head of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, Vasyl Servatiuk, Interfax Ukraine reports.  The letter was provided to the agency by Saakashvili’s lawyer, Ruslan Chernolutsky.

The letter states that the State Border Guard Service considers that the prohibition is consistent with the law. Saakashvili’s lawyers consider the decision …