A U.S. preliminary commission to assess Ukraine’s capacities regarding the storage and use of Javelin anti-tank missile systems has already visited the country, Liga.net reports.

"The delivery date depends on the United States. The situation in Ukraine is currently being studied. A commission from the United States has already come to study the area," said one military source.

The United States will provisionally supply Ukraine with 35 launchers and 210 anti-tank missiles for $47 million. …

At a joint briefing with the Italian Foreign Minister, OSCE Chairman Angelino Alfano in Kyiv, Pavlo Klimkin, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, said that the last meeting of Kurt Volker, US State Department Special Representative, and Russian Presidential Assistant Vladislav Surkov was fruitless, Ukrinform reports.

"I am in constant contact with our American friends and allies. Several times I spoke with Kurt Volker before meeting with Surkov and yesterday too. Unfortunately, during …

On January 30, Ukraine conducted the first successful flight tests of the new Ukrainian ground-based cruise missile, which is capable of destroying ground and water targets with precision.

This was reported by National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov in a statement published on NSDC website after the completion of the tests.

According to Turchynov, the missile is entirely the work of Ukrainian engineers from the state enterprise KB Luch, in collaboration with …

Luhansk has no cold water supply, LIGA.net reported with reference to sources in the city.

Yevheniy Nasedkin, press secretary of the Luhansk Energy Association (LEA), which is part of Konstantin Grigorishin’s Energy Standard holdings, confirmed that the water supply had been switched off in the former provincial center.

“It was switched off today. The reason is the Popasna Waterworks’ debt,” he said. According to him, it has been in debt to the LEA since July 2015, and today the debt amounts …

First deputy chairman of the Federation Council’s International Affairs Committee Vladimir Dzhabarov believes that the inclusion of virtually all the Russian leaders in the US Finance Ministry’s “Kremlin Report” constitutes a breach in Russia-US relations, RIA Novosti reports.

“Formally our countries have relations, but the inclusion in the sanction list of virtually all our country’s leadership means that these relations are effectively being severed,” Dzhabarov commented. He himself was …

On Tuesday, January 30, in Sochi, the Syrian National Dialogue Congress , initiated by Russia, concluded its work.

In the final speech, Staffan de Mistura, United Nations special envoy for the Syria crisis, announced the decision of the participants to create a constitutional council, which will consist of representatives of the current government, opposition, civil society, and tribes, RBC news agency reports. And Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told journalists that, as a result of …

The cyber-attacks that affected the three largest Dutch banks were carried out from Russian servers, as reported by De Telegraaf daily newspaper, citing the ESET Company which specializes in digital security.

"This does not necessarily mean that the perpetrators are also in Russia – they can be anywhere," specialists note.

According to the company, hackers used a so-called botnet, a network of infected computers.  They remotely sent signals from devices using the Zbot program to visit certain …

In a comment to InfoResist, Ukrainian MP and delegation representative to PACE Boryslav Bereza stated that Russia tried to blackmail PACE leadership into allowing the country to return to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), but its attempts did not work.

According to Bereza, Russia refused to pay membership fees to PACE until it was reinstated in the organization.

"Russia is blackmailing the assembly by not paying. The financial leverage is very strong, [and] is still …