Over the past three years, 13 Ukrainian analog TV channels have started broadcasting in the Donetsk region, as stated in a report titled, "The state of the information space of the Donetsk region: challenges and prospects," RBC-Ukraine reports.The report was prepared by the Public Association ‘Analytical Center, Thought Factory of the Donbas’, in cooperation with the Ministry of Information Policy and the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting.Analog television has been restored …

Russia will sell Turkey four anti-aircraft S-400 defense systems for $2.5 billion, as announced by Sergey Chemezov, the General Director of the state corporation Rostec, in an interview with Kommersant.

"This is the first country in NATO to acquire our newest air defense system S-400," Chemezov said.

He also said that Turkey will pay 45% of the total amount of the contract as an advance, while 55% will be with Russian credit funds.

"We plan to begin the first deliveries in March 2020. The …

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) is conducting a pre-trial investigation in regards to the possible embezzlement of property by the head of Oschadbank management board and his subordinates by writing off $ 20.98 million from Cyprus's Opal Core Ltd. The funds were declared as State property with the purpose of their further confiscation.   The criminal scheme was described in the statement of the Solomensky District Court of Kyiv from December 6, 2017, published on December 1 …

The biometric control system has begun operation at Ukrainian airports, as reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine on its Facebook page.

"The project involves the collection of personal biometric data and the storage of [this data] in the databases of the State Tax Service of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Security Service of Ukraine, as well as the capture of the biometric data of foreigners and stateless persons during border control," …

Interfax news agency reported that two missiles approaching the Russian-operated Syrian airbase at Khmeimim were shot down by the Pantsir-S1 system. A third missile failed to reach the airbase at all.

The AMN publication claims that two missiles were shot down in the province of Idlib, bordering Latakia. It says that Russian helicopters are patrolling the area from which rockets were allegedly fired.

The Russian military operation in Syria began on September 30, 2015. The Russian Air Force …

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko personally met Ukrainians who were released from the captivity of pro-Russian separatists in self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics. A video of the head of state greeting the freed citizens was posted on Poroshenko’s Facebook page.

Poroshenko met the former prisoners of war at the Boryspil airport where they were flown in by helicopters from the point of exchange. The President, clad in military fatigues and wearing an Armed Forces beret, …

103 Ukrainian soldiers and civilians are still held in captivity by the DPR (Donetsk People’s Republic) and LPR (Luhansk People’s Republic) separatists. Dozens of Ukrainian citizens are being illegally held in the territory of the Russian Federation, the press center of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported.

According to the statement, 3,215 people in total have been released from captivity since 2014 and 402 persons are still considered missing.

"We know each of them by name. And we …

The Soyuz-2.1b rocket that fell in the Atlantic Ocean soon after launch, drowning all 19 satellites, was, according to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, “adjusted for Baikonur.” That is, the data fed into the launch system was based on the assumption that the Soyuz-2.1b would be launched from the Baikonur space launch site, which is in neighboring Kazakhstan, while in fact the rocket was launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur region.

“The launch was adjusted for …