The US Senate has approved the appoint of Marie Yovanovitch as the next Ambassador to Ukraine, Evropeyskaya Pravda reported, referencing New York Times journalist David M. Herszenhorn.

Yovanovitch will replace Geoffrey Pyatt, who has been appointed the next US Ambassador to Greece.

“Marie L. Yovanovitch confirmed by Senate as US ambassador to Ukraine replacing Geoff Pyatt at crucial juncture in country's history,” Herszenhorn wrote on Twitter.

Since 2012, Yovanovitch has served as Principal …

American officials from the intelligence and defense sectors criticized US Secretary of State John Kerry’s proposal for coordination between the US and Russia in Syria, The New York Times reports.

Even though Kerry believes in possible cooperation with Moscow, many representatives from American intelligence agencies and the Pentagon are suspicious of this plan.

According to one of the officials, it remains unclear why Kerry is confident that Russia will support the White House’s goals in …

Izvestia has reported that the Makeyev State Rocket Design Bureau (SRC) has received a government contract to develop a new ballistic missile. This missile will, most likely, be created for nuclear fifth generation Husky-class submarines.

“At the moment, we are working on several contracts with the Ministry of Defense on the development of land and sea ballistic missiles. The new Sarmat heavy ballistic missile will update the armament of the land forces, and there is work being done on a …

On July 13, 2016, the German Cabinet of Ministers approved a new white paper which outlined the country’s security and defense strategy, Deutsche Welle reports. This document, developed under the auspices of the Ministry of Defense, is of crucial importance for the future role of the Bundeswehr (the unified armed forces of Germany, their civil administration and procurement authorities).

The new white paper takes into account changes in the security sector that have occurred since 2006, when …

The authorities of Toretsk (formerly known as Dzerzhinsk) are "preparing the area for the separatists” of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). The head of the National Police of the Donetsk Oblast, Vyacheslav Abroskin, made this statement on his Facebook page.

"The local authorities of Toretsk are not acting fairly. They are attracting public veteran’s organizations and are encouraging them to demand the  withdrawal of the Ukrainian troops from the city. The city managers are …

Ukrainian soldiers who have been trained by foreign instructors are a concern for Russia. The country, while at a Russia-NATO Council meeting, declared that the Alliance’s aid to Ukraine is “helping revanchism”. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by Russia's Permanent Representative to NATO, Alexander Grushko.

“It has been pointed out that by providing political and military support to Kiev, NATO countries are actually playing along with the 'party of war' in Kiev. This results in the …

In Minsk, it was agreed that railroads will be cleared for coal transportation to Ukrainian power stations

At yesterday's meeting in Minsk, members of a subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group on economic issues agreed to start the process of clearing the rail networks through which coal is transported from the occupied territories to Ukrainian power stations, as Darya Olifer, the press secretary for Leonid Kuchma, wrote on her Facebook page. This is about clearance and reconstruction of …

Lieutenant Colonel Alexei Solodovnikov, an instructor at the Military Academy of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces (RSMF), stated that Russia will develop a new hypersonic strategic bomber capable of delivering nuclear strikes from space by 2020, RIA Novosti reported.

According to Solodovnikov, the bomber will take off from conventional airfields to do standard patrols. It will also fly into space, strike targets from space with nuclear weapons and then fly back to its airfield when so …