• Slovakia confirms it is ready to send its only S-300 air defense system to Ukraine

    Slovakia is ready to send the only Soviet-made S-300 air defense system that it has in its possession to Ukraine, provided that it receives a replacement, said Slovakia’s Defense Minister Jaroslav Nad at a joint press conference with the US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, reports the news outlet Aktuality.

    Slovakia is one of only three NATO member countries that use the S-300 defense system. It has asked for guarantees that it will receive an immediate replacement if it sends S-300 missile …

  • China promises to never attack Ukraine and provide economic support

    China will never attack Ukraine and will respect the path that Ukrainians choose, said Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to Ukraine Fan Xianrong at a meeting with the head of the military administration of the Lviv region, Maxim Kozitsky.

    According to him, China, on the contrary, will help Ukraine, in particular in the economic direction.

    "Each year, our country imports goods from all over the world worth more than $ 3 trillion. We are ready to …

  • Local official: 53 people were killed in Chernihiv in one day

    The head of the Chernihiv regional military administration, Vyacheslav Chaus, said 53 inhabitants of the city were killed during Russian attacks on Wednesday, according to a video posted by the official on Telegram.

    This includes 10 people who were killed by a Russian artillery attack while waiting in line for bread.

    The number of individuals killed has not been verified.

    "The enemy continues systematic artillery and air shelling of our regional center, destroying civilian infrastructure”, …

  • Moldovan President demands immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from Transnistria

    Moldovan President Maia Sandu demanded that the Russian troops withdraw from the occupied Transnistria, reports the news outlet Jurnalul National.

    Maia Sandu noted that Moldova constantly demands the withdrawal of Russian troops from the territory of Transnistria.

    "Russia plays a key role in the Transnistrian conflict. We have always demanded the withdrawal of Russian troops from Transnistria, we have demanded and continue to demand the immediate disposal of ammunition. We continue to call …

  • Kyiv: Assad promises Putin 40,000 Syrian mercenaries will be sent to Ukraine

    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has promised Russian president Vladimir Putin to provide 40,000 fighters for the war in Ukraine, reports the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.

    According to intelligence reports, the command of the Russian military base in Khmeimim airbase was instructed to send up to 300 militants to Ukraine every day. On March 15, 150 mercenaries left this base for the Russian Federation.

    This Russian base in Syria is expected to be used to move …

  • Kyiv: Ukraine is seeking to take possession of sanctioned Russian oligarchs assets

    The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office and the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (NAPC) are looking abroad for the assets of Russian citizens close to the Kremlin in order to confiscate their property in favor of Ukraine, said head of the NAPC Alexander Novikov in an interview with Radio Liberty.

    According to him, there are certain international mechanisms for this such as appealing to the International Criminal Court and the European Court of Human Rights, as well as to the …

  • Washington: U.S. and NATO are discussing how to strengthen Ukraine’s air defense

    The United States and other NATO countries are discussing how to strengthen Ukraine's air defense capabilities, said the Permanent Representative of the United States to NATO, Julianne Smith, at a briefing before a meeting of NATO defense ministers.

    Smith noted that, during Joe Biden’s presidency, the United States  has already provided Kyiv with military assistance worth $ 1.2 billion. Over the past few weeks alone, Ukraine has received $550 million in aid, primarily anti-tank weapons.

    "We …

  • Russia’s media regulator blocks more than 30 additional news websites

    Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media, also known as Roskomnadzor, blocked access to more than 30 websites on Wednesday, including Novye Izvestia, a publication that has historically been critical of the Kremlin.

    The list of blocked websites includes two Russian-language Israeli news sources, Channel Nine and Vesti Israel.

    The website of the investigative group Bellingcat was also blocked.

    The Belarusian Euroradio and the Estonian …

  • International Chess Federation bans Russian and Belarusian national teams

    The International Chess Federation has banned the Russian and Belarusian national teams from official competition until further notice, according to a release from the Federation (FIDE).

    “Taking into account the current recommendations of the IOC [International Olympics Committee], the FIDE Council suspends the national teams of Russia and Belarus from participation in official FIDE tournaments until further notice,” the statement read.

    The statement also noted that individual Russian and …

  • Turkish Foreign Minister to travel to Moscow on Wednesday, Kyiv on Thursday

    Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu will travel to Moscow on Wednesday to meet with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, and to Kyiv the following day to meet with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.

    “I am sending my foreign minister to Russia tonight. He will hold talks in Moscow tomorrow, and travel to Kyiv on Thursday,” Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said after a cabinet meeting.

    Ukraine stated Sunday that it was relying on Turkey and Israel to serve as mediators to help …