The Russian Navy’s Northern Fleet held military exercises in the Arctic to test launch the Oniks missile from the Bastion missiles system, reported Russian TV Channel Zvezda. According to the Russian media, the anti-ship missile was launched against a target sixty kilometers away.

The Bastion missile launch ssytem is designed to defend the sea coast. It has a range of 600 kilometers and can strike ships despite active radio-electronic and firing counter efforts. One such system includes up to 3 …

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) is searching for the people who leaked information on Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, Britain’s prime suspects in Skripal poisoning case. The leaked information included Petrov and Boshirov’s passport application forms, as well as Russian border crossing information from the Rospasport and migration systems, Rosbalt reports, citing a source familiar with the situation.

According to Rosbalt’s source, FSB operatives are looking for Interior Ministry …

Hungary intends to expel the Ukrainian consul if the Hungarian consul is expelled from Berehove in Zakarpattia Oblast, stated  the press service for the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

“If the Ukrainian government decides to expel the Hungarian consul from Berehove, than Hungary will immediately expel the Ukrainian consul from the country,” the message reads.

A similar statement was made at the 73rd session of The United Nations General Assembly by the Hungarian Minister of …

During his speech at the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, September 26 in New York ,President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko accused Russia of trying to occupy the Azov Sea.

 “After the occupation of the Crimea, [Russia wants] to occupy the Azov Sea. They illegally built a bridge across the Kerch Strait,” stated the President of Ukraine.

Poroshenko said that Russia hinders the navigation of Ukrainian and international vessels in the region. “Such illegal and serious …

After Kyiv acceded to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 1994, the United Nations made a clear violation of the Budapest Memorandum, by which Russia, the US and Great Britain guaranteed Ukraine's security and respect for its sovereignty and territorial integrity, said Polish President Andrzej Duda in his speech at a meeting of the UN Security Council.

He believes that in order to be respected, it is very important that the international community abide by its obligations …