On June 19, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin and the leadership of Israel agreed that they are ready for a free trade agreement between the two countries,reported the press center of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.

In Jerusalem, the 11th meeting of the Joint Ukrainian-Israeli Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation was held. It was attended by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Pavlo Klimkin, and the Minister of Jerusalem Affairs and Minister of Environmental Protection, …

Polish Deputy Minister of Energy Michał Kurtyka said that Warsaw has demanded that the EU gas directive be changed as soon as possible to prevent the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, Polskie Radio reports.

According to Kurtyka, the ambassadors of the European Union will amend the document in late June. The deputy minister said this has become possible as a result of "the hard, painstaking and months-long work of Polish diplomats." These amendments will extend EU legislation to all …

The US State Department's Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction has announced a tender for the monitoring of open source information about arms deals involving the Russian Federation and the CIS countries. The data will be collected in Russian, English, Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Urdu, and several other languages.

The information will be used for decision-making and planning the sanctions against foreign states. It particularly concerns the violation of UN Security Council resolutions and of …

All regions of the Russian-annexed Crimean Peninsula may soon shift to an hour-by-hour water supply system, Vladimir Bazhenov, the Director General of the State Enterprise Voda Kryma, stated.

 “I am afraid that soon the whole Crimea will receive water by the hour. There is no rain at this temperature. There is terrible evaporation of water in all surface reservoirs. Soon, daily water intake from reservoirs to the water supply network will equal evaporation into the sky. It applies to all …

The Ukrainian authorities are creating a group in the European Union to halt construction of a second line of Nord Stream 2, the Russian gas pipeline intended to bypass Ukraine. The group will also negotiate with Germany on the creation of an international consortium for the management of the Ukrainian gas transportation system, Interfax-Ukraine reports, citing the Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko

 “Nord Stream 2 is an absolutely political project against Ukraine, which has no economic …