The Kremlin has turned the annexed Crimea into a military base. Therefore, retaking the peninsula by military force is now extremely dangerous. This was said in an interview with UA.TV by the national leader of the Crimean Tatar People, People's Deputy of Ukraine Mustafa Dzhemilev.

"The Crimea has now been turned into a kind of a military base. We even have information that six nuclear warheads are there now. Therefore, it is very dangerous to begin military operations there," Dzhemilev said. …

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny published the results of a new anti-corruption investigation against restaurateur Yevgeny Prigozhin, also known as 'Putin’s chef.'

In its recent report, the Anti-corruption Foundation, founded by Navalny, exposes the cartel of Prigozhin, who, while imitating a competition, received 23 billion rubles ($ 375.3 million USD) from Russia’s state defense order budget, at least a third of which was stolen. This was reported on May 19 by Russian office of Radio …

Several American press agencies working in Russian territory have openly interfered with the country’s internal politics, announced Andrey Isayev, deputy head of the Yedinaya Rossiya (United Russia) party, as reported by Interfax.

Interfax reported that the Russian State Duma Committee on information policy presented the report regarding the compliance of the US press agencies working in Russia with national legislation. The document states that several of these agencies have openly interfered …

The training exercise of tank units are scheduled to take place during the Spring Storm international military drills, which will be held next week in Estonia, as reported by the country’s Defense minister.

"On May 23rd, at the main training ground of the Defense Forces, training drills  with the use of heavy equipment, that is, tank units, will begin" Commander of the Estonian Defense Forces Riho Terras stated while visiting the command center of the military exercises.

The heavy military …

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced that he and German Chancellor Angela Merkel had discussed a possible scenario of putting pressure on Russia to fulfill its part of the Minsk agreements, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

“A significant portion of time was devoted to the coordination of actions to implement the Minsk agreements. It was established that Russia is not fulfilling the Minsk agreements, and we have to develop a scenario which would motivate Russia to sit at the negotiation …