Large-scale military training of reservists from the Armed Forces, involving more than 8,000 people, has begun in Ukraine. The training will be held in two stages, from September 3 to 15 and from September 12 to 24, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry press service reported.

“The main purpose of the exercises is to work out a mechanism for rapid staffing of military units and formations with personnel using the forces of the operational reserve in the event of explicit aggression,” the department …

The Russian President is convinced that only the United States of America has any real influence on the current Government of Ukraine, as stated at the Southern economic forum, TASS reports.

According to Putin, the Minsk Agreements on the settlement of the situation in the Donbas should be fully implemented and all parties and guarantor countries of the Agreements should work towards it.  

"In my view, and I fully agree with the participants of the Normandy process, and with the position of …

On 3rd of September, the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Witold Waszczykowski, announced after a meeting with the British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Boris Johnson, that they have agreed on the need for maintenance of sanctions imposed by the European Union against Russia until full implementation of the Minsk Agreements.

“We have discussed the failure to implement the Agreement with Ukraine and we have also discussed the way out of this situation. We have …

German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that she hoped to discuss Ukrainian and Syrian issues as well as the refugees’ problems in the course of bilateral negotiations during the G20 summit in China, as indicated in a video message on Saturday.

The German Chancellor noted that she hoped for a dialogue "about how to proceed with the Ukrainian question." However, she did not specify whom she plans to negotiate about Ukraine with, the Voice of America reports.

Earlier, the Kremlin announced …

Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek promised to use legal measures against the diplomatic mission of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic in Ostrava. This was communicated by the Foreign Minister of Ukraine, Pavlo Klimkin, on Twitter after meeting with his Czech counterpart.

"Lubomir Zaoralek assured that the Czech Republic will use legal mechanisms against the fake offices in Ostrava and prevent the recurrence of such cases," he wrote.

As previously reported the Ukrainian Foreign …