The visit of Russian leader Vladimir Putin to Sevastopol is a "cynical and demonstrative disregard" by Russia of the norms of international law. The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted this in a statement.

The Ministry said that the visit of the head of the Russian state, "like other so-called trips of Russian officials to the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea," is a "gross violation of the state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine."

"The Ministry of …

The TV channel Life (formerly known as LifeNews), which is part of the news media holdings of Russian media tycoon Aram Gabrelyanov,  stops its broadcasting, TASS reported citing a source in the holding company.

Earlier, the news agency RBC reported that the media project planned to reduce news broadcasting, which would lead to a reduction in staff.

"Only the site and our projects remain, of course. TV broadcasting will be completely discontinued. There will be a message to TV viewers on the …

Commenting on the terrorist attack in Barcelona, Polish Deputy Minister of National Defense Michał Dworczyk stated that the European Union needs a new migration policy and concrete, effective actions to ensure human safety, Polish Radio reports. 

In the opinion of the Deputy Minister of Defense, an appropriate migration policy is needed to avoid such attacks.

According to Dworczyk, Poland will not give "consent for the forced resettlement to Poland of people whom we cannot test from the point …

As a result of de-communization in Ukraine, 2,389 monuments were dismantled, of which 1,320 were monuments to communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, said the director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, Volodymyr Viatrovych.

"According to our information, there are no more Lenin monuments in the Ukrainian cities. Perhaps some are left in the countryside and on the territory of the enterprises. This is because they were never added to the registers; they can only be dismantled …

Tens of thousands of residents in eastern Ukraine can’t get access to safe drinking water, as pumping stations are increasingly targeted by the opposing armies, as reported by the press service of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O'Brien, reported that nearly 400,000 people on both sides of the demarcation line in the Donetsk region have been without …