• Putin: U.S. wants to have Ukraine under its control at Russia’s expense

    The United States is trying to ensure the prosperity of Ukraine at the expense of Russia, said Russian President Vladimir Putin.

    "They [the U.S.] are courting Ukraine and taking it under control, but they want Ukraine to live off our money as well," said Putin in an interview with TASS for the special project "20 questions to Vladimir Putin."

    "They don't want to give them [Ukraine] money," Putin added

    According to Russian President, Russia is supporting Kyiv with funds that Moscow pays for …

  • Iran agrees to hand over to Kyiv black boxes from downed Ukrainian airliner

    Iran has agreed to hand over to the Ukrainian side "black boxes” from the downed passenger plane of the Ukraine International Airlines near Tehran, announced Ukraine's Ambassador to Canada Andriy Shevchenko on Twitter.

    According to him, at the end of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Council in Montreal, Iranian representative Farhad Parvaresh announced Tehran's consent to hand over the flight recorders.

    "Iran agrees to send black boxes to Ukraine, with the subsequent …

  • Militants attack Ukrainian positions in Donbas

    On Tuesday, March 10, pro-Russian militants attacked positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction, reports the press service of the Ukrainian Joint Forces Operation.

    According to the Ukrainian military, militants shelled positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with prohibited 120 mm mortars, grenade launchers, large-caliber machine guns and small arms.

    In addition, a Ukrainian military truck, Gaz-66, was shot at with an anti-tank missile system. Several Ukrainian …

  • First case of coronavirus reported in DPR

    The so-called "Ministry of Health of Donetsk People’s Republic" stated that on March 9 a woman with a suspected coronavirus infection was hospitalized in the territory which is not under Ukraine’s control territory. The hospitalized woman returned from China.

    Upon her arrival at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, the woman was checked for signs of illness, but according to the DPR representatives, nothing was found. According to the DPR Ministry of Health, the woman was diagnosed with a …

  • MH17 trial: Two Buk missile systems were sent from Russia to Ukraine

    During the first court hearing in the Netherlands in the case of the MH17 air crash in the Donbas, the prosecution stated that at least two Buk anti-aircraft missile systems were sent to Ukraine from Russia in 2014, but one of them broke down on the way, BBC Russian Service reports.

    In 2018, analysts from the Bellingcat investigative group stated that the delivery of the Buk, which was used to shoot down the Malaysian Boeing, was overseen by Oleg Ivannikov, an officer of the Russian GRU (The …