• Poland donates more than $1 million to UN to help residents of Donbas

    Poland transferred funds to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to help those in need who reside in the territories of the Donbas  which are controlled by pro-Russian militants, reports Polish Mission to the UN on its Twitter.

    According to the report, more than $1 million was transferred for humanitarian aid to the residents of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

    The necessary assistance will be provided to the most vulnerable, including the elderly and …

  • Putin to attend Chirac's memorial service

    The press secretary of Russian President, Dmitry Peskov said that Vladimir Putin will attend a memorial service for former French President Jacques Chirac, reports RIA Novosti news agency.

    The memorial service for Chirac will be held in Paris on September 30. After the Church service, French President Emmanuel Macron will invite the heads of countries, who have come to pay tribute to the former head of state, to the Elysee Palace.

    Jacques Chirac died on September 26 at the age of 86. He was …

  • Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office denies ‘Biden case’ investigation

    Ukrainian Deputy Prosecutor General, Head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office Nazar Kholodnytskyi  said in an interview with Novoe Vremya radio that Ukrainian investigators had not questioned former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter in the case of possible abuse of power by Ukrainian Ecology Ministry officials.

    According to him, the Prosecutor decided to close the case on August 1, 2017, because the investigation had no progress for about two years.

    "What will …

  • Russian citizen detained in Spain at US request

    Spanish police arrested a Russian citizen at the request of the United States, reports TASS news agency, citing the Russian Embassy in Madrid.

    According to the embassy, the police detained a man on September 20 at the Valencia airport at the request of the United States. The Russian citizen was arrested, and after that, an employee of the Russian Consulate General in Barcelona visited him. A local lawyer is involved in the case. The diplomatic mission added that they are carefully following …

  • Ukrainian military to start using Turkish combat drones

    Ukrainian Air Force received permission to use Bayraktar TB2 drones, reports the press service of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.

    50 Ukrainian soldiers completed training in Turkey on the use and maintenance of drones.

    "This is important in the context of the acquisition of specific educational institution experience in training specialists for new types of weapons, and it will also create the necessary personnel reserve for filling positions of already trained soldiers in the future," reads …