Moscow expects Kiev to provide official information regarding its further engagement in the Minsk agreements on Donbas crisis settlement, Dmitry Kozak, the deputy head of the Russian presidential administration, said on Friday, commenting on Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Reznikov's recent claim that the Minsk accords do not reflect the current reality

Ukrainian Defense Minister Andriy Taran and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg agreed during their phone talks on Thursday to increase the presence of the alliance in the Black Sea region, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said in a statement

Russia's financial monitoring service, Rosfinmonitoring, has put controversial journalist Arkady Babchenko on its list of extremist persons, according to its website as of Thursday