The situation around the violations by the United States and Russia of the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Short-Range Missiles (INF) can eventually draw other countries into the arms race, Apostrophe wrote citing a report by the U.S.-based private intelligence and analytical company Stratfor.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin says the neglect of international law is the main threat to world security, according to the press service of Ukraine's Permanent Mission to the United Nations, referring to the official's speech at the UN on September 22.
An activist at the Ukrainian Cultural Center in the Russian-occupied Crimea, Leonid Kuzmin, has fled the peninsula after he had repeatedly been threatened, RFE/RL’s project Krym.Realii reported.
The House Armed Services Committee is proposing several policy moves in its annual defense authorization bill to counter threats from Russia and North Korea, according to The Hill.
Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov says that after the law enforcers launched a large-scale raid to detain 23 former tax officials, they have been receiving threats and calls from Moscow, an UNIAN correspondent from the minister’s briefing in the city of Khmelnitsky where he opened a police services center.