The delegation will be staying in Crimea until February 9.
An Ulm-based company, which exported dual-purpose equipment to Russia, has been fined EUR 190,000, according to Stuttgarter Nachrichten.
The Trump administration is levying new sanctions on Russia it hopes will force it to comply with a Cold War-era nuclear arms treaty it has violated by deploying a banned cruise missile, according to a senior administration official, Politico reports.
Ukrainian Ambassador to Austria Oleksandr Scherba says that the Austrian politicians who have visited the "Friends of Crimea" Forum on the Russian-occupied peninsula have violated the policy of neutralism pursued by Austria, and European Union norms, according to the Austrian newspaper Die Presse.
Canada has slapped economic sanctions against 52 individuals, including 30 Russian citizens, over the violation of human rights and corruption, according to Global Affairs Canada.
Russia would not have launched its aggression against Ukraine if Kyiv had not renounced nuclear weapons in 1994, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said at the plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, an UNIAN correspondent reports.
French actor Samy Naceri, 56, has been included in Ukraine's Myrotvorets (Peacekeeper) Center database for deliberately violating Ukraine's border with the purpose of entering Crimea, according to Myrotvorets' website.
A French movie star known for his leading act in Luc Besson’s "Taxi" saga Samy Naceri has arrived in the Russian-occupied Crimea to take part in a “Peace Forum” held in the Black Sea resort of Yalta, RIA Novosti reports.
The State Border Guard Service has refuted accusations by Belarus authorities claiming a Ukrainian DA-42 patrol plane violated the airspace of Belarus.
The Belarusian authorities claim that a Ukrainian DA42 four-seat airplane violated its airspace on September 25 and expect official explanations from Kyiv regarding this incident.
Thirty-four cargo ships illegally visited ports in Russia-annexed Crimea in August, according to Ukraine's Ministry for Temporarily Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons.
Russian occupation forces continue to extract gas from the Black Sea deposits in the exclusive (maritime) economic zone of Ukraine, according to the State Border Guard Service.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg on July 25 ruled on a first claim against Ukraine over the loss by the Ukrainian government of control of areas in Luhansk region (No. 2945/16), stating that there is no violation of the right to a fair trial and Ukraine bears no responsibility for the violation of human rights in uncontrolled territory, according to the ruling posted on the ECHR's website.
The U.S. Treasury Department says it is slapping Exxon Mobil Corp. with a $2 million fine for violating Russia sanctions while Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was the oil company's CEO, Politico reports.
Two more gas turbines appear to have been delivered to Russian-controlled Crimea, according to two Reuters reporters who saw the equipment at the port of Feodosia, potentially deepening a row over sanctions compliance in which Germany's Siemens has become embroiled.
Russia's hybrid military forces have shelled the secondary school in the town of Krasnohorivka, using the weapons banned under the Minsk Agreements, according to the Ukrainian delegation to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC).