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Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu has said the recent Russian military buildup in Syria is “defensive in nature” and aimed at supporting Russian obligations to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

Stoltenberg was speaking to reporters near the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on September 21.

Ukrainian prosecutors are reported to be preparing charges against the director of a winery for allegedly uncorking a 240-year-old bottle for the Russian president and his guest.

Kerry said any military-to-military meeting would be “to deconflict with respect to any potential risks that might be run” – in other words to prevent the forces from running into one another.

Meanwhile, US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter spoke on Friday with Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu over the phone on areas where “perspectives overlap and areas of divergence”, the Pentagon announced.

Kerry will travel to London later this week for talks to include the situation in Syria with British Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond and the foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates.

Shortly after Kerry spoke, the Pentagon announced that Defense Secretary Ash Carter had spoken by telephone with Sergei K. Shoigu, the Russian minister of defense.

The decree contains a list compiled by Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council of 388 individuals and 105 legal entities deemed to pose a “real or potential threat to Ukraine’s national interests, national security, sovereignty, and territorial...

The pair visited an Italian war cemetery near the Black Sea port of Sevastopol during the trip, while also squeezing in a tour of the prized Massandra winery, where they reportedly supped the vintage Spanish tipple.

After the BBC complained Thursday, Poroshenko’s office announced that the broadcaster’s three-person team, including its Moscow-based correspondent and producer, would be removed from the list of those who are banned.

Comedians Vladimir Krasnov and Aleksi Stolyarov told Russian media that they targeted the singer after he said he wished to meet the Russian president to discuss rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, Reuters reports.

The Committee to Protect Journalists deplores a decree signed by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, the organization has announced.

“Part of the problem in the region, Trump remarked is that, “[Russian President Vladimir] Putin does not respect our president whatsoever”.

Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko said Ukraine will use the saved 20 per cent to spend it on social issue and national defence. Earlier this month, Yuriy Biriukov, an adviser to Ukraine’s defense minister, said in a televised interview that the ministry needs to raise its...

One guardsman was reported on Monday as having been killed in the unrest and almost 90 wounded.