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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Thursday put the military on highest state of alert along the frontier with Crimea after Russia accused Kiev of making attempted incursions into the annexed region.
Moscow’s FSB security service said Wednesday it had thwarted “terrorist attacks” by Ukraine’s military on the Black Sea peninsula that Russia seized from Ukraine in March 2014.
Italy’s foreign minister says his government will evaluate any U.S. request to allow use of a Sicilian air base in the campaign of airstrikes against an Islamic State stronghold in Libya.
Paolo Gentiloni said in comments on state television Tuesday that use of the Sigonella base would be considered “if requested” and Parliament informed of any decision.
The Ukrainian military over the past 24 hours ten times shelled positions of the people’s militia in the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), the republic’s defense ministry told the LuganskInformCenter on Sunday.
The ministry said “the Kalinovo settlement was shelled seven times.” Besides, the Ukrainian military shelled Kalinovka, Logvinovo and Smeloye.
Ukraine said on Tuesday seven of its soldiers had been killed and 14 wounded in “very heated” fighting that marked the bloodiest clashes with pro-Russian separatists in two months.
The announcement - the highest daily death toll since Ukraine reported seven of its soldiers dying on May 24 - follows a flurry of talks between world leaders and Moscow on halting the 26-month war.
The Islamic State (Isis) group claimed responsibility for the truck attack that killed 84 people in Nice on France’s national holiday, a news service affiliated with the jihadists said Saturday.
Amaq quoted an Isis security source as saying one of its “soldiers” carried out Thursday’s carnage “in response to calls to target nations of coalition states that are fighting (Isis)”.