Russia's military budget may shrink by around 10 percent in 2015, the chief executive of state-owned defense conglomerate Rostec said on Monday.

• Date: 24.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 24.02.2015  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russia has offered Iran its latest Antey-2500 missiles, the head of Russian state defense conglomerate Rostec said on Monday according to media reports, after a deal to supply less powerful S-300 missiles was dropped under Western pressure.

• Date: 23.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 23.02.2015  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Kiev accused pro-Russian rebels of opening fire with rockets and artillery at villages in southeastern Ukraine on Monday, all but burying a week-old European-brokered ceasefire deal.

• Date: 23.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 23.02.2015  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Pro-Russian separatists are building up forces and weapons in Ukraine's south east and the Ukrainian military said on Saturday it was braced for the possibility of a rebel attack on the port city of Mariupol.

• Date: 21.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 21.02.2015  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Kiev accused Russia on Friday of sending more tanks and troops into eastern Ukraine and said they were heading towards the rebel-held town of Novoazovsk on the southern coast, expanding their presence on what could be the next key battlefront.

• Date: 20.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 20.02.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

The European Union and Britain "sleepwalked" into the Ukraine crisis, failing to grasp its exceptional nature and lacking the ability to read political shifts in Russia, British lawmakers said in a report on Friday.

• Date: 20.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 20.02.2015  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

China's creation of artificial islands in the South China Sea is happening so fast that Beijing will be able to extend the range of its navy, air force, coastguard and fishing fleets before long, much to the alarm of rival claimants to the contested waters.

• Date: 19.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 19.02.2015  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called for U.N. peacekeepers to be deployed to monitor a ceasefire in east Ukraine, a proposal that pro-Russia rebels swiftly said would be in breach of a peace deal.

• Date: 19.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 19.02.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/