Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency has concluded that pro-Russian rebels are to blame for the downing of Malaysia Airline MH17 in Ukraine in July, Der Spiegel weekly reported on Sunday, the first European agency to say so.

• Date: 19.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 19.10.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov agreed on Tuesday to increase intelligence sharing between Moscow and Washington on Islamic State militants, focusing on a common enemy even as deep divisions remained over the crisis in Ukraine.

• Date: 15.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 15.10.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russian hackers exploited a bug in Microsoft Windows and other software to spy on computers used by NATO, the European Union, Ukraine and companies in the energy and telecommunications sectors, according to cyber intelligence firm iSight Partners.

• Date: 14.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 14.10.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

President Vladimir Putin's order to withdraw troops to their bases in southern Russia is a move towards easing the Ukraine crisis, but Moscow has made previous pledges which it has not fulfilled, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman said on Monday.

• Date: 13.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 13.10.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko proposed a new defence minister on Monday after the previous incumbent resigned amid sharp criticism over a rout of Kiev's troops by Russian-backed separatists in late August.

• Date: 13.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 13.10.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian troops to withdraw to their permanent bases after military exercises in Rostov region near the border with Ukraine, the Kremlin said, in a sign of some tension easing before a key meeting next week.

• Date: 12.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 12.10.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Statements by NATO's new chief do not raise hopes of a rapid improvement in relations between Russia and the military alliance, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Thursday.

• Date: 09.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 09.10.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russia said on Friday the mortar fire that killed a Swiss worker from the International Committee of the Red Cross in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine was fired from territory controlled by Ukrainian government forces.

• Date: 03.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 03.10.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/