Breaking News, 6th of April, 2018

The former South Korean president, Pak Kun Hye, was sentenced today to 24 years in prison for the corruption, and abuse of the presidential authority during her tenure as head of state. The verdict was announced by the Central District Court of Seoul. The court also ordered the ex-president to pay a fine of $ 17 million. Pak Keng Hye was found guilty of 16 accusations out of 18, among them bribery and the disclosure of state secrets. The former president was also blamed for allowing her close friend, Choi Sun-Sil, to interfere in the state affairs.

The British Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Karen Pearce, at a meeting of the UN Security Council announced that the British side is ready to share the results of the OPCW sample analysis on the case of the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter. «Contrary to what Russia insists on, the UK is ready to share the results of the analysis» she said. Earlier, the OPCW announced that they expect to receive the results on the samples early next week, after which they will be transferred to London.

British Labor party demands to begin an investigation on Boris Johnson. The head of the Foreign Office is accused of misleading the public, reporting the Russian origin of the substance that allegedly poisoned the former GRU agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia. A growing distrust to the UK government in general and to Therese May in particular is growing lately in UK, mostly in connection with the statements about the «Russian trace» in the case of the Skripals.

The Syrian Air Forces, together with the Russian Air Forces, began bombing runs on the positions of terrorists in the area of the city of Jisr al-Shugur, in the province of Idlib. As many mass media outlets reported earlier, an agreement that the Syrian army will launch an offensive operation in that area was reached at a meeting of the presidents of Russia, Iran and Turkey.

The army of Syria sends additional reinforcements to the area of eastern Kalamun. Syrian military forces, idle after the end of the operation in eastern Guta, will arrive to attack the positions of Islamists in this area. As previously reported, the Syrian army made an ultimatum to the militants, but they refused it.

Today in the city of Kherson, Ukrainian court has decided to put in detention the captain of the fishing vessel «Nord», Vladimir Gorbenko, detained earlier by the Ukrainian coast guards almost two weeks ago in the Sea of Azov, Interfax reports. One of the Vladimir’s defenders explained that the court had decided to keep the captain under arrest until May 31st. According to the Ukrainian media, the prosecutor petitioned for the election of a preventive measure in the form of detention in custody with a mortgage of 35 thousand of Ukrainian hryvnias.