The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) is checking the legal basis of directing funds towards the refinancing of certain Ukrainian banks as well as the involvement of the leadership of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) in this process. This was stated Artem Sytnyk, Chairman of the NABU.

"For several months already we have been conducting criminal proceedings that involve the management of the NBU, related to the spending of money allocated to a number of commercial banks for …

Deputy Minister of Information Policy Dmytro Zolotukhin said during his interview with ZIK channel that there are already hundreds of websites that must be shut down because of the threat they pose to Ukraine’s national interests. According to him, he received lists of sites recommended for closure and lists of sources that are already blocked from volunteers.

“That means that the lists already exist... I will not disclose the number of such sites. There are hundreds of sites, which means they …

Combat helicopters of the Turkish Air Force will soon be armed with the latest anti-tank missiles with a range of eight kilometers, reports Anatolian news agency.

The L-UMTAS missile with a laser guidance system was developed by Roketsan Company. The Turkish Air Force began receiving the L-UMTAS missiles several years ago. The missile was specially designed for the attack helicopters developed by Turkey as a part of ATAK project.

The Minister of National Defense of Turkey, Fikri Işık said …

On Sunday, April 2, artillery drills were conducted by the Russian Army and Russian Marine Corps in the annexed Crimea.

This was related by Captain 1st Rank Vyacheslav Trukhachev, chief of the information department of the Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet.

“In Crimea, at the sea training site of Opuk, exercises of the Black Sea Fleet’s army and marine infantry artillery units were conducted as part of the final inspection of the winter training period to verify the combat readiness of these …

On Sunday, April 2, at the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) Air Base in Hatzor, the medium range anti-missile system David’s Sling became operational, NewsRu Israel reports. The ceremony was attended by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Chief of the General Staff Gadi Eizenkot, Air Force Commander Amir Eshel, US Missile Defense Agency Director James Syring and IAF Commander General-Major Zvika Haimovich.

The system, also known as “Magic Wand”, is part of …

Moldovan company Energocom and Ukrainian DTEK Trading signed a contract for the supply of electricity from Ukraine to Moldova. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Moldova.

The contract period covers April 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018. The press service emphasized that Ukraine’s proposal of $50.2 per MWh was more attractive than Russia’s offer.

The Moldovan TPS (thermal power station), which participated in this tender, is located in Transnistria …

According to various estimates, since 1991, 148 billion dollars’ worth of capital was withdrawn from Ukraine to offshore accounts. A leading researcher at the State University Institute for Economics and Forecasting of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Inna Shovkun explains in her article for ZN.UA.

The author points out that the reform of the fiscal system aimed at stopping the Ukrainian companies from “offshore” and “shadowy” ways of doing business can become a viable source of …

The Kremlin has said that Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump are similar in their principled approach to international relations. The Press Secretary of Russian President, Dmitry Peskov, spoke about this on a broadcast of TV channel ABC.

"One defends the national interests of the United States, and the second - the national interests of the Russian Federation. And they understand very well that sometimes it is better for the national interest to maintain good relations with a colleague, …