The Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, Volodymyr Yelchenko, stated that, when submitting evidence to the International Court of Justice, Kyiv plans on highlighting the situation in Avdiivka as evidence of Russia's violation of international law, Krym.Realii reported.

“This is the first but important step in bringing Russia to justice for its violation of the UN Charter and international law,” Yelchenko stated.

Despite calls for a ceasefire and the withdrawal of heavy …

Ukraine will resume a state sponsored defense program on the creation of a new corvette for the Navy. This was announced by Deputy Defense Minister Igor Pavlovsky, Interfax-Ukraine reports.

According to the Deputy Minister, in 2017, government funding for the ''Corvette'' program should amount to more than 1 billion hryvnia or $37 million.

According to Pavlovsky, currently the Defense Ministry is negotiating the re-assigning of the contract which was signed with the Chernomorsky Shipbuilding …

The Pechersky District Court of Kyiv, at the request of the General Prosecutor’s Office, has seized floating crafts in Mezhyhirya which belong to Tantalit LLC. Moreover, the Court has ruled that former President Yanukovych should be detained in conjunction with the investigation of the illegal acquisition of property case against him. These judicial actions are available in the single register of court decisions, Interfax-Ukraine reports. According to the Court decision published on 1 February, …

The Head of the Krymenergo company, Viktor Plakida, asked Crimeans on the air of the Crimea 24 TV Channel, not to switch on electrical appliances in the morning and evening hours unless it’s absolute necessary, Krym.Realii reported.

“I would like to ask Crimeans to rationally use our resources. Try not to switch on additional electric appliances, which you don’t really need, in the morning and evening hours. This is the most important thing,” Plakida said.

According to him, if every 200th …

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu said that the Russian military would conduct more than 2,800 exercises in 2017, TASS reported.

"Overall more than two thousand eight hundred tactical, special tactical and command staff exercises are planned for the current year. In September, we will hold the Russian-Belarusian strategic exercise West-2017,” Shoygu said during a conference call in the military department.

He drew the attention of the commanders to the need to take into account the …

NATO denies that the planned negotiations with Kyiv have been postponed, as announced on Radio Liberty, on February 2nd, by a spokesman of the alliance who wished to remain anonymous.

"There is no meeting with any country that was canceled. We will continue to exchange information, to consult and cooperate with our neighbors and partners as the need arises, on a gradual and phased approach. NATO recognizes and respects the interests of other countries regarding the NATO missile defense systems. …

The Chairwoman of the National Bank of Ukraine, Valeriya Hontareva, stated in an interview with Liga.net that the National Bank believes that there will be no major bankruptcies of Ukrainian banks.

“We have 40 banks that in terms of assets made up 97% of the entire banking system. You have already seen who didn’t survive in the first top 20. The second top 20 passed the test on January 1st, 2017. The Platinum Bank and Fortuna Bank withdrew from the market. The latter, despite the fact it was …

Russia made the decision to establish a border zone with Belarus without prior warning, as stated by the press service of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry, Maria Vanshina, Belta reported.

"First, the fact that Russia decided to establish a border zone on the border with Belarus without prior notice is contrary to all effective agreements governing the protection of state borders between the two countries and the border crossing agreements," Vanshina said.

According to her, this is not the …