Contents tagged with Poroshenko
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Poroshenko inspects Ukrainian troops for readiness to repel Russian 'aggression' from sea
As part of his working visit to the Zaporizhia and Donetsk regions, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, President Petro Poroshenko visited the military training ground where he checked the Ukrainian army’s readiness to repel Russia’s possible aggression from the Azov Sea, the website of the President reports.
Poroshenko noted that the military’s work scored "12 points" and he thanked the command and personnel that took part in the exercises. "I stress that we all do this not …
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President Poroshenko announces construction of fifteen new ammunition storage facilities in Ukraine
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced the planned construction of fifteen ammunition storage facilities in Ukraine with automatic security systems. Poroshenko elaborated on the plans during his address to the participants of Clear Sky 2018 international military exercises, the President’s press service reported.
According to the President, Ukraine sorely lacks modern storage facilities for ammunitions. "This year, we will begin the construction of fifteen modern storages with …
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President Poroshenko says Ukrainian military should use all available means to respond to enemy attacks in Donbas
Ukrainian military can return fire using all kinds of weapons that are at hand, said Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko during a meeting with the commanders of brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the National Guard, and the State Border Service, while in Khmelnytskyi Oblast, reports Ukrinform.
At the same time, the Ukrainian President warned that the Ukrainian military needs to be ready for both defense and counter-attacks, stressing that they should not battle with sheer numbers, …
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Volker: Kremlin delaying deployment of UN peacekeepers in Donbas
Russia still has not put forward any new proposals concerning the deployment of a UN peacekeeping mission in the Donbas, observed US State Department Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker in an interview with Public TV Donbas.
Volker is counting on their being another meeting with Russian presidential Aide Vladislav Surkov, but such a meeting is being hindered by the Kremlin’s lack of new offers. “We are corresponding with Surkov about the contents of this meeting. We submitted a …
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Kyiv avoids granting citizenship to foreign volunteers who fought for Ukraine
Timur Tumgoev, a Russian citizen who sought asylum in Ukraine, was recently extradited by Ukraine to Russia, where he was wanted for fighting for the Islamic State in Syria. This has sparked a number of protests outside the Verkhovna Rada by nationalists and volunteer fighters. Their sole demand is that it be made easier for foreigners to obtain Ukrainian citizenship for fighting on Ukraine’s side in the Donbas. Timur Tumgoev was one such volunteer, who fought for four years in eastern Ukraine …
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Ukrainian President submits bill to extend ‘special status’ of Donbas
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is proposing to extend the law “On a special order of local self-governance in the separate regions of the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces”.
Poroshenko submitted bill No. 9153 to the Verkhovna Rada on Wednesday.
The document’s text has not yet been published on the official parliament website, but the title indicates that an amendment will be made to article 1 of the law.
The law came into force on October 18, 2014, and its first article envisaged three …
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Poroshenko thanks Putin for 'European' Ukraine
Ukraine will never return to the “Russian Empire,” Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko stated in an interview with CNN. According to him, it is Russian President Vladimir Putin who made Ukraine a more “European country” because during the conflict in the Donbas, the level of support of European integration among the population grew from 33% to 74%.
“Who did this? Putin. So, thank you Mr. Putin for making my country much more European and much more ready to protect European values, …
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Poroshenko: Russia will have to pay everything it owes to Ukraine
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko stated that “Russia will have to pay according to the decision of the Stockholm Arbitration court. All the funds won by Ukraine in the courts against Russia will be returned to Ukraine."
Ukraine had recently won a gas transit contract dispute against Russia in the Stockholm Arbitration Court.
“We applied to the Stockholm court and won $4.6 billion. They should not expect that this amount will never be paid to Ukraine in full. Our country will receive even …
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Ukrainian President Poroshenko confident UN will recognize Russia as ‘occupier state’
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko expressed his full confidence that the UN General Assembly would adopt a resolution on the Crimea in which Russia would be recognized as an “occupying state.”
“The UN resolution on the Crimea will be adopted for sure. In this document, Russia will be called a state that occupies Ukrainian territory,” said the President at the international economic forum “Innovations. Investments. Kharkiv Initiatives!”
Poroshenko also said that some countries assured him …
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Patriarchs argue in Istanbul over independence of Ukrainian Church
In a meeting with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Istanbul, Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church did not agree that the Ukrainian Church is outside Moscow’s jurisdiction, and is convinced that the leaders of Ukraine need the church’s autocephaly in order to remain in power. The Greek news outlet Orthodoxia.info published fragments of the meeting’s minutes.
Bartholomew, on the other hand, considers Ukraine outside Moscow’s jurisdiction.
“We have never stopped being aware that we …