Contents tagged with Ukraine
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Ukrainian court gives four years to National Guard employee recruited by Russia
The Solomianskyi District Court of Kyiv has found a National Guard technician-operator who transmitted classified information to Russia guilty of high treason, and has sentenced her to 4 years in prison, reported the press service of the Security Services of Ukraine (SBU).
"This woman visited her sister in the Russian Federation in the summer of 2016. During the time of her visit, she was recruited by Russian Special Services. She even had had two pseudonyms, as she has affirmed; they were ‘45 …
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Ukraine responds to Croatia’s alleged complaints about MiG-21s
Ukrspetsexport refutes the information that appeared in the media that the Croatian Ministry of Defense has brought claims against them because of poorly repaired MiG-21 fighters, and the very appearance of information is considered a manifestation of unfair competition from Russia.
“To date, there is no official claim or complaint from the Croatian Ministry of Defense to Ukrspetsexport. And we are forced to state the fact that the appearance of untrue information is due only to unfair …
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Daughter of former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Shokin plans to sue Biden over insult to her grandmother
Former Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin’s daughter Alina intends to sue former US Vice President Joe Biden. She regarded a statement made by Biden to be an insult to her grandmother.
"I have considered the situation of former Vice President Biden's speech, in which he insulted my late grandmother and my father. Considering this concerns my whole family, I am planning to go to court to protect the dignity of my family and show the highest principles of the equality of all American citizens …
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Ukraine initiates criminal proceedings against German deputies for visiting Crimea despite travel ban
The Ukrainian Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea has initiated criminal proceedings as a result of the visit of German deputies from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to the peninsula.
The case has been initiated on the basis of an appeal from the Embassy of Ukraine in Germany concerning the violation of entry and exit procedures from the Temporarily Occupied Territory (p. 1 art. 332-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine prescribes up to three years of imprisonment).
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Croatia demands that Ukraine replace four faulty MiG-21s
Croatia is demanding that the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine replace four faulty MiG-21 aircraft that were purchased in Ukraine, reports the publication Jutarnji Vijesti citing its own sources.
“Croatia wants to return four defective MiG-21 military aircraft to Ukraine, and is asking the Ukrainian Defense Ministry to replace them with four airplanes that work properly and to provide a guarantee along with the aircraft,” the publication reported.
Aircraft 131, 132, 134 and 135 were purchased …
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Warsaw: Poland needs migrant workers from Ukraine to ensure sustainable economic growth
Poland needs the Ukrainian migrant workforce in order to ensure sustainable economic growth, the Chairperson of the Narodowy Bank Polski (the National Bank of Poland), Adam Glapinski, said in an interview with Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, a Polish newspaper.
Mr. Glapinski stressed that the ability to attract manpower from neighboring Ukraine and Belarus was one of the key vital tests for Poland’s economy.
Poland felt an acute shortage of qualified personnel particularly in the past years as the …
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Russia finds Ukrainian footprints in the crash of Su-25 shot down in Syria
Russian senator Igor Morozov has claimed that the surface-to-air missile system (SAM) that shot down a Russian Su-25 attack aircraft in Syria may have reached the rebels through contraband channels from the military arsenal in the Ukrainian city of Kalynivka, located in the Vinnytsia Oblast, RIA Novosti reported.
Morozov suggested that the Ukrainian SAM came to Syria after a large-scale fire at the ammunition depots in Kalynivka.
In the fall, the military warehouse in Kalynivka, Ukraine …
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Chubarov calls on Kyiv and the West to adopt a unified position of the non-recognition of Russian elections in Crimea
The Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Refat Chubarov, believes that Ukraine and its Western partners should adopt a common position of the non-recognition of the elections of the Russian President, which the Kremlin plans to hold in the annexed Crimea, he said in an interview with Krym.Realii.
"If Putin rules Russia, then a situation must be created for him that is more threatening than surrender and the return of the Crimea. The explosion of Russia itself, collapse, …
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Saakashvili promises to present alternative Ukrainian government and presidential candidates proposal
Mikheil Saakashvili, leader of the Movement of New Forces party, has promised to present a proposal for an alternative government with ten presidential candidates before the next rally on February 18. He announced this at an assembly on European Square on Sunday, Ukrayinska Pravda reports.
“Before February 18 we will present an alternative government and ten new presidential candidates, from which you will have to choose,” he said.
According to Saakashvili, the Movement of New Forces’ website …
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Ukrainian Foreign Minister: Kyiv to take actions against German companies working in Crimea
Ukrainian authorities are considering measures against German companies operating in the Crimea despite the EU sanctions, as stated by the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Pavlo Klimkin, in an interview with the German newspaper, Rheinische Post.
"Any attempt to bypass sanctions against Russia, introduced as a result of the annexation of the Crimea, must be punished by law ... We have a wide range of legal mechanisms that we can use. We are in the process of finding a balanced solution," …