Contents tagged with Ukraine

  • Poland admits that it needs Ukrainian migrant workers

    A Ukrainian workforce is essential to ensure and sustain economic growth in Poland, as stated by the President of the National Bank of Poland, Adam Glapiński, DW reports.

    As Glapiński noted, the ability of Poland to create the necessary conditions to attract labor migrants from Belarus and Ukraine is one of the most important issues for him.   

    According to him, in recent years Poland has keenly felt the lack of skilled human resources. During this period, there has been sustained economic …

  • Relatives of MH17 airline crash victims won a lawsuit against former separatist commander Girkin

    A group of the MH17 victims’ relatives won their case in US courts, which entitles them to receive compensation in the hundreds of millions of US dollars. The Dutch TV program Zembla received the relevant documents from the court.

    The lawsuit was instituted by family members of 25 victims of the MH17 catastrophe, ten of whom are Dutch citizens. A case was opened against Igor Girkin (Strelkov), who was previously the “Minister of Defense of the Donetsk People's Republic."

    The US judge issued …

  • Ukrainian media reveals how many Javelin anti-tank systems will be in the first delivery from the US

    A U.S. preliminary commission to assess Ukraine’s capacities regarding the storage and use of Javelin anti-tank missile systems has already visited the country, Liga.net reports.

    "The delivery date depends on the United States. The situation in Ukraine is currently being studied. A commission from the United States has already come to study the area," said one military source.

    The United States will provisionally supply Ukraine with 35 launchers and 210 anti-tank missiles for $47 million. …

  • Ukrainian Foreign Minister calls the meeting between US representative Volker and Putin's aide Surkov fruitless

    At a joint briefing with the Italian Foreign Minister, OSCE Chairman Angelino Alfano in Kyiv, Pavlo Klimkin, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, said that the last meeting of Kurt Volker, US State Department Special Representative, and Russian Presidential Assistant Vladislav Surkov was fruitless, Ukrinform reports.

    "I am in constant contact with our American friends and allies. Several times I spoke with Kurt Volker before meeting with Surkov and yesterday too. Unfortunately, during …

  • Ukraine cuts off water to LPR due to debt

    Luhansk has no cold water supply, LIGA.net reported with reference to sources in the city.

    Yevheniy Nasedkin, press secretary of the Luhansk Energy Association (LEA), which is part of Konstantin Grigorishin’s Energy Standard holdings, confirmed that the water supply had been switched off in the former provincial center.

    “It was switched off today. The reason is the Popasna Waterworks’ debt,” he said. According to him, it has been in debt to the LEA since July 2015, and today the debt amounts …

  • Ukraine forms new tactical aviation brigade

    At the beginning of 2018, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine formed one more tactical aviation brigade, as reported by the press service of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

    "On January 1, 2018, one of the oldest aviation units of the Air Force, a fighter aviation squadron, deployed in Ozerne in the Zhytomyr region was reorganized. It became a tactical aviation brigade. Earlier, the military unit had such a status, but as a result of the reduction process it was …

  • Volker: Russia ready for the introduction and gradual expansion of a UN mission in Donbas

    US Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker announced that Russia is ready for a UN peacekeeping mission to be located not only on the contact line in the Donbas, but also on its wider territories. Hromadske reports that Volker announced this during a telephone conference with journalists following a meeting with presidential aide Vladislav Surkov.

    "This time [during the meeting with Surkov] I think there was more openness [from Russia] in thinking about a wider mandate for the …

  • Fitch forecasts that the IMF will provide Ukraine with a $1.9 billion tranche within the year

    Ukraine will receive the next credit tranche from the International Monetary Fund in the amount of $1.9 billion this year, experts of the international rating agency Fitch believe. According to them, the constant interaction with the IMF and other international partners remains a key condition for Ukraine's access to external financing for national debt service in 2020-2021.

    The nomination of Yakov Smolii as the chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) should reduce uncertainty regarding …

  • Ukrainian military intelligence: Russia supplies weapons to Donbas from Crimea

    The Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Deputy Chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate, Vadym Skybytsky claimed on Radio Liberty’s Donbas.Realii that two routes are used by the Russian military to supply to the Donbas Ukrainian weapons seized in annexed Crimea.

    "Two routes were used to deliver weapons seized by the Russian army from occupied Crimea to the separate areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions: through the waters of the Sea of Azov and through the territory of Russia. The arms supply is …

  • Ukrainian policeman who shot a 'fan of Stalin' received reward weapon

    Police Lieutenant Roman Danylenko received an honorable distinction for courage in action and his partner, Staff Sergeant Volodymyr Khlevnyi, received the same honorable distinction and a reward weapon.

    The Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Arsen Avakov, rewarded police officers in Odessa who shot pro-Russian activist, Valentyn Doroshenko, as reported by Dumskaya on Saturday, 27 January.

    “Crew commander, police Lieutenant Roman Danylenko received an honorable distinction for his brave …