Contents tagged with Ukraine
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Ukraine to begin ferry cargo traffic to Georgia bypassing Russia
Ukraine made an agreement with Georgia to transport goods via ferry and bypass Russia, as reported to Hromadske Radio by the Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade and Trade Representative of Ukraine, Nataliya Mykolska.
According to her, the Prime Ministers and heads of relevant ministries participated in the talks.
"It is very important for us to first restore the volume of trade that we had with Georgia up to the moment of military and commercial aggression by the Russian …
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SBU: Russian special services planning to falsify elections in Ukraine
Russia is deliberately working to falsify the results of future elections in Ukraine, scheduled for 2019, stated the deputy head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Viktor Kononenko, at the National Expert Forum "Ukraine: Striving for Balance" in Kyiv, Radio Liberty reports.
"Today, the main threat is the undermining of the domestic situation. What we see is that the main efforts of Russian special services are now directed into the country. Already, no one believes in an early and …
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US Representative for Ukraine Volker: Negotiations with Russia put on pause
US State Department Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker announced that the next meeting with Russian Presidential Advisor Vladislav Surkov on bringing an end to the war in the Donbas will not take place before December. Until this time, the parties are pausing, following the lack of success of the previous negotiations. Volker spoke about this in an interview with LB.ua, recorded for the VIII National Expert Forum.
“During the first two meetings, I had the feeling that we were …
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Moscow court rejects Seimens’ request to seize turbines in Crimea
A Moscow arbitration court refused to impound four gas turbines which were manufactured by Siemens and sent by Technopromexport to the annexed Crimea in violation of sanctions,TASS reported, referring to the court’s decision.
“The court refuses to approve the application of Siemens Gas Turbine Technologies (a Siemens subsidiary),” TASS quoted the court as saying.
The Siemens subsidiary demanded the seizure of the gas turbines and wanted Technopromexport and other parties to be prohibited from …
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Journalist: Pilots who provided evidence in court against General Nazarov have been dismissed from the Ukrainian air force
Two military experts, 1st class test pilots Colonel Victor Lukyanchuk and Colonel Oleksandr Pakholchenko, who signed a conclusion about the reasons for the death of the 49 soldiers on board the Il-76 near Luhansk and about responsibility for this of the command of headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), were fired from the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the grounds of "staff reduction", as reported by journalist Yuriy Butusov on Facebook.
Butusov said that the trial information on the …
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Ukraine completes factory testing of new infantry fighting vehicle
The Zhytomyr Armored Plant that is part of the Ukroboronprom state military industrial company has completed a full cycle of industrial testing for the new BMP-1UMD (infantry fighting vehicle - IFV).
The new armored fighting vehicle is a thoroughly revamped earlier version BMP-1, and is equipped with a modern combat module, a digital fire-control system, and powered by a German Deutz engine, according to information provided on the Ukroboronprom website.
The military enterprise states …
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Heraschenko: OSCE observer’s friendly demeanor toward separatists was not a simple coincidence
During a meeting of the Tripartite Contact Group (TCG) in Minsk, Ukraine plans to raise the issue of an "imprudent" OSCE observer who exchanged a friendly greeting with a militant, as stated on Facebook by Iryna Herashchenko, First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada and Ukrainian Humanitarian Envoy to the TCG.
"The OSCE is making justifications for its observer, who, greeted the militants as if they were family. They say this is was just an oversight. Of course, this is not an oversight, …
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Vilnius: Lithuania is interested in deepening cooperation with Ukrainian military educational institutions
Lithuania is interested in enhancing cooperation with the military educational institutions of Ukraine, as stated by the Chief of the Joint Staff of the Lithuanian Armed Forces, Vitalijus Vaikšnoras, in a meeting with the Minister of Defence of Ukraine, Stepan Poltorak, the web-portal of the Ukrainian government reports.
As noted, during the meeting enhancing cooperation and the exchange of experiences between the two countries' governmental universities were discussed.
"We are interested in …
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Ukrainian official says Minister Kornet who led coup in Luhansk has 3,000 people under his command
There are about three thousand people now subordinated to the "Minister of Internal Affairs" of the self-proclaimed "Luhansk People's Republic," Igor Kornet, as announced by the Deputy Minister for the Temporarily Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons, Heorhiy Tuka on the Freedom of Speech program on channel ICTV.
"When Kornet became ‘Minister of the Internal Affairs,’ he had 219 subordinates; today there are about three thousand people in his divisions," Tuka stated.
Tuka …
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Russia opened 196 criminal cases against Ukrainian military
The Investigative Committee of Russia has initiated 196 criminal cases against Ukrainian military personnel since 2014, as stated by the Head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, the authority's website reported.
"From 2014 to the present, 196 criminal cases have been instituted on which 127 persons shall face criminal proceedings. Among them are high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, including Ukrainian Minister of Defense [Stepan] Poltorak and his …