• The USA allocated $25 million in aid to Ukraine for security

    According to the US Embassy to Ukraine, the USA allocated $25 million of aid to Ukraine in July to improve security.

    “The USA allocated $25 million of aid to Ukraine in the security field In July, which included Harris radio sets,” the embassy posted on Twitter.

    The Embassy also published a picture of Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, the commander of US military forces meeting with the Verkhovna Rada MPs in Kyiv.

    During the meeting, the participants discussed plans to introduce parliamentary …

  • Georgia: Ukraine asked Tbilisi to restore Saakashvili's citizenship

    Tamar Chugoshvili, the First Vice Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, claims that the Ukrainian delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) asked its Georgian colleagues to reissue citizenship to former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili in order to "spare them from him.", reported Georgia.Online.

    "At the last session of PACE, everyone, starting with the leader of the Ukrainian delegation and including other members, begged us to restore Georgian citizenship to …

  • Yanukovych to file a lawsuit against Ukraine in the European Court of Human Rights

    Viktor Yanukovych, the former President of Ukraine, will file a lawsuit with the European Court of Human Rights within a month, according to his lawyer, Vitaly Serdyuk, who said that his client intends to complain about Ukraine’s violation of his right to access justice and protection.

    Yanukovych’s defense team will not wait for the verdict of the Ukrainian court in the high treason case against him. His lawyers regard the decision of the court to begin his trial in absentia as an actual …

  • US could allocate $500 million to Ukraine for defense

    A bill on the U.S. National Defense Budget for the 2018 financial year provides for the allocation of $500 million to help Ukraine in the security field, including the provision of lethal and other weapons, training, and technical assistance, as reported by Senator Rob Portman, according to Voice of America.

    Half of the money, or $250 million, is allocated to programs related to the implementation of key defense sector reforms necessary to develop and consolidate existing achievements.

    Among …

  • Two American P-8 Poseidon aircraft arrived in Ukraine for the first time

    Two American reconnaissance P-8 Poseidon aircraft have arrived for the first time in Odessa to participate in the Ukrainian-American exercise Sea Breeze-2017, the press service of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported on Facebook on Wednesday.

    In Odessa, the Sea Breeze international naval exercises are held under the auspices of the Partnership for Peace program and in accordance with the program of bilateral cooperation between the defense ministries of Ukraine and the …