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Poroshenko informed the US Congress delegation about the situation in the Donbas
President Petro Poroshenko informed the delegation of the House of Representatives of the US Congress about the situation in the Donbas, ongoing provocations and violation of the ceasefire by separatists. This was reported on the President’s website.
The US delegation included Congressmen Michael McCaul, Will Hurd, Martha McSally, Kenny Marchant, Clay Higgins, Kathleen Rice and Dutch Ruppersberger.
Poroshenko thanked the representatives Congress’s bipartisan support of Ukraine in …
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Heads of Ukrainian National Police fired because of police inactivity during pro-Russian activists’ attacks on Donbas war veterans
On May 9 in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro there was a fistfight between unknown youths and Donbas war veterans: all of this took place in full view of the police.
The conflict regarding forbidden symbols initially arose with the socialists, and escalated after representatives of the Opposition Bloc (a party created on the basis of former president Yanukovych’s Party of Region) started moving in a procession. Unknown persons dispersed tear gas. Then the escort of Opposition Bloc MP Oleksandr …
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Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada called on Norway to recognize the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people
The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Andriy Parubiy, during a meeting with the President of the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), Olemic Thommessen, called for the recognition of the Holodomor as the genocide of the Ukrainian people.
"I called on the President of the Storting, Olemic Thommessen, for the Norwegian Parliament to recognize the Holodomor as the genocide of the Ukrainian people," wrote the speaker of the Ukrainian parliament on Tuesday in a microblog on Twitter.
He also pointed out …
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Mogherini announces that the visa regime with Ukraine will be eased in the coming days
The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, said that the European Union will ease the visa regime with Ukraine in the coming days.
"In a few days, we will announce an agreement on simplifying the visa regime with our Ukrainian friends," the head of EU diplomacy said at a meeting of the Security Council.
According to her, the EU “supports Eastern partners, strengthens their economies and state bodies, their resilience."
In addition, …
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Ukrainian portable rocket launcher was presented at an international exhibition in Turkey
Ukroboronprom presented a portable rocket launcher produced domestically at the international exhibition in Turkey, IDEF-2017, as reported on the agency's website.
The new weapon is designed to defeat lightly armored and unarmored equipment. The range of the portable rocket launcher is from 70 m to almost 2 km, and the range of a direct shot can reach 600 m.
It is reported that the use of a new optoelectronic aiming system significantly simplifies the work of the shooter and also provides …