Ukraine should implement a pension reform, reduce the number of state employees, abolish the simplified tax system and open a land market, Ukrayinska Pravda reported, referring to the recent version of the Memorandum of Cooperation between Ukraine and the International Monetary Fund.

“The draft Memorandum of Cooperation provides in total for 12 structural beacons, seven of which are new,” the edition wrote. As noted in the report, the Cabinet of Ministers should take two steps, firstly, make a …

On January 14, Ukrainian MP and former Azov Battalion Commander Andriy Biletsky said in his blog on the Ukrainska Pravda website that the management positions in the National Guard of Ukraine were taken by outright separatists. He declared that systematic corruption prevails there and that it is a threat to the defense capabilities of the country.

The Military Prosecutor's Office and the SBU promised to look into the situation "carefully, impartially and according to the law.”

In his …

Ukraine should deliver 49 Oplot tanks to Thailand under a contract worth $200 million signed in 2011. However, as agreed by both parties, the schedule for delivering the entire batch was pushed back to autumn of 2017, the press service of Ukrspetsexport state enterprise reports.

"This decision was made due to the hostilities in the east of Ukraine," the statement reads. It was also reported that next week at Malyshev plant the transfer of a new batch of Oplot tanks under the contract with …