• German media reported on the unofficial salaries of employees of TV channel owned by Poroshenko

    Frankfurter Allgemeine, a German newspaper, published an article about the salaries of Channel 5 employees, indicating that they were partially received off the books. Channel 5 is owned by the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko.

    Seven employees of Channel 5 are allegedly paid in two parts. The first part of the salary is official; it is often equal to the statutory minimum wage. But most of the salary was paid to them informally. The German newspaper failed to get any comments on this …

  • Lutsenko: The leaders of the Ukrainian military made mistakes in Ilovaisk

    The facts provided during the criminal proceedings regarding the events near Ilovaisk in August 2014, do not exclude possible mistakes by Ukrainian military leadership, as was stated by the Prosecutor General, Yuriy Lutsenko, on the Channel 1+1 on Thursday, 1 December.

    "The investigation regarding the events at the Battle of Ilovaisk has been conducted, and indicates that the main and only factor that led to the deaths of Ukrainian servicemen, were the attacks mostly carried out by Russian …

  • Ukrainian Border Guard Service: Russia is preparing a military rotation in the north of the Crimea

    The Russian Federation plans to replace the paratroopers from Stavropol, who have served in the north of the annexed Crimea since August, with paratroopers from Tula, as stated by the Assistant to the Head of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, Oleh Slobodyan, at a briefing on Thursday.

    "Preparation for an immediate rotation of the Russian Armed Forces’ airborne troops, deployed on the front line in the north of the annexed Crimean peninsula, is being completed,” he said.

    "The …

  • Military expert: Ukrainian exercises near the Crimea are unfavorable for Russia

    From the point of view of the Russian Federation, Ukrainian exercises near the Crimea are “an absolute loss” as the Russian Government will have to “increase the degree” of their defenses as expressed on 30 November to Krym.Realii by ​Mykhailo Samus, Deputy Director of Kyiv's Centre for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies (CACDS). According to the expert, if Russia does not respond to these exercises, this will mean that their authority will be “lost within the country.”

    “In this …

  • Ukraine terminated another agreement with Russia

    Ukraine has terminated an agreement with Russia regarding cooperation in the field of television and radio broadcasting.

    This decision was made at a meeting of the Government of Ukraine on the 30th of November. The Cabinet of Ministers also denounced an agreement with Russia on cooperation in the sphere of information.

    “There was a proposal to support, and the decision has been taken,” the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Volodymyr Groysman, said during the session.

    Recently, the Cabinet of …