• Ukraine’s resolution on the Crimea to be submitted to the UN General Assembly

    Ukraine’s draft resolution on the human rights situation in the Crimea will be submitted to the UN General Assembly. The document was adopted by the third committee of the UN General Assembly on social, humanitarian and cultural issues.

    A total of 73 countries voted for the document, 23 voted against it, and 76 abstained from voting. Many European countries, and the US, supported the draft resolution. Russia, China, Kazakhstan, India and Serbia are among those who are against.

    The document …

  • Investment flow into Ukraine increased by $2.6 billion

    The volume of foreign investments in the Ukrainian economy increased by $2.618 billion since the start of the year. As of October 1, 2016, it amounted to $45.152 billion. This is 6.2% more than at the beginning of the year when investments totaled $42.535 billion, the State Statistics Service reports.

    From January until September, the economy received $3.801 billion worth of new investments. At the same time, the impact of negative revaluation of investments amounted to $724.4 million …

  • Mogherini: EU considers maintaining Ukraine's status as gas transit country to be important

    The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, stated that the European Union still believes that it is strategically important to maintain the role of Ukraine as a transit country for gas, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

    “The EU Council previously noted that it believes it to be strategically important for Ukraine to maintain their status as a transit country for gas,” Mogherini said at a press conference in Brussels, replying to a …

  • Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office will question Poroshenko on November 29

    The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine has summoned the country’s president, Petro Poroshenko, for questioning about the crimes committed against Maidan activists in January and February of 2014. “A notice has been sent to the president’s administration for November 29,” the head of the Special Investigation Department of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, Sergiy Gorbatyuk, said on Tuesday, November 15. Poroshenko was invited as a witness.

    The fact that high-ranking politicians …

  • US Navy aircraft carry out reconnaissance missions near the Crimea and Russia's Mediterranean flotilla

    A US Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft flew a reconnaissance mission near Russia’s borders in the Black Sea region on Wednesday, Interfax reported, citing websites that track military aircraft. On the same day, another Poseidon carried out a similar mission near Russia’s naval flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea.

    A P-8A Poseidon with tail number 168 434 reportedly took off from the Singonella airbase in Siciliy and proceeded to the Black Sea where it circled near the Crimea, dropping its altitude from …