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Naftogaz claims Gazprom owes Ukraine more than $12 billion
Naftogaz of Ukraine’s new claims against Russian Gazprom under the Stockholm arbitration increased within four months, from $11.6 billion to over $12 billion, reported Interfax, citing Naftogaz CEO Yuriy Vitrenko.
“We shall recover all the money from Gazprom according to the previous decisions of the arbitration court. We have already recovered $2.1 billion in gas and $18 million in cash. We will also collect the remaining $2.6 billion,” emphasized Vitrenko.
On June 6, 2018, Naftogaz filed a …
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Poroshenko’s representatives: president’s income exaggerated by media
Vadim Medvedev, adviser at the Avellum legal firm, which represents the interests of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, claims that the media overstated the amount of profit shown in the president’s change of property status in 2018.
According to him, the reports on significant changes in Poroshenko’s property status actually reflect the return of funds he had previously invested.
In this way, Poroshenko received funds from internal government loan bonds (OVGZ), but the real profit is the …
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Ukrainian politician accuses Merkel of preventing Ukraine from becoming a NATO member
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is “responsible” for the fact that Ukraine has not become a NATO member yet, stated Verkhovna Rada Deputy Yuriy Chyzhmar on the Channel ZIK.
“It was she who in 2008 in Bucharest, as you remember, raised the issue of not providing Ukraine with an action plan for NATO membership, to please Putin. If we had it then, maybe today the issues of the Donbas and the Crimea would not exist, so we have lot of questions for you,” the deputy stated in the show “People are …
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Ukraine may purchase Turkish combat drones
Advisor to the Ukrainian President Yury Biryukov published a photo on his Facebook page featuring President Petro Poroshenko standing next to a Turkish Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicle, surrounded by Turkish officials.
“I can only assume that Petro Poroshenko and Stepan Poltorak are staying in the company with the first deputy Secretary of NSDC and the head of Ukroboronprom on the background of the [drone] that can work a whole day in offline mode at 150 kilometers from the control center …
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Ukrainian anticorruption activist Kateryna Handzyuk dies in hospital
On Sunday, Ukrainian anticorruption activist Kateryna Handzyuk, who in July had acid thrown on her, died in the hospital.
“Katya has died. Details are forthcoming,” stated a Facebook post from the account that was publishing news about her health condition and the investigation into her attack.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko confirmed this information and expressed his condolences to Handzyuk’s relatives while on an official visit at a Ukrainian community in Antalya, Turkey.
“I implore …