• Poroshenko: Nazism was defeated primarily by Ukrainian soldiers

    Without the millions of Ukrainian soldiers on the World War II battlefields, the world war would not have ended, as stated by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on May 9 in a speech at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War in front of soldiers from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

    “Without the millions of soldiers, the Ukrainian soldiers on the World War II battlefields, the world war would not have ended. It would probably have lasted a lot longer,” the president …

  • Hague arbitration court orders Russia to compensate Ukraine for assets lost in Crimea

    The Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague has ordered Russia to pay Ukraine $159 million in compensation for the assets lost in annexed Crimea, as reported in an announcement by the TV company 1+1, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

    “The Arbitration Court in the Hague has determined that Russia must pay compensation to a number of Ukrainian investors for the annexation of Crimea. In this case the amount is $159 million. The court has determined that Russia is responsible for violating …

  • Poroshenko's representative for Crimea: escalation of conflict in the Black Sea between Russia and Ukraine is inevitable

    The conflict between Russia and Ukraine will escalate following the detention of Ukrainian fishing vessel "YMK-0041" by Russian border guards, the permanent representative of the President of Ukraine in the Crimea, Boris Babin said on Radio Krym.Realii. "Ukrainian authorities have long turned a blind eye to what is in fact a conflict in the sea due to the annexation of the Crimea. That situation cannot last forever. The logic of events suggests that an escalation is inevitable. A year ago, the …

  • Ukrainian President provides the number of Russian soldiers in Donbas

    According to Kyiv, up to 50% of the militants fighting against the Ukrainian army in the Donbas are Russian citizens, as stated by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in an interview with the television channel CBS News.

    "We have confirmed figures that in different times they had from 10,000 to 2,500 Russian regular troops in the occupied territory," Poroshenko said, as noted in a statement released by the President of Ukraine’s Press Office.

    "Plus they have almost 50 thousand troops, so- …

  • Ukrainian Defense Minister: Poroshenko's company Roshen helped to re-equip air defense systems around Kyiv

    Ukraine’s Minister of Defense, Stepan Poltorak, stated in an interview with Obozrevatel news outlet that the air defense system around Kyiv was re-equipped at the expense of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s company, Roshen Confectionery Corporation.

     “Roshen helped to re-equip and repair Ukraine’s air defense system. Ukraine used to have three rings of air defense—then during a period when strategists anticipated there would be no threats, the weapons were sold or destroyed despite not …