• Ukrainian energy expert: only US can prevent construction of Nord Stream 2 pipleline

    Ukraine’s call to the global community to not participate in the preparation, financing or lobbying of the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline will not affect the situation in any way. This opinion was expressed in commentary by Valentin Zemlyansky, an independent energy issues expert and former head of the Public Relations Department of NJSC Naftogaz Ukraine, on the website InfoResist.

    "We [Ukraine] are not participants in the process. As such, we are not the subjects of …

  • Saakashvili claims to have found a job in Europe

    Mikheil Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia, leader of the Ukrainian party "Movement of New Forces" said that he found a job in the Netherlands where he now lives. He said on Facebook that he “agreed with the Speakers Academy of the Netherlands on cooperation."

    "While I'm in Europe, I'll make a living by giving lectures. In the Academy, there is a very cool team. They impressed me with a good knowledge of the specifics of our region and the right values. I hope that I will not have to …

  • Ukraine calls Nord Stream 2 pipeline a military threat

    Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Andriy Parubiy stated that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline poses a military threat to Ukraine and Europe. According to him, the launch of the gas pipeline shows “Moscow’s aggressive intentions to exert pressure on the European Union.”

    UNIAN news agency quotes him as saying that “The launch of Nord Stream 2 can also pose direct military threats that could trigger a new all-out attack of the Russian forces against Ukraine.”

    Parubiy explained that the …

  • Lithuania sends another group of military instructors to Ukraine

    Lithuania has decided to send a new group of military instructors, consisting of 12 people, to Ukraine, reports Delfi, citing the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defense.

    A ceremony to see off the new group, which included employees of the Lithuanian National Defence Volunteer Forces, was held on Friday, April 6.

    The instructors were sent to a training ground in Yavoriv, located in western Ukraine. It is assumed that the Lithuanian military, together with instructors from the United States, …

  • Kyiv investigates possible involvement of Ukrainian companies in transportation of Russian mercenaries to Syria

    Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan has instructed Ukraine’s State Aviation Service to verify whether the Syrian aviation company Cham Wings transported Russian mercenaries between Damascus and Rostov-on-Don. According to the ministry’s press service, Reuters had reported on such facts earlier.

    “Over 14 months since January 5, 2017, the aviation company made 51 flights from Damascus and Latakia to Rostov and back. Each time this was done using an Airbus A320, which can carry …