Former President Viktor Yanukovych’s lawyer brought wooden bats, blocks, and glass bottles with fuses in the form of rags – the materials needed for gasoline bombs - to a session of the Pechersky District Court in Kyiv. It is still unknown if there was a combustible solution inside.

As Channel 112 reported, lawyer Vitaly Serdyuk was trying to use these materials to prove that the protest on Maidan was not peaceful. "These are threats; this is material evidence, which the whole time have been …

The commander of U.S. forces in Europe, Ben Hodges, said that the American army learned a great deal from the Ukrainian military, which was engaged in battles involving Russian artillery, missiles, drones and Russian electronic warfare. He said this in an interview with news agency European Pravda during the Lviv Security Forum.

“And not only do we value this experience, but all (of the allies) took it into account and incorporated it into their training systems. The Ukrainians’ experience …

The Ukrainian Defense Ministry refused to discharge Deputy Minister Ihor Pavlovsky, who is suspected of embezzlement of budgetary funds, as stated in the response of the Ministry to the prosecution’s request that was published by the press-service of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office.

The Office noted that Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak reiterated the need to combat corruption. However, the Ministry refused to suspend Pavlovsky for the length of the investigation.

The …