• Polish Foreign Minister after visit to Ukraine: I do not have optimistic news for the President of Poland

    Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski, after a visit to Lviv, said on Polish radio that he had “no optimistic news for the president.”

    According to Waszczykowski, the decision on the visit of the President of Poland to Ukraine belongs to Andrzej Duda.

    “I want to present to the president what I saw and what I heard in Lviv during the talks yesterday and the day before yesterday. I can only say that I do not have optimistic news for the president,” Waszczykowski said.

    At the same time, …

  • European Union assistance plan for Ukraine presented in Lithuania

    On November 6, in the Lithuanian Seimas, ambassadors of the countries participating in the Eastern Partnership Program presented the so-called “Marshall Plan” – the EU's financial assistance plan to help Ukraine.

    According to the plan, politicians are offering to allocate 50 billion euros to Ukraine for the promotion of small and medium-sized businesses. This would begin in 2018 and extend over a period of ten years.

    “I would like to emphasize that this was first Lithuania’s plan to help …

  • Ukraine to stop water supply to separatist-held areas of the Luhansk region

    The Ukrainian company Luhansk Energy Union (LEU) said that as of Monday 6 November, inhabitants of the Luhansk province will have no water supply due to the waterworks’ debt, as reported by the TV channel 112 Ukraine with reference to the LEU’s statement.

    According to the TV channel, power to the Petrovsk pump station of the Popasna waterworks which supplies the inhabitants of the Luhansk province will be switched off. The LEU’s report notes that the company’s leadership has repeatedly asked …

  • Less than 20 companies expressed willingness to take part in the industrial park in Crimea

    A preliminary agreement on the organization of production in the industrial park of Sevastopol was signed by 17 Russian enterprises. The companies specialize in machinery, instrument making and glassware production, as stated by Nikolay Brusnikin, Head of the City Department for Priority Development Projects, RIA Crimea reports.

    "The Corporation for Development of Sevastopol, which oversees the industrial park project, had sent at least 100 appeals to Russian manufacturing companies. Half of …

  • Poland not satisfied with the Ukrainian assurances in the absence of anti-Polish sentiment

    Warsaw is pleased with the lack of anti-Polish sentiment in Ukraine, but the country still expects "specific proposals on historical issues” from Kyiv, as stated by the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Witold Waszczykowski.

    "The statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine that there is no anti-Polish sentiment in Ukrainian society is very encouraging. However, in historical issues, we expect concrete steps,” Polish Radio quotes him as saying. At the same time, the diplomat noted …