“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has expressed strong protest in connection with the latest visit by a Russian delegation to the temporarily Russian-occupied territory of Ukraine. The delegation, headed by the Prime Minister of Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, to the Autonomous Republic of Crimea on August 4, 2017, was not coordinated with Ukraine,” the statement on the website of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reads.

The statement emphasizes that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs …

Russian Deputy Energy Minister Andrei Cherezov has been subject to EU sanctions in connection with the situation of the supply of Siemens turbines to the annexed Crimea, according to Council of the European Union materials published on August 4.

Also included in the list are the head of Technopromexport, Sergei Topor-Gilka, and a department head at the Ministry of Energy, Evgeny Grabchak.

Russian partners of Siemens, Technopromexport, Interavtomatika, and participants in the construction of …

Ukraine saved 2.7 million tons of A-grade coal as a result of emergency measures taken by the energy sector from February 17 to July 17, as reported by Volodymyr Kistion, the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, at a meeting to discuss issues in Ukraine’s unified energy system.

“Today coal reserves in TPP and CHPP warehouses amount to 2,344,000 tons, including 1,477,000 tons of gas type coal and 867,000 tons of anthracite type coal. Preparations for the winter are going according to plan. There has …

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has registered a draft law on amending the Criminal Code of Ukraine regarding responsibility for illegal crossing of the state border (No. 7017). The text of the bill is posted on the parliament's website. Its authors are the leader of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity" faction, Arthur Gerasimov and the Deputy Chairman of the faction, Presidential Representative in the Parliament, Iryna Lutsenko.

The draft law proposes that the Criminal Code of Ukraine be …

Polish investigators questioned the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, regarding the investigation into the plane crash near Smolensk in 2010, Deutsche Welle reports.

The questioning was held on Thursday, August 3rd. Tusk, who was the Prime Minister of Poland during the Smolensk disaster, has been accused of violating the autopsy process of those that the crash victims.

Prior to the questioning, Tusk stated that he had "no doubt" about reasons behind him being summoned to the …

Russia is restricting the transit of gas through Ukrainian territory, and will soon exclude its western neighbor from the process of transporting natural gas to western countries, Vedomosti reports.

Vedomosti claims that Gazprom has reduced the flow of gas through Ukrainian territory and has simultaneously increased it in the OPAL pipeline. Recently the European Commission approved the use of 40% of the capacity of the gas pipeline.

According to the opinion of Russian experts, Moscow is …

The next hacker attack in Ukraine is expected to be on Independence Day, says Sergey Demedyuk, head of the National Council Department on Cyber Policy.

"We warn that it will be on August 24, on Independence Day. We see that such attacks occur on the eve or day of some large holidays for Ukraine," he said in an interview with Glavkom.

He noted that there are many elements in M.E.Doc malicious software that are not yet activated.

"We do not yet know the full extent of the properties of the …

State prosecutors have initiated an additional court hearing in the case of former President Viktor Yanukovych, and former permanent representative of Ukraine to the UN Yuri Sergeyev will be questioned, as   stated by prosecutor Ruslan Kravchenko during the court session.

According to Kravchenko, the prosecution is requesting to change the order of the examination of evidence in order to question Sergeyev, who witnessed Yanukovych's letter being shown to Vladimir Putin.

The prosecutor noted …