• Hungary to provide about $100 million of financial support to Ukraine

    Péter Szijjártó, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary announced a package of financial support for Ukraine in the amount of about $100 million.  

    “I am pleased to announce the allocation of a $50 million loan to Ukraine to upgrade the infrastructure. We also allocate EUR 40 million of irrevocable grants for the agro-industrial complex and farmers of Ukraine who intend to carry out an upgrade [of production facilities],” Szijjártó said.

    Another statement by Szijjártó centered …

  • Posters with portraits of Ukrainian soldiers fighting in the Donbas removed from billboards in Hamburg before Putin-Trump meeting

    Yesterday, 7 July, before the meeting at the Hamburg G20 summit between the US President, Donald Trump and the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, a poster with portraits of Ukrainian soldiers, "fighting against Russian aggression" disappeared from a billboard, reports the press service of one of the sponsors of the project, the Ukrainian Crisis Media Center.

    “The reason why our poster was removed is not known at this time. It is worth noting, however, that we were informed about its removal at …

  • Ukrainian Ambassador: Canada will allocate about $ 7 million to Ukraine

    On the sidelines of the G-20 summit, Canadian authorities announced an additional package of assistance to Ukraine. It is about 7 million Canadian dollars and will be provided under the Peace and Stabilization Operations Program, as announced by the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada, Andriy Shevchenko, 112 Ukraine TV reports.

    "At the beginning of the summit, Trudeau and Merkel met, they coordinated their actions at the summit, and one of the key topics they …

  • Polish Minister of Defense: Russia-China strategic alliance poses a threat to the free world

    Antoni Macierewicz, the Minister of National Defence for Poland, accused Russia and China of creating a strategic alliance that ‘threatens the free world,” in response to the Russian-Chinese military exercises in the Baltic.

    “Over the past few years, Russia and China have tried to hide the strategic alliance that unites them. They tried to create the impression that there is no such union. They gave the appearance of a conflict between them in order to mislead the public opinion of the West …

  • The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly calls on Russia to return Crimea to Ukraine

    The General Committee of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA) on Political Affairs and Security approved a draft resolution during a session in Minsk, which calls for the return of the Crimea to Ukraine.

    The author of the document entitled "Enhancing mutual trust and co-operation for peace and prosperity in the OSCE region," is the deputy head of the Swedish delegation, Margaret Söderfelt. In the near future, the draft will be submitted for a general vote by the assembly. According to the …

  • More than 20 people detained in Kyiv for planning armed protest near Polish embassy

    The police and the SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) detained more than two dozen people who were planning an armed protest at the Polish embassy in the center of Kyiv, as reported by Serhiy Knyazev, the Chief of National Police of Ukraine, on Facebook.

    According to him, the detainees were armed.

    “More than two dozen irresponsible citizens, who had become an instrument in the hands of the Kremlin propaganda, were detained. Weapons, cartridges, gas cartridges, electric shockers, knives, …

  • Russian citizen in Lithuania sentenced to 10 years in prison for espionage

    Russian citizen Nikolai Filipchenko has been sentenced by the district court of Vilnius (Lithuania) to 10 years in prison on charges of espionage, Delfi news agency reports.

    According to investigators, Filipchenko, who was detained in Lithuania in 2015, is an employee of the Russian FSB.

    The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office detained him on a transit train during a trip through Lithuania from the Kaliningrad region to Belarus. The Russian citizen, according to the Prosecutor's Office, …

  • Muzhenko: Russia is restoring facilities for the storage of nuclear weapons in the Crimea

    Russia is restoring facilities for the storage of nuclear weapons in the annexed Crimea, Channel 5 Ukraine quotes Viktor Muzhenko, the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as saying.

    At the same time, he noted that there is no information currently available on the movement of nuclear munitions.

    "The building of a military presence in the Crimea probably involves the deployment of weapons of mass destruction; [thus] work is being carried out to restore capacity for …

  • Lavrov: Trump and Putin have agreed to create a 'special channel' for settlement in eastern Ukraine

    Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump agreed to create a joint channel for the settlement of the situation in the Donbas, based on the Minsk agreements, stated Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a press briefing.

    "It has been agreed to create a channel between a representative of the Russian Federation and a representative of the United States, in order to take advantage of this opportunity, as well as opportunities the US has to advance a resolution based on …

  • Poland to supply optics for Ukrainian Armed Forces armored vehicles

    The Polish state-owned company PCO S.A. will help modernize the optoelectronic equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

    According to a press release by Ukroboronprom, the contract states that Poland will supply modern optical and electronic equipment to Ukraine – including optical sights, periscopes and night vision devices – in order to re-equip more than 30 armored vehicles, including the BMP-1, BMP-1KSH, and BRM-1K.

    The report notes that the signing of the contract was preceded by almost …