In Kyiv, police detained a citizen of Moldova named Alexander Balike who is known to have close ties to the Moldovan oligarch Veaceslav Platon, noi.md news outlet reports. Balike was detained for extradition to Moldova where he is being investigated for committing several serious crimes.

The detainee is also a suspect in offences committed in the territory of Ukraine. Ukrainian lawyer Alexei Shevchuk, who is leading a case against Platon stated on his Facebook page that the law enforcement …

Ukrainian rock musician and leader of the Okean Elzy band Svyatoslav Vakarchuk urged Ukrainians to demolish the current system of power. In his opinion, representatives of the people should replace current officials, Radio Liberty reports."You have to become hunters for dishonesty, hunters for irresponsibility, hunters for corruption, and hunters for an archaic desire to hold on to everything that is bad. You have to become hunters and you must feel the fear of this victim, which you hunt. …

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) announced that it has uncovered a company in the Kirovohrad province which has been exporting a chemical substance used in the production of military equipment to Russia.

The private company had carried out a number of export operations to sell bars of the semiconductor monocrystalline gallium arsenide alloy to a Russian company which acted as an intermediary.

According to the SBU’s report, the chemical substance was then redirected to one of Russia’s …

Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Péter Szijjártó stated that the war with Russia cannot be an excuse for Ukraine’s “violation of the rights of Hungarians.”

During an interview with Channel 1+1 which was broadcast in the evening of June 24, Szijjártó stated: “We support the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine, but your war with Russia cannot be and should not be an excuse for your violation of the rights of Hungarians.”

According to Szijjártó, Hungary will continue to support …

The Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia indicates that political prisoner Oleg Sentsov is a citizen of Ukraine, Sentsov's lawyer, Dmitry Dinze wrote on Facebook.

The Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Yamalo-Nenets District of the Ministry of Justice issued a certificate to the consulate of Ukraine in Yekaterinburg that confirms that Oleg Sentsov is a citizen of Ukraine.

"The convicted Sentsov O.G is a citizen of Ukraine. He arrived in prison on October 9, 2017. In his …

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has promised Ukrainian political prisoner Volodymyr Balukh, who is on a hunger strike in a Crimean detention center, that he will do everything possible for his release.This was the President’s reaction to Balukh's letter from the detention center:

"I thank the unconquered Volodymyr Balukh for his letter, and even more so – for his courage. We will continue our struggle for the liberation of all Ukrainian hostages held in the Russian Federation, as well as …

The US State Department has called on Russia to "stop the campaign against Crimean Tatars in the occupied Crimea", wrote US State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert on her Twitter account. "Russia should end its campaign against the Crimean Tatars in occupied Crimea and release all those imprisoned for opposing the occupation," the message stated.

She also called for the release of Crimeans Rustem Vaytov, Yuri (Nuri) Primov, Ruslan Zeytullayev and Ferat Sayfullaev, who have been convicted …

The project to create a Eurasian high-speed railway line from Beijing through Moscow to Berlin, which the Russian government planned to insert into China’s “New Silk Road” to the EU, is unprofitable.

This was the conclusion reached by China Railway Eryuan Engineering Group (CREEC) after an analysis of the financial and technical conditions of the project.

As RBC reports, citing a source in the government and in Russian Railways, the company presented its assessment to the Russian-Chinese work …