Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has invited the representatives of Canadian business to Ukraine. A meeting was held in the course of Poroshenko’s working visit to Canada, as the President’s press service reports.

"Earlier, Canadian Ukrainians invested in Ukraine to support the economy. At present, all Canadian business is ready to come [to Ukraine]. And I would like to say that it is the right time and place for investments,” the President emphasized, having added that Ukraine has high …

In response to the appeal by the Ministry of Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has promised to include in the records of joint pre-trial investigation the violations in August to September 2017 by foreign vessels of the ban on entry into the ports of annexed Crimea, as reported by the press service of the Ministry of Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine.

The Ministry’s website indicated that it had previously sent appeals to the Office of …

The energy infrastructure of the Crimea, which is currently managed by a Crimean-owned enterprise, will be transferred under the control of JSC Krymenergo where the Kremlin has a 100% ownership stake, according to a representative of the Ministry of Energy, as reported by RBC news agency. According to him, all of the facilities operated by the State Unitary Enterprise, Krymenergo, as well as the power grids that will be built as part of the federal program "Social and economic development of …

Ukraine has confiscated another $200 million from the “family” of former President Viktor Yanukovych, as announced by the Prosecutor General, Yuri Lutsenko.

"Today the decision of the city of Cherkasy Sosnovsky District Court has come into effect, requiring the confiscation of the Yanukovych mafia’s banking assets totaling $200 million. The dogs are barking and the caravan is moving," he wrote on Facebook.

The first confiscation took place in the spring.

On April 28th, the Prosecutor General, …

According to Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency, there were two explosions on a Saturday morning in Donetsk. According to the agency's source in the local security agencies, an assassination attempt was made on the so-called “Minister of Revenue and Taxes” of the DPR (Donetsk People’s Republic), Alexander Timofeyev.

As a result of the attack, the official was injured and was taken to hospital in critical condition, said the agency's interlocutor.

The local Donetsk News agency also reported the …

The former President of Georgia and the former Governor of the Odessa region, Mikhail Saakashvili, was found guilty of illegally crossing the Ukrainian border by the Mostitsky District Court of the Lviv region.

“In the administrative case on the illegal crossing of the Ukrainian border, the court finds the defendant guilty and imposes a fine 3400 hryvnia ($130)," the judge said. Also, Saakashvili must pay 320 hryvnia ($12.2) court fees.

Saakashvili did not attend the court session. On his …

The Government of Canada is considering providing lethal weapons to Ukraine, as indicated by Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, during a press conference in Toronto after a meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. 

"We are very much looking at the mechanism [of adding Ukraine] to the AFCCL (Automatic Firearms Country Control List), which is the list of countries able to receive exported Canadian automatic weapons. This is something that we are moving forward on. There is a …

The spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said on Friday that Russia once again agrees only to a UN security mission on the line of demarcation, reports UNIAN.

"Now, a Russian draft resolution on the participation of the UN peacekeeping forces is being discussed and finalized in the UN. There has been a lot of speculation on this issue, there was a lot of speculation in the Ukrainian media that peacekeepers will allegedly be deployed across the entire Donbas. I would …