Poroshenko informed the US Congress delegation about the situation in the Donbas
President Petro Poroshenko informed the delegation of the House of Representatives of the US Congress about the situation in the Donbas, ongoing provocations and violation of the ceasefire by separatists. This was reported on the President’s website.
The US delegation included Congressmen Michael McCaul, Will Hurd, Martha McSally, Kenny Marchant, Clay Higgins, Kathleen Rice and Dutch Ruppersberger.
Poroshenko thanked the representatives Congress’s bipartisan support of Ukraine in …
Putin imposed restrictions on rallies during the FIFA Confederations Cup and 2018 World Cup
On Tuesday, May 9, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on strengthening security measures for the duration of the Confederations Cup in Russia under the auspices of FIFA and the World Cup next year. The corresponding document was published on Wednesday, May 10, on the official Internet portal of legal information.
The decision will be effective from June 1 to July 12, 2017 and from May 25 to July 25, 2018.
Where football events are concerned, Putin determined that “all assemblies, …
Heads of Ukrainian National Police fired because of police inactivity during pro-Russian activists’ attacks on Donbas war veterans
On May 9 in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro there was a fistfight between unknown youths and Donbas war veterans: all of this took place in full view of the police.
The conflict regarding forbidden symbols initially arose with the socialists, and escalated after representatives of the Opposition Bloc (a party created on the basis of former president Yanukovych’s Party of Region) started moving in a procession. Unknown persons dispersed tear gas. Then the escort of Opposition Bloc MP Oleksandr …
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada called on Norway to recognize the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people
The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Andriy Parubiy, during a meeting with the President of the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), Olemic Thommessen, called for the recognition of the Holodomor as the genocide of the Ukrainian people.
"I called on the President of the Storting, Olemic Thommessen, for the Norwegian Parliament to recognize the Holodomor as the genocide of the Ukrainian people," wrote the speaker of the Ukrainian parliament on Tuesday in a microblog on Twitter.
He also pointed out …
China announced successful testing of new rockets
China conducted testing of a new rocket in the Bohai Sea, as reported by the Xinhua Chinese News Agency, citing the Ministry of Defense of the PRC.
"The expected result was achieved," says the statement of the Ministry. However, the Ministry of Defense did not specify when exactly the test was conducted.
They also noted that the test was conducted as part of an annual planned exercise. It was conducted with the purpose of developing the skills of the armed forces in order to "cope with …