UK to provide Ukraine with 2 million pounds for demining in the Donbas

During a visit to Kyiv, Boris Johnson said that Britain would support further sanctions against Russia and help Ukraine to carry out reforms.

Britain intends to allocate two million pounds sterling for demining in the Donbas, as was announced by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Boris Johnson, during a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart, Pavlo Klimkin, in Kyiv on Wednesday, September 14, 2016. As specified on the website of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ( …


US reconnaissance planes circles over Russia's bases in Syria

On Saturday, a US reconnaissance plane flew a short distance from Russia’s Hmeymim air base in the Syrian province of Latakia. It also approached the the logistics facilities of the Russian Navy in Syria's Tartus. The information was published by the web sites that track the movements of military aircraft. The P-8A Poseidon anti-submarine aircraft of the US Navy with registration number 168858 took off from the Sigonella air base in Sicily. Within an hour, the aircraft was flying over the …


Commission says black boxes from Smolensk plane crash were 'rigged'

The black box recordings from the Tu-154M that crashed near Smolensk in 2010 were rigged and many of the documents that are relevant to the case were hidden, as stated by experts of the sub-Commission on Investigation of the Smolensk disaster, Polish Radio reported.

A segment of the Polish registrars was deleted and a segment from a Russian registrar was inserted into its place.  The withdrawn piece contained information about engine problems, as well as issues with generators and radio …


Rocket powered by Ukrainian engine launches Google satellite

The Vega rocket, which has a Ukrainian engine, has successfully put five satellites into orbit, as was reported on the website of the European Space Agency. The rocket was launched at 00:43 Kyiv time from Kourou Cosmodrome, French Guiana, containing four SkySat terra bella satellites owned by Google. Moreover, it also put the first Peruvian satellite PeruSAT-1 into orbit.

The launch of the Vega rocket was the seventh in its history. On 23 June 2015, the European satellite Sentinel-2A, which …


Poroshenko: Ukraine will not sell the Crimea in return for a 'good solution' in the Donbas

The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, said that the question of the ownership of the Crimea is not negotiable and the option to exchange the Peninsula for the settlement of the situation in the Donbas region is unacceptable.

"We will never trade the Crimea for a solution regarding the Donbass region.  The Crimea is a Ukrainian territory," Poroshenko said during the 13th Annual Meeting of the Yalta European Strategy, September 16, 2016 in Kyiv.

According to him, a dangerous precedent …