Contents tagged with Ukraine
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The 32nd Army Corps has been revived in Crimea under Russian jurisdiction
The 32nd Army Corps located on the Crimean peninsula has been revived as part of the ground forces of the Black Sea Fleet, a source familiar with the situation told Interfax on November 12.
The Directorate of the 32nd Army Corps became operational as of December 1 when the new training year started in the Russian Armed Forces, the Agency’s interlocutor clarified. The source did not specify the composition of the re-established Army Corps.
According to available data, the Army Corps could …
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Savchenko spoke of her meeting with Zakharchenko and Plotnitsky
The Deputy of Verkhovna Rada, Nadiya Savchenko, said that she met with the leadership of the self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republic (LPR and DPR), Igor Plotnitsky and Alexander Zakharchenko, and "the Russian side" was also present. On Monday, December 12, she said this in her speech at the Sofia Square in Kyiv, 112 Ukraine TV channel reports.
"Yes, there was a meeting in trilateral Minsk format where 'the Russian side', Zakharchenko and Plotnitsky were present. The meeting aimed …
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Groysman: Decentralization has been one of the most successful system reforms in Ukraine
The Prime Minister of Ukraine, Volodymyr Groysman, discussed the implementation of decentralization in Ukraine as one of the most important reforms needed for the development of the country, on Sunday at a conference with members of the Association of Cities of Ukraine, Interfax-Ukraine reported.
"Decentralization is a step towards the development of the regions because the people have the resources and they will start to resolve the existing problems … only through decentralization and the …
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Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office: Yanukovych’s testimonies gave us lots of new information
The Head of the Department of Special Investigations of the Prosecutor General’s Office, Sergey Gorbatyuk, stated in an interview with Sonya Koshkina on Left Coast that the General Prosecutor’s Office received a considerable amount of work during the testimonies of the former President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych.
According to him, these testimonies can be used not only in the case against Berkut officers, in which Yanukovych was a witness, but also in the proceeding in which the former …
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Joint Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian Brigade to take part in Common Challenge 16 military exercises
The Command of the Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian Brigade and staff officers assigned to these battalions arrived at the Demba combined range of the Polish Armed Forces to participate in the certified command-staff drills - Common Challenge – 16, which began on the 11th of December and will last five days, according to the Government website.
Eighteen Ukrainian officers from the Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian Brigade under the leadership of the Deputy Commander of the Brigade, Colonel Vladimir …
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US, EU and Canada urged Ukraine to conduct independent verification of e-declarations
The United States, the European Union, and Canada welcome the steps taken by Ukraine towards anti-corruption reforms and call for further reforms, in particular, for an independent and reliable verification of electronic declarations, as was said in a joint statement by the Embassy of Canada, the United States of America, and the representative of the European Union on the occasion of International Anti-Corruption Day.
“We welcome the impressive steps made after the Revolution of Dignity, …
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Germany to send military advisers to Ukraine
The German Defense Ministry agreed to send military advisers to Ukraine, as reported by the press service of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.
The agreement was signed on Thursday in Kyiv by the Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister for European Integration, Ihor Dolhov, and the German Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defense, Ralf Brauksiepe.
According to the agreement, German advisers will be active at the Petro Sahaydachnyi National Academy of Ground Forces in Lviv. …
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Negotiations between Ukraine's Naftogaz and Russia’s Gazprom on gas delivery to Ukraine fail
The agreement on the supplement contract between Naftogaz of Ukraine and Russia’s Gazprom could not be reached by the tripartite group with the participation of the representatives of the European Commission, as stated by the head of Naftogaz, Andriy Kobolev, Interfax-Ukraine reported.
"Unfortunately, the agreement could not be reached today. We hope that this can be done in future, but today we were not able to sign the supplementary agreement. Without it, the purchase of Russian gas under …
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OSCE Secretary General declared a split in the organization because of disagreements over Ukraine
The Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Lamberto Zannier, reported a split among the organization’s 57 member countries. This statement was released on Friday, December 9th, at the meeting of OSCE foreign ministers in Hamburg. Zannier stressed that the split was caused primarily by disagreements over the conflict in Ukraine, but was not limited to that.
The OSCE Secretary General also stated that organization observers encounter obstacles in …
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Former Ukrainian Finance Minister had hired US lobbyists to help debt restructuring
Before signing an agreement between Ukraine and foreign private creditors on restructuring the debt, the government of Ukraine employed American lobbyists to promote its position, as stated in an article in Ukrayinska Pravda titled ‘Battle for Washington. Lobby of Yatsenyuk-Jaresko.’
Lobbying services were provided by an influential company, APCO Worldwide Inc., which has 600 employees in 35 countries and almost 120 million dollars of revenue in 2015. Its management mostly consists of former …