• Ukrainian President has granted citizenship to 55 Russian nationals since the beginning of the year

    President Petro Poroshenko granted Ukrainian citizenship to 405 foreign citizens and stateless persons, including 55 Russians and 54 Syrians, and also terminated the Ukrainian citizenship of 1,567 persons in the first half of 2017, as stated in the response of the Administration of the President and the State Migration Service to the request of Ukrainski Novyny.

    "From January 1, 2017, to June 30, 2017, 405 persons were granted Ukrainian citizenship," the presidential administration's response …

  • Head of SBU: Ukraine provided the UN proof of Russia’s involvement in the conflict in the Donbas

    Ukraine has provided thousands of pages of documentary evidence of Russia's participation in the conflict in the Donbas to the International Court of Justice, as stated by the head of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), Vasyl Hrytsak, at a briefing on Saturday. The suit itself was filed in mid-January, and in April Ukraine failed to achieve the approval of special measures against Russia in time for the suit’s consideration.

    "All of you know that in January, Ukraine initiated a suit in the …

  • Moldovan President: certain forces in the West are interested in involving Russia in the conflict in Transnistria

    The escalation of the conflict in Transnistria benefits Western forces who may wish to involve Russia in the crisis. This opinion was voiced on Saturday by Moldovan President Igor Dodon on Rossiya 24 TV channel.

    “The destabilization of the situation in this region would be interesting for someone in the West trying to drag Russia into some kind of conflict here. But I, as the President of the Republic of Moldova, will do everything possible to ensure that there is no destabilization,” he said. …

  • Mother of the Russian soldier captured in the Donbas was allowed to visit him in Ukraine

    Pavel Kanygin, a journalist from the Russian newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, published a photo on his Facebook page of Russian serviceman, Victor Ageyev, who has been detained in the Donbas, with his mother. In addition, the correspondent relayed the details of the meeting between Ageyev and his mother.

    “Svetlana Ageyeva submitted an application asking to see her son and was able to meet with him. At first, she saw her son in the presence of journalists, along with me were a few colleagues from …

  • Ukrainian Minister of Defense: Russia can use the forthcoming Zapad-2017 military exercises to invade any European country

    Ukrainian Minister of Defense Stepan Poltorak claims that the joint Russian-Belarusian military exercise Zapad 2017 scheduled for September could be used by Russia to stage an actual invasion of any neighboring country.

    "Ukraine and the world have a common vision of the prospects for the exercise conducted by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The forthcoming West-2017 exercises will be extremely powerful. They could be used to launch an aggressive action not only against Ukraine but …