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Lithuania intends to send more military instructors to Ukraine
Lithuanian Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis advocated for an increase in the number of Lithuanian military instructors who train Ukrainian servicemen during a meeting with Ukrainian Defense Minister, Stepan Poltorak, on Friday in Vilnius.
"It is necessary to continue cooperation and increase the number of Lithuanian military instructors who train Ukrainian servicemen in order to improve this work. It is also necessary to expand international cooperation and the exchange of experience with …
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President of Ukraine: another batch of upgraded T-80 tanks is sent to the Donbas
Kyiv is sending its military in the Donbass a batch of upgraded T-80 tanks, as reported by the President of Ukraine president Petro Poroshenko.
"The next consignment of the T-80 “good-looking” tanks will be sent to the Ukrainian highly mobile airborne forces in the front line! We continue to work to strengthen our defense capability," wrote Poroshenko on his Facebook page without specifying how many tanks would be received by the military and when.
Previously, Poroshenko stated that in the …
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Leader of the Justice civil-political movement: Crimea was lost because Tatars were unrepresented in Kyiv
The leader of the Justice civil-political movement, Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, believes that the Crimea was lost because of a systemic mistake made by Ukrainian authorities.
"The key mistake of all Ukrainian branches of power, including the President, was that the representatives of the Crimean Tatar people were almost completely unrepresented in the Ukrainian authority structure, both in Ukraine, and in the Crimea. This includes the government, courts, law enforcement agencies, and in particular, …
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National Bank of Ukraine expects to receive fifth tranche of IMF loan
Ukrainian authorities will reach a consensus with the mission of the International Monetary Fund that is working in Kyiv now. They anticipate that the country will receive the fifth tranche of the Fund's loan within the framework of the program.
This was told to reporters by the acting head of the National Bank, Yakiv Smoliy on the sidelines of the research conference organized by the National Bank of Ukraine together with the National Bank of Poland and with the support of the Government of …
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Kyiv began searching for Stalin’s and Beria’s accomplices in the deportation of Crimean Tatars during World War 2
The Ukrainian Prosecutor's Office for Crimean Affairs in Kyiv stated that it had gathered evidence of the involvement of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and People's Commissar of the Interior Affairs of the USSR Lavrentiy Beria in the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people and representatives of other national groups from the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1944. A corresponding message was published on the official website of the Ukrainian supervisory authority.
As the Prosecutor …