• Canadian business leaders want to build power plants in the Chernobyl zone

    The Ukrainian Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, Ostap Semerak, discussed the investment attractiveness of the exclusion zone for renewable energy during a Canadian-Ukrainian business forum, stating that a number of Canadian investors are interested in the possibility of constructing solar power plants and biofuel plants in the exclusion zone, the agency’s press service reported.

    “Canadian investors are interested in the possibility of constructing biofuel plants and power stations in …

  • Foreign investment in Ukraine has increased considerably since 2014

    According to the Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association, $132 million was invested in Ukrainian companies in 2015. As noted, these funds were largely private and venture investments in IT companies. According to the results of the study, only 66 contracts were signed in 2015, but the total amount of investments is higher than in 2014 by 237%, Ekonomichna Pravda reported.

    The creation and improvement of the investment climate in Ukraine is the main task of the Association.   …

  • OSCE discovers Russian radio interference system in the Donbas

    According to the OSCE mission’s Twitter feed, a Zhytel R-330ZH radio jamming station was found near Avdiivka, which is located 14 kilometers from Donetsk.

    “The Special Monitoring Mission’s (SMM) UAVs continue to record high-tech electronic warfare stations. Obstacles in our work should be removed,” a statement said.

    The Zhytel automated jamming station provides automated detection, direction finding and signal analysis of radio sources. It then creates interference of the user terminals for …

  • Ukrainian MP: The return of the Russian delegation to PACE would mean the collapse of the Council of Europe

    The Chairman of the Ukrainian Delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Volodymyr Ariev, went on the air on Ukraine TV Channel 112 where he criticized the possible return and participation of the Russian delegation in PACE meetings. Ariev reported that Ukraine sent a serious force of diplomats to the current PACE session because a serious desire for the return of the Russian delegation was expressed during the Bureau meeting in May.

    According to Ariev, this decision …

  • Peskov: There are no preconditions for another Normandy Quartet meeting

    The Russian side believes that Ukraine does not show any will to fulfill the Minsk agreements.

    The Press Secretary for Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov, believes that there are currently no preconditions for a new meeting of the leaders of the Normandy Quartet, as reported by the Russian RIA Novosti news agency.

    Peskov noted that even though the “Normandy Four” states  would like to have this meeting there are not preconditions for it.

    “There could be preconditions if the …