As reported by Ukrainian TSN news service, a monitor from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine in the town of Sievierodonetsk in Luhansk region, who has been suspended for misbehavior apparently involving alcohol, has turned to be an officer from Russia's GRU Main Intelligence Directorate.

A TSN journalist once heard an OSCE SMM monitor who later introduced himself as Maksim Udovichenko promoting Russian propaganda among locals in Luhansk region while being not on OSCE …

Ukraine's ranking has risen over 13 positions in the annual ranking on the status of doing business published by the World Bank’s  Doing Business-2016. Ukraine holds the 83rd place in the ranking.

Results of a new study, which covers the second half of 2014 and first half 2015, was published on the Doing Business website.

A key reform that bolstered a raise in the Ukraine rating is simplification of Ukraine business registration.

Ukraine has been rising in the ranking for the second …

As reported by a military spokesman Oleksandr Zavtonov, a Ukrainian soldier was killed by fire from Russia-backed separatists near the Donetsk airport on October 26.

It is the first reported Ukrainian military death since mid-October, as the fragile cease-fire negotiated in Minsk in February has generally held.

At the same time a separatists spokesman accused the Ukrainian military of launching an attack on the airport. Officials in Kyiv denied that claim.

AFP reported that local residents …