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Russian authorities announce that imprisoned film director Oleg Sentsov was hospitalized
Ukrainian director, Oleg Sentsov, who is imprisoned in Russia, was taken out of prison to the city hospital “for a routine examination,” reported Interfax referring to the press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District. “In connection to the planned examination, the convict Oleg Sentsov was taken to the Labytnangi city hospital, where he completed additional testing and medical consultations by medical specialists,” the statement reads. …
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Media: IMF’s new program for Ukraine has four conditions
In order to be considered for a new International Monetary Fund (IMF) program, Ukraine must meet at least four conditions, Evropeiska Pravda reports.
“It is already clear that Ukraine does not comply with 100% of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) program signed in 2015,” the article observes.
This is why the parties have put their money on a second option: to agree on a new, shorter collaboration program. According to government sources, the program in question would be a stand-by program for $ …
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Kyiv: Ukraine to receive weapons from the US worth hundreds of millions of dollars
The Ukrainian Embassy in Washington stated on Facebook that the US Congress approved the allocation of military assistance worth $250 million to Ukraine in 2019.
“The House of Representatives approved the previously agreed draft law with the Senate’s “US National Defense Appropriations Act 2019,” which provides $250 million to help Ukraine in the security sector,” the embassy said. It mentions that in 2019, the US will allocate $50 million more to Ukraine than it has sent in the current year. …
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Poroshenko: Ukraine spends more money on the army than any NATO country contributes to the Alliance
Ukraine spends 6% of its GDP on the defense sector, which is more than NATO’s member countries spend to maintain their minimum obligations to the Alliance, stated by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, speaking at the ceremony of handing over two American Island-class patrol boats that took place at the US Coast Guard shipyard in Baltimore, Maryland, Ukrinform reports.
"Our military obligations are 6% of the GDP. This figure is now higher than minimal obligations for NATO members,” he said. …
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USA gifts two patrol boats to Ukraine
On Thursday, September 27, in Baltimore, Maryland, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was presented with two Island-class patrol boats for the Ukrainian Navy. "These first two Island-class boats will become another brick in strengthening the naval alliance between the Ukrainian and American peoples,” Poroshenko posted on Facebook.
Island-class patrol vessels are boats designed for and used by the US Coast Guard for patrols and search-and-rescue operations in coastal waters. They are powered …