• Ukrainian Naftogaz and Russia’s Gazprom to begin negotiations on gas delivery to Ukraine

    According to the Chief Commercial Officer of Naftogaz, Yuriy Vitrenko, Naftogaz of Ukraine and Gazprom will soon start negotiations on the implementation of the Stockholm Arbitration Court decisions within the contract of purchase of Russian gas, UNIAN reports.

    "Negotiations will start in the coming days. We won’t disclose the details. It’s about the implementation of the final decision on the gas contract,” he said.

    Vitrenko noted that according to the Stockholm Arbitration Court decision, …

  • Ukrainian Parliament passes the bill on reintegration of Donbas

    The Verkhovna Rada has passed a bill outlining steps to reinstate the sovereignty of Ukraine over the temporarily uncontrolled territories in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

    The Bill No. 7163 was passed in the second reading and was supported by 280 deputies.

    The Ukrainian Parliament started considering the proposed amendments to this bill on Tuesday.

    The Bill was initially presented by the MP from the Bloc of Petro Porosheno, Ivan Vinnyk, and several amendments to this bill were  …

  • NATO Parliamentary Assembly session to be held in Kyiv in 2019

    The session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO will be held in the spring of 2019 in Kyiv, as stated by Andriy Parubiy, the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, at a briefing with the head of the Georgian parliament Irakli Kobakhidze. Kobakhidze stated that every country that has ever hosted the NATO PA session eventually became a member of NATO.

      "After two rounds of discussions, it was decided that the NATO PA will be held in Kyiv in the spring of 2019. …

  • Poroshenko: Ukrainian Armed Forces to receive 4 times more anti-tank systems in 2018

    The National Security and Defense Council under the representatives from the office of the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, held a session during which the state defense order for 2018 was discussed, as reported on the president’s official website.

    According to Poroshenko, this year the number of anti-tank missile systems will grow by a factor of four.

    “I had the opportunity to communicate directly with the ATO (Anti-Terrorist Operation) commanders, with the brigade commanders, and I …

  • Attorney: Yanukovych in Russia temporarily, wants to return to Ukraine

    Attorney Vitaly Serdyuk says that his client, former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, intends to return to Ukraine.

    Serdyuk informed reporters of this during the recess of the Obolonskyi District Court, where Yanukovych’s high treason case is being reviewed, Ukrinform reports.

    “Certainly, he intends to return to Ukraine. Staying in Russian territory is a temporary necessary measure,” Serdyuk commented.

    According to him, Yanukovych has a certificate of temporary asylum in Russia “in …