• Ukrainian embassy refutes Polish prime minister’s statement on Ukrainian refugees

    The Ukrainian embassy in Warsaw has refuted the statement by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki that there are tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees in Poland.

    A statement to this effect was made by Svetlana Krysa, chief of the consulate department of the Ukrainian embassy to Poland, in an interview for the TV channel 112 Ukraine, Ukrinform reports.

    Krysa claims that compared to previous years, the number of Ukrainian refugees in Poland and of those wanting to acquire international …

  • Poroshenko: Ukraine will receive lethal weapons from the US in 2018

    President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko announced that the much-anticipated defensive lethal weapons from the United States would be supplied to Ukraine in 2018. He posted on Facebook that “Next year, the military budget of our country will be a record 86 billion hryvnia ($3 billion). We will receive lethal defensive weapons from our partners in the United States."

    Poroshenko expressed confidence that the Armed Forces of Ukraine would continue to replenish their arsenal with the latest military …

  • US calls on Ukraine to punish those responsible for killing of lawyer Nozdrovska

    The United States of America clamored for justice to be brought to those responsible for the murder of human rights defender Iryna Nozdrovska, stated the US Embassy’s message on Twitter.

    "Shocked and saddened by the murder of human rights defender Iryna Nozdrovska, we express our deepest condolences to her relatives and close ones. The guilty must be held accountable," the statement said.

    The body of Nozdrovska was discovered in the Vyshgorodsky district of the Kyiv region on January 1. She …

  • Ukrainian and German Foreign Ministers to discuss freeing of Ukrainian prisoners held captive in Russia

    The German Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sigmar Gabriel is set to visit Ukraine on January 3- 4 this year. During his visit, Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin plans to discuss with him the issue of the release of Ukrainian political prisoners detained in Russian prisons.

    As the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine reports, "the role of Germany, together with France, under the Normandy format in countering Russian aggression will be a key subject of the …

  • First 3300 visitors passed biometric checks at Ukrainian border

    On January 1st 3,300 foreigners passed the through the biometric control system upon entering Ukraine; about 1,900 of them were citizens of the Russian Federation, as indicated by the spokesperson of the State Border Guard Service, Oleh Slobodyan, on 112 Ukraine.

    "During the first 24 hours of operation of the biometric control system, more than 3,300 foreigners who are subject to this system crossed the border, almost 1,900 of them were Russian citizens." The system worked without failures and …