• Ukraine's state-owned Ukroboronprom takes 77th place in rating of arms exporters

    The Ukroboronprom state military industrial enterprise (Ukraine) has climbed from the 84th to the 77th position in the world ranking of top 100 arms sellers, according to a publications by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released on Monday.  

    According to the report, in 2016, Ukroboronprom sold weapons for USD 1,060 million (95% of the total sales of the state defense concern) or USD 213 million above the levels of the previous year. Appearing next to it in the …

  • Muzhenko: during Russia’s annexation of Crimea Ukraine sent 8,000 troops to neighboring Kherson region

    When the Crimea was annexed by Russia in 2014, 8,000 servicemen were transferred to the Kherson region, as reported by the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Viktor Muzhenko on Bloger.FM radio.

    "There was already an understanding that this would not end with peaceful annexation, that there still would be confrontation. And at that time a decision was made to create the appropriate military formation along the border and I had to build a force to operate on the southern …

  • Prosecutor: Saakashvili can be eliminated by Russian special services

    The Russian special services may kill the former President of Georgia and leader of the Movement of New Forces party, Mikheil Saakashvili, with the aim of destabilizing the situation in Ukraine, as expressed by the prosecutor, Olexandr Hovorushchak, during a meeting of the Pechersk District Court, TSN reports.

    The prosecutor, talking about the danger from the Russian special services, discussed the need to choose preventive measures in the form of round-the-clock home arrest for Saakashvili.

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  • Girkin: in 2014 pro-Russian separatists were fleeing from the Ukrainian army

    During an interview with The Insider, former DPR (Donetsk People’s Republic) militia leader Igor Girkin (Strelkov) said that militants from the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics fled from their positions in the occupied territories of the Donbas in the summer of 2014, when Petro Poroshenko became the new commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army.

    According to Girkin, the separatists were retreating for the entirety of July, beginning with an exit from Sloviansk. They "sacrificed" their …

  • Israel asks Ukraine to recognize Jerusalem as its capital

    Members of Israel’s Knesset called on Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and to relocate the embassy there, reported UNN news agency, citing the honorary consulate of the State of Israel in the western region of Ukraine.

    “We would be happy if Ukraine could follow the United States’ example and also make this decision [to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital], and to restore historical justice, since Jerusalem has been the capital of the …