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Media: Yanukovych's lawyer brought Molotov cocktails to the Pechersky Court in Kyiv
Former President Viktor Yanukovych’s lawyer brought wooden bats, blocks, and glass bottles with fuses in the form of rags – the materials needed for gasoline bombs - to a session of the Pechersky District Court in Kyiv. It is still unknown if there was a combustible solution inside.
As Channel 112 reported, lawyer Vitaly Serdyuk was trying to use these materials to prove that the protest on Maidan was not peaceful. "These are threats; this is material evidence, which the whole time have been …
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General Ben Hodges: In its training U.S. army uses expertise of Ukrainian military in fighting Russia
The commander of U.S. forces in Europe, Ben Hodges, said that the American army learned a great deal from the Ukrainian military, which was engaged in battles involving Russian artillery, missiles, drones and Russian electronic warfare. He said this in an interview with news agency European Pravda during the Lviv Security Forum.
“And not only do we value this experience, but all (of the allies) took it into account and incorporated it into their training systems. The Ukrainians’ experience …
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Ukrainian Ministry of Defense refuses to dismiss Deputy Minister accused of multimillion dollar embezzlement
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry refused to discharge Deputy Minister Ihor Pavlovsky, who is suspected of embezzlement of budgetary funds, as stated in the response of the Ministry to the prosecution’s request that was published by the press-service of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office.
The Office noted that Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak reiterated the need to combat corruption. However, the Ministry refused to suspend Pavlovsky for the length of the investigation.
The …
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US expresses concern over arrest of the employees of Anti-Corruption Bureau in Ukraine
The US State Department stated that arrests of employees of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) could undermine the international support provided to Ukraine.
"Recent events in Ukraine, including the disruption of the high-level corruption investigation, the arrest of NABU employees, and the seizure of NABU’s classified files cast doubts about Ukraine's commitment to fighting corruption," as indicated in the Department’s statement.
It was underlined in the State Department …
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General Ben Hodges: to resist new aggression Ukraine must show that it is ready for it
In an interview to Evropeyskaya Pravda during the Lviv Security Forum, United States Army Commander in Europe, Ben Hodges believes that the only way to prevent a new Russian invasion of Ukraine is to demonstrate preparedness to such a scenario, so that everyone realizes that Ukraine is capable of resisting.
"I don't think we can talk about the high probability of such a scenario," he said, responding to a question of whether the danger of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine remains to …