Новости за 19.09.2015

Ukrainian prosecutors say they are preparing charges against the head of a Crimean winery for allegedly opening a 240-year-old bottle for Vladimir Putin and Silvio Berlusconi.

Proposals of Donbas political subgroup coordinator Pierre Morel are his personal point of view, a source close to the Minsk process has told Interfax-Ukraine.

Oleh Liashko's Radical Party has decided to participate in local election to be held on October 25 at its congress, to terminate Member of Parliament Artem Vitko's mandate who left the parliamentary faction and condemned actions of Ukrainian authorities, accusing them of destroying parliamentarism, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent has reported.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko at a meeting of the National Reforms Council devoted to the anti-corruption reform, has said that the legal framework for fighting corruption had been created and currently the establishment of the required infrastructure and formation of anti-corruption personnel was being held.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) is checking authenticity of information that former head of the appeal court of Kyiv Anton Chernushenko is officer of the Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB), SBU wrote on its Facebook page.

Hundreds of orphans from Donetsk have been evacuated and placed in the care of staff at this summer camp in eastern Ukraine.

The decision of Ukrainian authorities to impose sanctions against individuals and companies will take force after the publication of the relevant decree of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in official media, the Presidential Administration of Ukraine reported.

Officer of the Main Investigative Department of the General Command of the Russian Armed Forces Alexander Alexandrov detained in Luhansk region has received the indictment, his lawyer Kostiantyn Kravchuk told TSN television service.

Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin at a meeting with a delegation of the European Union Political and Security Committee informed on the operation of the Military Prosecutor's Office and on the creation of the department to investigate crimes against peace, security, humanity and international crimes.

Ukraine's top political talk show Shuster Live was cut off the air on Ukraine's leading Channel 1+1 right before the program was supposed to start.

The Ukrainian Justice Ministry is expecting the soonest establishment of an office to search for, manage and return assets, which have been illegally removed from Ukraine.

Ukrainian Presidential Administration spokesman for military issues Andriy Lysenko has declared a practically complete truce in Donbas.

Several laws signed by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Friday on restructuring of Ukraine's commercial foreign debt were published in the Holos Ukrainy parliament's newspaper on Saturday.

Volunteer and Advisor to Ukrainian President Yuriy Biriukov said that an army operation had been launched in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) zone to find and destroy sabotage and reconnaissance groups.

Ukraine's gross foreign debt as of July 1, 2015, totaled $126.98 billion, which was 0.8%, or $1.01 billion up on April 1, 2015, the National Bank of Ukraine reported on Friday.

One Ukrainian serviceman has been killed and another has suffered injuries in an explosion in the Luhansk region of Ukraine.

Ukraine’s central bank declared a top 10 bank insolvent that is majority-owned by multimillionaire Kostyantyn Zhevago and where his London-listed Ferrexpo – the nation’s largest pellet exporter – has $174 million, or 62 percent, of its deposits.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin met Vice President of Samsung Electronics Kim Dohyon as a part of his official visit to South Korea.

Russia's Alfa-Bank used insider information to buy and sell Ukraine's state debt, earning $320 million on this, Batkivschyna Party faction leader Yulia Tymoshenko has said.

Poroshenko to focus on veto powers President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on the sidelines of the General Assembly in New York will raise the topic of veto powers restrain, adherence by the values of United Nations Charter, as well as counteraction to hybrid wars, the presidential administration reported.

Radical Party parliamentarian Ihor Mosiychuk, who is charged with bribe-taking, has been remanded in custody for 60 days, Kyiv's Pechersky District Court has ruled.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has expressed hope that Western partners will not allow Ukraine to be stripped of the possibility to transit natural gas to the European Union.

Israel's Embassy in Ukraine has asked for help in searching for an Israeli citizen who went missing in the town of Uman, Cherkasy region, on September 15.

The International Monetary Fund says it welcomes a recent swap agreement between Sweden's Central Bank Sveriges Riksbank and the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), the International Monetary Fund said in a statement on Friday.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed an order to revoke a ban on several journalists of British, Spanish, and German citizenship.