Новости за 09.03.2016

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk urged lawmakers on March 9 to back him, sack him or force snap elections as lawmakers held talks with potential replacements.

Consumer prices in Ukraine in February 2016 decreased by 0.4 percent, after rising by 0.9 percent in January and 0.7 percent in December, the State Statistics Service has reported.

Berlin - Berlin on March 9 called for the immediate release of Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko, saying her trial in Russia went against a peace deal aimed at ending a separatist war in Ukraine.

Eight Ukrainian troops have been wounded in Donbas in the past 24 hours, Andriy Lysenko, an official with the Ukrainian presidential administration on issues relating to Ukrainian military, said.

ANKARA – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that during his visit to Turkey on March 9-10 he will initiate discussion of the protection of rights of Crimean, as well as the returning of Ukraine's sovereignty to the Crimean peninsula.

The U.S.-Russia-brokered ceasefire in Syria may be the last chance to end violence in the war-torn nation, opposition groups said in a joint statement after a meeting at the Russian center for Syrian reconciliation, media reports said on March 9. The news comes as a spokeswoman for the United Nations envoy in Syria said on March 8 that "substantive" peace talks with both Syrian government officials and opposition representatives will be held within days.

ANKARA – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says Ukraine is doing its utmost to ensure pressure from the international community on Russia for the prompt release of Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko.

MOSCOW - A Ukrainian military helicopter navigator on trial in Russia vowed Wednesday to starve herself to death unless she was returned home, saying that she had been abducted by "Kremlin puppets" in a case that has drawn international condemnation and attention.

Former Verkhovna Rada Chairman, member of the People's Will parliamentary group, Volodymyr Lytvyn has declared over Hr 1.76 million of income.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko today demanded that Moscow immediately free Nadiya Savchenko, a hunger-striking military helicopter pilot on trial in Russia.

A Ukrainian delegation during the negotiations in Iran has received an agreement to send a delegation of businessmen to the country in May and June 2016, Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister and Ukrainian trade envoy Nataliya Mykolska has said, commenting on the results of holding the fifth meeting of the intergovernmental Ukrainian-Iranian commission for trade and economic cooperation in Iran on March 5 through March 9, 2016.

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Participants in the picket at the Russian embassy in Kyiv's Povitroflotsky Avenue have hurled eggs at the building of the diplomatic mission.

Nadiya Savchenko showed that she will be defiant to the end when during a March 9 court hearing she gave judges the middle finger. The Russian court said the same day it will not announce its verdict on her fate until March 21-22.

Three of the four crewmembers of the Antonov An-26 plane (all of them Ukrainian), which crashed in Bangladesh, have been found - two are dead and one is in a critical condition, the consular service department of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has said.

Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has said Ukrainian authorities can get over its current political crisis, in which the battle of corruption is stalled and public trust in government is low, in three ways: renewal of a government coalition in parliament, forming a new Cabinet of Ministers under the personal responsibility of President Petro Poroshenko or early elections.

Committee of Permanent Representatives in the European Union (COREPER) on Wednesday agreed to prolong by six months the restrictive measures on the lists of Russian and Ukrainian citizens and organizations whom the EU considers to be involved in the sabotage or a threat to the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, a European diplomatic source told Interfax.

On March 9 Ukrainians living in Ukraine and abroad celebrate the birthday of the birth of Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public figure, and ethnographer. His literary heritage is regarded to be the foundation of modern Ukrainian language and literature.

The unlawful continuing detention of Ukrainian citizen Nadia Savchenko in Russian prison is a violation of the Minsk agreements on the settlement of the crisis in eastern Ukraine, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Tuesday.

A Ukrainian pilot on trial in Russia over the killing of two journalists has addressed the court and says she will continue a hunger strike she has been on for five days.

The EU has extended restrictive measures against a number former Ukrainian officials, who are suspected of embezzlement of public funds until March 6, 2017, with former deputy prime minister Raisa Bohatyriova being excluded from the EU sanctions list.

Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko, who is charged with involvement in the killing of Russian journalists, said in her final statement in the Donetsk City Court on Wednesday that she is innocent.

The Georgian Women's Movement held a rally outside the Georgian parliament building in Tbilisi on Tuesday to urge the authorities to ensure gender equality in the country's supreme legislature.

The trial of Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko has ended in a court in Russia.

The Ukrainian doctors, who intend to examine Ukrainian pilot and MP Nadia Savchenko, are being held on the Russian border and are not allowed into the country, the defender's lawyer Nikolai Polozov has said.