Новости за 29.04.2016

The U.S. Air Force landed two of its most advanced jets in Lithuania for the first time on April 27 in a show of support for a region worried by Russian aggression in Ukraine.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has said he hopes Russia and Donbas militants will adhere by ceasefire regime in the east of Ukraine, at least during Easter holidays. He guaranteed the ceasefire would be kept by the Armed Forces of Ukraine if that happens.

One of the main components of a hybrid or non-linear warfare is the information and psychological influence.

Militants have opened fire on Ukrainian Armed Forces positions 22 times over the past 24 hours, with more than half of the strikes being conducted at nightfall, the press center of the headquarters of Kyiv's army operation in Donbas said in a report as of 6:00 a.m. on Friday.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2014, if not earlier, it has implemented a systematic policy of serious provocations and threats against U.S., European, and Japanese military assets and targets, up to and including, nuclear threats.

Archeologists found ruins of an old chapel buried under a square in the Ukrainian city of Krivyi Rih.

Ukraine is ready to carry elections in some temporarily-occupied districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, but security must first be restored there, Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Vadym Prystaiko said delivering a speech at UN Security Council.

Russia has organized and deployed in Donbas a 34,000-strong hybrid military force consisting of the regular Russian troops as well as of foreign and local militants, Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Vadym Prystaiko said during a speech at UN Security Council session.

Today, two unidentified men attacked anti-corruption crusader Alexei Navalny at the entrance to his office at the Anti-Corruption Foundation.

Current conditions in Donbas do not meet the necessary requirements for the conduct of elections, U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN Samantha Power said at the UN Security Council meeting in New York April 28.

Journalist and television host Savik Shuster and civil activists have announced plans to set up a committee to save freedom of speech in Ukraine.

The head of the Luhansk regional military-civilian administration, Hryhoriy Tuka, said the checkpoint in Stanytsia Luhanska can re-open if the ceasefire holds for 48 hours.

U.S. gun enthusiasts live in constant fear of the federal government confiscating their weapons. For Russian gun owners, such a fear may be about to become a reality.

The Ukrainian people have made tremendous sacrifices over the past two years, including more than a hundred killed during the Maidan revolution in 2014 and nearly 10,000 killed fending off Vladimir Putin’s invading forces in eastern Ukraine.

It's been two years since pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine broke away from the rest of the country, triggering a war that has killed more than 9,000 people, displaced a million civilians, and left entire towns and villages in ruins.

If Robert Ludlum and Bertolt Brecht ever collaborated on a plotline, they might have come up with something like The Browder Effect, which aired on April 13 on Rossiya-1 as a two-hour documentary and follow-up discussion.

A noisy crowd wearing nationalist WWII symbols has hurled eggs and Brilliant Green disinfectant at participants to an award ceremony for the “Man in History: Russia XX Century” school competition organized by Russian historical and civil rights society Memorial.

A screening in the European Parliament of a documentary about Russia was canceled at the 11th-hour on Wednesday after lawyers for the widow and former business partner of a high-profile critic of Vladimir Putin intervened.

UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Tayd-Brook Zerihoun reports 9,300 people have been killed in Donbas since the beginning of the conflict.

While Russian-occupied Crimea is looking set to convict another former Euromaidan activist of invented crimes over which it has no jurisdiction, efforts are continuing to secure the early release of Oleksandr Kostenko, the Ukrainian now serving a politically-motivated sentence in Russia.

Ukraine told the UN Security Council that its cease-fire with separatists in the east must be strengthened before progress can be achieved on a political solution to the two-year conflict.

Ceasefire violations in eastern Ukraine have reached their highest level in months, with violence again reaching "worrying levels," the chief OSCE monitor said Thursday.

The new Cabinet of Ministers headed by Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, which was voted into office on April 14, is a mixture of the old and new.

The waiting room walls outside the infrastructure minister’s office are lined with portraits of his predecessors: Some dead, some suspected of massive corruption and some both – such as Heorhiy Kirpa, found shot to death on Dec. 27, 2004, the day after the Orange Revolution-inspired election of Viktor Yushchenko.

The introduction of ProZorro, an electronic system for state procurement, has been heralded as one of the biggest steps ever taken to bring transparency to Ukraine’s public sector.