Новости за 30.05.2017

President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker has welcomed the vote of the Senate of the Netherlands on the ratification of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and also expressed the hope that the ratification procedure would be completed before the Ukraine-EU summit scheduled for July 13. “Today’s vote in the Dutch Senate sends an important signal […]

DTEK Energy saw a decrease in loss by 28.8 percent, or Hr 2.196 billion, in the first quarter of 2017 year-over-year, to Hr 5.418 billion. The company’s revenue over the period under review grew by 22 percent, or Hr 6.976 billion, year-over-year, to Hr 38.645 billion, the company said in a quarterly report. Gross profit […]

The National Anti-corruption Bureau (NABU) of Ukraine has decided to ban the suspended head of the State Fiscal Service (SFS) Roman Nasirov from travelling abroad. “Agents of the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine have not allowed the suspended head of the State Fiscal Service to travel outside Ukraine. This decision was taken on May 30 […]

The Ukrainian defense industry can get permission to participate in tenders for the supply of goods and services for NATO, according to the press service of Ukroboronprom State Concern. Read more here. 

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and delegates of the Committee for Business Cooperation with Ukraine of Keidanren Japan Business Federation led by Chairman of Marubeni Corporation Teruo Asada met in Kyiv on May 30 to discuss prospects for cooperation between the two countries. “The parties discussed ways to expand investment and trade-economic cooperation between Ukraine and […]

The regional branch of the National Police in Donetsk region came to conclusion that sex offenders must bear more serious responsibility for crimes against children. According to Vyacheslav Abroskin, Head of the National Police in Donetsk region, that was the topic of today’s staff meeting with local officers. Read more here. 

One Ukrainian soldier was killed and two inured in hostile shelling in the east of the country on May 30, the press center for the military headquarters said. “Since the day began the Ukrainian forces have sustained losses as a result of fighting. Unfortunately, one soldier was killed and another two were injured,” the headquarters […]

Without knowing it, French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin kicked off one of the most memorable Twitter beefs in recent memory on May 29. During Putin’s visit to France, which involved some strong words from Macron, the Russian president recalled just how far back relations between the two countries go, harkening back […]

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said there has never been a case of election interference more aggressive than that involving Russia and the 2016 presidential election. Read more here. 

A Ukrainian citizen perished in the hurricane in Moscow Oblast. Interfax-Ukraine reported that with reference to the local administration. Read more here. 

Russian search giant Yandex has had its Kyiv and Odessa offices raided by Ukraine’s State Security Service (SBU). The raids were part of a treason investigation seeking to discover whether Ukrainian users’ data had been illegally collected and distributed to Russian security agencies. Read more here. 

Russia is attempting to weaponize the way people share information. The West is only now understanding what this new form of warfare is and how to defeat it. Long before Russia intervened in the U.S. presidential election last year and in the French elections this year, Ukrainian lawmakers were sounding the alarm over Russian interference. […]

Part of the reason that the ongoing investigations into possible links between Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russian actors appear endlessly complex is that new details are reported gradually, over the course of months. That trickle of revelations has the natural effect of clouding the timeline, making it difficult to figure out who knew what and […]

Ukraine’s Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said a tender for starting the Ukraine-Poland border infrastructure project will be announced on May 30. “Today a tender will be announced for our program together with our Polish colleagues for Hr 2 billion to develop Ukraine-Poland border infrastructure,” Groysman said on May 30 in Lviv region while inspecting […]

The world witnessed another ground-breaking use of GIF diplomacy on May 30, when the official Twitter account for the country of Ukraine mocked the official account for Russia with a Simpsons GIF. Read more here. 

The Movement of New Forces of ex-Odesa Oblast Governor Mikheil Saakashvili on May 30 held an outdoor party congress in front of the Justice Ministry in Kyiv to protest the registration of a fake party named after Saakashvili. Several hundred of Saakashvili’s supporters rallied near the ministry building. “We will achieve a victory despite the fact that […]

Russia and Saudi Arabia praised their growing partnership in oil markets and dialogue on Syria on May 30, in a formidable departure from past hostilities between top global producers and major players in the Middle East. Russian President Vladimir Putin poured praise on Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who looks after the kingdom’s defence […]

Over the past day the militants have carried out 50 shelling attacks on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donbas area, five of them were carried out from weapons banned by the Minsk Agreements, as a result three Ukrainian soldiers have been wounded, the press centre of the Ukrainian Army has reported. […]

Russia has condemned Moldova’s decision to expel five of its diplomats, calling it a move against the country’s pro-Russian president. Russia’s response will be “quite harsh”, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said. Read more here. 

Russian government officials discussed having potentially “derogatory” information about then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and some of his top aides in conversations intercepted by US intelligence during the 2016 election, according to two former intelligence officials and a congressional source. Read more here. 

Based on the materials of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea has opened a criminal inquiry into the unleashing of a hybrid war against Ukraine by Russian officials and officials of Crimean local self-government agencies. “The launched criminal proceedings are unprecedented, for the first time an […]

VILNIUS, Lithuania – Lithuanian defense officials say the arrival of 200 troops and 60 combat vehicles from Norway has completed a multinational NATO unit of more than 1,000 soldiers in the Baltic nation neighboring Russia. Read more here.

Three civilians have been injured in a booby-trap blast in a Ukrainian-controlled area in Luhansk region, according to Luhansk Regional State Administration’s press service. Read more here.

BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel says her country’s relations with the United States are of “outstanding importance” but it must also engage with other key nations going forward. Read more here.

NATO’s agency for supporting and equipping member states (NSPA) has recommended including Ukrainian arms producers in the list of producers of military equipment used by NATO members and alliance partners, Ukraine’s state-owned defense concern Ukroboronprom announced on May 30. “Ukroboronprom received permission to take part in tenders to supply goods and services sought by NATO […]