Новости за 01.07.2017

Italian police arrested Ukrainian citizen Vitaly Markiv on June 30 on murder charges related to the 2014 killing of Italian photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli during the siege of Sloviansk, according to local media reports and a statement from the Ukrainian Prosecutor General Office. The 31-year-old Rocchelli came to Ukraine in May 2014 to cover the conflict […]

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — President Donald Trump is continuing his personal attacks on the anchors of “Morning Joe.” The president lashed out at Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on Twitter Saturday. From his New Jersey golf club, Trump said: “Crazy Joe Scarborough and dumb as a rock Mika are not bad people, but their low rated […]

A Ukrainian military serviceman, Vitaliy Markiv, detained in Italy on suspicion of killing an Italian photojournalist is acting deputy platoon commander in the battalion of the National Guard of Ukraine named after General Serhiy Kulchytsky, member of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction and coordinator of the Kulchytsky battalion Andriy Antonischak has said. “I want to […]

The SBU Security Service of Ukraine has established the involvement of the Russian special services in a large-scale cyber attack with the use of the Petya.A ransomware in order to destabilize the socio-political situation in Ukraine, according to SBU’s website. “The available data, including those obtained through interaction with international anti-virus companies, suggest that the same hacker […]

Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko in Strasbourg took part in the farewell ceremony for former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died on June 16, 2017 at the age of 87. “Today here in Strasbourg, Germany, Europe and the whole world are saying goodbye to the great German, the great chancellor who united Germany, the great leader […]

Former Ukrainian serviceman Vitaliy Markiv, who is suspected of killing Italian photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli near the city of Sloviansk, Donetsk region, in May 2014, was arrested in Italy, Ukrainian Deputy Prosecutor General Yevhen Yenin said on Saturday. “The Prosecutor General’s Office was astounded with arrest of Ukrainian serviceman Vitaliy Markiv in Italy on suspicion put […]

Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has congratulated Malta on the completion of the successful presidency of the EU and Estonia on the start of its presidency on July 1, Poroshenko’s press service reported. Poroshenko sent a letter of gratitude and congratulations to Maltese President Marie-Louise Coleiro on the occasion of the successful completion of Malta’s presidency […]

CHISINAU – Moldovan President Igor Dodon expects his Party of Socialitst to win the parliamentary election in 2018. “We will win the parliamentary election in 2018 and demonstrate the seriousness of our intentions and plans to the whole world,” Dodon said at a solemn meeting on the occasion of the party’s 20th anniversary on Saturday. […]

The fire the fire in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, Kyiv region, was extinguished at 13:25 on Saturday, the State Emergencies Service of Ukraine reported. “Thanks to the combined use of ground and air forces the fire was extinguished at 13:25 on July 1,” the press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine said on […]

On Saturday, July 1, Ukraine began the presidency in the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization (BSEC) after Turkey, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine referring to the results of the 36th meeting of the BSEC Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs. “The 36th meeting of the Council of Ministers concluded with the […]

Ukraine’s state security service (SBU) says that the Russian security services were involved in a recent cyberattack that hit Ukraine. The SBU said on its website on July 1 that the cyberattack, which started in Ukraine and spread around the world on June 27, aimed to destroy important data and spread panic. Read more here

Ukraine is alleging the Russian security services were involved in launching a massive cyberattack that locked up computers across the world. The Ukrainian security agency, known as the SBU, said in a statement Saturday that similarities between the malicious software and previous attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure showes the Russian intelligence services took part. Read more here

Illegal armed formations, which on Friday attempted to take new positions in the so-called “gray zone” near the village of Kamyanka, Yasynuvata district, Donetsk region, have moved to their original positions, the press center spokesman, Anton Myronovych, told the ATO headquarters. “The attempt of pro-Russian illegal armed formations to occupy new positions in the so-called […]

The date of a meeting of the leaders of the Normandy Four countries (Germany, France, Ukraine, Russia) will be determined when there is progress in security issues in Donetsk and Luhansk regions and the hostages are released, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said. “Two key dimensions are very important for us: real security… and […]

MOSCOW – The majority of Russians consider the possible interference of Russian hackers with the presidential election in the United States unlikely (25%) or even deny such an event (44%), the Public Opinion Foundation said following a poll conducted among 1,500 respondents in 104 populated localities in 53 Russian entities on June 24-25. Fourteen percent […]

The Special Investigations Department of the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) of Ukraine has notified about change in previously announced suspicions and about new suspicions regarding crimes committed between February 18 and 20 in 2014 against protesters on Kyiv’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti, or Independence Square, brought against ex-president Viktor Yanukovych and his allies, Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a decree on Friday extending through 2018 sanctions against the EU that he imposed in retaliation for action by the West after the Kremlin’s military intervention in Ukraine. Putin’s move came in the same week that the EU formally approved a six-month extension of its sanctions against Russia, which were imposed after the invasion and […]

The massive cyber attacks that hit Ukraine this week have affected more than 2,000 victims across the country, the National Police said in a statement on Friday. Read more here

LONDON – The United States and Britain urged Russia on Friday to bring to justice all those responsible for the slaying of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov. A Russian court on Thursday convicted five men of murdering Nemtsov, but allies of the politician have said the investigation was a cover-up and that the people who had ordered […]

MOSCOW — Russia’s domestic security agency says two border guards got lost and ended up in Ukraine. Read more here

Ukraine and the United States are close to signing new defense agreements enabling Kyiv to purchase more defensive U.S. military equipment and play a role in manufacturing such equipment, a Ukrainian defense executive said on June 30. The agreements were announced during Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s June 20 visit to Washington, but details are still […]