Новости за 10.09.2017

BEIJING — China is joining France and Britain in announcing plans to end sales of gasoline and diesel cars. China’s industry ministry is developing a timetable to end production and sale of traditional fuel cars and will promote development of electric technology, state media on Sunday cited a Cabinet official as saying. Read more here

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said Ukraine together with the whole world will continue to fight for the release of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov, illegally sentenced in the Russian Federation. “I am grateful to the artists who support the irresistible spirit of the nation by their works, open the world the courage, dignity and honor […]

The situation in the Donbas conflict zone remained tense until midnight of September 9, as the Ukrainian Army HQ informs. In Donetsk sector after 6 pm, the Russia-backed terrorists attacked Ukrainian strongholds near Avdiivka six times, using grenade launchers, heavy machine guns, and small arms. They also attacked Zaitseve with the same arms, and fired 82-mm mines near […]

MOSCOW — With a visit from President Vladimir Putin, Moscow has inaugurated an innovative 32-acre (13-hectare) park that mimics features of Russia’s landscape on land where a notoriously unsightly hotel once sprawled. The Zaryadye Park’s opening Saturday came as part of observances commemorating Moscow’s 870th anniversary. The park includes artificial micro-climate areas with plants representing […]

Nato countries must deepen security co-operation in the face of rising tensions with Russia, top Baltic defence officials have urged, as Moscow prepares to launch a big military exercise. EU countries should prioritise a so-called “military Schengen” deal to allow freer movement of troops across frontiers to respond to crises in a region unnerved by […]

Ukraine might lose its second largest wheat export market, Egypt, due to new wheat import requirements that favour rival Russia, Ukraine’s acting agriculture minister said on Friday. Ukraine exported around 2.5 million tonnes of wheat to Egypt in the 2016/17 season, or about 14 percent of the country’s total wheat exports of 17.5 million tonnes, […]