Новости за 16.09.2017

Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko on Sept. 16 lambasted a bill on the creation of independent anti-corruption courts. Speaking at the annual Yalta European Strategy forum, Lutsenko effectively backed President Petro Poroshenko’s earlier claim that Ukraine has no time to create independent anti-corruption courts and needs to create anti-corruption chambers, or panels, at existing courts. The […]

UN peacekeepers should have access to the entire territory of Donbas. The mission  deployment is an interesting idea, but it does not mean lifting sanctions from Russia. This was announced by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, reports Reuters. “I find President Putin’s proposal to send the UN mission to protect the OSCE observers interesting,” she said, adding that she discussed […]

The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) has confirmed 442 (88 killed, 354 injured) civilian casualties occurring in Donetsk and Luhansk regions in 2016, according to its report entitled “Civilian casualties in eastern Ukraine 2016” published on Saturday, September 16. “The Mission confirmed 442 (88 killed, 354 injured) civilian casualties occurring in Donetsk and Luhansk regions […]

Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said that the Verkhovna Rada committee for tax policy is to draw up a new bill on the Financial Intelligence Service (FIS) within one month. “The committee within one month will draw up a new bill on Financial Intelligence Service. We will liquidate economic divisions of the SBU, Interior […]

The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) has already confirmed 383 civilian casualties: 68 killed and 315 injured since early 2017, Chief Monitor of the OSCE SMM to Ukraine Ertugrul Apakan has said. “The Ambassador concluded that in 2017 civilians continue to suffer due to the conflict the SMM has already confirmed 383 civilian casualties: 68 […]

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko during his visit to Canada on September 22 and September 23 could meet Canada’s leadership to discuss the role of the country in the negotiation process on settling the situation in Donbas, Ukrainian Ambassador to Canada Andriy Shevchenko has told Interfax-Ukraine. “We are preparing for the president’s visit to Toronto. The […]

BERLIN — Germany will have no choice but to restrict its economic ties with Turkey to pressure its NATO partner into releasing German citizens it imprisoned on political grounds, Chancellor Angela Merkel said in remarks published on Saturday. Relations between the two countries are strained by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s crackdown on opponents after a […]

MOSCOW – A Yakovlev Yak-130 combat-capable trainer aircraft crashed near the airfield Borisoglebsk on Saturday; both pilots are alive, the Russian Defense Ministry said. “The crew took the airplane away from nearby buildings and ejected safely,” the ministry said.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, during a meeting with US President Donald Trump, will discuss cooperation in the security sphere, as well as US assistance in the matter of reforms. This was announced by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin on the sidelines of the Yalta European Strategy forum, which was broadcast by the […]

Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, commenting on the possible arrival of former head of Odesa Regional Administration Mikheil Saakashvili in Kyiv next week, has said that Ukrainian society should decide what to do with populists. “Nothing. I don’t know what to do in these cases. I know how to build roads, how to invest in […]

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is to pay a working visit to the United States on September 18 through September 21 to take part in the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) and meet with leaders of some countries. The press service of the head of state reported that Poroshenko is to deliver a […]

Some 58% Europeans support Ukraine’s joining NATO, and only 48% are for Ukraine’s joining the European Union. This is evidenced by the findings of an opinion poll held by KANTAR PUBLIC and commissioned by Yalta European Strategy (YES). Citizens of seven EU member states were polled within the survey – Germany, France, Italy, Lithuania, Great […]

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said that Russians cannot take part in the UN peacekeeper mission in Donbas “We believe that it absolutely cannot be, as Russia is the aggressor country. If it is in the peacekeeper mission, this is inadmissible… Seriously, how Russia that actually occupied the area of Donbas could be in […]

Ukraine’s prime minister, Voldoymyr Groysman, said on Saturday the government was reviewing the way it sets domestic gas bills to make sure market prices are taken into account – a bid to answer demands under a $17.5-billion IMF aid programme. The long-delayed disbursement of a next tranche of IMF loans also depends on pension reform […]

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko during his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump will discuss cooperation in the security sphere and U.S. assistance in reforms, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said. “There is a list of issues. I cannot speak for the U.S. president what issues will be raise for discussion at the meeting, but […]

BEIRUT – A US-backed force battling the Islamic State group in eastern Syria said six of its fighters were wounded on Saturday in air strikes by regime and Russian warplanes. It is the first time the Syrian Democratic Forces, an alliance of Arab and Kurdish fighters, have said they have been hit by Russia. Read […]

Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. Valeriy Chaly says Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and U.S. President Donald Trump will discuss the results of the preliminary negotiations as well as plans for cooperation at a meeting in New York next week. “The contacts between Ukraine and the USA are developing successfully. An important summit will be held […]

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said that consultations regarding the proposal of Kyiv to deploy the UN peacekeeper mission in Donbas are being held. “The consultations how OSCE elements will cooperate (I have discussion this with the OSCE secretary general in details and we will also meet in New York) and how this peacekeepers’ […]

One Ukrainian soldier has been wounded when militants shelled Krymske (Luhansk region), the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s spokesman, Andriy Lysenko, has said. “No soldier was killed in the past 24 hours, but one soldier was wounded in Krymske during enemy’s shelling,” he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Saturday. Earlier the press center of the […]

  Retired U.S. General Keith B. Alexander, the longest-serving director of America’s National Security Agency, says most nations are not ready for the cyber attacks that could come their way. Ukraine has experienced the brunt of Russia’s cyber attacks in many ways, including attacks that temporarily knocked out the nation’s electrical power grid and government websites. […]

UN human rights special rapporteur Idriss Jazairy has rejected allegations that his conclusions from a fact-finding mission to Russia in April were influenced by a $50,000 donation to his mandate from the Russian Federation. The Algerian diplomat on September 15 responded to charges presented on September 13 in Geneva by Hillel Neuer of the advocacy […]

Near one of the restaurants in Koncha Zaspa, where at the moment President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and other high-ranking officials were, journalists were attacked by officers of Administration of State Guard of Ukraine, as Mykhail Tkach, journalist of anti-corruption programme Schemes informed on Facebook. “Just now in Koncha-Zaspa, near one of the restaurants, where President Poroshenko, Prime Minister Volodymyr […]

Prosecuting top officials accused of engaging in corruption is not “the task of the government,” Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said during a question and answer session at the Yalta European Strategy conference on Sept. 16. “The task of the government is not criminal prosecution of somebody but to institutionally fight corruption,” Groysman said. His […]

Russia will urge the United States to stick with the Iran nuclear deal at a meeting of the deal’s signatories on the sidelines of a United Nations General Assembly session next week, Russia’s UN envoy has said. “That is not only our message, but the rest of the participants and those that are outside are […]

Ukraine’s draft national budget for 2018 envisages borrowing of around $2 billion on the foreign market, which meets the requirements of the cooperation program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Ukrainian Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk has said. “We plan next year, and the IMF program contains this, (to raise) around $2 billion on the foreign […]