Новости за 14.10.2017

Ukraine has banned a new Russian banknote that includes images from the annexed Ukrainian region of Crimea. The National Bank of Ukraine announced on October 13 that the new Russian 200 ruble ($3.50) bill showing a memorial in Sevastopol, a ruin in Chersonesus, and a map of Crimea would be illegal in Ukraine beginning on […]

Fighting is intensifying in Syria in a major operation to recapture areas under ISIL control. The battleground is around the cities of Raqqa and Deir Az Zor, where thousands of people are trapped. Read more here

Ukraine approached the implementation of the International Monetary Fund recommendations for the receipt of next tranche under the EFF extended financing program. Therefore, there is reason to expect its allocation before the end of this year. This was stated in Washington on October 13 during a panel discussion in the analytical center of the Atlantic Council, by Finance […]

ZHYTOMYR OBLAST – Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has ordered the payment in October of bonuses to servicemen who perform tasks in the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) zone in the country’s east. “I ordered Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak on the Day of the Defender of Ukraine, in addition to the standard wages, to pay holiday bonuses to […]

ODESA – Leading Japanese companies are considering the possibility of implementing investment projects in Odesa region. Relevant issues were discussed during a meeting of Odesa Regional Governor Maksym Stepanov with representatives of the Association of Japanese Companies in Ukraine, the press service of Odesa Regional State Administration reported. “We feel how dynamically the region develops […]

Russia has accounted for oil at $40 a barrel in its budget, the country’s finance minister Anton Siluanov told CNBC in a TV interview on Friday. Brent crude was trading above $57 on Friday, but the Russian minister said that the budget has taken into account price fluctuations. Read more here

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry views the Russian side’s refusal to Ukrainian doctors to examine Ukraine’s citizen Pavlo Hryb as intentional harming of his health. “The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry expresses strong protest over the new violation of human rights by Russia, ignoring norms of international law and ruling of the European Court of Human Rights No. […]

GENEVA — The United Nations warns some 4 million people across Ukraine are facing a desperate situation as winter approaches and are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance to survive the bitterly cold months ahead. Ukraine is into its fourth year of war, a war that the United Nations estimates has killed about 10,000 people and […]

MADRID – The Spanish government will take control of Catalonia if regional leader Carles Puigdemont replies ambiguously to Madrid’s question about whether he has declared independence from Spain, the interior minister said on Saturday. Puigdemont made a symbolic declaration of independence on Tuesday night, only to suspend it seconds later and call for negotiations with […]

ZHYTOMYR REGION – The financing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be increased from Hr 64.5 billion in 2017 to almost Hr 84 billion in 2018, according to the draft state budget, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko stressed. “While in 2017, some Hr 64.5 billion was provided to cover the needs of the Armed Forces, […]

An unmanned Russian cargo ship has been launched to take supplies to the six astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The Saturday launch from Russia’s main space facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, came after a two-day postponement and docking plan change. Read more here

Zhytomyr region – Since the beginning of this year, the Ukrainian army has received about 1,300 weapons and equipment, and more than 1,000 will be delivered by the end of the year, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said. “All in all, some 1,300 pieces of weapons and military equipment and more than 22,000 missiles and […]

For the past year, the world has reeled at escalating reports of how Russia “hacked” the 2016 US presidential election, by stealing emails from the Democrats, attacking voter registration lists and voting machines, and running a social media shell game. Such is the focus on Russian meddling that US congressional investigators are increasingly aggressive in asking the big tech […]

Russia’s hybrid military forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in Donbas 21 times in the past 24 hours, with one Ukrainian soldier reported as wounded in action (WIA), according to the press service of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters. In the Donetsk sector, the militants had been shelling the Ukrainian positions near the town of Avdiyivka […]

An unmanned Progress space freighter carrying supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) was launched by Russia from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 14. The Soyuz 2.1a rocket carrying the ship successfully reached orbit eight minutes after taking off at 11:47 am Moscow time (10:47 Prague time), a Russian space agency commentator said […]

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has urged politicians to join efforts in order to prevent Ukraine from losing its independence because of their squabbles. “It’s not the military who lost her independence at the time. It’s politicians who lacked responsibility to consolidate in the face of an external threat. As concerns the current political elite, it […]

The leader of Batkivshchyna party and ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko confirmed on Oct. 13 what many were expecting: that she will run for the president of Ukraine. The election is scheduled for 2019. Tymoshenko said on air on NewsOne TV station that she will run for president “to lift Ukraine from its knees.” It will […]

The Security Service of Ukraine warns about a massive cyber-attack on state bodies and big private companies, as their press service informs. “The main aim is to hinder normal operation of information systems which may destabilize the situation in the country. The SBU experts received data that the attack may be orchestrated through software updates, including widespread applied […]

Ukraine finance minister Oleksandr Danylyuk uses an interview with GlobalMarkets to take on the country’s critics, insisting that it has not only dealt with the challenges but has manages to implement tough reforms. Ukraine has no intention on easing up on its reform agenda as it heads towards presidential and parliamentary elections in 2019, Oleksandr […]

Nikita Khrushchev’s great-granddaughter Nina Khrushcheva, who is Professor of International Affairs at The New School in New York, has told UNIAN of what she had gained from having family ties with the former first secretary of the Communist Party Central Committee, as well as of the way modern Russia is following the path of the […]

Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States Valeriy Chaly has met with U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker, according to the Facebook page of the Ukrainian Embassy in the United States. “The diplomats discussed the situation caused by Russian aggression in Donbas and next steps to restore sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, in particular […]

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is confident that Ukraine will become a member of NATO. “There is no doubt that future officers and generals, ambassadors and ministers are among these teenagers who are mature beyond their years… Perhaps the future president, and perhaps even the NATO secretary general (is among them), because Ukraine will without doubt […]

Ukrainians celebrate Defender Day on October 14. Today Ukraine honors and pays tribute to all those who fought and are currently fighting for state sovereignty. Ukraine’s Defender Day was officially established on October 14, 2014 by a presidential decree “in order to honor the courage and heroism of the defenders of Ukraine’s independence and territorial […]

Batkivschyna party leader Yulia Tymoshenko plans to run for president of Ukraine in 2019. “I won’t entrust this to anyone else this time around. I will be running for presidential office. We will win so as to put the country on its feet again,” Tymoshenko said on the NewsOne television channel. Tymoshenko recalled that she […]

A rally titled “Self-determination for Zakarpattia,” the protest against which was expressed by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, was held near the Ukrainian Embassy in Budapest on October 13, 2017, according to Ambassador of Ukraine to Hungary Liubov Nepop. “The rally near the Embassy of Ukraine in Budapest, the protest against which was expressed by the […]