Новости за 03.12.2017

Thousands of demonstrators — the police said as few as 2,500, while the organizers said as many as 20,000 — marched in Kyiv on Dec. 3 to demand passing a law on presidential impeachment to remove President Petro Poroshenko from office. They walked from Taras Shevchenko Park through Khreshshatyk Street to Institutska Street and then to […]

Ukrainian Navy conducted joint trainings of the PASSEX type with the USS James E. Williams destroyer. This is stated on the page of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Navy on Facebook. Read more here

MOSCOW — Anti-corruption campaigner Mikheil Saakashvili is urging Ukrainians to set up a protest camp in Kiev’s main square if parliament fails to adopt a law on presidential impeachment within a week. Read more here

BUCHAREST – Romanian protesters clashed with riot police on Saturday when they stopped construction workers from building a Christmas fair at the site of anti-corruption demonstrations in Bucharest. Read more here

A “popular impeachment” march organized by Mikheil Saakashvili, the leader of the opposition Movement of New Forces party, the former governor of Ukraine’s Odesa region, was held in Kyiv on December 3, according to an UNIAN correspondent. Read more here

The Embassy of Ukraine in France is making every effort to liberate the journalist Roman Sushchenko. This was stated in an interview with Ukrinform, by the Ukrainian ambassador to France Oleh Shamshur. Read more here

SEOUL – US President Donald Trump and his administration are “begging for nuclear war,” North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said Saturday. Read more here

WASHINGTON — When President Trump fired his national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, in February, White House officials portrayed him as a renegade who had acted independently in his discussions with a Russian official during the presidential transition and then lied to his colleagues about the interactions. Read more here

One Ukrainian soldier was wounded, two more injured in the Donbas conflict zone on Dec.2, according to the spokesperson of the Ministry of Defence Oleksandr Motuzianyk. Read more here

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in a televised interview with the Belarussian channel STV said that aides to the leaders of the Normandy Four group could resume contacts in the near future, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Read more here

The deployment of a peacekeeping mission in Donbas would be an acceptable step, even though it will not completely resolve the problem, first Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk said. “I support the idea of peacekeepers, not as a way of completely resolving the issue but as an important step. But as a matter of fact it […]

Some 3.000 people gathered in Shevchenko Park in downtown Kyiv to participate in the “March for Impeachment”, according to Ukrainska Pravda. Read more here

The expanding federal investigation into Russian interference in last year’s election is shining new light on the central role played by one member of President Trump’s inner circle — his son-in-law and top advisor Jared Kushner — in reaching out to Moscow. Read more here

Head of the European Union’s Delegation to Ukraine Hugues Mingarelli has warned Ukrainians about the return of populists to power as a result of public disappointment with reforms. Mingarelli called civil society and the international community to unite in order ensure that those persons who governed Ukraine from 1991 through 2014 are not able to […]

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said over 60 percent of international companies present in Ukraine have closed their offices in Moscow and are now managed from European headquarters. “I want to thank all international companies that have changed their management structure in the region. More than 60 percent of the companies present in Ukraine, which […]

Russia halted the development of railroad mobile missile systems of the new generation, Rosiyskaya gazeta found out from their source in the Russian defence industry. Read more here

Russia must be banned from February’s Winter Olympics because “the long, cold winter of doping continues to maintain its icy grip” in the country, says a whistleblower. Read more here

A U.S. Boeing P-8 Poseidon left the airbase in Sicily on Dec.2, and operated a reconnaissance flight near Russia’s border on the Black Sea, according to Interfax sourcing monitoring data of aviation resources. Read more here

Russia’s hybrid military forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in Donbas 30 times in the past 24 hours, with three Ukrainian soldiers reported as wounded in action (WIA), according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters. Read more here

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine during the development of the draft law on the national budget of Ukraine for 2018 approved amendments to the main forecast indicators of economic and social development for 2018-2020, according to the website of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. According to the ministry, the consumer price index […]

Three citizens of Russia have applied for refugee status with the Ukrainian State Border Service over the past week. “One of them has arrived this morning at the Kyiv-Pasazhyrsky checkpoint and, while undergoing formalities, made an oral request that he be recognized as a refugee or a person in need of special protection. The Russian […]

The ORDO militants fabricated a fake letter from residents of Hladosovo to the first deputy chairman of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, Alexander Hug, in which they “complained” about the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This is reported by the Ukrainian side of the Joint Center for Monitoring and Coordination, the press center of […]

WASHINGTON – The special counsel examining alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election removed a top FBI investigator from his team for exchanging text messages with a colleague that expressed anti-Trump views, two U.S. newspapers reported on Saturday. Read more here

Critics claim the US President has effectively admitted to obstructing justice, by now appearing to suggest on Twitter that he knew ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn had lied to the FBI when he fired him in February. Read more here

Steven Pifer, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, who is now an expert at the U.S-based Brookings Institution, has expressed doubts about the rationality of holding a referendum in Ukraine on joining NATO and the EU. Read more here