Новости за 28.12.2017

Kyiv’s Pechersky District Court has ruled to seize the UMH media holding owned by wanted, fugitive Ukrainian oligarch Serhiy Kurchenko, according to a court ruling of Dec. 28, published in the State Register of Court Rulings. Read more on here.

Naftogaz Ukrainy in the period from Dec. 21 to Dec. 26, 2017 repaid A, B and C series bonds for Hr 4.8 billion issued in 2013, the company’s press service has reported. The company noted the whole volume of bonds, whose yield was 10% per annum, was bought by Oschadbank. “Throughout the bond circulation period, Naftogaz […]

In January, the Russian military will strengthen the air defense of Crimea by new S-400 missile systems. Read more here.

The Main Military Clinical Hospital in Kyiv has received 24 Ukrainian soldiers released on Dec.27, and doctors estimate their condition as satisfactory. “24 soldiers expressed a desire to undergo examination and treatment in our military medical facility. Out of 24 patients, 18 were hospitalized in a therapeutic unit and six in a surgical unit. Fortunately, […]

Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin has been detained in Moscow days after staging a demonstration that authorities said was held without their permission. Read more here.

MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin says Russia’s actions in Syria have demonstrated the power of the nation’s modernized military to the world. Read more here.  

ODESA REGION – Ukraine is ready to resume purchases of natural gas from Russia if it is cheap and if the signing of respective contracts is transparent, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said. “What has happened in the past two years? We are energy independent. They [Russia] are knocking: can you take our gas? No, […]

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) is conducting a pretrial investigation involving possible embezzlement by the board chairman of Oschadbank and subordinates involving the write-off of $20.98 million on the accounts of Cypriot Opalcore Ltd and their further return to the state under the procedure special confiscation. The corresponding information is contained in the […]

Roman Romanov, the head of the national defense industry concern Ukroboronprom, denies accusations of mismanagement and refuses to step down, despite the fact that Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman advised him to do so. Romanov told online newspaper Liga.net that he would continue to execute his duties. During the cabinet meeting on Dec. 27, Groysman said he would […]

The total level of the poorness decreased in Ukraine by 15.1% during 2017 and the number of poor Ukrainians that work decreased by 18.5%. Oleksandr Reva, the Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine claimed this at the briefing broadcasted by 112 Ukraine. Read more here.

Children’s education is suffering under the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine, where schools are frequently damaged, the sound of shelling rings through playgrounds and students struggle with the psychological impacts of the fighting. Read more here.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed the laws that are needed to start reforming the health care system. “I’m launching medical reform. The year 2018 will be successful for its implementation. Medical reform will be successful when we participate together in decisive changes,” he said. In particular, the issue concerns the law on state financial […]

The appeal of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to Russian President Vladimir Putin dated March 1, 2014 with the request to use the Russian Armed Forces on the territory of Ukraine appeared “on the order of the Kremlin” to legitimize the aggression in Crimea, leader of the Force of Law NGO, ex-MP of the Batkivschyna […]

Another hearing of Kyiv’s Obolonsky district court began on Dec.28 in the case of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych who is accused of high treason, according to an UNIAN correspondent. Read more here.

European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Commissioner Johannes Hahn said he hoped that the prisoner swap conducted in Donbas on Dec.27 will lead to a complete ceasefire and implementation of the Minsk Agreements. “Eastern Ukraine: Very much welcome this humanitarian gesture which reunites families and constitutes an important trust building measure. Hope that this action will […]

Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said the citizens of Ukraine illegally held in Russia are not prisoners because they were tried under Russian laws, according to an UNIAN correspondent in Russia. Read more here.

MOSCOW – The Kremlin said on Dec.28 that Russia was analyzing its space sector after two failed satellite launches in as many months. Read more here.

Kyiv’s Shevchenkivsky Court released and put on house arrest two members of the paid thugs group that was active on the night of Feb. 18, 2014, during the EuroMaidan Revolution, suspected in a murder attempt against six activists in central Kyiv. Valeryi Smirnov, a prosecutor in the case regarding Oleh Heban and Serhiy Kostenko, said they used an assault […]

Ukrainian Social Policy Minister Andriy Reva has said his ministry intends to offer the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to allocate Hr 100 000 to each of the Ukrainian hostages released on Dec. 27. “We suggest that each of those who were released yesterday should be given Hr 100 000,” the minister said during a press […]

Ukrainian Member of Parliament from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc parliamentary faction and the presidential envoy in Parliament, Iryna Lutsenko, has said another round of negotiations on the exchange of prisoners began between Ukraine and the militants, according to 112 Ukraine TV channel. Read more here.

French Ambassador to Ukraine Isabelle Dumont has said that Paris intends to continue work on the release of all illegally detained Ukrainians, and also assured of support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity and independence. “I want to assure that we will continue working so that all the hostages return home and I also want to assure […]

MOSCOW – The Kremlin said on Dec.28 that a call by opposition leader Alexei Navalny to hold nationwide protests to back a boycott of next year’s presidential election would be investigated to see if it broke the law. Read more here.

Akhtem Seitablaev, the director got the main award of the Kyiv Film Festival Molodist for the military drama ‘Cyborgs’. The ‘Scythians Deer’ was given to him in the results of the Ukrainian Films Days that took place in Verkhovyna, Ivano-Frankivsk region as the press service of the festival reported. Read more here.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Dec.28 an explosion at a supermarket in St. Petersburg on Dec.27 was a “terrorist attack.” Read more here.

European leaders have praised a long-awaited exchange of prisoners between the government in Kyiv and Russia-backed separatists that enabled hundreds of former captives to return to their homes for the New Year holiday. Read more here.