Новости за 17.02.2020

Ukrainian officials have unveiled a monument at Kyiv’s international airport to commemorate the victims of a Ukrainian airliner that crash in Iran last month. Read more here.

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The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian chargé d’affaires ad interim in Kyiv on Monday and expressed protest over the detention of four Ukrainian fishermen by the Russian side in the Sea of Azov. “We demand that the Russian side steadily adhere to the international and legal obligations and treaties which it is party to […]

A Russian activist was detained Monday after he chained himself to the front doors of the nation’s top security agency to protest its handling of a controversial criminal case. Read more here.

Washington remembers Ukraine’s EuroMaidan Revolution on 6th anniversary The Ukrainian community held a candlelight vigil to commemorate killed protestors on Feb. 16. Syria’s Russian-backed Assad steps up assault near Turkey’s border  The Syrian dictatorship backed by Russian and Iranian allies are bombing the final rebel-controlled areas of Idlib and Aleppo provinces. Myrotvorets Center adds former Western top officials to […]

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor has said that no officials at the State Department ever seriously considered conspiracy theories alleging that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 presidential elections to undermine U.S. President Donald Trump. Read more here. Subscribe to Kyiv Post Ukraine Digest Subscribe Please, fill in the Email field

Shadow transactions in Ukraine account for 23.8% of official GDP, or Hr 846 billion, or $34.60 billion, according to a study. Read more here. Subscribe to Kyiv Post Ukraine Digest Subscribe Please, fill in the Email field

Four Ukrainian prosecutors work in the international investigation team in the case of the crash of the MH17 flight of Malaysia Airlines, the press service Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) has said. “Now four prosecutors are involved in the work of the international investigation team from the Office of the Prosecutor General. At the national […]

Forty days after the downing of Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752, Iranian families of the crash’s victims organized a commemoration ceremony in front of Iran’s embassy in Kyiv on Feb. 17. “The Iranian regime won’t let us grieve in peace,” organizer Mohammad, who asked not to disclose his surname out of fear of retribution from […]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday after meeting U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last week that he had felt a more constructive approach from Washington when it came to the U.S.-Russia strategic dialogue. Read more here.

Ukraine since the beginning of the marketing year 2019/2020 (MY, July-June) and as of February 17, 2020 had exported 38.36 million tonnes of grain and legumes, which is 7.5 million tonnes more than on the same date of the last MY. According to the information and analytical portal of the agro-industrial complex of Ukraine, to […]

Ukraine does not yet plan to evacuate 23 its citizens from a Diamond Princess cruise liner, which now is on a quarantine in Japan, deputy health minister Viktor Liashko said at a press conference in Kyiv on  Feb. 17. “Now we are focused on the evacuation from the quarantine zone (in Wuhan). Maybe, later on, […]

A months-long investigation by Bellingcat and its partners, The Insider and Der Spiegel, has uncovered that the assassination of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin last August was planned and organized by Russia’s FSB security agency. The preparation for the murder was supervised directly by Eduard Bendersky, chairman of the Vympel Charitable Fund For Former FSB Spetsnaz […]

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko at a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mohammed Javad Zarif has demanded to investigate and report the reasons for the downing of a Ukrainian plane near Tehran. Read more here.

Myrotvorets Center, a website allegedly connected to Ukrainian security agencies, has added the names of signatories to a controversial peace plan for Ukraine to its database of people it claims have committed crimes against the country. The list includes former top American, British and European officials, as well as several Russians and three Ukrainians. The […]

Federal prosecutors are weighing new charges against associates of Rudy Giuliani in connection with a company that paid him $500,000, according to people familiar with the investigation. Read more here. SUPPORT THE KYIV POST Independent Ukraine needs independent journalism Subscribe Donate

Director of Integrated Gas Division at NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine Andriy Favorov says the company has presented the Tryzub (“Trident”Ukraine’s national coat of arms) strategy to boost the country’s gas production within the next decade years. Read more here. SUPPORT THE KYIV POST Independent Ukraine needs independent journalism Subscribe Donate

A delegation from Saudi Arabia has begun its work in Ukraine to familiarize itself with the system of state control over the production of poultry meat and poultry health, the State Service of Ukraine on Food Safety and Consumer Protection has reported. Read more here.

A Russian court on Feb. 17 ordered a woman who escaped from a virus quarantine to return back to the hospital she fled and stay under quarantine for at least two more days. The ruling underlined the chaotic public health approaches being taken to stop the spread of the new coronavirus from China. Read more […]

Russia said on Feb. 14 that plans by the United States to deploy weapons in space would deal an irreversible blow to the current security balance in space, the RIA news agency cited the foreign ministry as saying. Read more here. Subscribe to Kyiv Post Ukraine Digest Subscribe Please, fill in the Email field

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov is on a working visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran on Feb. 15-17 at the invitation of Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani to discuss problematic issues in the investigation of the Ukrainian plane crash. According to the […]

A bit like with Brexit, after many of us have shuffled off this mortal coil, debates over the virtues and vices of Nord Stream 2 may still be grinding on. As the controversial gas pipeline linking Russian supplies and European consumers via Germany reaches the seabed below Danish waters, this princely project faces renewed scrutiny […]

A Russian-administered court in Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula ruled on Feb. 16 to detain four Ukrainian fishermen for 10 days as civil punishment for “illegally fishing” in the Sea of Azov where they were detained and had their boat impounded the previous day. Read more here.

Russia’s hybrid military forces on Feb. 16mounted nine attacks on Ukrainian positions in Donbas, eastern Ukraine. Read more here. Subscribe to Kyiv Post Ukraine Digest Subscribe Please, fill in the Email field

Ukrainian grain exports from sea ports rose to 1.17 million tonnes in the week of Feb. 8-14 from 755,000 tonnes a week earlier, preliminary data from APK-Inform consultancy showed on Feb. 17. Read more here. Subscribe to Kyiv Post Ukraine Digest Subscribe Please, fill in the Email field