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UN: 2014 a devastating year for children
UNICEF declared 2014 a devastating year for children, saying “never in recent memory have so many children been subjected to such unspeakable brutality”. ||| United Nations – The United Nations children’s agency UNICEF declared 2014 a devastating year for children on Monday with as many as 15 million caught in conflicts in Central...
Minsk agreement is the only way to peace – Belgian foreign minister
Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Didier Reynders has said that a ceasefire in Donbas can be achieved only through the implementation of the Minsk agreement. He said this after a meeting with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk in Kyiv on Monday, an Ukrinform correspondent reported. “We strongly support the...
Ukrainian, Canadian defense ministries sign declaration of intent
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the Ministry of National Defense of Canada have signed a declaration of intent to continue cooperation to strengthen the capacity of the Ukrainian government and its security forces to defend Ukraine’s territorial integrity and its people. The document was signed Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan...
Hontareva requests banks to keep rate at 16 UAH/USD
The National Bank of Ukraine states the absence of improvement of the situation on the financial market of Ukraine, but requests the banks not to weaken the rate lower than 16 UAH/USD. The source in financial circles informs, referring to results of a meeting of NBU governor Valeria Hontareva with representatives of largest banks, Apostrophe...
Several thousand Russian soldiers remain in Ukraine – NSDC
The number of Russian troops in Ukraine remains unchanged and amounts to several thousand servicemen. National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) information and analytical center spokesman Andriy Lysenko said this at a briefing on Monday, an Ukrinform correspondent reported. “We do not have the exact number, but these are several thousand...
Donetsk airport terminals suitable for defense – NSDC
Donetsk airport terminals are destroyed, but still suitable for the defense. Spokesman of NSDC Information-Analytical Center Andriy Lysenko told a briefing, Ukrinform’s correspondent reported. “The old and new terminals are destroyed at the Donetsk airport, but there is the ability to keep the defense, to repel the attacks and to meet...
Yanukovych changes mind to be president
Viktor Yanukovych Jr. resigned as head of the Automobile Federation of Ukraine (AFU). This is stated in his address posted on the AFU website. “Since my life principle has always been compulsory division between motor racing and politics, in order that the Automobile Federation of Ukraine further developed, I withdraw from the leadership of...
Russia to resume gas supply to Ukraine on December 11
Ukraine will start taking on December 11 the Russian gas for which it paid on December 6, the press service of PJSC Ukrtransgaz has told an Ukrinform reporter. “Ukrtransgaz got the instruction from the [Naftogaz of Ukraine] management to prepare the transport system for the receipt of Russian gas from December 11. The instruction came this...
Hroisman offers to promptly abolish parliamentary immunity
Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Hroisman supports an initiative on the prompt abolition of parliamentary immunity. He said this at the Conciliation Board, Ukrinform reports. “As regards the removal of immunity, I personally, as Chairman of the parliament support it … I really would like that we reviewed it as soon as possible and...
Yatseniuk urges MPs to adopt package of laws for survival
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has called on the Verkhovna Rada to adopt a package of economic laws that are necessary to save the country in the current situation. He said this after a meeting with Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Didier Reynders, an Ukrinform correspondent reported. “The situation is...