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North Korea fires Scud-class ballistic missile, Japan protests
North Korea fired at least one short-range ballistic missile on Monday that landed in the sea off its east coast, the latest in a fast-paced series of missile tests defying world pressure and threats of more sanctions, according to Reuters. The missile was believed to be a Scud-class ballistic missile and flew about 450 km (280 miles), South...
6 renewable energy facilities to be launched in Lviv region in 2017
Chairman of Lviv Regional State Administration Oleh Syniutka announces that two wind farms, three solar power plants, and at least one hydroelectric power station will be put into operation in Lviv region before the end of the year, according to the Ukrainian online newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda. ”Besides that stations that have already been...
War in Donbas to crawl into 2018 – U.S. military intel
The fighting in eastern Ukraine between Russia-supported militants and Ukraine government forces will continue in 2018, according to the report by Director of U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency Vincent Stewart. The conflict ”is likely to persist throughout the coming year as hopes dim for full implementation of the Minsk Agreements,” according to...
Climate activists demand delay of public hearings on Nord Stream-2
Greenpeace Russia and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) have appealed to Russia`s Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Sergei Donskoy with a request to postpone public hearings on assessment of the environmental impact of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline construction, according to Kommersant. Despite the fact that the information on the date...
Donbas hostage swap: militants demand release of ex-Berkut troops, terrorists, murderers – Gerashchenko
Pro-Russian militants include in their requirements for the exchange of Ukrainian hostages the demand for the release of former [Yanukovych era police task force] Berkut officers, terrorists and murderers, Ukraine`s humanitarian envoy in the Trilateral Contact Group for the peaceful settlement in Donbas, First Deputy Chair of the Verkhovna Rada...
Naftogaz forecasts 17% drop in gas imports from Europe
National oil and gas holding Naftogaz of Ukraine predicts a reduction by 17% in the daily natural gas imports from Europe in June 2017 against May 2017, to 24-25 million cubic meters per day, Commercial Director of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine Yuriy Vitrenko said during the presentation of the company`s draft development strategy May 24. ”In June,...
Ukraine’s Krasnohorivka under Russian shelling on Sunday: Hospital, school buildings damaged
Russia`s hybrid military forces have been shelling residential areas of the Ukrainian-controlled town of Krasnohorivka in Donbas for two hours on Sunday, May 28, according to chief of the Main Police Department in Donetsk region Viacheslav Abroskin. ”Krasnohorivka. At 06:40 local time, militants started shelling the town. There are reports about...
Ukrainians appeal to Macron over Putin`s political prisoners
Relatives of Ukrainians jailed by Russia in political cases have appealed to French President Emmanuel Macron to demand their release when he meets Vladimir Putin on Monday, according to The Local. In a letter published Friday, relatives and activists urged Macron to ”express to Vladimir Putin our demand to free all the political hostages of the...
Another international gas trader enters Ukraine
Gas trader DufEnergy (Switzerland) in late April established its subsidiary company in Ukraine for trade in natural gas and other energy resources, DufEnergy Ukraine (Kyiv), according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, OilNews reports. The founders of DufEnergy Ukraine are DufEnergy Trading SA (Switzerland) and DufEnergy SA...
Ukraine`s forex reserves expand to US$17.6 bln
The foreign currency reserves of Ukraine as of today are US$17.6 billion, according to Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine Oleg Churiy. ”Our international reserves are actively growing, mainly due to the purchase of foreign currency. As of today they make up $17.6 billion,” Churiy said on Thursday, May 25. As UaPosition reported,...