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Slovakia to increase capacity for gas exports to Ukraine
Slovakia`s gas operator Eustream has announced an increase of gas exports to Ukraine by 2.8 million cubic meters, according to the company`s report. The operator of Slovakia`s gas transportation system, Eustream, will increase capacity for gas transmission to Ukraine in the first quarter of 2017 by 2.8 million cubic meters per day, the company...
Escalation in Donbas: Russian militants attacked Ukrainian positions 42 times in last day
Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 42 times in the past 24 hours, according to the press service of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters. In the Mariupol sector, the enemy used banned 120mm and 82mm mortars to shell the town of Krasnohorivka, and the villages of Shyrokyne and...
Putin on revision of Sentsov verdict: ”Appropriate conditions should ripen”
During the meeting of the Council for Culture and Arts and of the Council on the Russian language of the Russian Federation in St. Petersburg, Russian film director Alexander Sokurov appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to reconsider the verdict of Ukrainian citizen Oleh Sentsov. Putin refused, citing the fact that ”in a Russian way and...
Ukraine should watch out for Russian retaliation over missile drills – analyst
Ukrainian political expert Oleksandr Khara spoke with Ukraine Today on missile drills near Crimea and the Russian threats of a harsh response. ”Russia is trying to make a grip over Ukraine, to threaten it by military means and to wage its hybrid war, so it`s a natural reaction of Ukrainian military to improve their ability to defend the country...
Ukraine’s Most Overlooked Reform Could Bring in Billions
Of the key battles fought in post-Maidan Ukraine, the one over land reform attracts little attention. That’s a shame, too. Parliament’s unwillingness to allow the sale of private farmland “is the biggest source of immediately available economic growth that the government has failed to utilize,” Swedish economist Anders Åslund has...
Ukrainian and Polish Presidents criticize European Commission`s move to grant Gazprom access to OPAL
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and President of Poland Andrzej Duda on Friday, December 2, delivered a Joint Statement calling for the revision of the European Commission`s decision that allows Gazprom to increase volume of gas supply to Europe bypassing Ukraine. ”Ukraine and the Republic of Poland were stunned by the European Commission`s...
NBU estimates Ukraine`s international reserves at $15.3 bln as of Dec 1
The National Bank of Ukraine estimates the country`s international reserves as of December 1 at about US$15.3 billion. ”We estimate reserves we plan to have as of December 1 at about $15.3 billion. Perhaps, this figure could be adjusted later, but it is about $15.3 [billion],” NBU Deputy Governor Oleh Churiy said on Thursday, December 1. Speaking...
Ukraine reports successful testing of surface-to-air missiles
Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Viktor Muzhenko says Ukraine has successfully completed the testing of guided medium-range surface-to-air missiles near occupied Crimea. ”Flight tests of guided medium-range surface-to-air missiles have been successfully completed. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have made a great leap forward...
Russia denies OSCE members access to Ukrainian journalist Sushchenko
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic says the Russian authorities have not allowed OSCE members to visit illegally imprisoned Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko. ”On November 3, I wrote to the Foreign Minister again raising the case of Roman Sushchenko, a Paris correspondent of the Ukrainian National News Agency,...
Son of Ukrainian journalist detained in Russia asks to free his dad
Maksym, son of Ukrinform reporter Roman Sushchenko had recorded a video message, where he asks for help to free his father from a Russian prison, in a desperate attempt to make the Russian authorities reconsider their illegal move to arrest the Ukrainian man, Ukraine Today reports. The message of Maksym Sushchenko was published by Russian lawyer...