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Lviv honours victims of Sknyliv air show accident
The victims of the tragedy that occurred during an air show at Sknyliv air field on July 27, 2002, are being commemorated in Lviv.After the morning liturgy, that took place near the Lviv airport, the participants of the commemorating events walked to the memorial to the victims of the worst tragedy in the history of air shows, Ukraine Today...
Minsk talks: Ukraine concerned over militant attacks on OSCE SMM`s UAVs
Ukraine has voiced concern over the systematic attacks of the ro-Russian militants in Donbas on the unmanned aerial vehicles operated by the OSCE`s Special Monitoring Mission (SMM), according to Darka Olifer, the press-secretary of Ukraine`s envoy to the Contact Group on Donbas settlement and former president of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma.”Systematic...
Controversial religious procession reaches Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra: No incidents reported
In early July, in western Ukrainian Ternopil region and in eastern Ukrainian Donetsk region a ”Cross procession for peace” started simultanioulsy, launched by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. On July 27, the two columns converged in the capital city of Kyiv, where a prayer service was held at St. Volodymyr`s Hill. The...
U.S. delivers batch of UAVs worth $12 mln to Ukraine
The United States has handed over to the Armed Forces of Ukraine a batch of modern unmanned aerial vehicles worth more than US$12 million, the General Staff of the AFU wrote on Facebook.Pursuant to agreements reached earlier, another load of international technical aid has arrived in Kyiv today, July 27, from Ukraine`s strategic partner, the...
”Russian trace” in cyber attacks on Ukraine companies: NSDC
Cyber attacks on Ukrainian companies were developed in Russia for at the very least six months, Valentyn Petrov, head of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine`s information security department, said in an interview with Germany`s ZDF, the NSDC press service reported. ”It was a process that lasted for at least six months,...
Luhansk militant leader is to create task group on talks with Savchenko
The leader of the so-called ”Luhansk People`s Republic” terrorist organization (LPR) Igor Plotnitsky allegedly ordered to set up a workgroup to conduct talks with Ukrainian MP Nadia Savchenko, pro-militant websites reported Wednesday, Ukraine Today reports.The statement comes following Savchenko`s controversial statements on the need to hold...
Ukraine’s Deadly Profession: Three Journalists Attacked in July
On July 20, investigative journalist Pavel Sheremet was assassinated in Kyiv. Sheremet hosted a morning show at Radio Vesti and was a top reporter at Ukrainska Pravda. A crusading journalist and native of Minsk, Belarus, he had already been expelled from both Belarus and Russia. He was killed by a car bomb.It would be easy to dismiss...
Ukraine won`t return Yanukovych`s $3 mln loan to Russia
Ukrainian Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said Ukraine is not going to return to the Russian Federation a $3 billion loan that Russian President Vladimir Putin and then Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych agreed to in December 2013, according to espreso.tv.”Our position is that they forced Ukraine to borrow that loan under political...
IMF to meet on Ukraine late in August: Finance Ministry
Ukraine`s Finance Ministry said a meeting of the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which may address a new disbursement to Ukraine, could take place late in August, according to espreso.tv.”We`ve completed the negotiations, and now it is for the IMF to decide when it`s going to schedule the meeting,” Ukrainian Finance...
Russian troops to provoke ATO forces to violate Minsk accords: Ukraine intel
On July 27-28, the combined Russian-separatist forces will try to provoke the Ukrainian Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) forces to open fire to prove the latter`s violation of the Minsk agreements.”The Center of information warfare (Novocherkassk) of the Center of territorial troops of the Southern Military District (Rostov-on-Don) of the Russian...