Section: News & Summaries
3 Ukrainian soldiers killed, 8 wounded in Donbas in last day
Three Ukrainian servicemen were killed in action in ATO zone over the last day, eight more servicemen were wounded in action. “Ukrainian troops incurred these losses in the Donetsk and Mariupol sectors,” said Colonel Andriy Lysenko, spokesman of Administration of the President of Ukraine on ATO-related issues at a press-briefing at Ukraine Crisis...
Hryvnia trades at UAH 25.19 to dollar on interbank market
Hryvnia quotations against the dollar on the interbank currency market on Monday set at UAH 25.14/25.19 to the dollar by the middle of trade, a broker at a commercial bank has told an UaPosition correspondent.Hryvnia quotes against the euro have settled at UAH 27.9880/28.0380, while those against the Russian ruble have settled at UAH...
Juncker plans to visit Russia in June
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has agreed to attend an event in Russia next month, a Commission spokeswoman said on Monday, in a move that may stir debate on the EU`s fraught relations with Moscow, according to Reuters.”President Juncker has been invited and plans to participate in the St. Petersburg International Economic...
Poroshenko appoints Gerasimov as his new envoy in Rada
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree appointing Artur Gerasimov as presidential envoy in the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine`s parliament.The text of the relevant decree is posted on the president`s official website.”I order to appoint Artur Gerasimov presidential envoy in the Verkhovna Rada (by consent),” the document says.As...
EBRD to reduce investment in Ukraine in 2016
President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Suma Chakrabarti says that Ukraine`s political impasse has paralyzed decision-making in the first quarter so the Bank will invest less in the country this year, according to Reuters.”This year, I don`t think we`ll get anywhere near 1 billion euros because, frankly, the...
Three Ukrainian reconnaissance officers killed in mortar attack
A group of Ukrainian reconnaissance officers came under mortar fire in the Mariupol ”M” sector, three of them were killed and one was seriously wounded, according to the TSN television news service.The press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) headquarters has not commented on these casualties yet.Meanwhile, eight paratroopers have...
IS plot to bomb Three Lions supporters when England play Russia at Euro 2016
IS fanatics are plotting to use suicide bombers, guns and even drones carrying chemical weapons to attack Three Lions fans in Marseille when England play Russia at Euro 2016, according to The Sun.Police say data found on a laptop used by Salah Abdeslam, mastermind of the Paris and Brussels attacks, outlines a plan to target England supporters as...
Govt commission to report causes behind 17 deaths in fire near Kyiv
A government commission on Wednesday will inform the Cabinet of Ministers about the circumstances of the fire in a nursing home in the village of Litochky of Kyiv region, which killed 17 people, according to the press service of Ukraine`s Economic Development and Trade Ministry.”On Wednesday, the commission should inform the Cabinet of Ministers...
Russian officials may be banned from using foreign apps – media
Russia`s Economic Development Ministry has proposed to ban officials and military officials from using applications of foreign developers for working contacts, the Kommersant newspaper said on Monday, TASS reported.The corresponding proposal was already sent to the Russian president, the newspaper noted. ”For working contacts, it is planned to...
Strelkov creates movement for unification of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia
Former ”Defense Minister” of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People`s Republic (DPR) Igor Girkin, nom de guerre Strelkov, has announced the creation of an All-Russia national movement whose task is to unify Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, according to Russia`s TV Channel Dozhd.The declared goals of the movement are to ”revive Russia as a Russian...