Section: News & Summaries

      Militants arrange shelling near Mariupol
      Dec05

      Militants arrange shelling near Mariupol

      Terrorist attacks have already reached Mariupol, controlled by Ukrainian troops. The ATO press center informs. “The settlement of Chermalyk was shelled twice near Mariupol,” the headquarters noted.

      Tank attack of terrorists repulsed near Luhansk
      Dec05

      Tank attack of terrorists repulsed near Luhansk

      The militants stepped up firing positions of ATO forces to the north and northwest of Luhansk. Head of the Information Resistance group Dmytro Tymchuk wrote on Facebook. “Intensity of shelling positions of Ukrainian troops in the north and northwest of Luhansk increased. Before, a considerable artillery group of militants came to the area...

      Militants kill three civilians in Donbas
      Dec05

      Militants kill three civilians in Donbas

      Three civilians have been killed due to shelling in Donbas in the past 24 hours, the press center for the anti-terrorist operation has reported. “Reports of three civilians killed and three more injured have been received over the past 24 hours,” the anti-terrorist operation headquarters reported. As reported, according to the...

      Ukraine set for Dec 9 truce

      Ukraine and the pro-Russian rebels said on Thursday they had agreed to halt fire on December 9 under the terms of a truce. …read more Source:...

      Ukraine News Roundup | December 4
      Dec04

      Ukraine News Roundup | December 4

      It’s Not Just Ukraine: Putin Has the Whole Region Cornered via PoliticoPifer: Congress Should OK Arms for Ukraine, but Not Sanctions on Russia via The HillUkrainian Journalists Oppose Kyiv’s New Information Ministry via RFE-RLVideo: Yale Historian Tim Snyder on Ukraine and Us via Chicago Humanities FestivalEuroMaidan One Year Later...

      Ukraine’s New Foreign-Born Ministers Vow to Accelerate Economic Reforms
      Dec04

      Ukraine’s New Foreign-Born Ministers Vow to Accelerate Economic Reforms

      US- and Lithuanian-Born Officials Will Be Independent, Competent—and New to Governing in Kyiv The race is on. With Ukraine’s finances running thin and the country needing a bigger bailout from its western allies, the country’s new cabinet took office this week pledging to floor the accelerator on the spending cuts and reforms needed...

      Poroshenko orders law enforcement officers to ensure ‘day of silence’
      Dec04

      Poroshenko orders law enforcement officers to ensure ‘day of silence’

      Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has discussed with the heads of law enforcement agencies the measures to ensure the implementation of the Minsk agreements on a “day of silence” in Donbas, which is due to start on December 9. The meeting took place on the eve of the Day of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which is marked on December...

      Another three MPs sworn in
      Dec04

      Another three MPs sworn in

      In parliament on Thursday, three more people’s deputies took the oath of allegiance to Ukraine. As reported by a Ukrinform correspondent, the oath was made by Davyd Makarian (Bloc of Petro Poroshenko), Dmytro Stetsenko (People’s Front) and Yuriy Chyzhmar (Radical Party by Oleh Liashko).

      Government reserves half a billion hryvnias for IDPs
      Dec04

      Government reserves half a billion hryvnias for IDPs

      The Ukrainian government has found additional funds to help internally displaced persons (IDPs), reserving half a billion hryvnias for this purpose. Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister and Culture Minister Viacheslav Kyrylenko said this at a press conference on Thursday, Ukrinform’s correspondent reports. “The government has already spent...

      Import from Russia cut by half
      Dec04

      Import from Russia cut by half

      Ukrainian export to Russia reduced by 32% in January-November this year, and the fall of imports made up 50%. Deputy Head of the State Fiscal Service Anatoliy Makarenko told a briefing in Kyiv Thursday, a Ukrinform correspondent reports. “Ukrainian import is distributed as follows: 39% – the European Union countries, we state the fall at...