Section: News & Summaries
Generals holding talks in Donetsk region at president’s request – Poltorak
The joint center for controlling and coordinating issues of the ceasefire and stabilizing the contact line between the parties is operating at the request of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to find a mechanism for the implementation of the Minsk agreements. Ukraine’s Defense Minister Colonel General Stepan Poltorak told this to...
Next column of Russian tanks crosses border
Next column of Russian armored vehicles, consisting of eight tanks and three self-propelled vehicles, probably Akatsia, crossed the Ukrainian-Russian border in Donetsk region, at the sector not controlled by the Ukrainian side. A witness told Ukrinform. “This morning, about 10:00 a.m., a column of military vehicles of eight tanks and three...
Almost thousand foreigners fighting on Ukraine’s side – General Staff
A thousand foreigners are fighting on the side of Ukraine in the antiterrorist operation in the east of the country and all of them are members of volunteer battalions. A representative of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Major-General Oleksandr Rozmaznin, said this at a press conference in the Ukrainian Crisis Media Center,...
Slovak gas import will grow by third in December
Ukraine plans from December 15 to increase capacity for receiving natural from Slovakia to 40 million cu m a day. Ukrtransgas CEO Ihor Prokopiv said, Terminal website informs. “There is the whole program on the reverse. Already December 15, we will get approximately 40 million cu m a day,” he said adding that this will become possible thanks to...
Experience of foreign ministers can break on our realities – expert
European experience in managing a business space by newly appointed foreign ministers may “break” on Ukrainian realities that require allocation of significant resources to the defense sector. This opinion was voiced by director of the information-consulting company Defense Express Serhiy Zgurets at a press conference on Thursday, a...
Russia used cluster munitions in Ukraine – General Staff
Russia used cluster munitions in Ukraine and now wants to blame Ukraine for that. A representative of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Major-General Oleksandr Rozmaznin, said this at a press conference in the Ukrainian Crisis Media Center, Ukrinform’s correspondent reports. “The Russian Federation at one time, due to...
Gas transit through Ukraine grows by 67%
Natural gas transit through the Ukrainian gas transportation system in the Balkan direction grew by 66.5% last week, the press service of PJSC Ukrtransgaz has reported. In particular, 50.82 million cubic meters of gas was transported on December 1 and 56.32 million cubic meters on December 2, which is 83% of the capacity of this route. In...
Putin: Russia’s enemies seek its downfall
President Vladimir Putin accused Russia’s enemies of seeking to carve it up and destroy its economy to punish it for growing strong. ||| Moscow – President Vladimir Putin accused Russia’s enemies on Thursday of seeking to carve it up and destroy its economy to punish it for growing strong, in an annual state of the union speech...
Russia: Grozny under attack
At night, on the 4th of December 2014 in the center of Chechen Republic Grozny between Russian army and police, and Chechen rebels began the fight. The rebels call Grozny Dzhokhar–gala (Dzhokhar`s ciy) in honor of the first President of Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Dzhokhar Dudaev. They consider that Russians are the occupiers and the local head...
Klimkin: OSCE risks sliding into oblivion due to inaction
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said that the OSCE risks sinking into oblivion as an organization that is not able to effectively address modern security challenges. To avoid this, the OSCE should be more decisive in finding solutions to current and future crises, Klimkin said at the 21st OSCE Ministerial Council meeting in the Swiss...