Section: News & Summaries
Block of Petro Poroshenko names list of candidates to parliament
A Congress of the Block of Petro Poroshenko decided on the party list. The top five are: Vitali Klitschko (Mayor of Kyiv), Yuriy Lutsenko (party leader), Olha Bohomolets (Advisor to the President), Volodymyr Hroisman (Deputy Prime Minister) and Mustafa Jemilev (leader of the Crimean Tatar people). As reported by a Ukrinform correspondent, the...
Terrorists continue shelling residential areas
Firing of positions and checkpoints of Ukrainian units from the Russian-terrorist forces did not stop during the weekend. Head of the Information Resistance group Dmytro Tymchuk reported. According to live data from the Information Resistence group, in total, over September 13-14, at least 40 attacks were recorded. Russian-terrorist forces are...
Terrorists continue shelling Donetsk airport with Grad rocket launchers
Militants fired Donetsk airport with Grad rocket launchers again. The NSDCInformation-AnalyticalCenter reported. “Terrorists shelled the airport in Donetsk from Grad rocket launchers. The bombardment was carried out from the side of Yakovlivka and the area of Donetsk – Putylivka and the Kirov Mine,” a statement reads. Also,...
Yatseniuk: Government to begin implementation of “association” immediately
The government will begin the implementation of this agreement.on the first day after the Association Agreement with the European Union enters into force. Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatseniuk said, answering journalists’ questions during the Eleventh Annual Meeting of Yalta European Strategy (YES) in Kyiv, on Saturday, September 13,...
ATO forces fired 166 times during truce – Lysenko
Since the signing of the armistice agreement in Minsk, the ATO forces were 166 times under the enemy fire. Spokesman of the NSDC Information-Analytical Center Andriy Lysenko told a briefing, a Ukrinform correspondent reports. “Total number of attacks by militants against the ATO positions is 166 from the beginning of the ceasefire...
36 hostages released from captivity over night – NSDC
36 Ukrainian citizens were released from captivity of terrorists on September 12. Spokesman of the NSDC Information-Analytical Center Andriy Lysenko told a briefing, a Ukrinform correspondent reports. “36 hostages were released for the past day,” Lysenko said. lk
Yatseniuk says about NATO membership, remembering Bible
Only the NATO membership can protect Ukraine from Russian aggression. Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatseniuk said within the frames of the 11th Annual Meeting of Yalta European Strategy YES, held in Kyiv, a Ukrinform correspondent reports. “We must clearly recognize that, in these particular circumstances, NATO is the only way to...
Yatseniuk says about third step of Putin
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk is convinced that Russian leader Vladimir Putin is now trying to create a frozen conflict in Donbas to pave a corridor through Odesa to Transnistria. Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatseniuk said within the frames of the 11th Annual Meeting of Yalta European Strategy YES, a Ukrinform correspondent reports....
Terrorists shoot again from Grad and mortars in Donetsk
On Saturday morning, volleys of artillery are heard in Donetsk and Makiyivka. The locals say on Twitter. “Donetsk: 11.05 a.m., volleys of MLRS Grad are heard, artillery comes next. 11.12 a.m. A new volley of MLRS of Grad, on the east side of the city, seems from Hvardiyka, periodically mortar shells are heard,” the Donbass Forces...
YatsenIuk, Poroshenko will go to elections separately
Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatseniuk will participate in the parliamentary elections separately from the party “Block of Petro Poroshenko.” He said within the frames of the 11th Annual Meeting of Yalta European Strategy YES, a Ukrinform correspondent reports. “We were to run for the parliament together with the President,...