Section: News & Summaries
Poroshenko raises flag and says everything will be fine
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko raised the National Flag on Sophia Square on Saturday, August 23. After that, the Head of State addressed Ukrainians with a festive speech, a Ukrinform correspondent reports. “We are at the threshold of tremendous tectonic changes. Just as our soldiers hoist a flag over the liberated towns and villages,...
Uragan shells ATO positions from territory of Russia
Positions of Ukrainian law enforcers were fired from the territory of Russia from MLRS rocket launchers Uragan (Hurricane). Coordinator of the Information Support group Dmytro Tymchuk wrote on his Facebook page. “Positions of Ukrainian law enforcers were shelled from the side of Russia with MLRS rocket launchers BM-27 Uragan in the area of the...
Ukrainians celebrate Flag Day today
Ukraine marks the Day of the National Flag August 23. This holiday has appeared thanks to the signing of the corresponding presidential decree in 2004. At that time, Leonid Kuchma was head of the state. Until 2004, the Ukrainian Flag Day was celebrated only in Kyiv as a municipal holiday. The flag is a symbol of the Ukrainian statehood. It is...
Part of humanitarian convoy returns back to Russia – media
Russian humanitarian convoy is unloaded in Donbas, and a part of already unloaded trucks returns to the Russian Federation. The TSN informs. “Ukrainian customs workers managed to check and make customs clearance of only 34 trucks of the Russian humanitarian convoy. The rest of over 200 trucks crossed by border absolutely illegally…...
Lysenko: 45,000 Russian soldiers concentrated on border with Ukraine
Spokesman of the NSDC Information-Analytical Center Andriy Lysenko told on air of the Shuster LIVE program. “45,000 soldiers are now along the border of Ukraine with the Russian Federation, these are professional military, they are taught to kill. And only thanks to the fact that now we have high-class complex work of our leaders both by...
Humanitarian trucks of Russians can take weapons from Ukraine
Russians can take weapons from the territory of Ukraine “about which we do not know.” Spokesman of the NSDC Information-Analytical Center Andriy Lysenko told on air of the Shuster LIVE program on the 24th TV channel. “If we speak about the “humanitarian column,” which entered, if we speak about this number of trucks – this does not...
Terrorists do not allow Ukrainian side to help injured – NSDC
Many wounded are still under the debris in Donbas cities, whom terrorists do not help themselves and do not allow the Ukrainian side doing this. Spokesman of the NSDC Information-Analytical Center Andriy Lysenko said at the Shuster LIVE program, UNN reports. “The terrorists have repeatedly shot a column of refugees, and they shelled with...
Terrorists kill Honorary Consul of Lithuania in Luhansk
Terrorists kidnap and kill Honorary Consul of Lithuania in Luhansk Nicholas Zieleniec. Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius wrote on his Twitter page. “With deep regret I have just learned that the Honorary Consul of Lithuania in Luhansk Nicholas Zieleniec was kidnapped and brutally murdered by terrorists,” – he...
Russian media: All 280 Russian aid trucks cross Ukrainian border
All 280 KamAZ trucks carrying Russian “humanitarian aid” have crossed the Ukrainian-Russian border at the Izvaryne checkpoint, the Rossiya 24 television channel has reported. According to the report, the trucks are moving in the direction of Luhansk. According to the Russian southern customs department, “all vehicles of the...
Situation with ‘humanitarian convoy’ must be returned to legal field – Poroshenko
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said he is concerned about the situation with the breakthrough of the Russian “humanitarian convoy” across the Ukrainian border, but promises to do everything possible to avoid more serious consequences. He said this at a meeting with Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius, the press...