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      NBU strengthens official exchange rate to UAH 25.09 to dollar
      Jun02

      NBU strengthens official exchange rate to UAH 25.09 to dollar

      The National Bank of Ukraine on Wednesday evening strengthened the official hryvnia exchange rate by five kopiykas, bringing the national currency to UAH 25.09 to the dollar.The Central Bank set the following official exchange rates of the hryvnia against leading foreign currencies for June 2:$100 costs UAH 2,509.7590 (on June 1, it was UAH...

      Reuters: EU puts brake on visa liberalization for now amid immigration fears
      Jun02

      Reuters: EU puts brake on visa liberalization for now amid immigration fears

      European Union states held off agreeing to ease travel rules for Georgia on Wednesday, and Turkey, Ukraine and Kosovo should also expect more delays in visa waiving as the bloc turns more cautious amid immigration fears, EU delegation sources said, according to Reuters.The EU is already making it easier to suspend visa-free travel before it...

      SBU claims intercepts two ISIS supporters before they get smuggled to EU via Ukraine
      Jun01

      SBU claims intercepts two ISIS supporters before they get smuggled to EU via Ukraine

      Ukraine`s Security Service has exposed an attempt to smuggle two supporters of the international terrorist organization Islamic state originally from Syria via in a transit route via Ukraine to Western Europe, the agency`s press service reports. In the end of last week, during a search of one of Kharkiv apartments, the secret service officers...

      NABU starts identification of persons highlighted in Party of Regions` ”Black Accounts” case
      Jun01

      NABU starts identification of persons highlighted in Party of Regions` ”Black Accounts” case

      Ukraine`s newly established National Anti-Corruption Bureau has begun identification of the persons mentioned in the so-called ”black accounting documents” of pro-Yanukovych Party of Regions, according to a chief of the NABU Artem Sytnyk, an UaPosition correspondent reported from a Kyiv briefing Wednesday.”The procedure has been launched of...

      NATO steadfast on helping Ukraine
      Jun01

      NATO steadfast on helping Ukraine

      The decision on increasing practical assistance to Ukraine will be made at July`s NATO summit in Warsaw, the director of Alliance`s Liaison Office in Ukraine Aleksandr Vinnikov said in the interview with press agency Segodnya.ua, Ukraine Today reports.”We expect two main outcomes of the meeting with Ukraine during the summit. The first one is a...

      New drone footage shows militant positions in eastern Ukraine
      Jun01

      New drone footage shows militant positions in eastern Ukraine

      Ukrainian journalist Maksym Nepotenko released a video compiling drone footage of Russian-backed separatists` positions in the Donetsk region near the village Shyrokyne (the Azov Sea area), according to Ukraine Today.According to Nepotenko, the video demonstrates a militant stronghold, Ukraine Today reports.Nepotenko also said that militants were...

      President signes Law to establish ProZorro system in defense procurements
      Jun01

      President signes Law to establish ProZorro system in defense procurements

      Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed Law of Ukraine on Peculiarities of Procurement of Goods and Services for Ensuring Defense Needs, the president`s press service has told UNIAN.”It is a real joy today. Months of struggle for legislative settlement and reformation of defensive procurements are finally over,” the President said after the...

      NABU probes National Bank in UAH 12 bln embezzlement case
      Jun01

      NABU probes National Bank in UAH 12 bln embezzlement case

      The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) is investigating into the signs of unlawful refinancing by the National Bank of Ukraine of a number of commercial banks worth a total of UAH 12 billion.Investigators claim that in 2014-2015, officials of the National Bank, acting deliberately and abusing their official position in the...

      Ukraine-made BTR-4 Bucephalus APC undergoes amphibious testing
      Jun01

      Ukraine-made BTR-4 Bucephalus APC undergoes amphibious testing

      The National Academy of the National Guard of Ukraine has published on its YouTube channel a video footage showing amphibious testing of BTR-4 Bucefalus produced in Kharkiv. It is noted that the armored vehicle has several modifications with various power units and additional gear, depending on tasks to be performed.”BTR-4 is a project of the...

      Russian FSB`s plan to neutralize Mejlis drafted in 2015 – media
      Jun01

      Russian FSB`s plan to neutralize Mejlis drafted in 2015 – media

      Office of the Russian FSB Federal Security Service in the annexed Crimea in the spring of 2015 developed a three-year plan to neutralize the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, the representative body of the local Muslim minority nation which largely stood up against the Russian occupation forces on the peninsula, according to Ukrainska...