Section: Main news

      Russian forces, Russian personnel, are working together with the separatists in Eastern Ukraine – US  State Department
      Apr28

      Russian forces, Russian personnel, are working together with the separatists in Eastern Ukraine – US State Department

      Jeff Rathke, the US State Department acting deputy spokesperson on the Daily Press Briefing on April 27, 2015, talked on the deteriorating situation in Shyrokyne and the Russian presence in Eastern Ukraine. Ukraine: State Department on deteriorating situation in Shyrokyne and blocked OSCE access: http://t.co/UnhYyOzIpO pic.twitter.com/J1E0GE4bNV...

      National Security and Defense Council: Militants shell Shyrokyne for 12 hours, continue amassing military equipment
      Apr28

      National Security and Defense Council: Militants shell Shyrokyne for 12 hours, continue amassing military equipment

      Kyiv, April 27, 2015. Russia-backed militants have undertaken their most extensive attacks on Shyrokyne since last February, firing on the town for over 12 hours. Shyrokyne is located 20km from the major port city of Mariupol. Militants are putting the lives of the OSCE monitors under threat as they struck the area where their observation point...

      Ukraine’s PR Problem Isn’t Just a PR Problem
      Apr28

      Ukraine’s PR Problem Isn’t Just a PR Problem

      Ukraine has a problem with global public relations. Despite its fundamentally compelling narrative—a recent democracy defending itself against a much larger, authoritarian neighbor—the country’s efforts remain uncoordinated, unprofessional, and unfiltered. Even as the state relies on a worldwide diaspora in its struggle for survival, it...

      While the European Union officials met the Ukrainian, in Donbas one Ukrainian serviceman was killed and three wounded
      Apr27

      While the European Union officials met the Ukrainian, in Donbas one Ukrainian serviceman was killed and three wounded

      The XVII EU-Ukraine summit was held in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday, April 27. As reports the official website of European Council, President of Ukraine Poroshenko, President of the European Council Donald Tusk and President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker discussed the progress made by Ukraine on its political and economical reform...

      Let’s Go “All In” on Ukraine
      Apr27

      Let’s Go “All In” on Ukraine

      In October 1949, as the defeated forces of Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan and Mao Zedong declared the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Republicans in Congress blamed Harry S. Truman for losing China. Some demanded a pivot from Europe to Asia in US foreign policy. Truman might have been persuaded a few years earlier when US...

      EU-Ukraine summit to be held in Kyiv
      Apr27

      EU-Ukraine summit to be held in Kyiv

      The XVII EU-Ukraine summit will be held in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday, April 27. In Kiev for the first #EuUkraine Summit since 2013. Reforms, crisis & Eastern Partnership on the agenda — Donald Tusk (@eucopresident) 27 Квітень 2015 President of Ukraine Poroshenko, President of the European Council Donald Tusk and President of the European...

      The Ukrainian Insurgent Army – Chronicles 1942-1954. Documentary film.
      Apr26

      The Ukrainian Insurgent Army – Chronicles 1942-1954. Documentary film.

      The documentary film tells the story of Ukrainian Insurgent Army 1942-1954 years. Based on the evidence of witnesses and direct participants of events. Tне Ukrainian Insurgent Army – Chronicles 1942-1954 (Part One) | release 2015 from Taras Khymych on Vimeo. Director / DP / Editor: Taras Khymych Composer / Sound director: Liubomyr...

      National Security and Defense Council:  “DPR” militants use OSCE patrol as human shield
      Apr26

      National Security and Defense Council: “DPR” militants use OSCE patrol as human shield

      Kyiv, April 25, 2015. A car carrying “DPR” fighters tailed the convoy of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission and used it as cover in order to reach militant-held positions in the eastern edge of Shyrokyne village. Such bold violations of the peace treaty endangers the lives of international observers further. View map in full size Russia-backed...

      Pro-Russian terrorists used OSCE observers as ‘human shield’ and fired at Shyrokyne village from howitzers
      Apr25

      Pro-Russian terrorists used OSCE observers as ‘human shield’ and fired at Shyrokyne village from howitzers

      On April 25, 2015, at 6:30 a.m. the Russia-backed militants shelled the ATO forces’ positions in the Mariupol sector near Shyrokyne village, two Ukrainian soldiers were wounded and one killed. The pro-Russian terrorists used OSCE observers as ‘human shield’ in Shyrokyne, ATO press secretary Andrii Lysenko reported: “At the same...

      US troops training Ukraine National Guard units in Western Ukraine
      Apr24

      US troops training Ukraine National Guard units in Western Ukraine

      The US paratroopers will be training three battalions of the National Guard of Ukraine, at the Ukrainian military zone in Yavoriv near the Polish border, Lviv Region, Western Ukraine, for six months. As US Secretary of State John Kerry underlined ” U.S. training of Ukrainian National Guard units in the western part of Ukraine was fully...