Section: Main news
National Security and Defense Council: Militants shell Ukraine’s 29th military blockpost from Grad multiple rocket launcher
Kyiv, March 28, 2015. Pro-Russian militants used Grad multiple rocket launcher to fire at the Ukrainian military blockpost №29 in the evening yesterday; 20 more missiles hit Novotoshkivske village, Luhansk region. Neither Ukrainian Armed Forces nor the local civilians were killed or wounded as a result of this strike. View map in full size...
Pro-Russian terrorists violated cease-fire with Grad rocket system
Pro-Russian terrorists continue to violate the cease fire in Donbas despite the fact that Ukraine is fulfilling the Minsk agreements including the withdrawal of heavy-weapons and making changes to a law granting the terrorists’ republics a self-rule. The press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation in Eastern Ukraine reports that Novotoshkivka...
National Security and Defense Council: Ukraine’s Security Service detains killer suspect of SBU officer
Kyiv, March 27, 2015. Ukraine’s security services have detained Denys Gordeyev suspected in of killing the SBU Captain Viktor Mandzyk on March 21 in Volnovakha, Donetsk region. Gordeyev was planning to leave the country, yet he got arrested by our operatives. They seized a pistol and ammunition rounds from him. View map in full size Ukrainian...
George Soros talks about a cease-fire holding in Ukraine, the reaction of EU to Putin’s aggression and possible scenarios of war in Eastern Ukraine
Billionaire George Soros gave exclusive interviews to Bloomberg in which he discusses the new government in Ukraine, the country’s battle between Russia and ‘old Ukraine’, the possibilities of Russian further invasion in Ukraine and possible scenarios in cases if EU will continue to ignor the problems in Ukraine. Besides in his latest interview...
Terrorist attack planed by so-called “DPR” in Dnipropetrovsk was prevented by SBU
Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported that terrorist attack planned to be committed March 28 in Dnipropetrovsk was prevented. “The Security Service of Ukraine detained a citizen who was preparing a terrorist attack in Dnipropetrovsk during the meeting of the local residents scheduled for Saturday. It was established that a 34-year-old...
Pro-Russian terrorists killed a civilian in Shyrokyne
Mariupol State Interior Ministry of Ukraine in Donetsk region reported that during the shelling of the village of Shyrokyne near Mariupol pro-Russian militiants killed a civilian citizen. The press service of the Mariupol State Interior Ministry of Ukraine in Donetsk region says that the fatally wounded on March 26 at 22.55 after a mortar attack...
Former senior officials’ funds to be returned to Ukraine-Press office of President Petro Poroshenko
Press office of President reported that Petro Poroshenko established an interagency working group to coordinate the return of funds, received in a criminal way by former senior officials, to Ukraine. On March 26 2015, President Petro Poroshenko has signed a Decree “On Interagency Working Group on Coordination of the Return of Funds,...
Less-Stringent Minsk II Terms Paved the Way for Renewed Sanctions
On March 19, delegates at the European Union Summit in Brussels agreed to extend tough sanctions against Moscow—until year’s end if necessary—to get Russian President Vladimir Putin to implement the Minsk II ceasefire. Under terms of that deal, signed on February 12, EU sanctions won’t be lifted until Ukraine takes back full control...
National Security and Defense Council: Ukrainian Army did not suffer any casualties over the last day
Kyiv, March 26, 2015. Not a single Ukrainian serviceman has fallen or suffered injuries as a result of the military action in the last 24 hours. On the other hand, pro-Russian militants continued to instigate armed provocations along the contact line, stretching from the Azov Sea to the western parts of the Luhansk region. The militants fired at...
The Bundestag has ratified the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement
On Thursday, March 26, Germany became the 15th country that has ratified the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement after Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Malta, Estonia, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Croatia, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Ireland. Ukraine’s Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk wrote on his official Twitter: “The...