Section: Main news
Hryvnia strengthens to UAH 25.60 to dollar on interbank market
Hryvnia quotations against the dollar on the interbank currency market on Tuesday strengthened to UAH 25.57/25.60 to the dollar by the middle of trade, a broker at a commercial bank has told an UaPosition correspondent. Hryvnia quotes against the euro have settled at UAH 27.29/27.35, while those against the Russian ruble have settled at UAH...
Canada adds Crimean officials to sanctions list
In order to maintain the necessary pressure on Russia until it fully complies with its international obligations with respect to Ukraine, the Special Economic Measures (Ukraine) Regulations have been amended to list 15 additional separatist individuals, including six members of Russia`s State Duma from Crimea, who are subject to an asset freeze...
France calls for U.N. Security Council meeting on Aleppo
French foreign affairs minister Jean-Marc Ayrault called on Tuesday for an immediate United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss the situation in the Syrian city of Aleppo, which has been devastated by fighting, according to Reuters. ”More than ever before, we need to urgently put in place means to end the hostilities and to allow...
Ukraine reports 38 attacks in Donbas in last day, hot spot near Mariupol
Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 38 times in the past 24 hours, and most of the attacks were recorded in the Mariupol sector in Donetsk region, according to the press service of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters. ”Russia`s hybrid military force used 120mm and 82mm mortars,...
EU visa suspension mechanism to be considered in Jan
The official website of the European Parliament (EP) has announced a preliminary date for consideration of a European Union visa suspension mechanism, which visa waivers for Ukraine depend on. The consideration is preliminarily scheduled for January 18, 2017, the EU services said. MEPs plan to consider relevant regulation 2016/0142 (COD) in first...
Yanukovych summoned for questioning as suspect in treason case
The Prosecutor General`s Office (PGO) of Ukraine has summoned former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who now resides in Russia, for questioning in Ukraine as a suspect in the treason case. Summonses for interrogation have been posted on the PGO`s official website. Yanukovych was invited to appear at 10:00 local time on December 5 and...
Ukraine`s budget saves $3 mln due to UNDP drug procurement in first two weeks
Ukraine has already saved US$3 million in budget funds due to medicine procurements through the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the first two weeks. ”Few weeks in UNDP`s renewed medicine procurement cycle for 2016, amounts contracted so far already show savings of US$3 million compared to prices from 2015, which are immediately...
Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine reacted on journalists’ investigation about President`s Spanish villa
National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine has changed its position on whether President Petro Poroshenko should have declared ownership of a Spanish seaside villa, raising questions about the state agency`s independence from the presidential administration, RFE/RL reports. Poroshenko`s ownership of the multimillion-dollar luxury villa...
Norway resumes high-level trade talks with Russia after two-year break
Norway has resumed high-level talks with Russia on trade and economic cooperation that were broken off after Moscow annexed Crimea in 2014, according to Reuters. ”This is the first time Norway and Russia hold bilateral meetings at the ministerial level since 2014,” the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries said in a statement on...
Ukraine`s international reserves shrink first time in 7 months
Foreign reserves of Ukraine decreased by 1.9%, to $ 15.2 billion in November, according to the National Bank of Ukraine. The current level of international reserves of Ukraine amounted to $15.2 billion, the NBU has told UNIAN. Thus, compared with the beginning of November, the reserves fell by $0.3 billion, or 1.9%. As UaPosition reported...