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IMF tranche doesn`t dispel concerns about Ukraine`s reform ability – Fitch
Fitch Ratings says that the IMF Executive Board`s approval of a disbursement of US$1.0 billion to Ukraine is positive but does not dispel concerns about Ukraine`s ability to deliver on reforms agreed with the Fund. ”Political uncertainty and a challenging reform agenda mean delays to future disbursements under Ukraine`s IMF programme cannot be...
Emergency U.N. meeting because of U.S. strike on Syrian troops: summary
U.S.-led coalition air strikes reportedly killed dozens of Syrian soldiers on Saturday, endangering a U.S.-Russian brokered ceasefire and prompting an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting as tensions between Moscow and Washington escalated, according to Reuters. The United States military said the coalition stopped the attacks against what it...
Ukraine Paralympic athletes win record high number of medals in team history
Ukrainian athletes have won 117 medals, including 41 gold ones, at the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, which ended on September 18, showing the best results in the Paralympic team`s history. Ukraine can also boast 37 silver medals and 39 bronze ones in 2016, according to the final medal count, available on the official website rio2016.com....
NATO jets scramble to intercept Russian warplane over Baltics
Foreign ministers of France and Germany visited Kyiv and Donbas. Ukraine is boosting its efforts in a campaign for non-recognition of the outcome of the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation based on the organization of voting in the occupied Crimea. The EU is in a state of crisis, according to its political leaders. ”On September...
Ukraine`s Ex-PM Yatsenyuk deems Russia`s Duma to be unlawfully elected
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister, leader of the People`s Front Party Arseniy Yatsenyuk clams that the Russian Federation`s State Duma is now an unlawfully elected body. ”Can we tolerate Russia`s Duma? It is now an unlawfully elected body, because the Russian Federation is conducting elections in Ukrainian territory,” he said at the 13th Yalta...
Support for Putin still strong despite sanctions
The ruling United Russia party is expected to win even greater dominance over Russia’s lower house in a parliamentary election. ||| Moscow – The ruling United Russia party is expected to win even greater dominance over Russia’s lower house in a parliamentary election on Sunday, showing that support for President Vladimir Putin...
Two Ukrainians released from militant captivity – Poroshenko
Ukrainian citizens Volodymyr Zhemchuhov and Yuriy Suprun have been released from the captivity of the Russian-backed militants in Donbas, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko wrote on Facebook. ”Volodymyr Zhemchuhov and Yuriy Suprun have been freed from captivity! They will receive medical assistance they require,” the president wrote. ”We will...
30 Russian attacks, snipers active outside Donetsk, Mariupol – ATO report
Russian militants started engaging more often the snipers armed with long-range sniper rifles in the Donetsk and Mariupol directions, the ATO Headquarters wrote on Facebook. Over the past 24 hours, the Russian-occupation forces opened fire 30 times on positions of Ukrainian defenders, with no heavy weaponry use recorded, according to the report....
Putin says ready to become ”guarantor of agreements” between Kyiv, militants
The Russian leader offers to mediate in the negotiations between Ukraine and the Russian-backed militants in Donbas, according to RIA Novosti. ”What we can do is to create the conditions for the negotiation process and participate in it as mediators and guarantors of the agreements reached. That is what we can, want, and will do if our partners...
Normandy Four to possibly meet in October: French FM
Several days after the French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault visited Ukraine, he raised certain hopes that the negotiations on the Donbas conflict will continue in the nearest future, Ukraine Today reported. The latest ceasefire, the withdrawal of troops and further political steps are expected to top the agenda of the meeting, according to...