Section: Main news
Reuters: Oil prices firm on potential producer action to prop up market
Oil prices edged up early on Monday and have risen more than 10% since the start of the month as speculation intensifies about potential producer action to support prices in an oversupplied market, according to Reuters. International Brent crude oil futures were trading at $47.13 per barrel at 0100 GMT (09:00 p.m. EDT), up 16 cents from their...
Russian lawmaker`s son in U.S. trial on hacking indictment
A Russian lawmaker`s son who U.S. prosecutors say orchestrated a hacking scheme that resulted in about $170 million in fraudulent credit-card purchases goes on trial this week in the state of Washington, according to Radio Liberty. Jury selection starts on August 15 in the federal trial of Roman Seleznyov, RFE/RL reports. Prosecutors say they...
About 3,080 Ukrainians released from captivity in over two years – Ukrainian SBU adviser
Adviser to the chief of the SBU Security Service of Ukraine Yuriy Tandit says that there are about 3,080 Ukrainians who have been released from captivity or whose whereabouts have been established in over two years since the beginning of Russian aggression against Ukraine, according to hromadske.tv. ”As of today, 3,080 people have either been...
Number of Russians crossing border with Ukraine on decline – border service
Head of the State Border Service of Ukraine Viktor Nazarenko says that the number of Russian citizens who cross the border with Ukraine is on the decline. ”In 2014, there were more than 2.5 million Russians who came to Ukraine. Last year their number almost halved, and in the six months of the current year, over 600,000 citizens of the Russian...
Ukrainian intelligence service reports 3 KIA`s, 7 WIA`s among Donbas occupiers on Saturday
The Ukrainian intelligence service has reported that three occupiers of Donbas were killed in action (KIA) and another seven were wounded in action (WIA) on Saturday. ”New losses in the units and formations of the 1st (Donetsk) and 2nd (Luhansk) Army Corps of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have been recorded. On August 13, three KIA`s...
Anti-graft agency assures e-declaration will come online Aug 15
Head of the National Agency for Prevention of Corruption (NAPC) Natalia Korchak has assured the public that an electronic income declaration system will begin operating on August 15, as was originally planned. ”Technical staff of the State Special Connection Service will continue working today, but we [NACP] have not yet decided when to hold our...
Epicenter of Donbas fighting shifts closer to Mariupol, with two skirmishes in past day
The epicenter of fighting in Donbas between the Ukrainian armed forces and the combined Russian-separatist forces has shifted closer to the Ukrainian controlled strategic port city of Mariupol, whose sector has seen 27 attacks in the past day, according to the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) headquarters. In all areas, the total number of enemy...
Canada says no evidence to support Russian accusations against Ukraine
Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Stephane Dion has issued a statement regarding the increasing tensions in relations between Ukraine and Russia over Crimea. ”I am concerned by the heightened tensions between Russia and Ukraine, and by the actions and rhetoric that are contributing to these tensions. We have seen no evidence to support recent...
No European concessions for Russia on Ukrainian issues – Kuleba
While European countries have tended to normalize relations with Russia, this will not occur at the expense of concessions in matters of principle, in particular Russia`s aggression against Ukraine, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the Council of Europe Dmytro Kuleba said on Radio Liberty. ”I am convinced that there will be no concessions,”...
Ukraine Defense Ministry says Crimean saboteurs not members of Ukrainian intelligence
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has stated that those individuals who, according to the Russian security services, were part of so-called Crimean ”subversive groups,” had never been members of the Main Directorate of Intelligence. ”Regarding some allegations by the Russian special services, the Ministry of Defense reports that the 37th...