Section: Main news
Situation deteriorating on border with Crimea: Occupiers block exit to mainland Ukraine
Occupiers have halted operations at the Chonhar checkpoint in Crimea, according to the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service. ”The supervisory bodies of the country-occupier have prepared documents only for those persons who are traveling to the temporary-occupied peninsula, and only at the Chaplynka checkpoint,” the report read. The Kalanchak...
Erdogan arrives in St. Petersburg for meeting with Putin
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has arrived in St. Petersburg for talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, according to Russian news agency TASS. This will be the first personal meeting between the Russian and Turkish heads of state since last November. The talks that are expected to mark a thaw in the 8-month freeze in bilateral...
Bloomberg: Bulgaria may restore Russian gas pipeline, nuclear plant
Bulgaria and Russia agreed to resurrect the canceled South Stream natural gas pipeline across the Black Sea and the Belene nuclear power plant as the Balkan country strives to reduce penalty payments over unfulfilled contracts awarded to Russia by international courts, according to Bloomberg. Bulgaria and Russia agreed to set up working groups...
Ukraine calls on world to prevent recurrence of genocide of Crimean Tatar people
Ukraine has called on the international community to prevent a recurrence of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people who were forcefully deported 70 years ago, according to a statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine on the occasion of the International Day of World`s Indigenous People. ”We appeal to the international community to...
Ukrainian prosecutors invite country leaders, including president, for interviews
The Prosecutor General`s Office (PGO) has invited Ukrainian leaders, including President Petro Poroshenko, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksandr Turchynov, Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko, Zakarpattia Governor Hennadiy Moskal, and former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk for interviews as part of an investigation into...
Witnesses share footage of Russia army trucks moving across occupied Crimea
Witnesses have videotaped a convoy of Russian military trucks moving across Russia-occupied Crimea and uploaded two pieces of the footage from a car recorder on YouTube. The Russian occupiers are relocating army trucks in Crimea / Screenshot According to the captions, the convoy moves along a detour road between Simferopol and Yalta. ”Russia`s...
Ukraine makes Russia another request for extradition of political prisoners Klykh, Karpiuk
Ukraine has made Russia another request for the extradition of political prisoners Stanislav Klykh and Mykola Karpiuk, First Deputy Minister of Justice Natalia Sevostianova said in an interview with 112 Ukraine TV Channel. According to Sevostianova, around 10 requests for the extradition of Ukrainian political prisoners have already been made to...
Rada receives proposal to introduce obligatory health insurance in 2018
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Healthcare and MP Olha Bohomolets has submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a draft law on the introduction of compulsory state social health insurance in Ukraine from January 1, 2018. According to the Verkhovna Rada website, the relevant document was submitted on August 2. ”Rapid deterioration in the...
UN urges truce in Aleppo to provide humanitarian assistance
With more than two million people impacted by the fighting in and around war-ravaged Aleppo, where wide swaths of the area are now without power and water supplies are dwindling, the United Nations urgently called for a humanitarian pause in the hostilities to enable immediate access to repair the electricity and water networks, and provide...
Ukrainian athlete Kharlan wins bronze medal in fencing women`s sabre
Ukraine bagged its first bronze medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro when 25-year-old athlete Olha Kharlan from the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv won her bout in the Fencing Women`s Sabre individual competition against France`s Manon Brunet late on Monday. The score in the bronze medal bout was 15:10. Earlier, Kharlan beat Mexico`s...