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North Korea launches ballistic missile
North Korea on Wednesday fired off a ballistic missile into waters off its east coast, the South Korean military said, in an apparent show of force against the deployment of an advanced U.S. missile defense system, South Korea`s Yonhap news agency reported. North Korea launched a missile into the East Sea from its western province at 07:50,...
Russian troops attack Ukraine 71 times in last 24 hours, use artillery
Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 71 times in the past 24 hours, including 26 times in the Mariupol sector, 30 times in the Donetsk sector and 15 times in the Luhansk sector, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters. From 11:00 to 20:00, the enemy was...
Canada to train military policemen in Ukraine
Instructors from the Military Police of the Canadian Armed Forces will train servicemen of the Military Law Enforcement Service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry`s press service. The official ceremony of the launch of a new training course, ”Use of Force,” took place in Kyiv, the press service said....
Iran to mull feasibility of oil transit via Ukraine
Iran will consider the feasibility of transit shipments of its crude oil to the Czech Republic and Slovakia via Ukraine, according to the Iranian publication IRNA. “We should think it over if the transit of part of Iranian oil to the Czech Republic and Slovakia via Ukraine`s territory is practical and economic,” Iranian Petroleum Minister...
Bloomberg: Obama calls Trump unfit, urges top Republicans to repudiate him
U.S. President Barack Obama, delivering his strongest condemnation of Donald Trump yet, said the Republican presidential nominee is unprepared and unfit to hold the nation`s highest office and urged Republican leaders to disavow his candidacy, according to Bloomberg. Trump ”doesn`t appear to have basic knowledge around critical issues” in Europe,...
CNN: Reports of chemical gas attacks in 2 Syrian cities
Two chemical gas attacks have been reported in northern Syria, one in the region where a Russian helicopter was downed a day earlier, killing all five people on board, according to CNN. In the first alleged attack, cylinders suspected of containing chlorine gas were dropped in residential areas in the city of Saraqeb in Idlib province, the...
Experts predict population crisis in Ukraine this year due to war
Experts predict a demographic crisis in Ukraine in 2016 due to the war in Donbas, according to a UaPosition correspondent. Director of the Ukrainian Institute of Research of Extremism Oleh Zarubinsky and his deputy Bohdan Petrenko explained that Ukraine saw a decline in the birth rate in 2013-2015, and although the major consequences of the...
Visited occupied Donbas, Savchenko reveals
Member of Parliament Nadiia Savchenko says she has visited the occupied areas of Donbas in eastern Ukraine to talk to the local residents. ”I`ve been there, but the representatives of the self-proclaimed ”DPR” [Donetsk People`s Republic] and ”LPR” [Luhansk People`s Republic] were not aware of this. I entered the territory beyond the contact line...
SBU security service detains advocate of fake Kyiv People`s Republic
The SBU Security Service of Ukraine has detained an advocate of a fake Kyiv People`s Republic, the SBU press center said. The man posted an electronic announcement on public PCs at a social establishment in Kyiv, urging the creation of a self-proclaimed republic. During a search of his house, security service officers found emails on his PC sent...
What Trade Policy Does Ukraine Need Now?
At the informal ministerial meeting of the Eastern Partnership in Kyiv on July 11-12, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin proposed that the six members of the Eastern Partnership (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine) form a single economic space or free trade area. This is implausible. Ukraine does need to open...