We are told that this is a geopolitical battle instead of an attempt by ordinary Ukrainians to take back control from the oligarchs Anyone who tells you Ukraine is a battle between Russia and the west is wrong. It is a lazy narrative told by ignorant people, but is helping create a genuine tragedy that we should all be concerned about. The history of Ukraine's crisis began not in February, with Viktor...
The agency says thanks to the Armed Forces' firm actions terrorists were taken prisoners, and unknown people, who introduced themselves as journalists and citizens of the Russian Federation, were detained and handed over to law-enforcement agencies for an inquest. ...
"We'll be initiating a talk with the Defence Ministry on returning senior divisions in agrarian universities," stressed Agrarian Policy and Food Minister Ihor Shvaika. ...
"... to report me personally where there are families of perished military, and provide them with housing, as Vinnytsia Region has done today," he said. ...
"To allow the Defence Ministry, the National Guards Chief Directorate, the Security Service of Ukraine, the administration of the State Border Guard Service, and the State Guard Department, during the anti-terror operation, to confer higher military ranks as commendation on servicemen participating in the anti-terror operation up to Colonel (captain rank I) irrespective of current position or length...
"Today I have signed an official letter to the Justice Ministry of Ukraine, where I'm inviting the minister to study all materials, provided by the Security Service of Ukraine and the Prosecutor-General's Office, regarding the unlawful, anticonstitutional activity of the Communist Party of Ukraine. And I'm convinced, Ukrainian Court will put a period to this matter," said the Acting President. ...
For the west of Ukraine, they forecast partly cloudy weather, intermittent rain in places, northwest wind of 3-8 m/s. Air temperature at night will stand at 7... 12 degrees, and in the daytime at 18... 23 degrees. ...
Group defy ban on mass gatherings with rally outside mosque on outskirts of Simferopol to remember 1944 deportations Defying a ban by their new Russian-backed rulers, thousands of Crimean Tatars gathered at a mosque on Sunday to commemorate the day 70 years ago that the mass deportation of their families began under the orders of the Soviet leader Josef Stalin. Crimea's Muslim Tatars are among the...
He noted that those, who have not involved in grave crimes and are ready to lay down their weapons, will be amnestied. ...
Yevhen Perebyinis, the director of the Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ministry's department of information policy, announced this at a news briefing on May 16. ...
Don't fall for Putin publicly distancing himself from pro-Russia separatists in the east. It's nothing more than a diplomatic trick Last week Russia's President Putin said he believed referendums should not take place in the eastern regions of Ukraine on 11 May. Remarkably, the change of Putin's rhetoric has inspired some hope in many European capitals. Putin distanced himself publicly from pro-Russia...
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"Since the ongoing events in many towns in south-eastern Ukraine, as a result of which there are victims and casualties among civilians, in aid of elimination of possible provocations by extremists who are able to penetrate the Republic of Crimea, for the avoidance of frustration of the holiday season to prohibit holding mass events in the Republic of Crimea till June 6," the document said. ...
The press service of the Prosecutor-General's Office announced this in a statement. ...
Recent events in Ukraine have challenged the integrity of one of Europe's largest countries and raised questions about borders, ethnic groups and the post-cold war settlement in the former Soviet Union. In an event recorded before an audience on 12 May at the Guardian a panel of journalists and regional experts discuss recent events ahead of the Ukrainian presidential elections on 25 May. The speakers...
The best outcome for Ukraine, and for the west, would be an agreement with Russia to get the great powers out A way out of the Ukraine crisis may now be faintly discernible. The round-table negotiations promoted by the Germans has the support of all the key governments. It is intended to produce a ceasefire, discussion of future Ukrainian constitutional arrangements, and the election of a new Ukrainian...
UN warns Muslim minority has suffered harassment and persecution since peninsula was annexed from Ukraine Vladimir Putin has told Crimea's Tatars that they must accept that their future lies with Russia, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of their mass deportation from their ancestral homeland. Putin's comments came as the UN warned that the Tatars have been the subject of harassment and persecution...
The Treasury Service explains this National Bank's decision with separatists threatening its employees' life. ...
At that Krotiuk noted that such actions threaten life and health of banks' employees and may entail disruption in payment of pensions, wages, and other social payments. ...
The minister says schemes of Kurchenko swindles were related to petroleum products, based on false reexportation, false waybills, sea tankers carrying nothing, and protectorship of the previous government. ...