Russia is planning a second major military base near the border with Ukraine, where NATO accuses Russian troops of helping pro-Moscow separatists fight Kyiv's forces, according to Reuters. The bases are part of a Russian military buildup along a new line of confrontation with the West, running from the Black Sea in the...
President Petro Poroshenko's Administration has not yet responded to the most popular petition on legalizing possession of firearms in Ukraine, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Dmytro Shymkiv wrote on Facebook on Wednesday. According to Shymkiv, a response to the first petition, which met the 25,000 signature...
Unknown persons dressed in camouflage and wearing balaclavas, who had reportedly picketed the house of former Kharkiv Governor Mykhailo Dobkin, have come to the Kharkiv town hall, Ukrainian TV Channel 112 Ukraina has reported. "We're at Kharkiv City Council where a session is taking place now. Prior to that, more than...
NATO has dispatched nuclear and chemical weapons detection and decontamination teams to Ukraine to improve its response to a radioactive attack. Ukrainian special forces will join hundreds of civilian specialists, including British experts, for exercises this week to practise for an event involving widespread...
On September 22, 2015, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously adopted resolution H.Res.50 "Calling for the release of Ukrainian fighter pilot Nadiya Savchenko, who was captured by Russian forces in Eastern Ukraine and has been held illegally in a Russian prison since July 2014," according to MFA of Ukraine. The...
The winner of competition "Mіs UKRAINE-2015" was the 18-year-old student from Kyiv National University of nutritive technology — Christina Stoloka. She was chosen on 22 of Sleptember between 25 contestants. “I am positive and communicative person, also I am very creative. I love drawing and...
The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine nine times overnight, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) wrote on Facebook on Wednesday. "From midnight to 18:00 on September 22, the illegal armed groups were adhering to the ceasefire, but in the evening they...
Ukrainian celebrities showed rare embroidery from a private collection, which are more than a hundred years. The event was attended by several dozen representatives of Ukrainian show business, including Vlada Litovchenko, Maria Sobko, Osadcha Katia, Maria Yaremchuk, Olga Sumy, Vitaly Kozlovsky, Peter Black and others. Celebrity...
Military analyst and MP Dmytro Tymchuk says Russia's 'Don' battalion, currently stationed in Ukraine's war-torn Donbas region, has been ordered to dispatch 190 of it's militant footsoldiers to Syria. According to Tymchuk, nearly 200 Russian mercenaries, who were fighting alongside with militants in the...
The PI smart pillow beat back stiff competition from an exoskeleton, a virtual Chernobyl tour, an electronic wallet, a magic diet pill and many other inventions to win the right to represent Ukraine at the Falling Walls Lab in Berlin this November. Some 30 young scientists presented their inventions to the jury at the first...
The Armed Forces of Ukraine soldiers’ death toll is 1,915 military since the beginning of the anti-terrorist operation. Head of Main Personnel Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Ihor Voronchenko declared. "Our losses amount to 1,915 people since the beginning of the ATO and the occupation...
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko noted that the OSCE ODIHR official who was present at the meeting of the Tripartite Liaison Group (TLG) in Minsk expressed his clear view that coincides with the Ukrainian position. President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that elections in the Donetsk and Luhansk will only be held when...