President Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree authorizing multinational military exercises in Ukraine in 2016, according to Ukraine Today. Under the plan, US forces along with other NATO members and states involved in the Partnership for Peace programme — will be allowed to operate with appropriate weapons and...
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said during the "10 Minutes with the Prime Minister" weekly program broadcast by major TV channels on Sunday evening that the national budget for 2016 foresees that spending on national security and defense should be increased to UAH 113 billion, or $4.88 billion at the...
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine reported about the single shots of small arms it heard while examining missile craters near the village of Kominternove, eastern Ukraine. "At 10:53 hrs on December 27, an SMM patrol comprised of six SMM members in two armoured vehicles arrived at 3.5km south-south-west...
Lenur Islyamov, the coordinator of a so-called Crimea blockade, has said that Turkey will assist in the formation of Ukrainian volunteer battalion named Noman Celebicihan, which includes representatives of the Crimean Tatar people. In an interview with Odesa crisis media center, Islyamov was asked whether Turkey...
Russian proxies have mounted more than 35 armed attacks on the Ukrainian forces participating in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, on Friday, according to the ATO Headquarters' press service. "Russian-backed gangs have violated all existing ceasefire agreements. The actions of their gang...
MP, leader of the party "Motherland" Yulia Tymoshenko appeared on the occasion of its anniversary (27.11) in a dress like Lila from the movie "The Fifth Element", which caused confusion among users on Facebook. User lichku Mikhail Golubev noted about similarities of Tymoshenko dress and clothes of...
Ukrainian singer Vera Brezhneva showed interesting collage on his page on the social network Instagram. Former singer group VIA Gra, Vera Brezhneva decided to please the subscribers unexpected new photo. On his page actress posted a collage with your photos, where she was three years old, and the youngest daughter Sarah image....
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry's GUR Main Intelligence Department reports that there are about 7,700 Russian regular troops in the occupied areas in Donbas, eastern Ukraine. "According to the data the GUR has obtained, there are about 7,700 regular soldiers of the Armed Forces of Russia in Donetsk and Luhansk...
On December 21, the EU is to officially announce its decision to extend sanctions against Russia until July 31, 2016, the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said in an interview with the Ukrainian TV channels. The Ukrainian President reminded that on Friday, December 18, the EU Council decided to extend the sanctions...
The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 63 times in last day, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) wrote on Facebook. "From 18:00 yesterday evening till midnight militants had used small arms to open aimed fire on Ukrainian positions in Krasnohorivka....
No Ukrainian soldiers were killed but five were wounded in the Donbas conflict zone over the last 24 hours, presidential administration spokesman for the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Colonel Andriy Lysenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Saturday. "Over the last day, we haven't lost any Ukrainian soldiers, but...
The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 59 times overnight, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) wrote on Facebook early Saturday. "The situation in the Donbas conflict zone remains tense. Around noon on December 18, the pro-Russian illegal armed groups...