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      NATO defense ministers agree to enhance collective defense, deterrence
      Jun14

      NATO defense ministers agree to enhance collective defense, deterrence

      NATO Defense Ministers agreed on important measures to strengthen the Alliance`s defense and deterrence on Tuesday, June 14.”NATO will deploy by rotation four robust multinational battalions to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. And I welcome the commitments made by many Allies today to contribute,” said NATO Secretary General Jens...

      NSDC tells how Russia makes Donbas test ground for new military technology
      Jun14

      NSDC tells how Russia makes Donbas test ground for new military technology

      The Russian command of the Donbas militants has been systematically working out modern methods and technologies of land combat, new fire control systems, and the use of hi-end military equipment and weaponry, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Oleksandr Turchynov, said in an interview with Novoye Vremya...

      ”Through torture and pain”: Afanasyev addresses foreign journalists
      Jun14

      ”Through torture and pain”: Afanasyev addresses foreign journalists

      Hennadiy Afanasyev, the Ukrainian citizen who was returned to Ukraine from Russian imprisonment in a successful swap operation, through the foreign reporters urged foreign governments not to lift sanctions against the Russian Federation, an UNIAN correspondent reported from a briefing held after Afanasyev`s and Yuriy Soloshenko`s meeting with...

      NATO standards to be guidebook for 70% of Ukraine`s Defense Ministry by year-end
      Jun14

      NATO standards to be guidebook for 70% of Ukraine`s Defense Ministry by year-end

      Up to 70% of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine will be transformed according to NATO standards, according to Deputy Defense Minister on European integration Ihor Dolgov who spoke at the meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Inter-Parliamentary Council in Kyiv Tuesday, an UNIAN correspondent reported.”We are taking steps to reform the structure and...

      Poroshenko pardons Odesa separatist Didenko handed over to Russia
      Jun14

      Poroshenko pardons Odesa separatist Didenko handed over to Russia

      President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has pardoned a Ukrainian citizen Vitaliy Didenko, according to Presidential Decree No.251/2016.”Having reviewed the petition for clemency of V.I. Didenko, the proposals of Pardons Commission, and other circumstances, in accordance with paragraph 27 of Article 106 of the Constitution of Ukraine, I decree to...

      NATO to boost presence in Black Sea region – Stoltenberg
      Jun14

      NATO to boost presence in Black Sea region – Stoltenberg

      The North Atlantic Treaty Alliance is considering strengthening its presence in the Black Sea region in response to Russia`s actions, that`s according to NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg who spoke to the journalists ahead of the meeting of the Bloc`s defense ministers, an UNIAN correspondent in Brussels reports.”We are looking into how we...

      Poroshenko says general mobilization plan must be ”polished” to be ready for Russia`s full-scale invasion
      Jun14

      Poroshenko says general mobilization plan must be ”polished” to be ready for Russia`s full-scale invasion

      Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko tasked the military with drawing up a general mobilization plan and a plan for the operation under martial law in case Russia goes on a full-scale offensive.The Ukrainian president drew attention to the necessity of examining the opportunities of territorial defense of the state, speaking at the...

      Plane with Soloshenko, Afanasyev lands at Boryspil airport: Swap operation over
      Jun14

      Plane with Soloshenko, Afanasyev lands at Boryspil airport: Swap operation over

      The aircraft of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry with the released  Ukrainian citizens on board has landed on a designated area of the airfield used by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.Both Ukrainian citizens were immediately taken to the hospital upon arrival, accompanied by a security convoy.President Poroshenko is expected to meet at the...

      Media update info on subjects of Soloshenko, Afanasyev swap
      Jun14

      Media update info on subjects of Soloshenko, Afanasyev swap

      The Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia, a 25-year-old Hennadiy Afanasyev and a 74-year-old Yuriy Soloshenko were in fact exchanged for Odesa journalists Olena Glishchinskaya and Vitaliy Didenko, who had been accused of separatism.Glischinskaya and Didenko were among the organizers and active participants of the so-called ”People`s Rada of...

      Ukraine`s Rada allows companies to restructure debts owed to banks
      Jun14

      Ukraine`s Rada allows companies to restructure debts owed to banks

      Ukraine`s Verkhovna Rada has adopted a draft law on financial restructuring in second reading to regulate the procedure for restructuring operating businesses` debts owed to banks, an UNIAN correspondent reported.A total of 229 deputies supported bill No. 3555 with the required minimum of 226 votes.It is also noted that the adoption of the bill...