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      Presidential Administration of Ukraine rejected the billionaire and Yalta European Strategy founder’s offer to give up Crimea and Donbas
      Jan05

      Presidential Administration of Ukraine rejected the billionaire and Yalta European Strategy founder’s offer to give up Crimea and Donbas

      Statement of the Ukrainian billionaire, media mogul and founder of Yalta European Strategy, Victor Pinchuk from 29 December 2016 made a great response among Ukrainians, considering the influence of Pinchuk on political and economic processes in Ukraine. Ukrainians were shocked by the absence of response from the Ukrainian government and President...

      Radiation near Chornobyl nuclear power plant decreased in two times after new arch was built
      Jan05

      Radiation near Chornobyl nuclear power plant decreased in two times after new arch was built

      The press service of the State Specialized Enterprise “Chernobyl NPP” reported on Wednesday, January 4, 2017, that radiation near Reactor №4 of Chornobyl NPP (nuclear power plant) decreased in a half after covering it with a new safety shield. The structure, which is estimated at EUR 1.5 billion, weighs 36,000 tonnes, it`s the largest of this...

      Scandalous details of the famous Ukrainian poet and dramatist’s exhumation in the Czech Republic
      Jan05

      Scandalous details of the famous Ukrainian poet and dramatist’s exhumation in the Czech Republic

      On Tuesday, January 3, 2017, in Prague’s Olšany cemetery in the Czech Republic were forcibly exhumed the remains of the famous Ukrainian poet and writer Oleksandr Oles. During the urgent exhumation his and his wife’s remains fell from completely rotten coffins. The charge d’affaires of Ukraine in the Czech Republic, diplomat Zinovii Hoshovskyi...

      Expected IMF tranche to Ukraine may be cut to $1 billion
      Jan05

      Expected IMF tranche to Ukraine may be cut to $1 billion

      The fourth tranche of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to Ukraine is expected in February 2017 after the meeting of the Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko with the Head of the IMF Christine Lagarde at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 17-20, 2017. In November 2016, the parties discussed the possibility of 1.8...

      Ukrainian PJSC UkrTransNafta to tranship Urals crude oil
      Jan05

      Ukrainian PJSC UkrTransNafta to tranship Urals crude oil

      Ukrainian public joint-stock company Ukrtransnafta (PJSC UkrTransNafta), the national operator that provides services on oil transportation by pipelines to the Ukrainian refineries and its transit to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, has made arrangements with public joint-stock company Ukrtatnafta (Kremenchuk oil refinery) on the...

      Seaports in Ukraine cut cargo handling in 2016
      Jan05

      Seaports in Ukraine cut cargo handling in 2016

      State Enterprise “Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority” reports that Ukraine’s seaports in 2016 handled 131.99 million tonnes of cargo. This data is 8.9% less than in 2015. Transshipment of exported cargo reduced by 3.3%, to 100.395 million tonnes. Transshipment of imported cargo decreased by 10.8%, to 16.013 million tonnes. Transshipment of...

      Gas consumption in Ukraine reduced in 2016
      Jan05

      Gas consumption in Ukraine reduced in 2016

      The Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry reports that Ukraine in 11 months of 2016 cut natural gas consumption by 6.2% or by 1.825 billion cubic meters. This data is compared to 27.596 billion cubic meters that were consumed during the period January-November 2015. Industry consumed 8.538 billion cubic meters. That is 17.2% down compared to...

      Russian militants attacked in all directions in Donbas last day, used armoured fighting vehicles, grenade and mortar launchers
      Jan04

      Russian militants attacked in all directions in Donbas last day, used armoured fighting vehicles, grenade and mortar launchers

      The Security Service of Ukraine detained a member of Russian militants’ subversive reconnaissance group who wanted to penetrate to the ATO troops controlled territory. The 25-year-old militant was found to be a self-proclaimed “chief of military headquarters” of a temporarily occupied district in Luhansk region. Moreover, Ukrainian intelligence...

      Ukrainian Defense Industry Ukroboronprom to provide the army with 100 UAV complexes per year
      Jan04

      Ukrainian Defense Industry Ukroboronprom to provide the army with 100 UAV complexes per year

      The press service of the Ukrainian state concern Ukroboronprom (Ukrainian Defense Industry) states that the part of concern OJSC Meridian (Kyiv) is ready for the mass production of more than 100 BPAK-MP-1 (each complex consists of three drones, a ground control and surveillance station, an antenna system and charging devices) unmanned aerial...

      Austria to provide €2 million for humanitarian aid in Eastern Ukraine – OSCE Chairman
      Jan04

      Austria to provide €2 million for humanitarian aid in Eastern Ukraine – OSCE Chairman

      On January 3, 2017, the OSCE Chairman Sebastian Kurz arrived to Ukraine and visited Donetsk Region to exam personally the state of Minsk agreements’ fulfilment, the social and economic situation in the region caused by the military aggression of Russia against Ukraine, as well as the implementation of charitable projects with the participation of...