Section: News & Summaries

      Hryvnia weakens to UAH 25.90 to dollar on interbank market
      Oct06

      Hryvnia weakens to UAH 25.90 to dollar on interbank market

      Hryvnia quotations against the dollar on the interbank currency market on Thursday fell to UAH 25.86/25.90 to the dollar by the middle of trade, a broker at a commercial bank has told an UNIAN correspondent. Thus, the national currency has weakened by two kopiykas against the U.S. dollar as compared to the opening of trade. Hryvnia quotes against...

      EU diplomats to discuss visa waiver for Ukraine on Oct 27: journalist
      Oct06

      EU diplomats to discuss visa waiver for Ukraine on Oct 27: journalist

      The EU diplomats will discuss visa liberalization for Ukraine on October 27, according to Rikard Jozwiak, Brussels reporter for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. ”EU diplomats will discuss visa liberalization for Ukraine on October 27. No indication of when a decision will be taken on this file,” he tweeted on Thursday, October 6. On April 20, the...

      Odesa chemical plant`s shareholders to pay UAH 164 mln in dividends for 2015
      Oct06

      Odesa chemical plant`s shareholders to pay UAH 164 mln in dividends for 2015

      Shareholders in the Odesa Port-Side Chemical Plant (OPP), the country`s major chemical producer, have decided to pay UAH 163.89 million in dividends, or about UAH 0.21 per ordinary share, based on the plant`s performance in 2015, according to the minutes of an extraordinary shareholders meeting, published on the OPP website. The amount of...

      Russian troops in Donbas attacked Ukrainian army positions 40 times in last day
      Oct06

      Russian troops in Donbas attacked Ukrainian army positions 40 times in last day

      Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 40 times in the past 24 hours, including 20 times in the Mariupol sector, 12 times in the Luhansk sector, and eight times in the Donetsk sector, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) headquarters. View map in full size In the...

      Ukraine becomes associate member state of the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
      Oct06

      Ukraine becomes associate member state of the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

      Ukraine has become an associate member state of the European Organization for Nuclear Research known as CERN, according to the press service of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. ”On October 5, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN Office and other international organizations in Geneva Yurii Klymenko handed a letter of...

      Ukraine`s chief delegate to PACE warns against return of Russia delegation, change of rule
      Oct06

      Ukraine`s chief delegate to PACE warns against return of Russia delegation, change of rule

      Chair of the Ukrainian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), President of the PACE Committee for Culture and Media Volodymyr Ariev warns that certain influencers at PACE are ready to initiate change of the organization`s rules on Monday, October 10, so that the Russian delegation could return to the Assembly...

      NATO jets scrambled as Russian bombers fly south
      Oct06

      NATO jets scrambled as Russian bombers fly south

      Two Russian Blackjack bombers were intercepted by fighter jets from four European countries as they flew from the direction of Norway to northern Spain and back, it has emerged, according to the BBC. Norway, the UK, France and Spain all scrambled jets as the TU-160 planes skirted the airspace of each country, the BBC wrote. It comes at a time of...

      International Committee of the Red Cross to repay Ukraine utilities debts for occupied Luhansk
      Oct06

      International Committee of the Red Cross to repay Ukraine utilities debts for occupied Luhansk

      Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group on the Donbas settlement Ambassador Martin Sajdik announces that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will pay the Ukrainian authorities $700,000 to cover accumulated debts for power and water supplies in the temporarily occupied...

      Ukraine`s defense minister starts first visit to Sweden
      Oct06

      Ukraine`s defense minister starts first visit to Sweden

      Ukrainian Defense Minister, General of the Army of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak has left for Sweden on his first visit to that country since Ukraine`s independence, according to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. During his visit to Stockholm General Poltorak will hold bilateral meetings with Minister of Defense of Sweden Peter Hultqvist and Chief of...

      Envoys from Sweden, Norway, Belarus, Kuwait give diplomatic credentials to President of Ukraine
      Oct06

      Envoys from Sweden, Norway, Belarus, Kuwait give diplomatic credentials to President of Ukraine

      Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has received credentials from Ambassador of Sweden to Ukraine Martin Hagstrom, Ambassador of Norway to Ukraine Ole Terje Horpestad, Ambassador of Belarus to Ukraine Igor Sokol and Ambassador of Kuwait to Ukraine Rashid Hammad Al-Adwani, according to the president`s press service. The Ukrainian president...