Section: News & Summaries

      Ukrainian gas transport system meets requirements posed to world`s leading companies – Ukrtransgaz
      Sep09

      Ukrainian gas transport system meets requirements posed to world`s leading companies – Ukrtransgaz

      The industrial process control system within the Ukrainian gas transport system (GTS), in terms of safety and efficient provision of services on gas transportation and storage, has been certified based upon four international standards, which corresponds to the operating level of companies – GTS operators in Germany, France and Slovakia....

      Ukrainian Court bars mineral resources agency from suspending Ukrnafta licenses
      Sep09

      Ukrainian Court bars mineral resources agency from suspending Ukrnafta licenses

      The Kyiv District Administrative Court has ordered the State Service of Geology and Mineral Resources of Ukraine to not suspend the issuing of special permits to the country`s largest oil company, Ukrnafta, in connection with the company`s arrears under payments of royalties for the use of subsoil resources. This was stated in a court ruling...

      Kyiv to host Eurovision-2017
      Sep09

      Kyiv to host Eurovision-2017

      On September 9, the organizing committee on preparation and holding of Eurovision-2017 at last contacted the city that will host the song contest in Ukraine. According to Zurab Alasania, head of the National Television Company of Ukraine, Kyiv received 19 votes from members of the organizing committee, while Odesa received only two votes. The...

      Antonov to not allow technical maintenance of AN aircraft operated in Russia by other companies
      Sep09

      Antonov to not allow technical maintenance of AN aircraft operated in Russia by other companies

      Ukraine`s state-owned enterprise Antonov, the only Ukrainian designer and manufacturer of cargo and passenger planes, is prepared to ban Russian airlines from operating aircraft of the AN series outside the Russian Federation, in case of copyright infringement or refusal of the Russian operators from aircraft technical maintenance services,...

      What Poroshenko Said and Didn’t Say
      Sep09

      What Poroshenko Said and Didn’t Say

      Unsurprisingly Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko kicked off his annual televised address to parliament on September 6 with words of unity. “At a time when Russia’s aggression against Ukraine is still ongoing, when the military threat from the east is the most difficult strategic challenge, the issue of national unity and political...

      4 Ukrainian soldiers killed in Donbas in the past 24 hours
      Sep09

      4 Ukrainian soldiers killed in Donbas in the past 24 hours

      Four Ukrainian soldiers were killed and four others injured in fighting in the Donbas conflict in the past 24 hours, Ukrainian news service TSN reported, citing its own sources. One of the injured is in serious condition, but stable. Despite the pronounced ceasefire, the militants fired rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns in the town of...

      London Court to consider lawsuit over `Yanukovych debt` in January – Russian Finance Ministry
      Sep09

      London Court to consider lawsuit over `Yanukovych debt` in January – Russian Finance Ministry

      The London High Court hearings of a lawsuit concerning ”Yanukovych`s $3 billion debt” have been scheduled for January 17-20, Russian news agency TASS reported, referring to information from Deputy Finance Minister Sergey Storchak. ”The court hearings are scheduled for January 17-20. They will last three days,” TASS quoted Storchak as saying. As...

      Senior commander of the Syrian militants was killed near Aleppo – BBC
      Sep09

      Senior commander of the Syrian militants was killed near Aleppo – BBC

      A senior commander of the Syrian militant group formerly known as al-Nusra Front has been killed near Aleppo, rebel sources say, according to the BBC. The group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham said on its Twitter account that commander Abu Omar Sarakeb died in an air strike in Aleppo province, the BBC wrote. It did not say which country`s forces had carried...

      ”Silence mode in Donbas”:  Russian troops fire 120mm mortars, Ukraine army is restricted to open fire in response
      Sep09

      ”Silence mode in Donbas”: Russian troops fire 120mm mortars, Ukraine army is restricted to open fire in response

      Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 24 times in the past 24 hours, including 11 times in the Mariupol sector, seven times in the Donetsk sector and six times in the Luhansk sector, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation headquarters (ATO HQ). In the Mariupol sector, the...

      Man severely beaten wearing Ukrainian symbols in occupied Crimea
      Sep09

      Man severely beaten wearing Ukrainian symbols in occupied Crimea

      A man has been severely beaten while wearing Ukrainian symbols as he rode a bicycle in the Russian-occupied city of Sevastopol. The man was attacked by a passerby, who then called for police officers. The video shows that the man who beat the Ukrainian citizen shook hands with the police officers when they arrived on the scene, according to...