Section: News & Summaries

      Ukraine honoring soldiers killed in 2014 Ilovaisk battle
      Aug28

      Ukraine honoring soldiers killed in 2014 Ilovaisk battle

      An official ceremony to honor Ukrainian soldiers who died in the Ilovaisk battle in August 2014 is taking place at Kyiv`s Soviyska Square on Sunday Russian-Ukrainian war veterans and relatives of the dead soldiers have gathered at the square. About 100 people have paid tribute to the victims with the singing of the Plyve Kacha po Tysyni Ukrainian...

      Russian journalist Shchetinin found dead in Kyiv flat
      Aug28

      Russian journalist Shchetinin found dead in Kyiv flat

      Russian journalist Alexander Shchetinin, who was living in Kyiv, has been found dead in his flat. Law-enforcement agencies have not yet released information about the journalist`s death. ”In the early hours of August 28, 2016, journalist Alexander Shchetinin was found dead in his apartment at Kostiantynivska Street. Alexander was found on the...

      Two Ukrainian soldiers killed, four wounded in Donbas in past 24 hours
      Aug28

      Two Ukrainian soldiers killed, four wounded in Donbas in past 24 hours

      Two Ukrainian soldiers were killed and another four were wounded in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) zone in eastern Ukraine in the past 24 hours, according to a Ukrainian presidential spokesman for ATO issues. ”We lost two of our soldiers in fighting in the past day, another four were wounded,” spokesman for the Ukrainian presidential...

      U.S. presents ambulances to Ukrainian Armed Forces
      Aug27

      U.S. presents ambulances to Ukrainian Armed Forces

      The U.S. military representatives handed out the first five frontline ambulance vehicles BURTEK B4731 to Ukraine`s Armed Forces, according to the press service of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. In total, forty such vehicles are planned to be delivered. Lieutenant General of the United States Army Europe Ben Hodges has assured that the U.S. will...

      Gerashchenko comments on 1st meeting in Minsk after Crimean provocation
      Aug27

      Gerashchenko comments on 1st meeting in Minsk after Crimean provocation

      Representatives of the Russian side have heavily criticized and discredited the `Normandy format` at a meeting of the Contact Group in Minsk, Ukraine`s representative in the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral contact group on Donbas settlement, Iryna Gerashchenko wrote on Facebook. ”It was the first meeting after the Crimean provocation...

      Ukrainian enterprises post UAH 63 bln profit, following losses one year earlier
      Aug27

      Ukrainian enterprises post UAH 63 bln profit, following losses one year earlier

      The financial results from Ukraine`s profitable enterprises in the first half of 2016 grew by 9.2% year-over-year to UAH 181.173 billion, while unprofitable enterprises saw their losses decrease by 68.6% to UAH 124.223 billion, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine reported on its website. Large and medium-sized enterprises of Ukraine posted a...

      BBC: U.S. and Russia `achieve clarity on path forward` in Syrian war
      Aug27

      BBC: U.S. and Russia `achieve clarity on path forward` in Syrian war

      U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says he and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov ”have achieved clarity on the path forward” in Syria, but have ”narrow issues” to resolve, BBC reported. The two held talks in Geneva to try to find a way of reviving a cessation of hostilities that faltered months ago, according to BBC. Kerry said they were...

      Slovakian leader renews call for ending EU sanctions on Russia
      Aug27

      Slovakian leader renews call for ending EU sanctions on Russia

      Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico renewed his call for the European Union to end sanctions against Russia after a meeting this week with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, according to Radio Liberty. Slovakia holds the rotating EU presidency and will host a meeting of the bloc`s foreign ministers next week. He is one of several central European...

      Ukraine representative in Contact Group releases Kyiv`s counterarguments at Minsk talks
      Aug27

      Ukraine representative in Contact Group releases Kyiv`s counterarguments at Minsk talks

      Ukraine`s envoy to the Trilateral Contact, Yevhen Marchuk, made public some excerpts from the documents presented by Kyiv during peace talks in Minsk, which confirm the deterioration of the situation in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) zone. ”It is necessary to note that all the information that you will read is formally reported by the...

      Sudden combat readiness check in Russia: aircraft being deployed in military district at border with Ukraine
      Aug27

      Sudden combat readiness check in Russia: aircraft being deployed in military district at border with Ukraine

      Crews of the air forces of the Western and Central military districts of the Russian Federation have started the redeployment of aviation equipment to tactical airfields in the Southern military district along the border with Ukraine, as part of the sudden checking of combat readiness of Russian troops. ”Fighter and bomber aircraft, as well as...