Section: News & Summaries

      Witnesses share footage of Russia army trucks moving across occupied Crimea
      Aug09

      Witnesses share footage of Russia army trucks moving across occupied Crimea

      Witnesses have videotaped a convoy of Russian military trucks moving across Russia-occupied Crimea and uploaded two pieces of the footage from a car recorder on YouTube. The Russian occupiers are relocating army trucks in Crimea / Screenshot According to the captions, the convoy moves along a detour road between Simferopol and Yalta. ”Russia`s...

      Ukraine makes Russia another request for extradition of political prisoners Klykh, Karpiuk
      Aug09

      Ukraine makes Russia another request for extradition of political prisoners Klykh, Karpiuk

      Ukraine has made Russia another request for the extradition of political prisoners Stanislav Klykh and Mykola Karpiuk, First Deputy Minister of Justice Natalia Sevostianova said in an interview with 112 Ukraine TV Channel. According to Sevostianova, around 10 requests for the extradition of Ukrainian political prisoners have already been made to...

      Rada receives proposal to introduce obligatory health insurance in 2018
      Aug09

      Rada receives proposal to introduce obligatory health insurance in 2018

      Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Healthcare and MP Olha Bohomolets has submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a draft law on the introduction of compulsory state social health insurance in Ukraine from January 1, 2018. According to the Verkhovna Rada website, the relevant document was submitted on August 2. ”Rapid deterioration in the...

      UN urges truce in Aleppo to provide humanitarian assistance
      Aug09

      UN urges truce in Aleppo to provide humanitarian assistance

      With more than two million people impacted by the fighting in and around war-ravaged Aleppo, where wide swaths of the area are now without power and water supplies are dwindling, the United Nations urgently called for a humanitarian pause in the hostilities to enable immediate access to repair the electricity and water networks, and provide...

      Ukrainian athlete Kharlan wins bronze medal in fencing women`s sabre
      Aug09

      Ukrainian athlete Kharlan wins bronze medal in fencing women`s sabre

      Ukraine bagged its first bronze medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro when 25-year-old athlete Olha Kharlan from the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv won her bout in the Fencing Women`s Sabre individual competition against France`s Manon Brunet late on Monday. The score in the bronze medal bout was 15:10. Earlier, Kharlan beat Mexico`s...

      Syria: MSF-supported hospital in Idlib governorate destroyed by bombing
      Aug09

      Syria: MSF-supported hospital in Idlib governorate destroyed by bombing

      A busy hospital that served as a reference center for pediatric patients in the town of Millis, in Syria`s Idlib governorate, was destroyed by aerial bombing on Saturday, killing 13 people and depriving 70,000 people of essential medical care, according to the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans...

      Russian troops attack Ukraine 47 times in last day, use artillery in Shyrokyne
      Aug09

      Russian troops attack Ukraine 47 times in last day, use artillery in Shyrokyne

      Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 47 times in the past 24 hours, including 20 times in the Mariupol sector, 16 times in the Donetsk sector and 11 times in the Luhansk sector, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters. In the Mariupol sector, the occupiers...

      Reuters: U.S. urges Russia to halt Syria sieges; Russia slams aid politicization
      Aug09

      Reuters: U.S. urges Russia to halt Syria sieges; Russia slams aid politicization

      The United Nations Security Council must not allow civilians on both sides of the Syrian city of Aleppo to be cut off from humanitarian aid, the United States said on Monday as Russia accused Washington of politicizing a humanitarian issue, according to Reuters. The United States, Britain, France, New Zealand and Ukraine organized an informal...

      Prices of industrial products rise by over 4% in a month
      Aug09

      Prices of industrial products rise by over 4% in a month

      The prices set by Ukraine`s industrial producers in July 2016 rose by 4.3%, compared to the previous month, according to the State Statistics Service. In annual terms, industrial product prices grew by 18.3% year-over-year, while compared to December 2015, they rose by 18.8%, the service said. The report does not include data from the...

      Ukraine`s consolidated budget revenue grow by UAH 73 bln since year start
      Aug09

      Ukraine`s consolidated budget revenue grow by UAH 73 bln since year start

      Revenues of Ukraine`s consolidated budget in January-July 2016 amounted to UAH 352.4 billion, which is higher by UAH 73.3 billion, or 26.3%, compared to the same period last year, the press service of the State Fiscal Service reported. According to the report, the state budget revenues for the period under review, including transfers in...