Section: News & Summaries

      Poland resumes small border traffic with Ukraine
      Aug03

      Poland resumes small border traffic with Ukraine

      Poland has resumed small border traffic with Ukraine, the press center of Ukraine`s State Border Service reported. All the checkpoints are operating normally and the number of vehicles crossing the checkpoints on the Ukrainian-Polish border has been increasing. Small border traffic between Poland and Ukraine was suspended on July 4, 2016, as a...

      Obama: U.S. to continue to ensure Russia, militants stop terrorizing Ukraine
      Aug03

      Obama: U.S. to continue to ensure Russia, militants stop terrorizing Ukraine

      Despite the current strained relationship, the United States will try to reach a settlement on the implementation of the Minsk agreements, U.S. President Barack Obama told journalists on August 2. ”And so, I don`t think that it wildly sways what is a tough, difficult relationship that we have with Russia right now. But it`s not going to stop us...

      U.S. supplies maximum arms to Ukraine: Media
      Aug03

      U.S. supplies maximum arms to Ukraine: Media

      Of all the countries, the United States provided the largest military support to Ukraine, the Office of Public Relations of the Ministry of Defense said, according to Ukrainian online news source Apostrophe. From January 1, 2014 to July 15, 2016, 18 countries provided different kinds of logistical and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine. These are...

      Savchenko begins indefinite hunger strike
      Aug03

      Savchenko begins indefinite hunger strike

      Ukrainian MP Nadia Savchenko has begun an indefinite hunger strike demanding the release of Ukrainian hostages held in occupied Donbas and Russia, her press secretary Tetiana Protorchenko told a UNIAN correspondent. ”Yes, Nadia is on an indefinite hunger strike until the exchange of prisoners takes place and our guys are released from Russian...

      Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin: Timeline of a Bad Bromance – NBC News
      Aug03

      Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin: Timeline of a Bad Bromance – NBC News

      They`re friends. They`re strangers. They talk. They don`t talk. It`s not entirely clear. The on-again, off-again relationship between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin is either a figment of the Republican presidential nominee`s imagination or a bad bromance between two alpha males, NBC News reported. But even if it`s true they`re...

      North Korea launches ballistic missile
      Aug03

      North Korea launches ballistic missile

      North Korea on Wednesday fired off a ballistic missile into waters off its east coast, the South Korean military said, in an apparent show of force against the deployment of an advanced U.S. missile defense system, South Korea`s Yonhap news agency reported. North Korea launched a missile into the East Sea from its western province at 07:50,...

      Russian troops attack Ukraine 71 times in last 24 hours, use artillery
      Aug03

      Russian troops attack Ukraine 71 times in last 24 hours, use artillery

      Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 71 times in the past 24 hours, including 26 times in the Mariupol sector, 30 times in the Donetsk sector and 15 times in the Luhansk sector, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters. From 11:00 to 20:00, the enemy was...

      Canada to train military policemen in Ukraine
      Aug03

      Canada to train military policemen in Ukraine

      Instructors from the Military Police of the Canadian Armed Forces will train servicemen of the Military Law Enforcement Service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry`s press service. The official ceremony of the launch of a new training course, ”Use of Force,” took place in Kyiv, the press service said....

      Iran to mull feasibility of oil transit via Ukraine
      Aug03

      Iran to mull feasibility of oil transit via Ukraine

      Iran will consider the feasibility of transit shipments of its crude oil to the Czech Republic and Slovakia via Ukraine, according to the Iranian publication IRNA. “We should think it over if the transit of part of Iranian oil to the Czech Republic and Slovakia via Ukraine`s territory is practical and economic,” Iranian Petroleum Minister...

      Bloomberg: Obama calls Trump unfit, urges top Republicans to repudiate him
      Aug03

      Bloomberg: Obama calls Trump unfit, urges top Republicans to repudiate him

      U.S. President Barack Obama, delivering his strongest condemnation of Donald Trump yet, said the Republican presidential nominee is unprepared and unfit to hold the nation`s highest office and urged Republican leaders to disavow his candidacy, according to Bloomberg. Trump ”doesn`t appear to have basic knowledge around critical issues” in Europe,...