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      Ukrainian intelligence: 18 Russian troops was killed in Donbas last week, Luhansk morgue full with bodies of Russian soldiers
      Dec26

      Ukrainian intelligence: 18 Russian troops was killed in Donbas last week, Luhansk morgue full with bodies of Russian soldiers

      Eighteen occupiers were killed and other 38 people were wounded in Donbas last week, according to a Ukrainian military intelligence. ”Over the past week, as a result of the enemy`s attempts to seize new positions at the Svitlodarsk Arc, as well as violations of rules on arms and ammo transportation, poor conditions of service and medical...

      Hike in crime rate in Kyiv region makes regional council intervene in ”right to carry arms” issue
      Dec26

      Hike in crime rate in Kyiv region makes regional council intervene in ”right to carry arms” issue

      On December 23, 2016, at the initiative of the deputy of Kyiv Regional Council Ivan Stupak, an appeal to the President of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine was adopted at an extraordinary meeting, demanding urgent consideration and adoption of Law of Ukraine ”On civil arms and ammunition,” which has not been...

      Fragments of Russian Tu-154 found mile off coast
      Dec26

      Fragments of Russian Tu-154 found mile off coast

      Search team finds fragments of presumably Tu-154 plane wreckage a mile from a sea coast, according to a source, Russian news agency TASS has reported. The Russian Defense Ministry has increased the group of unmanned aerial vehicles in the Tu-154 search area, the ministry`s press service said on Monday, TASS wrote. ”The group of the Defense...

      EBRD to finance trolleybus transport and infrastructure upgrade in Ivano-Frankivsk
      Dec26

      EBRD to finance trolleybus transport and infrastructure upgrade in Ivano-Frankivsk

      The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is extending resources to support the renewal of rolling stock in municipalities across Ukraine under its Ukraine Public Transport Framework facility, according to Agroperspectiva. The latest project under the facility, which was approved in 2015 and designed to help replace ageing...

      Handover of bodies of probably tortured and killed Ukraine soldiers at Svitlodarsk Duha – details
      Dec26

      Handover of bodies of probably tortured and killed Ukraine soldiers at Svitlodarsk Duha – details

      Bodies of the Ukrainian troops earlier killed in the fighting with the militants at the Svitlodarsk Arc, taken from the enemy by the civil and military cooperation group, have undergone primary coroner examination, according to an activist Oleksandr Surkov. ”There are no signs of torture and abuse; death was caused by gunshot wounds,” Surkov...

      SBU Security Service chief says low salaries reason for operatives to consider switching to business activity
      Dec26

      SBU Security Service chief says low salaries reason for operatives to consider switching to business activity

      Chairman of Ukraine`s SBU Security Service Vasyl Hrytsak has said that the next year`s budget allocated less funds for the SBU than the agency actually requires. ”Our budget is what we have been able to defend, which is UAH 6.260 billion. Although our minimum requirements, which we had announced, were at a little more than UAH 7 billion. In...

      Cabinet plans to introduce Mobile ID in Ukraine – Ukrainian Prime Minister
      Dec26

      Cabinet plans to introduce Mobile ID in Ukraine – Ukrainian Prime Minister

      The Cabinet of Ministers intends to develop a legal framework for the implementation of a technology of mobile identity of citizens – Mobile ID in Ukraine at the state level, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said during the meeting with representatives of the largest mobile operators in the country. ”We need to open up opportunities...

      Ukrainian Interior minister says satisfied with ministry`s budget for 2017
      Dec26

      Ukrainian Interior minister says satisfied with ministry`s budget for 2017

      Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has called ”progressive” the Interior Ministry budget for 2017, the press service reported. According to Avakov, cash collateral in the amount of UAH 3.8788 billion is provided for the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, which is UAH 1.4315 billion more than last year. ”These funds will increase the...

      Russian transport ministry names versions of Tu-154 crash
      Dec26

      Russian transport ministry names versions of Tu-154 crash

      A terrorist attack is not among the major versions of the Tu-154 crash over the Black Sea. The tragedy may have been caused by a technical condition of the aircraft or a piloting error, Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said, according to RIA Novosti. ”The objective of the government commission`s work is not to establish the causes that...

      No one wants to build railway to Kerch bridge, deadlines may shift
      Dec26

      No one wants to build railway to Kerch bridge, deadlines may shift

      Terms of construction of a so-called Kerch bridge from mainland Russia to the occupied Crimea may be extended as the second tender to select a general contractor for the construction of the railway toward the bridge failed due to the lack of applications, Kommersant reports. It is noted that the railway is scheduled to be laid by November 2019...