Over 1.2 mln people from Donbas relocated to other regions
Over 1.2 million people have been relocated from the temporarily occupied territories of Donbas to other regions in Ukraine since the beginning of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) in the east of Ukraine in April 2014, the press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine told an UNIAN correspondent.According to the report, internally...
Poroshenko invites Japanese investors to Ukraine
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called on Japanese companies to invest in Ukraine and take part in the privatization of Ukrainian ports and energy sector facilities, according to the presidential press service.”Bilateral cooperation has never been so dynamic in our history. It has never reached such a high level of trust,” Poroshenko...
Four Ukrainian soldiers wounded in Donbas in last day
No Ukrainian soldiers were killed but four were wounded in the Donbas conflict zone over the last 24 hours, presidential administration spokesman for the Anti-Terrorist Operation Colonel Andriy Lysenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday, according to an UaPosition correspondent.”Over the last day, we haven`t lost any Ukrainian soldiers, but...
U.S. coalition airstrike destroys ISIL headquarters compound in Mosul
A U.S.-led coalition airstrike took out an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant headquarters compound in Mosul, Iraq, yesterday morning, a Pentagon spokesman said on Tuesday.Navy Capt. Jeff Davis told reporters that ISIL operatives took over the former Turkish consulate in Mosul in June 2014, claiming it as one of its headquarters, U.S....
Hryvnia strengthens to UAH 25.95 to dollar on interbank market
Hryvnia quotations against the dollar on the interbank currency market on Wednesday strengthened to UAH 25.85/25.95 to the dollar by the middle of trade, a broker at a commercial bank has told an UNIAN correspondent.Hryvnia quotes against the euro have settled at UAH 29.3470/29.4610, while those against the Russian ruble have settled at UAH...
Poroshenko: Even unpopular measures to be used to bring peace to Donbas
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says peace in Donbas will be ensured even if steps to be taken become unpopular with Ukrainian society.”We will ensure peace in Donbas, even if we have to use some steps that are unpopular with Ukrainian society,” Poroshenko said at the Japan National Press Club on Wednesday.According to him, Ukraine has been...
EU should consider refugee deals with North African states: German minister
The European Union should consider coming to refugee agreements with North African states along the lines of a deal it has already reached with Turkey, Germany`s interior minister said on Tuesday, according to Reuters.”We will have to hold discussions with North African states on models similar to the one we have set up with Turkey,” Thomas de...
Insolvent Khreschatyk Bank`s depositors to get nearly UAH 3 bln in compensation
Managing Director of the Individuals` Deposit Guarantee Fund Andriy Olenchyk says that the Fund estimates the amount of compensation to be paid to depositors of Kyiv`s insolvent Khreschatyk Bank at UAH 2.8 billion.The Fund will begin repayments no later than on the 20th working day after provisional administration has been introduced at the bank,...
South Africa: Zuma survives impeachment vote
South African lawmakers on Tuesday voted 233 to 143 against a motion to impeach ruling President Jacob Zuma. Amidst shouts of ”Zuma must go,” the parliament`s deputy speaker Lechesa Tsenoli dismissed the motion, according to Deutsche Welle.The heated parliamentary debate came after the country`s Constitutional Court passed a judgment saying that...
Poroshenko says use of offshore accounts should be impossible in Ukraine
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says he wants to make it impossible to use offshore accounts in Ukraine, according to news portal 112.ua.”I plan to introduce a reform that will make it impossible to use offshore accounts in Ukraine,” he said at the Japan National Press Club on Wednesday, 112.ua wrote.Commenting on the Panama Papers leak, the...
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