Ukraine`s chief banker announces acceptable inflation
NBU Governor Valeriya Gontareva says that the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) plans to use inflation targeting tools to ensure that headline inflation in Ukraine stays at 12% by the end of 2016, and at 8% by the end of 2017, according to Ukraine`s weekly newspaper Zerkalo Nedeli (Mirror Weekly).This was announced at a meeting with Chairman of the...
Two Ukrainian soldiers captured near Horlivka – Motuzianyk
Head of the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) headquarters, Colonel Oleksandr Motuzianyk announces that two Ukrainian soldiers were captured near the militant-held town of Horlivka in Donetsk region, according to an UaPosition correspondent.”Two Ukrainian soldiers were captured near Horlivka. However, more details of this...
Hryvnia strengthens to UAH 26.00 to dollar on interbank market
Hryvnia quotations against the dollar on the interbank currency market on Monday strengthened to UAH 25.90/26.00 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 29.3880/29.4990, while those against the Russian ruble have settled at UAH...
Russian submarine again spotted near Latvia
The National Armed Forces of Latvia have once again spotted a Russian submarine off the Latvian coast.”In the exclusive economic zone of 11 miles from the border of Latvia, the National Armed Forces have identified a Russian ”Kilo”-class submarine,” the Latvian armed forces wrote on Twitter on Monday.Latvia has repeatedly reported the Russian...
Ukraine doesn`t confirm report on mass grave of ATO soldiers near Debaltseve
Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces` civil-military cooperation department Oleksiy Nozdrachiov does not confirm reports about the discovery of a mass grave of Ukrainian soldiers near the militant-held town of Debaltseve, according to Ukrainian 112 Ukraine TV Channel.On Sunday, militants of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People`s Republic reported...
BBC: IMF`s Lagarde tells Greece debt leak is `nonsense`
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chief Christine Lagarde has dismissed reports that the body is trying to push Greece towards default as ”simply nonsense,” BBC reported.”The IMF conducts its negotiations in good faith, not by way of threats, and we do not communicate through leaks,” Lagarde wrote in a letter to Greek Prime Minister Alexis...
Boy tests positive for Ebola in latest Liberia flare-up – Reuters
A five-year-old boy tested positive for Ebola in Liberia just days after his mother died of the virus in the second flare-up to hit West Africa in recent weeks, the health ministry said on Sunday, according to Reuters.A 30-year-old woman died of Ebola in Monrovia last week, months after Liberia was declared free of the virus. Her death followed a...
Ukrainians run 65km Hague-Amsterdam marathon in support of Association Agreement
A group of Ukrainians on bicycles and on foot participated in a 65 km marathon between The Hague and Amsterdam in the Netherlands to show Ukraine`s commitments to its European aspirations and call on the Dutch people to support the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement at a referendum on April 6, according to an UaPosition correspondent.Twenty-four...
UN: 33 dead, over 200 injured in fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh region
On April 2, large-scale ceasefire violations took place along the line of contact in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, leading to at least 33 fatalities, according to the report of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Azerbaijani Trend News Agency reported.”Official sources from Armenia and Azerbaijan state that at...
Russia hopes to keep Ukraine`s gas market
Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak says Russia hopes to keep the Ukrainian gas market and resume gas supplies to the country, an UNIAN correspondent reported.”Ukraine has simply physically reduced gas consumption given the economic downturn, as many companies that bought gas do not operate anymore. Previously, Ukraine consumed 50 billion...
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