By order of Alexander Lukashenka, the Belarusian special services discussed the possibility of killing political rivals, including a car bomb explosion that killed journalist Pavel Sheremet, the Brussels-based independent online newspaper EUobserver reported following an investigation…
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has blocked the financing of the “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DPR) terrorist organisation due to the large-scale, illegal supply of pharmaceutical products to the temporarily occupied territories. The Service’s officers…
Norwegian Company Refuses to Certify Nord Stream 2
January 3, 2021
Norwegian company Det Norske Veritas (DNV) GL, which was supposed to certify Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, refused to provide this service. According to Russian media reports citing the company’s statement, the reason for…
New OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Going to Visit Ukraine
January 2, 2021
On 1 January 2021, Sweden took over the Chair of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden Ann Linde became a new OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for a period…
On New Year’s Eve, the Ukrainian authorities returned home two women and seven children who had been held in refugee camps in Syria. According to the press service of the Office of the President, a…
According to the Viasna Belarusian Human Rights Centre, at least 112 people – 18 women and 94 men – in Belarus celebrated the New Year being under administrative arrest. The total number of citizens against…
MEPs Sent Support Letters to Ukrainian Political Prisoners
January 1, 2021
An MEP group sent letters of solidarity to Ukrainian political prisoners in the Russian Federation from the occupied Crimea. They addressed the messages to Remza Bekirov, Osman Arifmemetov, Yevhen Karakashev and Serhiy Filatov. The Crimean…
In 2020, Polish special services recorded an increase in the disinformation and propaganda activities of the Russian Federation against Poland. Both traditional and new narratives related to the pandemic and elections in Belarus were used,…
The State Concern Ukroboronprom and the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine have signed a contract for the supply of RK-360 MC Neptune coastal systems to the army in 2021. The new weapon is one of…
Law Reinstating Powers of National Agency on Corruption Prevention Comes into Force in Ukraine
December 31, 2020
On 30 December, a law reinstating the powers of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) and the liability for inaccuracies in asset declarations came into force. The law restores the powers of the NACP, including…
On Wednesday, 30 December, the Iranian authorities instructed the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development to pay $150,000 to each family of the Ukraine International Airlines plane crash victims who died when the aircraft was…
Ukraine Signs Contract for Chinese COVID-19 Vaccine Supply
December 30, 2020
The Ministry of Health of Ukraine has signed a contract for a supply of 1.9 million doses of coronavirus vaccine produced by the Chinese company Sinovac Biotech. According to the website of the Office of…
NBU Recorded Foreign Capital Outflow from Ukraine
December 30, 2020
Foreign investors withdrew 343 million US dollars from our country in nine months of 2020. The National Bank of Ukraine published this data. The outflow of foreign capital in the first quarter of 2020 reached…
Denysova: 258 Ukrainians Went Missing in the Uncontrolled Donbas
December 30, 2020
258 citizens of Ukraine went missing in the territory of Donbas uncontrolled by the Ukrainian government. The Ombudsman Lyudmyla Denysova announced this. According to her, 251 Ukrainians are currently being held captive in ORDLO. This…
About 300,000 Ukrainian citizens were granted passports in the occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The deputy prime minister, minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov announced this….
Ukraine’s Government Orders New Antonov Aircraft for Army for First Time Since Country’s Independence
December 29, 2020
The Ministry of Defence, on behalf of the Government of Ukraine and the State Enterprise Antonov, signed a memorandum of cooperation on the construction of new An-178 transport aircraft for the needs of the Armed Forces…
In 2020, the counterintelligence department of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has shut down four intelligence networks and detained 11 agents of the Russian special services, three of whom were involved in attempted sabotage…
Russia Tried to Approach NATO Airspace Over 350 Times in 2020
December 29, 2020
In 2020, NATO air forces across Europe scrambled more than 400 times to intercept unknown aircraft approaching Alliance airspace, according to a report on the official NATO website. Almost 90% of the intercepted aircraft belonged…
A meeting of advisers to the leaders of the Normandy format countries may take place before the end of January 2021, the Head of the President’s Office Andriy Yermak said, noting that work within the…
Ukraine has finally broken with the “Russian measure,” and its future in alliance with Western countries is irreversible. That was stated by Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba in an interview with the German…
