The resumption «Minsk format» shows definite progress in the conflict resolving, but Russia imposes its position on Ukraine, which is beneficial to neither the country nor Europe. What are the forecasted consequences of a «special…
The Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman disappeared on the administrative border with Crimea
May 31, 2020
Ukrainian serviceman has disappeared on the administrative border with the Russian-occupied Crimea. According to the Military Law Enforcement Service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the man was located on the observation post near the…
The Minsk Conundrum: Western Policy and Russia’s War in Eastern Ukraine by Chatham House The Minsk agreements rest on two irreconcilable interpretations of Ukraine’s sovereignty: is Ukraine sovereign, as Ukrainians insist, or should its sovereignty be limited,…
“Neither a miracle nor a disaster – President Zelensky’s first year in office” by the OSW 20th May marked the end of Volodymyr Zelensky first year as President of Ukraine. Thanks to the clear victory of…
The visit of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba to Budapest and the meeting there with the Foreign Minister of Hungary Peter Siarto became a serious event for Ukraine in recent times….
Almost a year after the murder of a 5-year-old boy, Kyrylo Tlyavov, in the Kyiv region by drunken police, the Pereyaslav inter district court began hearing the case. Only one of the four accused remains…
“The coronavirus crisis in Ukraine returns Vitaliy Klitschko to a political orbit” – such an article was published in Handelsblatt. Due to the fact that Klitschko proved to be a good crisis manager during the…
Ukraine opens its borders gradually
May 30, 2020
Ukraine eases the quarantine measures on the country’s western border gradually. Thus, six checkpoints on the border with Moldova were resumed on May 29, and another 60 checkpoints are expected to be reopened by the…
COVID-19 does not abolish sanctions
May 29, 2020
Should sanctions be eased during the pandemic? – this is a title of an article prepared by the European Parliament Research Service. Authors of the publication explain why the EU keeps sanctions in Russia, Belarus,…
The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba met with his Hungarian counterpart Peter Siarto in Budapest. As it became known, two documents were signed as a result of the meeting. The first is…
Minsk prepares to agree on the lists for the exchange of detainees during the next meeting. This was accepted during a Tripartite Contact Group’s for the Situation in Donbas Settlement meeting. According to the website…
Propaganda and misinformation in ORDLO
May 29, 2020
The International Center for Countering Russian Propaganda continues to monitor disinformation and misinformation campaigns in the Russian-occupied territories of eastern Ukraine for Promote Ukraine. In the last article, we focused on the ORDLO occupation administration…
Ukraine will receive a $ 350 million loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (a World Bank credit institution). This is evidenced by the relevant order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine….
The Association of Suppliers of Retail Chains has submitted a proposal to the Ministry of Economic Development for the free transfer of expired food products. Or the sale of such products for feed to livestock…
The German Ministry of Foreign Affairs “invited for a talk” Russian Ambassador Sergiy Nechayev due to a hacker attack on the Bundestag in 2015. A Foreign Ministry press release issued on Thursday, May 28th, said…
The “decree” of the occupation administration representative, the self-proclaimed “DPR” leader Denis Pushylin about the use of the city name “Stalino” in parallel with the name “Donetsk”, raised many questions. The International Center on Countering…
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine should take steps to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention) and take the necessary steps to create a…
The annual national program under the auspices of the NATO-Ukraine Commission for 2020 (ANP) provides for consultations on modalities for the deployment of a peacekeeping mission under the UN auspices in the temporarily occupied territories…
Anti-diplomacy: the Russian Federation's representative interrupted the speeches of experts in the OSCE
May 28, 2020
«An unprecedented step took place at the OSCE in Vienna: the Russian representative was trying to disrupt and interrupt the speeches of Ukraine and another expert on the security situation in the Black and Azov…
Russia blackmails with "irreparable consequences" in the event of a change in the Minsk format
May 28, 2020
Borys Gryzlov, Russia’s representative at a UN Security Council meeting, said Ukraine’s attempts to change the format of the Minsk talks could have “irreparable consequences”. With these words, the Russian official reacted to the statement…
