On 17 December, militants violated the ceasefire in Donbas eight times, provoking Ukraine's defenders throughout the day. The enemy used prohibited heavy weapons. As a result, a Ukrainian defender was wounded by a sniper’s bullet, […]
18.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Following the resolution against the Russian-occupied Crimea, the Black and Azov Seas militarisation, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a new version of the "Human Rights Situation in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, […]
17.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Not only Armenians but also Russian "peacekeepers" were captured by Azerbaijan troops in the Hadrut district of unrecognised Nagorny-Karabakh. The Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan stated that. "According to our information, Russian 'peacekeepers' were […]
17.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The reform of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) should take into account hybrid threats coming from the Russian Federation and provide the Service with additional mechanisms to counter them, SBU’s Deputy Chief for Reform […]
16.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
As of the end of November, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) recorded 2,492 ceasefire violations in Donbas, including 988 explosions and 1,369 bursts and shots. Despite the agreement reached at the Trilateral […]
16.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine concluded its first direct foreign economic agreements on military goods, having signed the contracts on technology transfer, production of corvettes, and combat UAVs for the needs of the Armed […]
15.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine during its meeting on Tuesday, 15 December, extended the law on special procedure for local self-government in certain districts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions for one year. Lawmakers extended […]
15.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, in cooperation with the Ukrainian Institute, the International Charitable Foundation ISOLATION and journalist, writer and former political prisoner Stanislav Aseyev, presented the project "Isolyatsia: must speak." The presentation […]
14.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The “Masandra” winery in the Russian-occupied Crimea was purchased by the company "Southern Project." The sale of "Masandra" was announced by Russian media referring to data on the official portal for posting information about the […]
14.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives have approved the National Defence Authorisation Act for the Fiscal Year 2021 (NDAA 2021). The document provides for the allocation of $250 million in security assistance […]
14.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
A level of cyber threats to Ukraine's information systems has increased as the leading U.S. cybersecurity firm FireEye was attacked, the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine (NSDC) reports with reference to the National […]
13.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has completed a preliminary investigation into the situation in Ukraine, which concerns war crimes and crimes against humanity in eastern Ukraine and the occupied Crimea. This piece […]
12.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
A Russian court has authorised the arrest in absentia of Ukraine’s National Guard serviceman Vitaliy Markiv for a murder of which he was acquitted by an Italian court, Russia's Interfax news agency reports with reference […]
11.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Ukraine has faced particular brutality and disrespect for human rights. Since the occupation of the Crimean Peninsula by the Russian Federation in 2014, human rights violations have become systemic and widespread there. "The human rights […]
11.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The National Congress of Paraguay has adopted a declaration condemning Russia's occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine's Embassy in Argentina has told Ukrinform. "On December 2 this year, the Chamber of Deputies of […]
11.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Ukraine occupies first place in Europe and eighth in the world in terms of geological pit coal reserves. The discovered coal reserves n Ukraine in 1998 amounted to about 50 billion tons, perspective resources - […]
10.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine strongly condemns the so-called "privatisation" of the State Concern National Production Agricultural Association Masandra in Crimea, planned by the Russian Federation. The Masandra winery is under the authority […]
10.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
On the occasion of the anniversary of the Normandy format summit in Paris, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky assures that “we’ll make it” although the path towards peace is not easy. "The path towards peace […]
09.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The command of the Russian occupation forces in Donbas has recently intensified combat training of artillery, tank, and motorised infantry units in the territories not controlled by the Government of Ukraine. "The occupiers simultaneously conduct […]
08.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The UN General Assembly has approved a resolution against the annexed Crimea militarisation by Russia. "The problem of the militarisation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine, and the Black […]
08.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
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