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The United States government has donated 2,500 AN/PVS-14 night-vision monoculars worth $5.8 million as free military aid to Ukraine’s Armed Forces, the Ukrainian General Staff reported on Feb. 14. Ear
Feb. 14, 2018
Editor-in-chief of the online newspaper Strana.ua Ihor Huzhva, who fled to Vienna in early 2018, has been put on the wanted list. This was authorized by Kyiv’s Shevchenkivsky district court on Februar
Feb. 13, 2018
The National Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine (UA: PBC) has decided not to broadcast matches of the 2018 FIFA World Cup to be played in Russia this summer, UA:PBC Chairman Zurab Alasania said in
Feb. 12, 2018
Former Odesa Oblast Governor and ex-Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has been deported to Poland, a State Border Service spokesman said on the evening of Feb. 12. Saakashvili was arrested in a d
Feb. 12, 2018
Completely surrounded by Russian and separatist forces, Ukrainian paratroopers defended Luhansk Airport from early April 2014 to early September 2014. In July, Ukrainian troops took over one transport
Feb. 10, 2018
One of Ukraine’s top investment funds has blurred the lines between public service and private benefit, making millions of dollars along the way. With more than $500 million under management, Investme
Feb. 9, 2018
Kyiv city council voted on Feb. 8 to rename Petrivka, a major station of Kyiv metro, to Pochaina. The step comes in line with the decommunization policy introduced in 2015 that scraps Soviet names of
Feb. 8, 2018
86 civilians died in the battle actions in Donbas in 2017. Alexander Hug, Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine said this in the interview for Deutche Welle. “In 2017,
Feb. 8, 2018
Ukraine has Hr 306 billion ($10.9 billion) in debts to pay off this year, the Finance Ministry announced in a document released last week. The total sum of $10.9 billion – which includes $4 billion in
Feb. 5, 2018
Ukraine’s new cruise missile, the Neptune, could be ready for mass production within the next two to three years, Serhiy Zgurets, the director of the Defense Express consulting agency, said at a press
Feb. 2, 2018
Former Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Mykola Zlochevsky, a beneficiary of oil and gas company Burisma, has returned to Ukraine, the online newspaper Ekonomichna Pravda has reported referrin
Feb. 2, 2018
Leonid Kadenyuk, 67, the first astronaut of independent Ukraine, died on Jan. 31 in Kyiv. The cause of death isn’t known yet. Kadenyuk felt sick during his morning run, according to Ukraine’s Space Ag
Jan. 31, 2018
Chinese engineers have helped Ukraine to increase the cargo transshipment capacity in one of its major international ports by at least five million tons a year. China Harbor Engineering Company has fi
Jan. 30, 2018
A new Ukrainian ground-based cruise missile underwent a successful test launch on Jan. 30, Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov announced. According to the Tur
Jan. 30, 2018
Ukraine has joined the unenviable list of countries that saw a dramatic increase in anti-Semitism in 2017, according to the annual report on anti-Semitism in the world, presented on Jan. 22 by Israel’
Jan. 29, 2018
It is now up to Ukrainian soldiers to decide if the brand new M4-WAC47 assault rifle – a special descendant of the legendary American-made M16 rifle – is good enough to eventually retire their decades
Jan. 28, 2018