Materials on 18 April 2016 year

  • Sic transit gloria mundi
    Sonya Koshkina
    "Its" means the one who is equally controllable and giving Bankova [street, where the Ukrainian president's office is located] all existing levers of power (uniformed agencies including…
  • New deputy PM refuses to pay pensions in separatist Donbas Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs Pavlo Rozenko has rejected the idea of the two ministers to resume social benefits to people who are registered and live in the uncontrolled…
  • ATO update: Border guard, four military wounded Separatist militants in Donbas on Monday night fired small arms and grenade launchers at the Stanytsya Luhanska checkpoint. One of the guards got wounded by shrapnel. "The soldier…
  • Car burns down in downtown Kyiv A car burned to ashes in the downtown Kyiv around midnight on 17 April, an LB.ua correspondent reports. Eyewitnesses to the accident say the Renault car stopped on red light at the…
  • Bellingcat, an international network of investigative journalists, has unearthed numerous facts of the use of Grad multiple launch rocket systems by the Russian army from its territory…
  • IMF to send mission to Ukraine soon - embassy A mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is to visit Ukraine soon to examine the economic situation and meet with the newly appointed government, Ukraine's embassy in the…
  • Ukrainian speaker insists coalition has 230 MPs "According to the documents that I was provided by the parliament apparatus on the eve of the vote [for the appointment of a new cabinet headed by Volodymyr Hroysman], the coalition…
  • Ukraine sentences Russian commandoes to 14 years in prison Kyiv’s Holosiyivsky district court has sentenced Russian special operations servicemen Yevgeniy Yerofeyev and Aleksandr Aleksandrov to 14 years of imprisonment with confiscation of…
  • Poroshenko, Putin discuss Savchenko's case Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has had a phone conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the press service of the former has said. Poroshenko stressed that Ukraine…