Materials on 8 July 2016 year

  • High hopes
    Sonya Koshkina
    Ukraine has seen a lot of parties of "simply good people". And nothing solid has grown out of it. UDAR, the People's Front, Self-Reliance, Ukrop, to a lesser extent the Radical Party and Freedom, and others. All of them stood "for everything…
  • ​Deputy health minister caught in bribe probe Kyiv prosecutor's office arrested a deputy health minister as he received a bribe, the press service of metropolitan prosecutor's office reported on 8 July. "This individual has established…
  • Two ATO troops killed as militants intensify fire Two soldiers were killed in action and 6 more wounded over the past 24 hours, the presidential administration spokes officer for ATO col. Andriy Lysenko told a briefing on 6 July.…
  • ​NATO summit kicks off in Warsaw A meeting of leaders of NATO member countries begins in Warsaw on 7 July to decide on increasing the security of the Alliance countries by strengthening deterrence and defence. The…
  • Parliament speaker fears escalation in Donbas soon Verkhovna Rada Chairman Andriy Parubiy says he expets the situation in the east of Ukraine may worsen in the coming months. "According to information that I have, there is a high…
  • ​Cyprus not to lift sanctions against Russia Cyprus would not lift sanctions against Russia despite the resolution of the Cyprus Parliament on 7 July, to lift the sanctions against Russia, the spokeswoman for Ukraine's Foreign…
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  • Militants block release of prisoners, ask 600 to be amnestied The militants in Donbass continue to block the exchange of prisoners and demand 600 separatists to be amnestied, the representative of Ukraine in the subgroup on humanitarian affairs…
  • ​Putin, Merkel, Hollande discuss Donbas Russian President Vladimir Putin, his French counterpart Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed the Ukraine crisis on Friday, stressing the need for a political…
  • NATO to deploy 10,000 soldiers in Poland in 2017 - minister NATO is expected to deploy 10 thousand troops in Poland next year, Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski said in the sidelines of the NATO summit, the UP reported on 7 July…
  • June 2016 saw a decline in consumer prices (deflation) in Ukraine at 0.2% over May. Previously, Ukraine saw deflation in February (0.4%), the State Statistics Service figures released…
  • Turkish president reiterates support for Ukraine Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan met on the sidelines of the Warsaw NATO Summit on 7 July to discuss cooperation in security issues…
  • UK to continue support for Ukraine amid Brexit - PM Prime Minister David Cameron has said the UK will continue its support for Ukraine despite Britain's recent decision to leave the UK. "We will find ways to continue supporting Ukraine…
  • Anticorruption agents question procedure of health official's arrest The National Anticorruption Bureau and the Special Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office have said it was their jurisdiction to detain Deputy Health Minister Roman Vasylyshyn when he…
  • Detained Ukrainian deputy health minister granted bail Kyiv's Dniprovskyy district court on 8 July remanded Deputy Health Minister Roman Vasylyshyn to 60 days and granted him bail of 2m hryvnyas [0.08m dollars], the press secretary of…