Materials on 9 August 2017 year

  • On Wednesday morning, a VAZ car was hit by the Kyiv-Vorokhta train near the village of Bilshyvtsi (Halych district, Ivano-Frankivsk Region). Four people in the car died, including…
  • On Tuesday evening, a bearing wall of the local technical college of the Lutsk National Technical University in the town of Lyubeshiv (Volyn Region) partially collapsed during repair…
  • SBU raids Strana.UA The officers of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in the morning of August 9 came started a raid in the office of Strana.UA online publication. In a statement, the SBU said that…
  • Ukrainian Railway chief steps down Ukrzaliznitsya CEO Wojciech Balczun has tendered his resignation, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman announced on Wednesday, 9 August. Groysman stressed that the Polish manager of…
  • Ukraine pulls out of arms exports deal with Russia Ukrainian government at a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, 9 August terminated the intergovernmental agreement with Russia on cooperation in the export of military products. The deal…
  • Ukrainian PM says talk on domestic debt restructuring fail Ukraine's National Bank and the Finance Ministry have failed to agree on domestic public debt reprofiling to allocate 15bn hryvnyas, equivalent of 583m dollars, to road construction…
  • Energy regulator offers best regulatory asset base – expert The National Commission that regulates the electricity and utility services, has set an optimal rate of return (12.5%) on invested capital in the framework of introducing incentive…
  • Probe shows deadly mortar in Maryinka was doubled-loaded The 120-mm 2S12 Sani mortar, whose explosion killed two Ukrainian servicemen and left five others wounded in Maryinka, Donetsk Region, was double-loaded, the military prosecutor's…
  • President to table bill on Crimean Tatar autonomy in September On 8 August, President Petro Poroshenko met Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilyev and the chairman of the self-styled Crimean Tatar government Majlis, Refat Chubarov, according to…