Political activist: Sakvarelidze not up for top prosecutor job

04 April 2016, 20:51

President's lawyers: Offshore companies needed to transfer Roshen into blind trust

Avellum, a company providing legal counsel for President Petro Poroshenko, has said that opening companies in a foreign jurisdiction is the only way to transfer the president's assets…

04 April 2016, 19:29

Odesa mayor denies holding Russian citizenship

Odesa mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov has told the Segodnya daily that he does not hold Russian citizenship. "Reports about my citizenship and offshores are wrong. They were earlier circulated…

04 April 2016, 18:49

Ukraine's security supremo brushes Russian PM off

Russian Prime Minister Dmitriy Medvedev's remarks on Ukraine having no statehood show how much Russian leaders are afraid and hysterically averse to the very existence of Ukraine,…

04 April 2016, 18:32

Savchenko threatens dry hunger strike as of 6 April

Ukrainian pilot and MP Nadiya Savchenko, who was sentenced to 22 years in a Russian prison, is set to go on a dry hunger strike as of 6 April, her lawyer Mark Feygin has tweeted. …

04 April 2016, 17:53

Radical Party head flashes 160,000 dollars in 2015 income

Chairman of the Radical Party faction Oleh Lyashko declared 4.2m hryvnyas (0.16m dollars) in 2015 revenues, reads the lawmaker’s 2015 income statement, posted on the official parliamentary…

04 April 2016, 15:08

Two military captured near Horlivka

Over the past 24 hours, no casualties have been reported among Ukrainian soldiers, while three were injured in the Anti-Terrorist Operation zone. However, two Ukrainian soldiers were…

04 April 2016, 10:07

Ukraine asks OSCE to deploy armed posts on border with Russia

President Petro Poroshenko said a OSCE police mission should be deployed not only in the collision line in Donbass but also along the uncontrolled stretches of border with Russia.…

01 April 2016, 22:30

Opinion: If appointed premier, speaker will have to abandon political career

A deputy head pf the presidential administration, Vitaliy Kovalchuk, has said that Volodymyr Hroysman will have to abandon premiership if, as prime minister, he will want to start…

01 April 2016, 20:45

Ukrainian president changes Navy commander - source

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has replaced Rear Adm Serhiy Hayduk with Lt-Gen Ihor Voronchenko, the Dumskaya website has quoted its sources in the General Staff as saying. …

01 April 2016, 19:02

SBU chief allegedly tells French senator about ISIS training camp in Ukraine

Following the terror attacks in Belgium, French Senator Nathalie Goulet has said that there is a jihadi training camp in Ukraine. As it turned out later she had received this information…

01 April 2016, 14:00

President declares 62m hryvnyas

President Petro Poroshenko received the income of 62,163m hryvnyas in 2015 with 121,000 comprising his salary. Another 12,375m hrynvyas comprised the dividends and interests, and 49…

01 April 2016, 09:27

Ukrainian President meets Obama in Washington

Within the framework of his visit to the USA, President Petro Poroshenko has met with American President Barack Obama. According to the President’s press service, the heads of…

01 April 2016, 09:12

New York Times criticizes Ukraine's President for ineffective fights against corruption

The authoritative American newspaper The New York Times has criticized the internal policy of Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko, having accused him of encouraging corruption, the…

31 March 2016, 21:57

Ukrainian president's spokesman reports German demarche against Russia

Germany has demanded that Russia allow German doctors to see Ukrainian MP and pilot Nadiya Savchenko detained there, the Ukrainian president's press secretary, Svyatoslav Tseholko…

31 March 2016, 11:16

Two former members of Self-Help to enter presidential faction

Unaffiliated MPs Pavlo Kyshkar and Viktor Kryvenko elected to parliament on the Self-Help list have applied to join the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction, Kyshkar told journalists, RBK-Ukraine…