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  • Turchynov: "I alone voted for the martial law in 2014" In February 2014, acting Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov planned to introduce martial law but did not find political support for this decision. He made this statement…
  • Turchynov: "we had only 5,000 troops in February 2014" Having learnt about the seizure of the Crimean parliament on 27 February 2014, then acting President Oleksandr Turchynov immediately ordered the Internal Troops' command based on the…
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    Sonya Koshkina
    The "three whales" of Petro Poroshenko's re-election campaign. Who is in charge and is it going to work out?
  • Security supremo: Russia not to step up aggression until June The secretary of the National Security and Defence Council, Oleksandr Turchynov, has ruled out any hike in Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine until June. "We must understand…
  • Turchynov not to head Poroshenko's election campaign The secretary of the National Security and Defence Council, Oleksandr Turchynov, has said in an interview with Hromadske that he will not run for president in 2019. Despite earlier…
  • Ukraine successfully tests cruise missile On 30 January, Ukraine successfully completed the first flight tests of a new Ukrainian ground-based cruise missile that is capable of precisely hitting ground and sea targets, the…
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  • Managing the fall
    Sonya Koshkina
    The agenda of a new political season will be heavily dominated by the looming presidential and parliamentary elections, and Petro Poroshenko's ambitions in this regard.
  • Security supremo welcomes adoption of Donbas bill The secretary of the National Security and Defence Council (NSDC), Oleksandr Turchynov, has said that the adoption of the law on the reintegration of Donbas makes Ukraine's case in…
  • The secretary of the National Security and Defence Council (NSDC), Oleksandr Turchynov, has said that he has no presidential ambitions and is not planning to run in the 2019 presidential…
  • Ukrainian security supremo wary of Russia's peacekeeping idea Oleksandr Turchynov, secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, has said that the Russian proposal to deploy a UN peacekeeping mission in Donbas poses a serious…
  • Ukraine to tighten border control over Okuyeva's murder The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the National Police and the State Border Service of Ukraine have been instructed to introduce additional antiterrorism and counterintelligence…
  • Security supremo blames top brass for Kalynivka ammo depot disaster Secretary of National Security and Defence Council, Oleksandr Turchynov, blamed the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Viktor Muzhenko, for the explosions in the territory…
  • Combat drone Sokil tested in Chernihiv Region Ukrainian combat drone Sokil (Falcon) was tested in Chernihiv Region on September 14, the press service of the National Security and Defence Council said in a statement. "The reconnaissance…
  • Running in place
    Sonya Koshkina
    Despite the absence of breakthroughs at the start of a new political season, some processes are already underway which may determine the outcome of the 2019 elections.
  • Ukraine's security supremo concerned about Russia-Belarus drill Russia will use the scheduled joint large-scale command-and-staff exercise Zapad-2017 (West-2017) with Belarus as an opportunity to check its preparedness for a big war for NATO member…