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Russia conducts rotation of Russian officers in senior positions in formations of terrorists in Donbass, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reports. The command of the Russian terrorist forces in Donbass has begun another rotation of Russian career military officers in senior positions in illegal…

Tomos of autocephaly for the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, that means its independency from Russian Ortodox Church has been singned today in Istambul by all members of Ecumenical Patriarchate. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew – the head of the global Orthodox Church – has signed “tomos” earlier, on January 6, 2019. Worth…

After the Unifying Council in Kyiv on December 15, 2018 and the creation of a Unified Orthodox Church of Ukraine, at least 40 parishes of the (Ukrainian Ortodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate) said they would join the newly created Orthodox Church of Ukraine. Based on open sources and own…

Russian navy performed BAL missle system launches at naval targets of conditional enemy in the Black Sea, local media in occupied Crimea reports. Crews of Bal missile system of the Russian Black Sea navy conducted training on strikes on the sea targets in occupied Crimea. It is reported by the…

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew – the head of the global Orthodox Church – has signed what is known as a “tomos”, a decree officially recognising an independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Ukrainian Orthodox leaders approved the creation of a new, unified church split from the Moscow Patriarchate and elected 39-year-old Metropolitan Epiphanius…

The number of military equipment on Crimea peninsula and around it exceeds all permissible limits, diplomat Volodymyr Yelchenko says. Russia has deployed more military forces in the annexed Crimea than during the Soviet times. This opinion was expressed by the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, Volodymyr Yelchenko.…

Poland wants the UN Secretary-General to appoint special envoy for changing the Normandy format and solving the Ukrainian issue. Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Jacek Czaputowicz believes that Europe should be represented by European institutions, rather than France and Germany, at negotiations. He stated this in an interview to Handelsblatt.…

The Russia’s regime plans to fabricate the next news pegs to discredit Ukraine in order to strengthen the anti-Ukrainian information campaign and justify its aggressive actions in Azov-Black Sea region. To this end, the Russian side intends to make allegations of preparation of terrorist acts in the temporarily occupied territories…

Ukraine’s Government provides about $85,700 financial support to the families of 24 Ukrainian sailors kidnapped by Russian military forces near the Kerch Strait in November 25, 2018. This was the initiative of the Ministry for Temporarily Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons, as a result of which the Cabinet of…

Russia is preparing to employ chemical weapons in the occupied territory of Donbass, Defence Intelligence of Ukraine’s MOD reports. Vadym Skibitskyi, military intelligence of Ukraine during the briefing observes a number of intelligence indications that are clearly referred at preparation of terrorist act with employment of chemically weaponry that further…

Russia dismisses German – French demand to release 24 Ukrainian sailors kidnapped by Russia after attacking their ships in the sea of Azov, euronews reprots. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron appeal to Russia for human rights violation in Crimea and also demanded the release of the…

The Court of Justice of the European Union, whose office is located in Luxembourg, by its decision of December 19, partly annulled the sanctions imposed on the former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov who fled to Russia. It is about the sanctions in form of a ban on the entry…