Ukraine

The press service of the Kyiv Boryspil International Airport announces the opening of an additional terminal to meet flights with Hasidic pilgrims. Considering that 93 additional flights have been planned to bring Hasids to Ukraine on Rosh Hashanah, the Boryspil International Airport decided to open a terminal for the Jewish guests. This is Terminal B, which was built in 1965 […]

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and SBU head Ivan Bakanov say that the issue of the release of Volodymyr Tsemakh, considered a suspect in MH17 downing, could have derailed the exchange between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. Source: President’s comment after Ukrainians arrive at Boryspil airport, Bakanov’s comment on Interfax-Ukraine Details: According to the president, Tsemakh was interrogated, and not just before […]

A major 35 to 35 prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia took place on September 7, 2019. Lists of Ukrainians: Russia has released 24 sailors captured in November 2018 near Kerch. 1.Roman Mokryak, commander of the Berdyansk small armored artillery boat. 2. Yuriy  Bezyazychnyi, motorist-electrician. 3. Andriy Artemenko, senior signal officer. 4. Andriy Eider, signal gun layer. 5. Bohdan Holovash, […]

The Deputy Minister for Temporarily Occupied Territories Grymchak and his assistant was exposed and detained by SBU officers, together with NABU detectives and representatives of the Office of Special Investigations of the Prosecutor General’s Office. The officials were detained on suspicion of committing a crime under part 4 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code (fraud). “The detainees demanded a bribe […]

On August 21, the Moscow City Court appointed a hearing on appeals case of 13 Ukrainian prisoners of war based by decree to extend the arrest until October, 2019. Lawyer Mykola Polozov announced this on Facebook, in the group “Defense of Ukrainian captive sailors”. According to him, the court hearings of the Moscow City Court on the appeal case by […]

Ukrainian Ombudswoman says Ukrainian sailors – war prisoners in Russia will soon be back home, Russian counterpart denies. Ukraine’s Parliamentary commissioner for human rights Liudmyla Denisova said agreements were reached to return Ukrainian sailors held captive in the Russian Federation back home. The Omduswoman spoke to Hromadske TV when Ukrainian prisoners – convicted and serving their term in the uncontrolled […]

The Central Election Commission has counted 96.96% of the ballots: the pro-presidential Servant of the People party is gaining 43.12%. The Central Election Commission has counted more than 96.96% of the ballots in the parliamentary elections. The Servant of the People party is gaining more than 43% of the votes, the Opposition Platform for Life — 13.04%, the European Solidarity, […]

Ukrainian first seed Elina Svitolina played in the quarterfinal of the prestigious Grand Slam tournament – Wimbledon. Our tennis player’s opponent was Karolina Muchova from the Czech Republic, the world number 68. Previously, Svitolina and Muchova met once. This year in February Ukrainian tennis player won the game 6-4, 6-2 on the hard court at the tournament in Doha (Qatar). […]

The United States Board on Geographic Names will amend the spelling of Ukraine’s capital in its international database changing it from “Kiev” to “Kyiv”. According to the Embassy of Ukraine in the US, “the United States Board on Geographic Names considered the appeal of Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States Valeriy Chaly and unanimously decided to remove ‘Kiev’ as […]

The Pechersk District Court of Kyiv granted all 14 petitions of the State Bureau of Investigation on seizure of documents in connection with criminal cases initiated on on the sale of ”Kuznia na Rybalskomu” by Petro Poroshenko to Serhiy Tyhypko, and the purchase of the Pryamyi TV channel (which is also linked to Petro Poroshenko). “Now, investigators will receive full […]

Honorary Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine Filaret declared that he did not accept Tomos. Filaret declared that at the forum of the Ukrainian intelligents, hromadske reports. Honorary Patriarch said that he had not previously been acquainted with Tomos’s content. “We do not accept this Tomos because we did not know the content of the Tomos that we were […]

In April 2019, the Prosecutor’s Office of Odesa region ceased criminal proceeding No. 42015000000000207 against former people’s deputy from the Party of Regions Yuriy Ivanushchenko (Yura Yenakiyevsky). In December 2014, Ivanushchenko was served with suspicion of receiving an improper grand advantage of property nature (618 million hryvnias) and taking possession of the state funds in especially big amount in collusion […]