Ukraine

On 27 May Ilia Yashyn, Russian opposition politician, Head of RPR PARNAS party Moscow bureau presented in Kyiv “Putin. War” report ideated by his colleague Boris Nemtsov.

This year Ukraine doesn't participate in Eurovision 2015 as it at war with Russia. Russian proxies, militants and regular armed forces invaded our land, occupied Crimea and eastern regions in Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts, they have been killing our peaceful citizens and servicemen every day since March 2014.

Today, traditional annual Vyshyvanka Megamarch took place in Odesa. Over 1,000 Odesa residents and guests of the city walked central streets in traditional Ukrainian embroidered shirts vyshyvankas, singing Ukrainian anthem and chanting "Glory to Ukraine! Glory to Heroes!" to commemorate those who had died in Russian-Ukrainian war.

Today, despite the tense situation in eastern Ukraine, 600 km south of the front line and the combat zone, in the southern coastal town of Kobleve the opening ceremony of the first international judo tournament for children "MIR" took place.

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7 May conducted a first flight with its An-178 transport, just three weeks after it staged a ceremony in Kyiv.

Despite serious concerns, commemorating events on 2 May in Odesa were peaceful and calm and not that mass as one could expect, perhaps due to unprecedented safety and security measures, or just because the dust has settled for the year passed.

It's no secret that the government of Ukraine has never been happy with the formation of volunteer battalions in the country. From the very start of the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine it was precisely the volunteer battalions that had succeeded in slowing the advance of the separatist gangs and the regular army of the Russian Federation. It would seem that the government would fully support those citizens who of their own free will stepped in to defend the country, but in fact the opposite has happened.

17 April, paratroopers of the US Army 173rd Brigade arrived in Ukraine to train Ukrainian military

17 April, Kyiv, Antonov State Company unveiled a new aircraft AN-178.

10 April, President Petro Poroshenko has arrived to Odesa to join festive events marking the Odesa liberation from German-Nazi occupants during the WWII.