Opinion

Ukraine’s credit ratings are estimated at the level of “an average country in Africa,” said investment analyst Serhiy Fursa, commenting on the statement by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about an alleged coup d’etat. “What he should do is not frighten investors with coups. The President personally has claimed on air that a coup is being prepared in the country, and […]

Chief editor of the Bolshaya Yalta News (2005-2014) and co-founder and chief editor of the web portal Blackseanews (since 2010) Andrii Klymenko shares his opinion on accuracy of information on Russian troops moving to Ukraine borders. “For me, the main unresolved problem in the accuracy of information about the moving of Russian troops to the borders of Ukraine and the […]

Belarusian security forces, controlled by Lukashenko’s regime, deliberately brought at least 4-5 thousand illegal migrants to the Polish-Belarusian border. For over a week, there has been a severe migration crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border: at least 5,000 illegal migrants from the Middle East are trying to break into the European Union. Experts are convinced that the regime of self-proclaimed President Alexander Lukashenko deliberately […]

Soviet People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) archive sheds new light on the confrontation between the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and the USSR. The large body of more than 3.5 thousand documents of the Internal Troops of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) of the Soviet Union, which has recently become publicly available online, clearly demonstrates that the liberation movement in […]

On November 8, one of the major real estate developers in Odesa and Kyiv, Adnan Kivan, without any warning, suddenly fired the entire staff of the main English-language media outlet in Ukraine, the Kyiv Post. Kivan said that he had recruited a new editorial staff – from other journalists under the same name! That is, the reason for the dismissal […]

Klitschko, Kolomoisky, Shevchenko and others congratulated sanctioned Pavlo Fuks on his birthday.  This year, the National Security and Defense Council has imposed sanctions on companies, private planes, private planes, and entire lists of people, such as criminal lords, smugglers, and even some big business representatives. President Volodymyr Zelensky signed Decree №266/2021 on the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine of June […]

The working visit of Lloyd Austin, the US Secretary of Defense to Ukraine is now being actively discussed by the Russian media. And it looks like they got a certain directive – to negate the significance of this event. This is not surprising. The seriousness of this step lies not only and not so much in what Lloyd Austin himself said on the eve of […]

Observing the rhetoric of various Russian media over the past few months, the following can be noted. First, Skabeyeva’s staged anti-Ukrainian television stories, Kiselyov’s attempts to “effectively” cover another lie of the Kremlin about the situation on the Ukrainian-Russian front or the periodic speeches of “independent experts in the Ukrainian issue” with FSB ID cards in their pockets neither stir excitement among Russian public nor have a disturbing effect on it. Second, the number […]

The Polish oil and gas company PGNiG (Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe and Gazownictwo SA), which is the largest state-owned oil and gas exploration and production company, and its German subsidiary – PGNiG Supply & Trading GmbH were granted participation in the certification proceedings for Nord Stream 2 operator. The assessing procedure for the first certification is carried out by the German Federal Network Agency, which is the national regulator in […]

Does Ukraine has any chance for collective defense? The other day, Frank Walter Steinmeier, now known primarily for his “formula for a peaceful settlement” of the Russian-Ukrainian war, stated that Russia creates a “threatening” situation for the Baltic States area.  Krzysztof Szczierki, head of the Chancellery of the President of Poland said the same in March 2021. Noting some progress in creating a “community of Central and Eastern […]

The United States began helping Ukraine in 2014 – from the very beginning of Russia’s aggression against our country. After the talks between the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and the President of the United States Joe Biden on September 1 this year, certain levers related to the provision of military assistance to Ukraine in the form of lethal weapons have been mobilized more actively. We have […]

Since the beginning of the 21st century, there have been dozens of major military exercises around the globe. They never go unnoticed. For example, the whole world closely watched the recent large-scale Russian military exercises  near Ukraine’s borders and in Russia-occupied Ukrainian Crimea. This is not surprising. The so-called Joint Strategic Exercises of the Armed Forces of Belarus and Russia “Zapad-2021”, which is […]