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Funding for the so-called election pyramid is almost $ 82 million, Deputy Head of Security service of Ukraine (SBU) Viktor Kononenko says. “We’ve identified 49 organizers of this activity. According to our estimates, over 686,000 citizens of Ukraine were involved in these activities. Each of them had to bring ten people to the polling station. Then they should vote for […]
Ukraine’s pro-Russian former president, Viktor Yanukovych, has been linked to a widening scandal involving Sweden’s Swedbank, neweurope reports. According to documents reviewed by Sweden’s state-owned broadcaster, Swedbank appears to have been an instrument for transferring millions of euros in kickbacks that were acquired by Yanukovych while he was in office to other EU banks. Over the last year, Swedbank’s CEO has […]
The team of investigators BIHUS.info unveiled the first part of a large-scale investigation of corruption and embezzlement in the defense sector of Ukraine, which involves associates of President Petro Poroshenko. According to journalists, Oleh Hladkovskyi, Poroshenko’s friend and partner, member of the National Security and Defense Council, his 22-year-old son Ihor and general director of Ukroboronprom Pavlo Bukin are involved […]
Former Head of the General Staff of Ukraine Volodymyr Zamana was charged with treason, the Chief Military Prosecutor Volodymyr Matios says. Charges against Zamana suggest he allegedly reduced the number of combat personnel and dissolved the military units. These actions are said to have destroyed the country’s antiaircraft defense system. According to Matios, in 2013 Zamana decreased the combat personnel […]
Bribing voters for the benefit of Poroshenko costs 1.5 billion state budget hryvnias (55 mln USD), Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine says. Police investigate several cases following the petition filed by presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko related to the “network” of another candidate, Petro Poroshenko. This was stated by Arsen Avakov, Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, in an interview. […]
Russian servicemen will teach Crimean schoolchildren how to use weapons. Russian occupiers created the “House of Yunarmiya” at the premises of the city House of Officers, where . The press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that “the military-patriotic center was established in accordance with the decision of the Minister of Defense of Russia”. “Schoolchildren of Sevastopol, who […]
In 2017, the total net value of the assets of the three richest individuals exceeded 6% of Ukraine’s GDP. This was stated by World Bank Vice President for Europe and Central Asia Cyril Muller. “This is almost twice as much as in Russia and three times as much as in Poland. The ratio of the income share of the richest […]
Kyiv court lifts arrest from assets of fugitive Interior Minister Zakharchenko. On January 30, 2019 Kyiv’s district-level Pechersk court annulled the arrest of assets of the Yanukovych-time Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko. The arrest was earlier ordered by court in the case under investigation on money-laundering and illicit enrichment by the fugitive Interior Minister. The assets in question include 20 land […]
Russia reserves the right to react in the event of a threat to the right to freedom of religion in neighboring countries, Vladimir Putin said. Commenting on the creation of an autocephalous church in Ukraine, Putin said that the Ukrainian authorities were allegedly interfering in church affairs and added that in Russia such actions are considered “absolutely unacceptable.” He said […]
The Kremlin envisaged three scenarios for Ukraine for the current year, Yehor Bozhok, Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, says. Moreover, according to his estimates, Moscow intends to “close” the “Ukrainian issue” in 2019. The first scenario is bringing necessary people to power in the presidential and parliamentary elections. The second is “controlled chaos”, internal destabilization in the […]
The Ukraine’s Military Intelligence has identified the names of Russian officers involved in war against Ukraine in Donbass. The names of the war criminals transferred to law enforcement agencies. This was informed by a representative of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine on “Donbas. Realities radio.” According to Vadym Skibitsky, Russian officers who stay […]
Date: January 24, 2019 Location: Kyiv, Ukraine A Ukrainian court has found former President Viktor Yanukovych guilty of high treason and sentenced him in absentia to 13 years in prison. “Yanukovych committed a crime against the foundation of Ukraine’s national security,” Judge Vladyslav Devyatko said in Kyiv’s Obolon district court on January 24, 2019. Yanukovych, 68, was also found guilty […]