Earlier, President Zelensky nominated Prystaiko for the post of the country’s foreign minister. Vadym Prystaiko / Photo from UNIAN The Verkhovna Radа, Ukraine’s parliament, has appointed Deputy Head of the President’s Office Vadym Prystaiko as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. Read also Servant of the People names nominees for Vice PM for Eurointegration, foreign and defense ministers The relevant

A lot of other time-consuming formalities were introduced around the same time. For example, every week, I had to ask [the social media network] VKontakte to delete five images of swastikas, and I had to find each image myself. I didn’t have to look for the person who posted the swastikas; it didn’t even matter whether they actually deleted the

LNG will be injected into the Polish transmission system after regasification, from where it will reach Ukraine and ERU. Photo from UNIAN Polish Oil and Gas Company (PGNiG) has purchased a cargo of liquefied natural gas from the U.S., and then, following regasification, sold the natural gas to Energy Resources of Ukraine (ERU). The contracted LNG tanker will arrive at

The parliament supported the candidacy proposed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Oleksiy Honcharuk / REUTERS The Verkhovna Radа, Ukraine’s parliament, has appointed Deputy Head of the President’s Office Oleksiy Honcharuk as Prime Minister of Ukraine. The relevant decision was backed by 290 MPs registered in the session hall, according to an UNIAN correspondent. The parliament supported the candidacy proposed by

European astronauts will no longer use Russian launch vehicles to reach the International Space Station (ISS), announced René Pischel, head of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Moscow Office, at the Eurasian Aerospace Congress. The ESA, just like NASA, intends to stop using Russian rockets to send its astronauts to the ISS. The ESA’s astronaut Luca Parmitano, who flew to the

Earlier, Lutsenko announced he would resign along with the start of the work of Verkhovna Rada’s ninth convocation. Yuriy Lutsenko has written a letter of resignation from the post of Prosecutor General of Ukraine. “Yuriy Lutsenko has signed a letter of resignation as prosecutor general, addressed to President Zelensky,” spokeswoman Larysa Sargan wrote on Facebook. Earlier, Lutsenko announced he would

President Donald Trump asked his national security team to review the funding program, known as the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative. REUTERS The Trump administration is slow-walking $250 million in military assistance to Ukraine, annoying lawmakers and advocates who argue the funding is critical to keeping Russia at bay. President Donald Trump asked his national security team to review the funding

The US-Ukraine Rapid Trident 2019 military exercise will be held sometime between September 13 and 28 and will involve 3,700 soldiers from 14 NATO states and partners, announced the US Army Europe, reports Ukrinform. The drills will last 25 days. The drills will be conducted at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center of the Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Ground Forces

The United States expects a meeting of U.S. President Donald Trump with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in Warsaw, where a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II will be held on September 1, Assistant to the U.S. President for National Security Affairs John Bolton has said. He expressed his expectations about the meeting