Ukraine’s Embassy in the UK has expressed outrage to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) for calling Sevastopol a Russian city. “We’re extremely disappointed with the latest number of IISS ‘Survival’ journal, where Sevastopol is mentioned as Russian territory. We remind that Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. We expect IISS to remove the wrongful image and display correct information,”

In Kiev police have exposed a network of brothels that were disguised as massage parlors, the organizer of whom was a former police officer. It is reported by UNN citing the press service of the National police. “The organizer of an intimate business was a former policeman, who in 2015 has been dismissed from the service, however, all this time

On Thursday, November 28, another illegal Russian convoy consisting of 42 vehicles arrived at the non-government-controlled territory of Donbas. “On November 28, two columns of the so-called humanitarian convoy from the Russian Federation passed through the Donetsk and Matveev Kurgan checkpoints,” the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine reported. The report notes that the 93d convoy consisted of 42 vehicles.

More than 60% of women in Ukraine experienced psychological, physical or sexual violence, according to the results of the 2018 OSCE-led Survey on the Well-being and Safety of Women in Ukraine. “According to the survey, two thirds (67%) of women in Ukraine have experienced psychological, physical or sexual violence since the age of 15. It showed that violence by a

In compliance with the poll conducted between November 22 and 25, the rating of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fallen from 64% to 52% over the one carried out between November 4 and 7. This follows from the poll conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, Ukrainian News Agency reports. According to the report, a total of 52% of pollees

Ukraine has denounced Apple for referring to the annexed Crimean Peninsula as a Russian territory on its apps. The way global companies identify Crimea has been a highly sensitive issue for both countries since Kremlin-backed forces annexed the region from Ukraine in March 2014. Ukraine and its Western allies have maintained that this move was illegal. For users of Apple

Apple has complied with Russian demands to show the annexed Crimean peninsula as part of Russian territory on its apps. Russian forces annexed Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014, drawing international condemnation. The region, which has a Russian-speaking majority, is now shown as Russian territory on Apple Maps and its Weather app, when viewed from Russia. But the apps do