Ukraine and Turkey have signed an agreement on military and financial cooperation and a range of other bilateral documents. Following a meeting of Ukraine-Turkey High-Level Strategic Council, the sides signed an agreement on military and financial cooperation, a protocol of the implementation of financial aid and an agreement on mutual recognition of driving licenses, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent has reported. The

The Russian occupying administrations have been increasing pressure on residents of the temporarily occupied territories in Donetsk and Luhansk regions. facebook.com/pg/mva.gov.ua Residents of the occupied territories in Donbas are not paid their wages until they agree to obtain “passports” of internationally unrecognized “Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics” (“DPR” and “LPR”). “The Russian occupying administrations are increasing pressure on residents of

The parties also considered the supply of liquefied gas19:28, 3 February 2020Official website of the President of Ukraine President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and President of the Republic of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan discussed the possibility of transporting Caspian gas through a gas pipeline via the specific connectors to Ukraine. Zelensky reported it during the briefing, which was broadcasted by 112 Ukraine

Business ombudsman concerned by an increase in criminal proceedings against Russian businesses. Russian business owners lodged 24% more official complaints with the government’s ombudsman in 2019 than the previous year, the head of the service said Monday. Ombudsman Boris Titov said he was particularly concerned by the sharp increase in the number of businesses who had been embroiled in criminal cases —

Russian economy grew 1.3% in 2019, its lowest rate since 2016. The pace of growth in the Russian economy fell by almost half last year, fresh economic data released Monday has shown. Russia’s GDP grew by 1.3% in 2019, the Russian state statistics agency, Rosstat said. That compares with an official expansion rate of 2.5% recorded in 2018, and is the

The Netherlands Public Prosecution Service has brought charges against four suspects in downing MH17 over the occupied territory of Donbas in July 2014 and summoned them to participate in the investigative procedures. “The Netherlands Public Prosecution Service considers it very important that all the parties are given sufficient attention during the trial, so we hope that on March 9, 2020,

The Entrepreneurship Development Fund has signed agreements with JSC Oschadbank and PJSC CB PrivatBank on the implementation of the state program “Affordable Loans at 5-7-9%”, according to the Finance Ministry. “On Friday, January 31, Oschadbank signed an agreement with the Entrepreneurship Development Fund to participate in the state program ‘Affordable Loans at 5-7-9%,” reads the report. On the same day,

Ukraine intends to increase the volume of bilateral trade with the Republic of Turkey up to USD 10 billion. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said this at a joint briefing with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Kyiv on Monday, February 3, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. “We talked a lot about our joint present and future cooperation in trade, economic and

A total of 58.1% of Ukrainian citizens believe that the events in Ukraine are developing in the wrong direction, according to a survey published by the Center for Social Monitoring and the Oleksandr Yaremenko Ukrainian Institute for Social Research. When asked whether the events in Ukraine are going in the right or wrong direction, 39.3% said they were developing in

The ballistics examination of one of the Ukrainian ships returned by Russia in November 2019 – the Berdyansk small armoured artillery boat – has been completed. Commander of the Naval Forces of Ukraine, Admiral Ihor Voronchenko said this in a commentary to Radio Liberty, noting that the boat came under fire of Russian military during the capture of Ukrainian ships

French President Emmanuel Macron will pay an official visit to the Republic of Poland on February 3-4. One of the goals of Macron’s first visit to Warsaw is to involve Poland in negotiations on the situation in eastern Ukraine before and after meetings in the Normandy format, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. “This is a crucial visit, as it opens up

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has started an official visit to Ukraine. Ukraine’s Deputy Foreign Minister Vasyl Bodnar, who met the Turkish president at the airport, wrote this on his Twitter account. “We welcome President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Ukraine. An official visit of the President of the Republic of Turkey to Ukraine has begun,” he wrote. During

UkraineAlert by Paul Niland From Atlantic Council The Atlantic Council recently published an article by veteran correspondent James Brooke entitled, A frozen conflict may be Ukraine’s best option. While the arguments were laid out very coherently, the premise of the article was wrong on many levels. First and perhaps foremost, it is not within Ukraine’s abilities to deliver a frozen