17.04.2020 12:42 Ukraine has purchased 176 medical ventilators since March 1, 2020, Health Minister Maksym Stepanov states. “The total number of ventilators, which were additionally purchased since March 1 and installed in hospitals to treat patients with COVID-19, is 176,” Stepanov said at a briefing on April 17, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. According to him, the number of ventilators is

Aeroflot has suspended ticket sales for all international flights departing before August, as Russia’s coronavirus cases continue to rise at one of the fastest rates in the world. A message on the ticket search portal of Aeroflot’s website says there are no available flights for any international routes until August 1. The state-backed airline said the block on ticket sales

Nearly 50 cadets and instructors involved in rehearsals for Russia’s now-postponed Victory Day parade have been infected with the coronavirus, the Baza Telegram channel reported Friday. Rear Adm. Anatoly Minakov, the head of St. Petersburg’s elite Nakhimov Naval School, confirmed to local media that he’s been hospitalized in Moscow with a fever awaiting test results.  Baza, which is believed to have sources

Russian lawmakers from both houses of parliament have passed legislation Friday allowing dual Russian citizenship for foreigners, sending it to President Vladimir Putin’s desk less than two weeks after introducing it. Lawmakers have described the amendments to Russia’s citizenship law, which among other steps strike down a requirement to renounce one’s existing citizenship, as “revolutionary.” Their authors expect up to 10 million

Russia has been violating bilateral and international agreements restricting nuclear tests and on nuclear nonproliferation, as well as other agreements on chemical and biological weapons, the U.S. Department of State reported. “The United States has determined that in 2019, the Russian Federation continued to be in violation of its obligations under Articles I, IV, and VI of the INF Treaty

More than 1,000 firefighters have been sent to extinguish new fires that broke out in the radiation-contaminated area around the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant. Three new fires broke out on April 16 but were “not large-scale and not threatening,” Ukrainian officials said. Gusty winds fanning the flames have made it harder to put them out. Volodymyr Demchuk, director of the

Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, Minister for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories Oleksiy Reznikov has commented on the latest stage of the exchange of held persons held with the Russian-controlled forces in Donbas on Thursday. In a comment to Obozrevatel, the minister explained why of 20 Ukrainians handed back to Ukraine, only two are military servicemen captured by the enemy