The invaders are recruiting “volunteers” for deployment in Belarus. REUTERS In the Russian-occupied Donbas, local draft offices and the “Prizrak” (Ghost] Brigade are recruiting “volunteers” to be sent to Belarus, a rights watchdog reports. Male recruits aged 18 to 55 are offered 30,000 rubles or $400 plus daily expenses during the deployment, according to the Eastern Human Rights Group. At

The State Duma’s Security and Anti-Corruption Committee will check the circumstances of the poisoning of Alexei Navalny for foreign interference. This was stated by the speaker of the Duma Vyacheslav Volodin. “The State Duma Security Committee will be instructed to analyze what happened in order to understand whether this was an attempt on the part of foreign states to harm the health of

   In July 2020, manufacturing output decreased by 4.2% (uncorrected by the effect of calendar days) and by 4.4% (corrected) over July 2019. Ukrainian News Agency has learned this from a statement of the State Statistics Service. At that, in July 2020, manufacturing output increased by 3.9% (uncorrected by the effect of calendar days) and by 1.4% (corrected) over June

The Supreme Court of Belarus rejected Svetlana Tikhanovskaya’s complaint about the results of the presidential elections. “The determination is not subject to appeal and protest on appeal,” the court said in a statement. At the same time, Tikhanovskaya’s lawyers said they would appeal this decision. In her complaint, Tikhanovskaya demanded that the election results be declared invalid and that a criminal case be

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, a rival of Alexander Lukashenko in the presidential elections in Belarus, spoke remotely in the European Parliament. The broadcast of her speech was conducted by RBC. “[In Belarus] a peaceful revolution is taking place. It is not geopolitical in nature. It is neither pro-Russian nor anti-Russian. Nor is it anti-European or pro-European. This is a democratic revolution. <…> This is the struggle of the

Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionAlexei Navalny is now being treated at the Charité hospital in Berlin The Kremlin has dismissed accusations that President Vladimir Putin sanctioned the poisoning of critic Alexei Navalny. Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the allegations were untrue and could not be taken seriously. Doctors in Germany, where Mr Navalny is being treated, said he had “probably” been poisoned but

   Canada consistently supports the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine and highly appreciates the achievements of the Ukrainian-Canadian community. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this in a statement on the occasion of Ukraine’s Independence Day on August 24, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. “Today, we celebrate the close people-to-people connections, cultural ties, and values that unite Canada and Ukraine.

   The condition of Batkivshchyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko, a COVID-19 patient, remains serious, her spokesperson, Maryna Soroka, has reported on Facebook. “Unfortunately, there is no good news at the moment. Yulia Volodymyrivna’s condition remains serious,” she said. According to Soroka, since the evening of August 24, Tymoshenko has been undergoing intensive therapy in accordance with the COVID-19 treatment protocol.

  Twitter suspended hundreds of accounts of Belarussian opposition activists, among them also @NowBelarus, which i recommended to you a week ago. How can Minsk or Moscow control social media? Even some of President Trump’s tweets were blocked. I’m deeply shocked. © 2020 Ukraine Today

    We will probably never know how Belarusians voted on August 9. Nobody doubts that the results of the elections were falsified, but nobody has proved that Alexander Lukashenko actually lost them either. Attempts to extrapolate votes based on nonrandom samples from the precincts gave estimates in the range from about 30 percent to 60 percent for Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. So,

August 24, 2020 When on 24 August 1991 Ukraine proclaimed independence, it became an unexpected nation for many observers. In our new video, we explain why Ukrainian independence did not arrive out of the blue