The Cabinet of Ministers has supported a resolution on Ukraine’s withdrawal from the agreement on cooperation between the border troops of the CIS participating states in research activities. A respective decision was made at a government meeting on Wednesday, August 5, according to an Ukrinform correspondent. The explanatory note to the document states that the agreement was concluded for the

The two presidents spoke over the phone on Wednesday. president.gov.ua President Volodymyr Zelensky advocates extradition of a number of Russia’s Wagner PMC troops, earlier detained in Belarus as local security officials say the group was set to destabilize the country amid the ongoing presidential election campaign. Zelensky voiced the extradition request during his Wednesday’s talks with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander

    The Ukrainian market for used passenger cars grew by 43% in July 2020 year-on-year, to 34,300 cars, the Ukrainian Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association (Ukrautoprom) has reported. According to the report, 34,300 used cars imported from abroad passed their first registration in Ukraine in July 2020, which is 43% more than in July 2019 and 17% more than in June

   On Wednesday, August 5, at 12:30, the press center of the Interfax-Ukraine News Agency will host a press conference entitled “‘Impact of Media Terrorism on Reputation: Where Journalism Ends and Criminal Responsibility Begins” on the role and participation of the media in influencing the reputation, legal protection and crisis response campaign to protect the reputation. Participants include Partner of

     The Committee of Voters of Ukraine (CVU) states that the Ukrainian authorities are not ready to hold local elections on October 25 amid the coronavirus epidemic. CVU director general Oleksii Koshel announced this at a press conference on Wednesday, Ukrainian News Agency reports. “Unfortunately, today we have every reason to state that the Ukrainian government is not ready to

Nearly 3,000 tons of a highly explosive fertilizer that caused Tuesday’s devastating blast in Beirut came from a ship owned by a Russian businessman, the Mediazona news website reported Wednesday, citing Lebanese television and members of the ship’s crew. Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab said in a statement Tuesday that 2,750 metric tons of ammonium nitrate that had been stored for years in a

05.08.2020 11:53  The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine needs to purchase specialized boats to conduct rescue operations and humanitarian mine action. The issue was discussed during a working visit of the Ministry’s delegation led by Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov to Italy, the press service of the Ministry informs. “During the visit, Minister Avakov, Head of

In three cities of Belarus, on August 4, several authorized pre-election rallies of presidential candidates Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and Andrei Dmitriev were canceled. It is reported by Tut.by. Tikhanovskaya was to meet with voters in Slutsk and Soligorsk. In both cities, the authorities suddenly made repairs to the places allocated for the rallies. Meetings with voters were canceled at the last moment. The people who

The so-called “DNR representatives” in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of ceasefire and stabilization of the demarcation line between the parties (JCCC) are outraged that the Ukrainian side refuses to recognize their arbitrarily assigned status. This follows from the statement made by the occupation authorities of CADLO. According to the “DNR representatives” in the JCCC, the parties “exchanged

Russia is denouncing the double taxation agreement with Cyprus, the Russian Ministry of Finance announced on Monday. Negotiations with the authorities of the island, which since the 1990s has become the main piggy bank of offshore capitals from Russia, have not been successful, the Ministry said in a press release. The Russian side insisted on taxing 15% of the dividends

The aircraft landed about four hours ago. REUTERS An Il 96-300 jet that is reportedly part of the Russian Presidential Administration’s fleet has landed in the occupied Crimea, as evidenced by FlightRadar monitoring system data The liner, registration No. RA-96012, arrived from Moscow some four hours ago, bihus.info reported. According to journalists, until 2003, the plane was used as the

Delicately but clearly, Zelensky explained that it’s he who is President and it’s he who determines all key policy directions, while Avakov is responsible for security. Arsen Avakov / Photo from UNIAN Mykhailo Podolyak, an anti-crisis communications advisor to Head of the President’s Office Andriy Yermak, has said Interior Minister Arsen Avakov is no longer a threat to Ukrainian President

04.08.2020 14:51 Over the past week, Russia delivered at least 10 armored vehicles and about 30 trucks with small arms to the occupied areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesman Maksym Prauta said this at a briefing on Tuesday, August 4, with reference to information from the Main Intelligence Directorate, according to an Ukrinform correspondent. “Russia continues

04.08.2020 09:50 Over the past day, the occupiers launched three attacks on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. “Over the past day, three attacks launched by the armed formations of the Russian Federation were recorded,” the press center of the JFO Headquarters reports. In particular, the enemy opened fire from tripod-mounted man-portable antitank gun near Pivdenne (40km north-east