Contents tagged with Ukraine
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Media: 'President' of self-proclaimed Transnistria is Ukrainian citizen
Vadim Krasnoselsky, the President of unrecognized Transnistria, is a citizen of Ukraine, and he has visited Ukraine using a Ukrainian passport, reports Rise Moldova news outlet.
State Border Guard Service of Ukraine confirms this information.
Major-General Krasnoselsky was the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Transnistria until 2016. For the last eight years, he was on a wanted list in Moldova. At the same time, almost every month he entered and left Ukraine using passports of …
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Ukrainian ambassador: Jewish organizations facilitated US’s recognition of Holodomor as genocide
For a long time, opposition from Jewish organizations prevented the US from recognizing the Holodomor as a genocide of the Ukrainian people. However, Ukrainian diplomats and the diaspora have succeeded in convincing them peacefully, said Ukrainian Ambassador to the US Valeriy Chaly in an interview with Ukrinform.
“The idea was primarily to explain the significance of this matter to our partners from Jewish organizations in the US, from other diasporas. You know that at the time, they were wary …
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Lobbyists in US report on Zelensky’s spending to improve his image
The lobbyist company Signal Group Consulting has published a report on the work that it did for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington between April 3 and May 21, 2019. According to documents presented to the US Justice Department, the company received a fee of $60,000 for its services and $9,371 in compensation for its expenses.
The services were rendered between the first and second rounds of presidential elections in Ukraine. At the time, Zelensky’s team categorically denied …
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Russian Transneft pays compensation to Ukraine for contaminated oil
The Russian oil company Transneft paid the Ukrainian oil pipeline company UkrTransNafta a compensation in the amount of €2.3 million for the poor-quality oil supplied through the Druzhba pipeline, reads the statement of the UkrTransNafta on Facebook.
Such compensation will cover the company's lost earnings due to the temporary suspension of transit in April, the company stated. The company specified that the amount of payment is determined under an additional agreement to the current transit …
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Ukrainian Naftogaz files $5.2 billion lawsuit against Russia in the Hague
Naftogaz of Ukraine and its constituent companies have filed a lawsuit against Russia at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague demanding compensation for the losses caused by the seizure of $5.2 billion of their assets in Crimea, Naftogaz announced in a statement.
The Naftogaz Group has asked the court to obligate Russia to pay back this amount. The court is expected to make a decision concerning the compensation amount no earlier than the end of 2020.
The court has already …
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Russia not to appeal seizure of Neyma tanker by Ukrainian court
The Russian government does not intend to appeal the ruling by a Ukrainian court to seize the Russian tanker NEYMA, which was used to obstruct Ukrainian military vessels in the Kerch Strait. However, the Kremlin will monitor the situation closely, said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin in an interview on the Russian radio station Kommersant FM.
Moscow’s official stance on the matter is that, since the ship is private property, the onus is on its owner to appeal the seizure.
“For …
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Ukrainian General: Kyiv needs missiles that can strike Moscow
Ukrainian Lieutenant-General, a veteran of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine Vasyl Bogdan in an interview with the newspaper Obozrevatel said that Ukraine must develop and adopt missiles that can hit targets in Russia.
According to him, these missiles do not have to be equipped with nuclear weapons, but Kyiv should have a plan of creating such missiles.
"Ukraine is free to design and produce medium-range missiles that could reach the strategic points of the aggressor country - …
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Arrested DPR anti-air commander denies involvement in MH17 air disaster
Vladimir Tsemakh, a former anti-air commander in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), denies any involvement in the downing of the Malaysia Airlines passenger liner over eastern Ukraine on 17 July 2014, the Ukrainski Novyny News Agency reports.
“At the time I was outside the city of Snizhne, performing certain tasks,” Tsemakh told reporters at the Kyiv Court of Appeal, adding that he was not at all involved in the catastrophe.
Tsemakh claims that in the interview that he gave to a member of …
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Ukraine seizes Russian tanker Nika Spirit
On 30 July, a district court in Odessa upheld the seizure of the Russian tanker Nika Spirit as well as the documents that were confiscated when the vessel was searched. The court also approved of the actions taken by the military prosecutors and SBU investigators who searched the tanker in the port of Izmail in the Odessa province.
“After considering the relevant petition, the court has seized the said vessel along with the documents confiscated during the search. We have done this. Period,” …
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Ukraine plans to buy large batch of lethal weapons from the US
Former Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States Valery Chaly said that Ukraine is actively working on a contract to purhase of a large batch of lethal weapons from the United States. The contract can be concluded and implemented this year, reports Ukrinform news agency.
"We expect that this year a large project for the purchase of lethal defensive weapons will be completed," he said.
Chaly noted that the progress towards the conclusion of such a large-scale contract was made possible "thanks …