• Ukraine vows to prevent construction of water desalination plant in Crimea

    Ukraine will prevent the implementation of the project on desalination of water in Crimea, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on air of the TV channel Ukraine 24.

    "The illegal occupation authorities in Crimea stated that they are attracting a large international company to introduce desalination technologies. We started the work immediately and will definitely find it [this company], and we will prevent it from implementing this project," Kuleba said.

    Kuleba also said that in 2021 Kyiv …

  • Ukraine conducts military exercises with Smerch missile systems near Crimean border

    The Ukrainian military conducted drills of the missile units with participation of a battery of Smerch multiple rocket launcher systems (MLRS) in the Kherson region, reported the Joint Forces Command of the Ukrainian Army on Facebook.

    It is noted that military units, which are stationed in the southern part of Ukraine, took part in the drills.

    "In particular, the missile-gunners practiced elements of preparation for missile strikes on certain targets of the conventional enemy," the statement …

  • Russian Defense Minister proposes building military medical center in annexed Crimea

    Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu has proposed building a multidisciplinary medical center in annexed Sevastopol, reported on his Facebook page the head of the Ukrainian project "Black Sea Institute of Strategic Studies" Andrii Klymenko.

    Addressing the Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Russian Defense Minister said that about 150,000 military and their families live in Sevastopol.

    "There is currently no decent medical institution," he said.

    According to Klymenko, statements of  …

  • Kyiv: Russia blocks Ukraine’s prisoner exchange with LPR and DPR

    Russia continues to block the exchange of detained persons, demanding that Ukraine adopt the "peace plan" proposed by representatives of the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, announced the representative of the Ukrainian delegation in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) Serhiy Garmash on air of the channel "Ukraine 24".

    "We have submitted four lists. there are more than 200 people, 11 of them are in serious physical condition. Russia has never filed any lists in the six months …

  • Belarus to continue oil transit through Ukraine

    Ukrainian national company Ukrtransnafta extended for another year the contract for oil transit with BNK UK Ltd, which is a subsidiary of the Belarusian national oil company, said the CEO of Ukrtransnafta Nikolay Gavrilenko in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

    "Already extended. In early December. In working order," he said, adding that the tariff and contractual conditions are the same as for the existing contract.

    "The conditions are the same. From the Belarusian side there was a request …