• Kerry: The US prevented the Kremlin from 'reaching Kyiv'

    As the US Secretary of State, John Kerry stated during the conference “Women's Foreign Policy Group”, it was US support for Ukraine and sanctions against Russia that prevented the Kremlin from "reaching Kyiv." Further, the US Embassy in Ukraine quoted Kerry’s Statement on its Facebook page according to which Kerry argued that, "We are unwavering in support of a democratic Ukraine, and those who complain, have to look at the reality: our sanctions, our involvement, our support of Ukraine …

  • Media speculates that separatist leader Motorola could have been shot before the explosion in his apartment

    Arsen Pavlov, known as ‘Motorola,’ could have been shot along with his guard in an elevator of his own apartment building before their bodies were blown up. This type of assassination would ensure that all aspects of the crime were concealed, Ukrinform writes.

    This possibility for the removal of the separatist appears in a paper prepared by the Center of Forensic Science (CFS) of the DPR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

    The document was obtained by a Ukrainian hacker group who indicated it was …

  • Ukraine has determined new dangerous areas for flights over the Black Sea

    Russia has accused Ukraine of creating new zones where it is dangerous for aircraft to fly over the Black Sea, as stated on Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency website.

    "The new dangerous air zones are over Black Sea’s neutral waters and partially over Black Sea’s territorial waters of the Russian Federation to the southwest and southeast of the Crimean Peninsula. The reason for the establishment of new dangerous zones is not specified in NOTAMs [Notices to Airmen]. By doing this, the …

  • Ukrainian president: The war with Russia is worse than Chernobyl

    Speaking at the solemn ceremony marking the completion of a new protective arch over the fourth power unit of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, said the accident at the nuclear power plant was a less terrifying trial than Russia’s aggression.

    “No one could imagine that the Chernobyl accident would not be the worst thing that Ukraine would have to experience, and that Ukraine would build an arch in conditions of war with Russia,” the presidential …

  • Kyiv demanded that separatist republics pay for water

    Kyiv demanded that the separatist republics in eastern Ukraine repay the debt for water supplied to the area, as reported by the First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Iryna Herashchenko, after a meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Normandy Four in Minsk.

    "A lot of attention was paid to the issue of the water supply. To date, the debt owed to Ukraine for water delivered to the occupied territory amounts to $277 million. The water supply needs to be paid for, that's why we demand the …