• Ukrainian presidential advisor expects an escalation of the conflict in the Donbas

    Director of the National Institute for Strategic Studies, Volodymyr Horbulin, told Ukrainian ZN.UA news portal that the Donbas is at risk of a sudden outbreak of large-scale hostilities. As Advisor to the President, he maintains that the current popular perception of calm presents a significant danger in itself.“In fact, the only thing we have observed is a paradigm shift in this long-term conflict,” Horbulin said. “Moreover, this raises a worrying feeling that this is the calm before the storm, …

  • Poroshenko announces coordinated effort with NATO regarding 'Normandy Fortmat'

    Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said further actions will be outlined using the Normandy format at the NATO summit in Warsaw next week, Radio Svoboda reported.

    According to Poroshenko, the documents detailing the cooperation between Ukraine and NATO should be properly prepared. He added that the Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pavlo Klimkin, and the Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration, Konstantin Eliseev, had recently visited Europe to discuss the preparations of a …

  • Savchenko is ready to head the Ministry of Defense

    A member of the Verkhovna Rada, Nadiya Savchenko, expressed her readiness to head the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

    “Yes, I would agree…I would legalize things that are happening anyway. In the Ukrainian army, a captain commands a brigade; he is not even a colonel. A captain can handle a mission. There were instances, such as during the seizure of the Kramatorsk airfield by separatists, where one group was headed by a colonel, another one by a major and the third one by a captain. Only the …

  • Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada: Ukraine wins in the information war with Russia

    Evidence of the effectiveness of Ukraine's efforts in the diplomatic and information fields is the extension of sanctions against Russia, Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Andriy Parubiy said.

    In an interview with Apostrophe, Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Andriy Parubiy said that Ukraine won the information war with Russia.

    “Two years ago, the skeptics were convinced that the European Union would never impose sanctions against Russia. A few months ago there was a huge debate, and now, …

  • Former Polish President: Ukraine should abandon its hopes of joining NATO and the EU

    Former President of Poland Aleksander Kwaśniewski is convinced that Ukraine should not even dream about joining the North Atlantic Alliance. This was reported by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

    “Ukraine should abandon its dream of becoming a NATO member. Also, now it's not worth talking about reaching the goal of becoming a full member of the EU,” the ex-president of Poland said.

    At the same time, Kwaśniewski himself, according to his words, “has nothing against Kiev's goals to become a full …