• US to help Ukraine get over winter without Russian gas

    US Department of Energy will send experts to Ukraine to help Kyiv avoid possible disruptions of energy supplies from Russia, reports US Embassy in Ukraine on its Facebook page. American experts will help to create an action plan for the coming winter season. They will think of ways to respond to energy shortages.

    Negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and the European Union on extending the Russian gas transit through Ukraine will take place on September 19. Ukraine's current contract with …

  • Russia releases MH17 plane crash suspect back to DPR

    Maria Levchenko-Tsemakh, daughter of Vladimir Tsemakh, a suspect in the MH17 case, has published a photo of herself with her father, stating that they are returning to the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).

    “Well, there is happiness in life, there is justice, there are good people! It’s a bit easier to live now. Hooray, my dears! We’re going home!” the militant’s daughter wrote in a post on the Russian social network VKontakte.

    Previously Maria Tsemakh had posted a photograph of a bus traveling …

  • Ukraine seeking to swap another 113 prisoners with Russia

    After the exchange of prisoners between Moscow and Kyiv on September 7, Human Rights Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada, Lyudmyla Denisova, said in an interview with RBC news agency that Ukraine is interested in the release of another 113 Ukrainian prisoners who are in custody in Russia. She did not comment on how many people Russia would like to exchange. Moscow has not yet published an official list of persons who have returned to Russia.

    "Now, there are 113 [arrested] Ukrainian citizens on …

  • Russia’s Gazprom and Ukraine’s Naftogaz prepare new lawsuits against each other

    Russia’s gas monopoly Gazprom has initiated a new arbitration case against Naftogaz, since it lost the previous case. By the end of October, the Ukrainian company will present its counterclaims, Naftogaz executive officer Yuriy Vitrenko told UNN in a comment.

    “Gazprom has initiated a new arbitration case after it lost the previous one. In the new arbitration case, Gazprom’s demands are essentially that they want to revoke the decision of the previous arbitration case – at least so that they do …

  • Netherlands considers Tsemakh MH17 plane crash suspect, not witness, following Ukraine-Russia prisoner swap

    The Netherlands Public Prosecution Service has reclassified Vladimir Tsemakh from a witness to a suspect in the case concerning the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014, European Parliament member Kati Piri told DW in an interview.

    According to her, the Joint Investigation Team and the Dutch prosecution service have distributed a letter stating that Tsemakh is now considered a suspect.

    Kati Piri was the author of an open letter signed on September 4 by 40 …