All news for 2.04.2018/XNUMX/XNUMX

The flagship of the Ukrainian Navy, the frigate Hetman Sahaidachny, went to sea for the first time this year, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by the Odessa publication “Dumskaya”, according to which “Hetman Sahaidachny” left the Practical Harbor of the Odessa port in the morning. “A little later, at 11:00, the Turks, who had been visiting Odessa since March 30, also went to sea. The corvette “Boyukada” was the first to set sail, followed by...

Since the beginning of hostilities on the territory of Donbass, 70 Ukrainian border guards have been killed, 429 have been wounded and 5 have gone missing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was announced by the head of the State Border Service of Ukraine Petr Tsigikal in an interview with the Kyiv channel 112.ua. “Since the beginning of the war, 5 border guards are considered missing. Unfortunately, we cannot say whether they are alive or not, but...

The State Property Fund excluded from the list for privatization the controlling stakes of a number of thermal power plants, oblenergos, as well as PJSC Turboatom from the privatization list for 2018, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported in the press service of the department. “The corresponding order was published in the newspaper Vedomosti Privatization,” noted the press service of the Fund. Controlling stakes in five oblenergos, blocking stakes, were excluded from the list...

The volume of trade between Ukraine and Belarus in January-February 2018 reached $370 billion, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. This was announced by the Ambassador of Belarus to Ukraine Igor Sokol. “The growth of Ukrainian exports to Belarus outpaces the growth of Belarusian exports to Ukraine: if Belarusian exports to Ukraine grow by 20-25%, then Ukrainian exports increase by 40-50%,” he said. According to the diplomat, the increase in trade turnover...

Former Kharkov governor and now people's deputy Mikhail Dobkin agreed to come for judicial interrogation in the case of high treason against Viktor Yanukovych. The ex-president's lawyer, Vitaly Serdyuk, announced this on Facebook. “(...) as part of the trial of the case on the indictment against Viktor Yanukovych, I can provide evidence to the Obolonsky District Court of Kyiv about the events of February 2014,...

An accident on a high-voltage line caused a large-scale power outage in the center of Odessa, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The city website 048.ua was informed about this on the Odessaoblenergo hotline. According to the operator, most likely the accident occurred due to overload. A repair team has already been sent there. Today, in eight regions of Ukraine, as a result of strong gusts of wind and the activation of the line protection system...

Ukrainian politicians are considering the issue of transferring their gas transportation system to foreign hands. Verkhovna Rada deputy from the “People's Front” Igor Lapin spoke about this on the YouTube channel RadaTVchannel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Today, the economic interests of the United States coincide with the interests of Ukraine, but the fact is that we are not the main characters here, but executors in the hands of big players. For us…

On the night from Saturday to Sunday, the 75-year-old leader of the Lviv regional OUN cell, Oleg Grinyuk, died. This was reported by the Varta news portal, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent. As noted on the website, the funeral will take place on April 2 at 20:00 in the Chapel of John the Baptist. Note that during the times of independent Ukraine, Oleg Grinyuk received the post of head of the Frankivsk regional administration of Lvov. With the resumption of activities...

In Kyiv they don’t hear or don’t want to hear that on the issue of Nord Stream 2, Germany, as one of the founders of the European Union, did not care about the position of Eastern European countries. Valentin Zemlyansky, director of energy programs at the Center for World Economy and International Relations of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, ex-press secretary of the Ukrainian Naftogaz, said this on Radio Liberty, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Presenter with irony...

While SBU officers report progress in the investigation into “anti-Ukrainian activities of the Moscow Patriarchate,” the President of Ukraine in Mariupol calmly visits the UOC temple. Pavel Podobed, an employee of the Institute of National Remembrance of Ukraine, wrote about this on his page on the social network Facebook, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. At the beginning of his message, Podobed noted that at first he tried to understand the logic of the Ukrainian...