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The final stage of testing a new modification of the Ukrainian Skif missile system took place in the Chernihiv region, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The press service of the Kyiv state design bureau Luch reported this today. According to the report, Skif guided missiles were launched during the tests. All identified targets were successfully hit. The Skif portable anti-tank missile system is designed to destroy enemy personnel, mobile…
Based on SBU materials, a lieutenant colonel of the National Guard was sentenced to 13 years in prison on charges of “high treason,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The SBU press center reports this. “Counterintelligence operatives of the special service established that the National Guard was recruited by representatives of the FSB of the Russian Federation in September 2014 in Moscow during an unauthorized visit to Russia,” the report says. As they say in...
A contract soldier of the National Academy of Land Forces named after Petro Sagaidachny was found dead in the courtyard of his own house in the Lviv region on Thursday evening, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported on the website of the military prosecutor's office of the Western region. According to the preliminary version, the cause of death of the 38-year-old man was suicide. Let us remind you that this is the second death of a military man in the Lviv region in...
Ukraine committed violations during the anti-dumping investigation regarding ammonium nitrate from Russia. This decision was made by the Arbitration Court of the World Trade Organization (WTO), a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported on Friday, May 18, by the Kiev edition of European Truth. It is noted that the text of this decision has already been prepared; it is expected to be announced soon. Edition with reference...
Western countries need to end the conflict in Donbass as quickly as possible in order to have a reason to lift sanctions on Russia and resume economic relations with it. In this case, the interests of the Ukrainian authorities will not be taken into account. This opinion was shared on the Ukrlife.TV channel by the editor-in-chief of the Ostrov news agency Sergei Garmash, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The West will now act on the principle of “there are no winners...
President Petro Poroshenko is unable to influence in any way the oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, who, if put under pressure, could provoke social chaos in Ukraine. This opinion was shared by the editor-in-chief of the Ostrov news agency, Sergei Garmash, on the Ukrlife.TV channel, which is close to Yulia Tymoshenko’s circle, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “He (Poroshenko – editor’s note) cannot take any decisive...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will discuss with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko the arrest of RIA Novosti Ukraine editor-in-chief Kirill Vyshinsky, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. She stated this today in Sochi after negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I will discuss my trip today with the Ukrainian president. I will mention this incident. It fills us with concern,” Merkel said.…
President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed to continue working in the Normandy format, but did not set an exact date for the meeting, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Both leaders announced this today at a press conference in Sochi. “In mutual opinion, the Minsk agreements remain the only basis for a settlement. We consider the Normandy format an important tool for resolving the situation in southeast Ukraine. For today...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel considers Germany's relations with Russia “strategically important.” She stated this today in Sochi at a joint press conference with Vladimir Putin. “In the most difficult times, I have always advocated for the Russia-NATO Council to continue its work and for maintaining contacts with the EU. Maintaining dialogue is absolutely important. German-Russian cooperation must withstand very serious...
During the years of the war in Donbass, neither official Kyiv nor the management of the Azot plant did anything to prevent the risk of a man-made disaster in the region. The head of the trade union association of the Severodonetsk Azot enterprise, Sergei Nesterenko, spoke about this in the studio of Hromadska Radio, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He emphasizes that before the war, the Azot plant in Severodonetsk was one of the largest enterprises...
