All news for 15.07.2018/XNUMX/XNUMX

Ukraine is facing a demographic catastrophe - the death rate in the country is twice as high as the birth rate. Former Minister of Economy of Ukraine Viktor Suslov stated this on the NewsOne TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, today there are several times fewer working Ukrainians than unemployed ones, and the level of wages has dropped the country to last place in Europe. “According to estimates in the country today...

The United States does not officially recognize the entry of Crimea into Russia, but will not oppose it and will turn a blind eye to the “Crimean issue.” The former head of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine, Verkhovna Rada deputy Viktor Baloga said this on the NewsOne TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, US President Donald Trump may apply the following in relation to Crimea...

Short-term meetings between Petro Poroshenko and American President Donald Trump are the best that Ukraine can get given its real weight in world politics. This was stated on TV channel 112 by a member of the presidential bloc in the Verkhovna Rada, deputy Sergei Kunitsyn, commenting on Poroshenko’s conversation with Trump at the NATO summit, which took place on the eve of the meeting of the American leader with Vladimir Putin.…

Ukraine has completely lost control over the Sea of ​​Azov. This leads to a social explosion in Mariupol, whose enterprises are on the verge of stopping. Military expert Oleg Zhdanov stated this on the Ukrainian TV channel 112, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, Russia, in response to the seizure of the Crimean seiner Nord, organized a naval blockade of Ukrainian ports in the Sea of ​​Azov, but Ukraine did nothing...

The Ukrainian “Oplot” is a modern tank, but at the current rate of production, by the time it is adopted by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the vehicles will be hopelessly outdated. Aleksey Bobovnikov, ex-commander of a tank platoon of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who fought in the ATO, stated this on air on the Espresso channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The following discussion often arises on the Internet - as soon as they show the next transfer of Oplot tanks under contract to the Thais, right away...

Instead of punishing Ukrainian artists for performing in Russia, official Kyiv should think about resolving the conflict in Donbass. The leader of the Ukrainian group “Tank on the Maidan of the Congo” Oleg Mikhailyuta said this on Channel 5, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The frontman commented on the presenter’s words about the new initiative of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to punish the so-called “traitor stars” - those who speak out...

Most prominent figures of Ukrainian nationalism come from the Russian regions of what is now Ukraine, not Galicia. Ex-Azov militant, Verkhovna Rada deputy Igor Mosiychuk, spoke about this on the air of the “Political Kitchen” program, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Now I will dispel one myth to all TV viewers. In fact, nationalism was born in my native Poltava region, in the very center of Ukraine, and before...

Ex-Azov militant, Verkhovna Rada deputy Igor Mosiychuk, told how he was punished in Soviet times for his devotion to the idea of ​​Ukrainian separatism. Mosiychuk shared these memories on the air of the “Political Kitchen” program, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “This happened long before Independence Day. I served in the Soviet army, and Russians suddenly started wearing the tricolor. It was the end of 1990 - the beginning...

Ex-Azov militant, Verkhovna Rada deputy Igor Mosiychuk, told how he re-educated his wife Vlada from a “Soviet person” into a “Svidomo” Ukrainian patriot. Mosiychuk shared his experience on the air of the “Political Kitchen” program, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “When I brought her, a native of Odessa with such contraversive views, to Munich to the grave of Stepan Bandera, it was something. Then we came together...

The NATO summit that ended on July 12 in Brussels demonstrated an interesting trend. The North Atlantic Alliance needs to expand. Over the past 20 years, it has absorbed and digested all the former allies and the three Baltic republics of the USSR, and now, without further expansion, the military-political bloc is threatened with stagnation and even split. Trump's visit to the summit in Brussels had the character of a life-giving kick to his closest allies. Thrifty...