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Due to corruption at customs, Ukraine loses more than 4 billion euros annually, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This is stated in an investigation by the Süddeutsche Zeitung published on August 6, DW reports. “This is more than one tenth of the entire budget revenue and 2 times more than the amount that Ukraine wants to receive in 2018 from the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and...
The Kiev authorities have begun dismantling illegal mobile shawarma outlets, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was announced by Taras Panchiy, first deputy director of the Department of Urban Improvement of the Kyiv City State Administration. According to him, the State Food and Consumer Service has created 16 groups that conduct inspections of mobile commerce. Those with violations are redirected to the city improvement department, which is responsible for subsequent verification of permitting documentation. "All those...
The first experimental body of the BTR-4 armored personnel carrier is already being assembled at the plant named after. V.A. Malysheva in Kharkov. The lower part of the military vehicle body is currently being assembled and welded. In total, welders, mechanics and toolmakers of the plant must connect more than 1700 parts, of which more than 400 are armored, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. The country's President Peter wrote about this on his Facebook page...
People's Deputy of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction, son of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Alexey Poroshenko, received as a gift from his father part of the ownership rights to a residential building with outbuildings with an area of 1,3 thousand square meters. m in the town of Kozin (Obukhovsky district, Kyiv region), reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. This follows from the electronic declaration of significant changes in property filed by Alexey Poroshenko.…
Foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin, together with a group of Ukrainian children, met with Pope Francis during a joint audience in the Vatican, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Together with a group of Ukrainian children, Pavel Klimkin met with Pope Francis during a joint audience at the Vatican to receive his blessing and also thank the pontiff for the humanitarian initiative “Pope...
33% of Ukrainian citizens are convinced that trust in the judicial system in the country can be restored only after the dismissal of absolutely all judges and the election of new ones through transparent competitions, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This is stated in a study by GfK Ukraine, conducted jointly with the Center for Democracy and the Rule of Law and activists of the public movement “Honestly”. It is noted that it is precisely the low level of trust in...
The head of the DPR, Alexander Zakharchenko, ordered to find and punish the checkpoint workers who were rude to a disabled woman. The head of the DPR expressed a similar order during a working meeting with the heads of the law enforcement agencies of the Republic, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I am a disabled person of the second group; during the shelling of 2014, my right leg was torn off. On April 2018, XNUMX, I needed to travel to the territory of Ukraine. I want to complain...
Contract soldiers who entered into agreements at the beginning of the war are fleeing the Ukrainian army en masse. Propagandist Yuri Butusov, close to the Secretary of the Security Council of Ukraine Alexander Turchinov, stated this on Channel 5, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are losing every seventh contract soldier - the most experienced and professional personnel. “For the Ukrainian army, if we consider that its real composition...
Ukraine faces problems when purchasing weapons abroad; even in the former Warsaw Pact countries, it is problematic to purchase old Soviet equipment and weapons without accompanying scandals in the local media. Propagandist Yuri Butusov, close to the Secretary of the Security Council of Ukraine Alexander Turchinov, stated this on Channel 5, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, the Russian Federation is making...
The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources must prepare a program for eliminating water shortages in Crimea by September 10. The corresponding order was signed by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The document notes that before this date it is necessary to create an interdepartmental working group on water supply issues for the Crimean Peninsula and other water-scarce regions. “With the involvement, among other things, of representatives of the Ministry of Defense...
