All news for 17.12.2018/XNUMX/XNUMX

During this year, more than a thousand cyber attacks were carried out on the website of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The head of the Signal Corps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - the Main Directorate of Communications and Information Systems of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Vladimir Rapko, spoke about this, the press service of the General Staff reports. “I think there were more than a thousand. But not only for the website of the Ministry of Defense. The main thing is...

During the period from August 16 to November 15, 2018, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights recorded cases in which citizens were illegally detained by the Security Service of Ukraine on sweeping charges of “financing terrorism”, for owning a business or paying taxes in the territory controlled by the L/DPR . OHCHR expressed concern about this practice, the correspondent reports...

The Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, an extraordinary meeting of which took place today in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, appointed new bishops to replace the former metropolitans of Vinnytsia and Barsk Simeon (Shostatsky) and Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky and Vishnevsky Alexander (Drabinko), a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the UOC Information Center, they were Archbishop Barsanuphius (Stolyar) of Borodyansky and Archimandrite Dionysius (Pylipchuk). “The Reverends of Vinnytsia and Barsky should appoint an archbishop...

The now former Metropolitan of Vinnytsia and Barsky, Simeon, who was expelled from the canonical UOC today and banned from serving by it, announced the transfer of the Transfiguration Cathedral in Vinnitsa to the newly created “Poroshenko Church,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was announced by the head of the press service of the Vinnytsia diocese, Protodeacon Vladislav Demchenko, reports the local website 0432.ua. According to Demchenko, Simeon announced the transition of the cathedral...

In Lviv, work begins on the demolition of a 30-meter stele, which is part of the Monument of Glory on Stryiska Street. “PolitNavigator” correspondent reports. This was reported on Monday by Zaxid.net. The demolition of the stele will cost the city budget 295,8 thousand UAH. Dismantling work must be completed by December 31, 2018. According to the deputy mayor for development Andrey Moskalenko, the process...

The Nizhyn enterprise “Progress,” which is part of Ukroboronprom, has completed the process of import substitution of Russian components for the “Kvitnyk” high-precision projectile, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by the press service of Ukroboronprom. “The Progress Research and Production Complex, part of the Ukroboronprom state corporation, has completed work on the modernization and complete import substitution of components from Russia for the high-precision 152-mm Kvitnyk projectile,” the statement says. It is noted that the share of Russian components...

The Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has postponed consideration of some individual claims filed by Ukrainians against Russia, linking them with the expectation of a decision by the Grand Chamber on the relevant intergovernmental case “Ukraine versus Russia,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported to the ECHR. “The European Court of Human Rights today approved a plan to further consider claims from thousands of people who put forward...

The Church controlled by Phanar, created last Saturday at the cathedral of schismatics, will be the spiritual foundation of the Ukrainian state, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The new head of the schismatics, the right hand of Philaret (Denisenko), Metropolitan Epifaniy, said this in an interview with Radio Liberty. “We will work carefully for the development of the church, which will be the spiritual foundation and support of our Ukrainian state in this difficult time of testing. U...

Based on materials from the Security Service of Ukraine, a contract soldier of one of the military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who allegedly planned to defect to the Russian side, was convicted in the Zaporozhye region, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The SBU website reports this. Special service operatives state that in April 2017, “having succumbed to pro-Russian propaganda about supposedly better prospects for serving in the ranks of the Russian Armed Forces,...

Special Representative of the State Department for Ukraine Kurt Volker said that the United States will announce in the next few months the start of new arms deliveries to Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He announced this on Monday, December 17, during a briefing for journalists, Voice of America reports. “We have the opportunity to sell additional [military] equipment. Announcements will be made, Congress will be notified on...