All news for 19.12.2018/XNUMX/XNUMX

The success of the Ukrainian economy in the past year is already the fact that the country did not collapse, but the situation could significantly worsen after the loss of the monopoly on the transit of Russian gas. Ukrainian political scientist Yuriy Romanenko stated this during the press conference “Results of 2018 in Ukraine: economics and politics,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “When we try to draw some results for the year, we can...

The FSB press service released footage of explosives that were found in a cache where ammunition from Ukraine was transported by Edem Bekirov, a member of the Majlis banned in the Russian Federation, who was detained the day before. “The investigative department of the Russian Federal Security Service for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol has charged a 57-year-old Russian citizen who was detained upon entering Crimea on December 12, 2018. The man is accused of illegally acquiring, possessing...

The European Union expects that Ukraine will ensure the voting rights of internally displaced persons who left the Donbass after the outbreak of the conflict there and Crimea after its annexation to the Russian Federation, as well as hold fair and fair elections in 2019, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was stated by the head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine, Hugues Mingarelli. “She (High Representative of the European Union for...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had a telephone conversation with the head of the newly created “Orthodox Church in Ukraine” by merging two non-canonical jurisdictions, Metropolitan Epifaniy (Dumenko), expressing US support for religious freedom in Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This is stated in the official statement of Deputy Speaker of the US State Department Robert Palladino. “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke by phone today with the newly elected Primate of the Orthodox...

Vice Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Irina Gerashchenko, who personally disrupted the exchange of political prisoners - Russian citizens at the end of last year, after which they were sent back to prison from the border, is trying to disavow involvement in the murder of a Russian volunteer - 44-year-old Valery Ivanov from Arkhangelsk - in a Lviv prison . Gerashchenko said that Ukraine was ready to exchange resistance members from the Russian Federation for...

Based on the results of the placement of domestic government loan bonds on December 18, a record amount of 19,981 billion hryvnia was raised into the state budget, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. This is evidenced by data on the website of the Ministry of Finance. In particular, 11,36 billion hryvnia were raised for hryvnia securities, and almost $252 million for dollar securities. As noted, at four “short” hryvnia auctions...

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexander Turchynov said that new missile systems will help Ukraine defend itself in the seas and will allow the destruction of the Kerch Bridge, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We are systematically working to strengthen the coastal defense of the Black and Azov coasts. For this purpose, new and modernized missile systems will be used,” he said in an interview with BBC News Ukraine.…

The Ukrainian Armed Forces have prepared helipads for combat and medical aviation in the combat zone in Donbass. Military correspondent Semyon Pegov reported this on his telegram channel with reference to sources in counterintelligence, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We are talking about the Donbass cities controlled by Kyiv - Lisichansk, Kramatorsk and Severodonetsk,” writes the military correspondent. Also, according to information from local residents, Ukrainian...

DPR intelligence has received reliable information about the preparation by the Kyiv regime of provocations on its territory, aimed at creating the preconditions for a large-scale environmental disaster with the subsequent blaming of the People's Republics for them. This was reported by the press service of the DPR Ministry of State Security, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. In connection with the operational information received regarding the preparation by the Ukrainian special services of a number of sabotage acts in the territory controlled by Ukraine...

The decision about who will reconstruct Sailor Boulevard in Sevastopol must be made by city residents. The Russian State Duma deputy, head of the public organization “Combat Brotherhood” Dmitry Sablin, who oversees the city from the United Russia party, stated this to the Forpost publication, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The situation with Matrossky Boulevard in the hero city of Sevastopol requires immediate detente. It is necessary to reduce the degree of tension. I have always been...