All news for October 2019

ATO militants are losing their status as national Ukrainian heroes and becoming useless marginals whom no one respects. Kiev propagandist and military expert Aleksey Arestovich stated this on the YouTube channel “Politeka”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports. “Veterans, volunteers, military people, people who laid down their lives, health, lost friends and made a huge amount of bloody efforts to maintain what is now...

After the successful disengagement of troops in Donbass and the meeting in the Normandy Format, the West will increase pressure on Ukraine, demanding further implementation of the Minsk Agreements. Political scientist Pavel Rudyakov stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Also, according to the expert, it cannot be ruled out that the West will continue its previous rhetoric towards Russia, demanding that it “withdraw its troops.” Then,…

The Verkhovna Rada adopted a law on the separation of the gas transportation system (GTS) from the structure of the national joint-stock company Naftogaz of Ukraine and the creation of an independent GTS operator, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This decision was supported by 341 deputies, with the minimum required 226. This law is necessary for the certification of an independent operator, which Ukraine expects to have time to do this year. As Prime Minister Alexey explained...

Members of the US House of Representatives on Thursday approved a resolution according to which the investigation into the possibility of impeachment of US President Donald Trump moves to the public stage, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. 232 congressmen voted for approval of the resolution, 196 people voted against it. “The resolution has passed,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. All members of the Democratic Party voted for the adoption of the resolution...

Lithuanian law enforcement agencies detained the former head of the State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine PJSC, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The press service of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau reports this. “In Vilnius, the former chairman of the board of PJSC State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine was detained, who had been wanted by the National Bureau since March 2017 as a suspect in criminal proceedings for causing more than $60 million in damage to the enterprise,”...

The Office of the President of Ukraine handed over declassified documents of the NKVD of the USSR concerning the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944 to representatives of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis functioning in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was announced by Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Andrei Smirnov, the press service of the Office reports. “A month ago, during an examination conducted by the Kiev Institute of Forensic Expertise, we received information and supporting documents regarding forced...

The Dneprovsky District Court of Kyiv released from house arrest the former head of the Crimean Ministry of Health, Pyotr Mikhalchevsky, accused in Ukraine of high treason, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by the press secretary of the prosecutor's office of the non-existent Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ekaterina Didenko. “Yesterday, October 30, Mikhalchevsky’s preventive measure was changed from house arrest to personal obligation,” Didenko said. She also noted that the next meeting...

Ukraine will not extradite oligarch Igor Kolomoisky to requests for extradition from other countries, since he is a citizen of Ukraine, and Ukrainian legislation prohibits the extradition of its citizens, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Prosecutor General Ruslan Ryaboshapka said this when answering the question of how Ukraine would react if there were international orders to extradite Kolomoisky, for example, to the United States, Ukrinform reports. "I honestly…

Ukravtodor and the Chinese company Poly Changda Engineering Co. Ltd signed a memorandum of cooperation within the framework of the implementation of the first stage of construction of the Great Ring Road around Kyiv “Transport links between M-05 Kyiv-Odessa and M-06 Kyiv-Chop,” reports PolitNavigator correspondent. As reported on the website of the Ministry of Infrastructure, during the signing of the document, Minister of Infrastructure Vladislav Krikliy noted that the specified memorandum is...

People's Deputy from the Servant of the People party, head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Foreign Policy Bogdan Yaremenko chose the tactics of “the best defense is attack” after a scandal arose around his correspondence with a girl of easy virtue right in the session hall. Yaremenko made a corresponding statement during the plenary session, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “First of all, I want to start by apologizing to those who...