All news for May 2020

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, NATO leadership has changed the plan for the Sea Breeze 2020 exercise, which is scheduled to take place in July this year in the Black Sea on the lands of historical Novorossiya, which is now part of Ukraine. Due to the risk of contracting Covid-19, all land maneuvers have been excluded from the plan, and the duration of the exercise itself has been reduced to one week. This was reported by the press service of the State Border Service...

Ukrainian serviceman Yevgeny Dobrinsky, while serving near the border with Crimea, went unarmed to an observation post in the middle of the night and was “kidnapped” by Russian special services. The editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian propaganda publication Censor, Yuriy Butusov, who is considered close to the SBU and ex-Secretary of the Security Council Alexander Turchynov, reported this on his Facebook page, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “About 5.00...

Since the cultural differences between different regions of Ukraine are too great, the only way out is to open museums that will simultaneously display exhibitions about supporters of the Soviet regime and the Nazis, as well as their accomplices. This was stated by Lviv historian, professor of the Ukrainian Catholic University Yaroslav Gritsak, as reported by the PolitNavigator correspondent. “In Ukraine, a single narrative is impossible, for the reason that Ukraine is too different:...

The equipment and clothing of soldiers of the Ukrainian air assault troops costs almost three times less than the similar “armor” of special forces of the State Bureau of Investigation created at the insistence of the US Embassy. Ex-ATO militant Alexander Pogrebissky spoke about this in his video blog, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Pogrebissky called himself “a participant in the war with the Russian Federation, who served in the airborne assault forces,” explaining why he compares the cost of clothing and equipment...

Over the 30 years of independence, Ukrainians have built not a rich and prosperous country, but an anti-state, in which everyone is only interested in personal gain and the redistribution of markets. The odious Lvov Russophobe TV presenter Ostap Drozdov stated this on his YouTube channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In my opinion, we have built an anti-state that serves only itself, which is focused only on its own...

Ukraine will take on another ten billion dollars of debt from international financial institutions. Prime Minister Denis Shmygal stated this on the talk show “Freedom of Speech by Savik Shuster,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The head of the Cabinet of Ministers believes that this will avoid a default, which would mean for ordinary citizens a freeze in the payment of pensions and salaries to public sector employees. “The European Union, the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and...

The flight of US Air Force strategic bombers through Ukrainian airspace in the direction of the Black Sea is another step towards an unpredictable and dangerous escalation of the international situation. Georgy Kryuchkov, ex-head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security and Defense, stated this in a comment to a PolitNavigator correspondent. “We see that the situation is escalating and escalating. Every step like this can be...

Ukraine can create a “mosquito fleet”, using, among other things, decommissioned MK-VI small-displacement patrol boats, which will be transferred to Kyiv by the United States, after which missile weapons will be installed on them. Ukrainian military expert - Deputy Director of the Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Research, Mikhail Samus, stated this on the air of the Suspilne Krim channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The US can transfer...

This year, the filling of Crimean reservoirs is at a critically low level, and Crimeans will feel it. However, Ukraine should under no circumstances resume supplies via the North Crimean Canal. The ex-Minister of Tourism of Crimea, Alexander Liev, who fled to Kyiv in 2014 after not getting a position in the Russian...

In the American state of Minnesota, unrest continues, the reason for which was the death of a black man in police custody. The authorities are ready to use troops, although quite recently the United States criticized China for such measures, and before that Ukraine during the Euromaidan and the Orange Revolution. ...On May 28, a video shot on a smartphone was posted on YouTube hosting, depicting a man in black, in...