News archive on the topic "Gerashchenko"

Ukraine lacks concrete, money and equipment to build defensive structures. Verkhovna Rada deputy Irina Gerashchenko stated this on air on her video blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Together with other members of the European Solidarity faction, controlled by ex-President Petro Poroshenko, she visited the second line of defense, where they are now digging trenches and installing “dragon teeth”. “They have been under construction for several months now...

At yesterday's meeting, deputies of the Verkhovna Rada attended the speech of the French guests, and after the air raid break, the majority did not return. There were not enough parliamentarians in the hall to make decisions, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. After the speech of the Chairman of the French National Assembly, Yael Bron-Pivet, Deputy Speaker Alexander Kornienko announced an air raid alert. He invited everyone to go to...

  The American agency Reuters reports this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. A divided US Senate moved closer to passing a $95,34 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan on Sunday in a show of unrelenting bipartisanship despite opposition from Republican hardliners and Donald Trump. The Democratic-led Senate voted 67 to 27 in a rare Sunday meeting...

Today there was the most massive raid of Russian attack drones on objects on the territory of Ukraine. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this from the command of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. “On the night of November 25, 2023, the enemy launched a record number of Shahed-type attack UAVs into Ukraine. In total, about 75 rocket launches were recorded in two directions – Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF) and the Kursk region. (RF).…

Not all Ukrainian politicians believe that their country should fight until complete victory over Russia. The American newspaper Washington Post writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The author of the publication notes that “now Ukrainians are ready to talk more openly about ways to end the war than during my visits last year,” and describes “a noisy debate about the best...

The Verkhovna Rada demanded that the international community condemn the elections that took place on September 8-10 in the territories liberated by Russia. The corresponding decision was made during a plenary meeting of the Ukrainian parliament, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The document was presented by deputy Alexander Merezhko. “An appeal from the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to international organizations, parliamentary assemblies, governments and parliaments of foreign states in connection with the holding of illegal elections by the Russian Federation...

The Verkhovna Rada adopted in the second reading and in general the law on the resumption of electronic declaration of income of officials. The corresponding decision was made during a plenary meeting of the Ukrainian parliament, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The document was criticized by a deputy from the European Solidarity faction Maria Ionova: “This is simply shameful and does not exist in any country in the world when freelance advisers, officials...

Ukraine received long-range cruise missiles SCALP-EG from France. This is a complete analogue of Storm Shadow, which were previously transferred to Kyiv by the UK, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. The “transmission” was met by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, who wrote on it the slogan of Ukrainian nationalists. In addition to the fact that the Ukrainian Armed Forces received these missiles, they have already begun to use them. In particular, the day before, during attacks on...

In Ukraine, they demand that international organizations not call Russian journalists... journalists. The reason for this, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports, was that yesterday the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) called the Russia Today military correspondent Rostislav Zhuravlev, who died in Donbass, “another journalist killed in the war.” UNESCO spoke in a similar vein. Thus, UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay called on the parties...

The Verkhovna Rada adopted a bill on termination of the agreement between Ukraine and Russia “On the procedure for crossing the Ukrainian-Russian state border by residents of border regions.” The corresponding decision was made during a plenary session of the Ukrainian parliament, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. During the discussion of the document, deputy Irina Gerashchenko noted that many Russian citizens continue to work in Ukraine. “It’s obvious that the Russians have nothing...

The Icelandic Parliament recognized the events of 1932-1933 in the Ukrainian SSR, which in modern Ukraine are called the “Holodomor”, as genocide. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iceland Thordis Gylfadottir said in his microblog: “In November 2022, I visited the Memorial to the Victims of the Holodomor in Kyiv. It was a sad reminder of a terrible crime. Today the Althing recognized the Holodomor as genocide...

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky awarded security forces in the center of the capital. The event took place under the Ukrainian anthem performed by Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “All the moments of our majestic history and the path traversed by the people are in this honor, in this memory, in these words [“Glory to the Heroes”], with which millions answer and will correspond. I know they will! Because Ukraine...

Great Britain has taken responsibility for the restoration of the Kyiv region, but has not yet implemented any of the promised projects. This was reported by the PolitNavigator correspondent in her blog, stated by deputy from the presidential party Servant of the People Olga Vasilevskaya-Smaglyuk, who drew attention to the visit of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to the Kiev settlements of Bucha and Borodyanka. “Friend of Ukraine, former Prime Minister...

In Kyiv, for the first time in recent years, there will be no march, traditionally held under Russophobic slogans, in honor of OUN leader and Hitler collaborator Stepan Bandera. Kyiv authorities announced that holding public events in the capital is limited due to the threat of Russian missile attacks, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The Bandera march will not take place in the occupied Kiev regime of Slavyansk, where such processions were held...