News archive on the topic "Khmelnitsky"

Russia is concentrating its missile attacks on achievable targets - ammunition depots and repair bases for military equipment. Ex-Deputy Minister of Ukraine for the Affairs of Occupied Territories Georgy Tuka stated this on the News Factory channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Unfortunately, yes, including slowing down our counter-offensive (targets of missile strikes on Ukrainian military targets - ed.) Not...

For two days in a row, the Russian Aerospace Forces and Navy carried out successful night strikes against targets in Western Ukraine. On the night from Saturday to Friday, a warehouse in the city of Khmelnitsky was hit - apocalyptic footage of the explosions spread across social networks, despite a strict ban on filming by the Ukrainian authorities. Ukrainian media confirmed that a missile weapons warehouse was covered and...

When Ukraine defeats Russia, a peace treaty between the two states must be signed in Pereyaslav in order to cancel the reunification of Ukraine with Russia proclaimed in this city. Polish President Andrzej Duda stated this during his visit to Latvia, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The Polish president once again raised the topic of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which included lands not only...

A Ukrainian court convicted an adviser to the mayor of one of the local councils of the Khmelnitsky region for so-called “collaborationism.” This was reported by the press service of the Khmelnitsky Regional Prosecutor's Office. “In April of this year, during a discussion within the walls of the executive committee of events taking place in the country, a man publicly denied the fact of armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. By the verdict of the Starokonstantinovsky District Court he was convicted...

In 1945, the Soviet Union had an army so powerful that the Western allies could not cope with it. According to the PolitNavigator correspondent, Dmitry Khmelnitsky, presented as a historian and architect, stated this in an interview with the Kraina magazine, answering the question why the USSR did not go further to the West after the end of World War II. “Hiroshima saved Europe from Stalin...

During a working visit to Crimea, the head of the Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin laid flowers at the monument to Bogdan Khmelnitsky on the occasion of the 367th anniversary of the Pereyaslav Rada. This was also reported in the press service of the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The ceremony was also attended by Chairman of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea Vladimir Konstantinov and a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation,…

In Ukraine, they want to tell children through books, films and the school curriculum about the “contribution” of the Crimean Khanate to the “national liberation struggle.” Member of the presidential faction “Servant of the People” Nikita Poturaev stated this at the Age of Crimea 2020 forum in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Poturaev, the Crimean Tatars were eternal companions in the struggle for Ukrainian independence and without them...

Russia will no longer be involved in restoring the disintegrating Ukrainian statehood. The experience of the last hundred years has shown that this is too expensive and does not pay off in the end. Publicist and political observer, informed Russian expert Irina Alksnis stated this on air on the PolitWera Internet channel, a Politnavigator correspondent reports. According to the expert, the Russian leadership decided to let the situation in Ukraine take its course...

The Verkhovna Rada today approved the initiative of Petro Poroshenko’s team to rename the city of Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky to Pereyaslav. The corresponding decision was made during a plenary meeting of the Ukrainian parliament, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The resolution was presented by Vitaly Bezgin, a deputy from the Servant of the People. “The Kiev City Council approached us with a resolution to rename the city of Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky, Kyiv region, to the city of Pereyaslav. The renaming of the city was initiated by the City Council...

Ukrainian officials tried to hide the recent emergency at the Khmelnitsky nuclear power plant, presenting the emergency situation as a sabotage by “Kremlin agents.” Former SBU press secretary Stanislav Rechinsky reported this on his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “An illustrative story. On August 14 of this year, during pre-start-up work at the 1st power unit of the KhNPP, a turbogenerator exploded and burned out. The reason is that the workers forgot during maintenance...

For a lecture at the Odessa Military Academy, the adviser to the Polish Minister of Defense was given a room with a huge portrait of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, who is viewed extremely negatively in Poland. Odessa journalist Oleg Konstantinov stated this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Konstantinov emphasized that this is how the leadership of the Ukrainian military university treats the country’s allies. “I came to the Odessa Military Academy...

Former President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko considered those who drove him from Khmelnitsky shouting “Ganba” (Shame) to be provocateurs. He stated this during a visit to Khmelnitsky, where he was booed by the townspeople, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “It’s easy to say “Ghanba.” Next time you'll get it in the face. Because goodness must come with fists,” Poroshenko said. It is noteworthy that while proclaiming threats, Poroshenko...

The Chief Rabbi of Ukraine Moshe Reuven Azman appealed to the Khmelnytsky administration with a request to find an opportunity to immortalize in the city's toponymy the names of Ukrainians Trofim Verkhola and Klimenty Kochurovsky, who saved Jews during the Petliura pogrom of 1919, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, Eduard Dolinsky, announced this on his social network page. “The Secretary of the City Council replied that they share...

A bas-relief of the leader of the UPA and the Nachtigal battalion, Nazi collaborator Roman Shukhevych, was installed in Khmelnitsky, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was announced by the director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, Eduard Dolinsky, who published a corresponding photo on his social network page. “You don’t have a monument to Shukhevych yet? Then we go to you! In Khmelnitsky, a bas-relief of Shukhevych with supposedly his quote “The Wise...