The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has blocked the financing of the “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DPR) terrorist organisation due to the large-scale, illegal supply of pharmaceutical products to the temporarily occupied territories. The Service’s officers […]
04.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Norwegian company Det Norske Veritas (DNV) GL, which was supposed to certify Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, refused to provide this service. According to Russian media reports citing the company's statement, the reason for […]
03.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
On 1 January 2021, Sweden took over the Chair of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden Ann Linde became a new OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for a period […]
02.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
On New Year's Eve, the Ukrainian authorities returned home two women and seven children who had been held in refugee camps in Syria. According to the press service of the Office of the President, a […]
01.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
According to the Viasna Belarusian Human Rights Centre, at least 112 people – 18 women and 94 men – in Belarus celebrated the New Year being under administrative arrest. The total number of citizens against […]
01.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The world is tired of quarantines, wars, conflicts and crises. This difficult year was remembered by unprecedented conditions and decisions. Promote Ukraine asked the experts what were the most important events for Ukraine in 2020. […]
01.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
An MEP group sent letters of solidarity to Ukrainian political prisoners in the Russian Federation from the occupied Crimea. They addressed the messages to Remza Bekirov, Osman Arifmemetov, Yevhen Karakashev and Serhiy Filatov. The Crimean […]
01.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
In 2020, Polish special services recorded an increase in the disinformation and propaganda activities of the Russian Federation against Poland. Both traditional and new narratives related to the pandemic and elections in Belarus were used, […]
31.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The State Concern Ukroboronprom and the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine have signed a contract for the supply of RK-360 MC Neptune coastal systems to the army in 2021. The new weapon is one of […]
31.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
On 30 December, a law reinstating the powers of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) and the liability for inaccuracies in asset declarations came into force. The law restores the powers of the NACP, including […]
31.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
On Wednesday, 30 December, the Iranian authorities instructed the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development to pay $150,000 to each family of the Ukraine International Airlines plane crash victims who died when the aircraft was […]
30.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ministry of Health of Ukraine has signed a contract for a supply of 1.9 million doses of coronavirus vaccine produced by the Chinese company Sinovac Biotech. According to the website of the Office of […]
30.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Foreign investors withdrew 343 million US dollars from our country in nine months of 2020. The National Bank of Ukraine published this data. The outflow of foreign capital in the first quarter of 2020 reached […]
30.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
258 citizens of Ukraine went missing in the territory of Donbas uncontrolled by the Ukrainian government. The Ombudsman Lyudmyla Denysova announced this. According to her, 251 Ukrainians are currently being held captive in ORDLO. This […]
30.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The investigation into the poisoning of Alexei Navalny does not go off the information "radars" of the media outlets, exacerbating the already difficult situation. The Kremlin is in a political knockdown after a terrible international scandal […]
30.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
About 300,000 Ukrainian citizens were granted passports in the occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The deputy prime minister, minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov announced this. […]
29.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ministry of Defence, on behalf of the Government of Ukraine and the State Enterprise Antonov, signed a memorandum of cooperation on the construction of new An-178 transport aircraft for the needs of the Armed Forces […]
29.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Promote Ukraine today reports about the conclusions of the analytical report of the Centre for Investigations headed by Mikhail Khodorkovsky: "Lubyanka Federation: how the FSB determines Russia's policy and economy." Since 2024 is coming up, […]
29.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
In 2020, the counterintelligence department of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has shut down four intelligence networks and detained 11 agents of the Russian special services, three of whom were involved in attempted sabotage […]
29.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
In 2020, NATO air forces across Europe scrambled more than 400 times to intercept unknown aircraft approaching Alliance airspace, according to a report on the official NATO website. Almost 90% of the intercepted aircraft belonged […]
29.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak