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REUTERS The European Union (EU) says drafting residents of the Russia-occupied Crimean peninsula in the Russian army violates international law. “The Russian Federation is carrying out conscription in the illegally-annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol to…

REUTERS Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, Dmytro Razumkov, sys the number of parliamentarians who have contracted the novel COVID-19 coronavirus has not increased. When asked at a morning TV show “Snidanok z 1+1” on April 13, how many…

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Photo from UNIAN Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal late Friday presented a preliminary version of a strategy of bringing the country out of national quarantine, identifying its main stages. In a message posted on PM’s Telegram channel, he said…

facebook.com The Russian Federation is responsible for the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the occupied territories, while the invaders’ inaction should become the subject of proceedings in international instances. That’s according to a number of deputies with the Servant…

Ivan Bakanov / Photo from UNIAN Chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine Ivan Bakanov submitted to the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine proposals to extend for another three years the ban on the use of Russian social…

REUTERS Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has commented on his possible premiership. “I hope God will have mercy. I like the incumbent prime minister,” Avakov wrote on Facebook under his post on quarantine activities over the coronavirus pandemic, answering a…

REUTERS Ukrainian Defense Minister Andriy Taran has enacted the expiration of his predecessor Stepan Poltorak’s March 2019 decree on army reform. Read alsoU.S., Ukrainian defense ministers discuss strategic partnership by phone “To recognize Ukrainian Defense Ministry Decree No. 141 dated…

Photo from UNIAN The State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) of Ukraine has served former Member of Parliament Tetiana Chornovol with charge papers on intentional homicide. The former lawmaker is suspected of the crime of deliberately killing another person, committed by…

REUTERS Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has outlined possible deadlines for lifting the quarantine restrictions imposed in the country over the coronavirus. “How long should we be cooped up indoors? [People] are running out of money, businesses are crumbling… How…