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pinterest.com Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Dmytro Razumkov, has announced a “full restriction” on air passenger traffic from March 17. “I think that early next week, operations of checkpoints at our country’s air gates will be restricted,” Parliament…

Photo from UNIAN A number of Ukrainian legislators with the leading Servant of the People Party have appealed to President Volodymyr Zelensky over the need to observe principled positions in negotiations with the Russian Federation. The text of their joint…

REUTERS Brussels-based RFE/RL journalist Rikard Jozwiak says the European Union prolonged sanctions against Russia for the undermining of Ukraine’s territorial integrity for another six months. Read alsoEU’s decision to lift sanctions against former Ukraine officials Azarov, Stavytskiy comes into force…

Photo from UNIAN The Cabinet of Ministers, Ukraine’s government, has adopted a decision on the temporary closure and termination of pedestrian traffic at some border crossing points. The relevant motion was submitted by Interior Minister Arsen Avakov during an external…

REUTERS First court hearings in the case of the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 in Donbas in the summer of 2014 have started in the Netherlands today, March 9. Read alsoRelatives of MH17 victims stage rally outside Russian embassy…

Ruslan Riaboshapka / Photo from UNIAN Deputy head of the “Servant of the People” pro-president faction enjoying mono-majority in Parliament, Yevhenia Kravchuk, has explained the party’s recent decisions regarding the dismissal of Prosecutor General Ruslan Riaboshapka. In an interview with…

REUTERS On March 9, a trial of the MH17 downing case began in the Schiphol complex in the Netherlands. The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) representing five countries whose citizens died in the crash over Donbas presented the results of its…

Arsen Avakov / Photo from UNIAN Deputy Head of the Servant of the People pro-president faction in Parliament, Yevhenia Kravchuk, has explained why Arsen Avakov had been reappointed to the post of interior minister in the new government following a…

Mustafa Dzhemilev / Photo from UNIAN Leader of the Crimean Tatar people, MP Mustafa Dzhemilev says not all Crimean Tatars illegally imprisoned in Russia may agree to be included in the next prisoner swap list. “The SBU [Security Service of…

Oleksandr Turchynov / Photo from UNIAN Former Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Oleksandr Turchynov, who served as Ukrainian president in 20