A second, successful cyber attack was conducted against the Ukrainian power grid in December by hackers linked to the Russian government, causing power outages in the capital city of Kyiv. The attacks targeted critical infrastructure and were meant to sow confusion, rather than cripple the country. The incident came a…
A woman from Kiev is being brought up on criminal charges after leaving her two young children, a boy and a girl alone in a locked apartment for nine days with only a few pieces of candy. Only days earlier, the woman posted pictures of herself and the children on…
A humanitarian group affiliated with the Ukrainian government announced their willingness to facilitate a prisoner exchange with the Donbass separatists. The formula for the exchange was stated as 228 for 42. The Donbass separatists have informed the Ukraine that they were holding 42 Ukrainian citizens and that they were interested…
Ukrainian legislative assembly, the Rada has passed a resolution calling for recognition of the mass starvation event in early 1930’s Ukraine known as “Holodomor” as genocide. While there is no question that millions of people died of hunger in 1932-1933 in the Ukraine and in other parts of the Soviet…
Ukrainian aircraft manufacturer Antonov suggested that president elect Trump should consider one of their aircraft for the Air Force One program. Having apparently become aware of Mr. Trump’s comments as to the excessive price tag of the project with Boeing as the primary contractor, Antonov took to Trump’s favorite social…
Ukrainian parliament, the Rada, is contemplating two resolutions to take the country out of the nuclear non-proliferation agreement. Ukraine unilaterally renounced its status as a de-facto nuclear-armed power after the breakup of the USSR, when in 1994 it signed the Budapest Memorandum. Under the terms of this memorandum, Ukraine removed…
Interfax is reporting that the Eurovision 2017 organizing committee is considering moving the singing contest from Kiev to Russia. This is due to bureaucratic delays and lack of commitment on the part of the Ukrainian authorities for the preparation of the event, says the German periodical Bild. The contest last…
Is Ukrainian Soil Soaked With Too Much Blood?
Ukrainian media are quoting Ukrainian President Piotr Poroshenko as saying that the Ukrainian people have experienced a real “high” from the recent firing exercise of anti-aircraft S-300 missiles by the Ukrainian armed forces in the vicinity of the Crimean Peninsula. According to Poroshenko, this was attested by the many phone…