The Minister of Finance of Ukraine, Oleksandr Danylyuk, disclosed the details of the updated memorandum of the International Monetary Fund or IMF, UNIAN reports. The new memorandum contains provisions on pension, land, banking and other important reforms.

"In fact, we need to understand the main thing that the IMF wants; and what we want is a fair, balanced pension system," Danylyuk said.

He said that to achieve this goal it would be necessary to carry out pension reform that would balance …

The French industrial group, Saint-Gobain, intends to invest 65 million Euros to build two plants for the production of construction materials in the Tlumach district of the Ivano-Frankivsk region, Interfax-Ukraine reported, citing the President of the Ivano-Frankivsk Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Andrew Levkovich. The first facility will specialize in the production of construction mixes and will be completed by the end of 2017.

The construction of the second plant that will produce …

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Pavlo Klimkin, stated that up to one thousand artillery systems, more than 400 tanks, and 200 rocket launchers were sent to the Donbas by the Russian Federation.

He said this during Senate hearings at a meeting of the United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, as reported by UNIAN.

The head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry stated that the hybrid war conducted by Russian against Ukraine is …

The U.S. company, SpaceX, received a contract for the lunch of a Spanish satellite that Russian Kosmotras failed to implement due to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. According to information published on the customer’s website, the Spanish company, Hisdesat, has signed an agreement with SpaceX on the launch of the Earth radar observation satellite, PAZ.

The Falcon 9 carrier rocket will deliver this satellite into orbit. The numerous achievements of other companies that have used it serve as a …

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) issued a statement in which it threatened that it would require the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of the country to impose sanctions against the Ukrainian "daughter" of Sberbank. The statement of the NBU followed the reports that Sberbank has begun to serve customers with passports from the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics.

"If this information is confirmed, the NBU will initiate a request to the NSDC to apply sanctions to …

Bloggers recently wrote that a separatist commander with the call sign Plastun was killed in the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic or LPR, Ukrinform reports.

The death of the field commander was also confirmed by the Deputy Minister of Ukraine for the temporarily occupied territories, Heorhiy Tuka. "Another one joined the 'silence regime,"' the official wrote. Plastun’s death was also reported in social networks by the representatives of the separatists themselves.

The last notable …

The Russian Delegation to the UN International Court of Justice in The Hague claims that militants in the Donbas do not receive weapons from the Russian Federation, but rather "find them on their own".

This statement was made by Ilya Rogachev, a Russian representative involved in the process, Evropeyskaya Pravda news website reports.

Rogachev named the main source of weapons as "stocks from the Soviet times" that were located on Ukrainian territory.

"A large share of these reserves were left …

Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin called on the United States to support the resumption of negotiations between the signatory countries of the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 (the United States, Britain, Russia, Ukraine) on the settlement of the situation in the Crimea, annexed by Russia, and the Donbas, while speaking at a hearing of the US Senate Appropriations Committee on "Russian policy and intentions for individual European countries: the example of Ukraine."

We need US …