Contents tagged with Petro Poroshenko
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Ukrainian President urges Poland to review Institute of National Remembrance Act
Ukraine supports an initiative to review the Polish Institute of National Remembrance Act and Ukraine-related items, said Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko during the opening ceremony of the memorial dedicated to Ukrainian victims of the Polish Farmers’ Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) and units of the Armia Krajowa (Home Army) in 1944. The memorial is in the Polish village of Sagryn, where the Poroshenko took part in a prayed for the victims of the events of 1944.
“We support the …
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Ukraine finds a 'smart way' to join NATO
Ukraine can join NATO though close rapprochement with the West and the deployment of NATO military bases in its territory, Director of the Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies Valentyn Badrak told Apostrophe news outlet. He stated that as long as Ukraine has territorial problems with Russia, Ukraine will never gain NATO membership. Nevertheless, according to him, Ukrainian authorities have found a “smart way” to do this, though they are unsure that the West would accept it. …
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President Poroshenko calls for 'mutual forgiveness' between Ukrainians and Poles
“We have to abandon political assessments of the historical past,” said President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on the 75th anniversary of the Volyn tragedy, UNIAN reported. Poroshenko opposed unilateral political assessments of the common historical past because he claims that they do not contribute to the process of historical reconciliation. The leader of Ukraine stressed that "the tragic conflicts between Ukrainians and Poles during the Second World War" require a thorough investigation that …
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Leader of Ukraine's Fatherland party accuses President Poroshenko of planning to disrupt Presidential Elections
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko is planning to disrupt the country’s Presidential Elections by unleashing a massive war in the Donbas, said Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko on Pershyi TV news. The video was posted on her Facebook page.
“He wants additional territories of Ukraine to be seized. Therefore, he wants to impose martial law and not to hold elections at all,” the politician stated.
She also noted that it is an extremely dangerous plan to escalate the …
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Ukrainian President signs national security bill
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a national security bill on Thursday, July 5.“This is an important landmark for the reformation of the entire country, primarily the defense and security sector. The main thing is that through this law we are firmly emphasizing Ukraine’s course towards European and Euroatlantic integration. We are confirming that our state, the Ukrainian nation, has clearly made up its mind about our future – it is a future in the family of peoples of the free world,” …
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Ukrainian President: Russia keeps 700 tanks and more than 1,000 artillery systems in the Donbas
Following a visit to Serbia, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said during an interview with the Serbian TV channel RTS that there are no “red lines” for the Russian Federation, and that the conflict in the Donbas is not frozen. According to him, the war is still continuing.
“First of all, Russia doesn’t have ‘red lines’. If, in January 2014, you had asked me: is it possible that Russia carries out an armed aggression against Ukraine? I would have said that it’s not possible,” Poroshenko …
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Ukrainian President: there will be no Nord Stream-2 pipeline
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that he believes the Russian gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 will not be built.
“I believe that Nord Stream 2 will not affect the Ukrainian economy much, because it will not exist. I am sure that we can stop it with joint efforts,” he stated at a meeting with Taras Shevchenko National University students of the Faculty of Law in Kyiv, during a Q&A session.
“The very best lawyers who represent Ukraine have now seized the assets of [Gazprom] in Britain, the …
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Head of RIA Novosti Ukraine refuses Ukrainian citizenship in court
Kirill Vyshinsky, head of the publication RIA Novosti Ukraine and a suspect of high treason, publicly refused his Ukrainian citizenship in favor of his Russian citizenship, which he received in 2015, during a trial in the Kherson Oblast Appeals Court.
"I appeal [for help] to [Ukrainian] President [Petro] Poroshenko regarding my withdrawal from Ukrainian citizenship and ask you to transfer this statement to the presidential administration. From this moment, I consider myself only a citizen of …
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Poroshenko approved Ukraine's Information Security Doctrine
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has approved an information security doctrine, whose main goal is "opposition to Russian influence." The new doctrine was reported via the website of the Ukrainian president's administration.
"The need for the doctrine is due to the occurrence of actual threats in the sphere of information to the national security of Ukraine, and the need to develop strategies to protect against cyber attacks during the free and globalized circulation of information," …
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Poroshenko is preparing to block certain websites in Ukraine
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko instructed the Cabinet to develop a bill that would allow the blocking of websites in accordance with the decision of the court.
This was stated in the text of the president's decree Number 32 dated February 13 on enactment of the National Security and Defense Council's (NSDC) decision "On the threats to cyber security of the state and urgent measures to neutralize them" from December 29, 2016.
The President also instructed the Cabinet to approve the …