Contents tagged with Poroshenko
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Poroshenko: Ukrainian Armed Forces to receive 4 times more anti-tank systems in 2018
The National Security and Defense Council under the representatives from the office of the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, held a session during which the state defense order for 2018 was discussed, as reported on the president’s official website.
According to Poroshenko, this year the number of anti-tank missile systems will grow by a factor of four.
“I had the opportunity to communicate directly with the ATO (Anti-Terrorist Operation) commanders, with the brigade commanders, and I …
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Poroshenko: Russia’s actions aimed at destroying the Ukrainian state
Russia's actions in Ukraine are aimed at destroying the Ukrainian state and returning it back into its sphere of influence, as stated by President Petro Poroshenko, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
"Everything that Russia is doing in Ukraine today has one single goal: to return us into its so-called sphere of influence and to destroy the Ukrainian state," Poroshenko said during a meeting with the heads of diplomatic missions of foreign countries and internationally accredited organizations in Ukraine …
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IMF rejects Poroshenko’s draft bill on Anti-Corruption Court
The International Monetary Fund believes that the bill to establish the Anti-Corruption Court (ACC), as submitted by President Petro Poroshenko, does not meet Ukraine’s obligation to the IMF, as stated in a letter from the head of the mission of the IMF in Ukraine, Ron van Roden, to the Presidential administration of Ukraine. The document, copies of which were sent to the Prime Minister, the Speaker of the parliament, and several ministers, was published by Yevropeyska Pravda.
In the letter, …
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Georgian TV channel publishes letter from Poroshenko to Russian FSB
On Saturday evening the Georgian TV channel Rustavi 2, which is closely connected to Mikheil Saakashvili, former Georgian president and leader of the Movement of New Forces party in Ukraine, disclosed a letter addressed to the FSB, supposedly signed by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in 2007. The Presidential Administration published a statement refuting the authenticity of document in a matter of hours. The TV channel insists that the letter is authentic, and proposes that it be subjected …
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Ukrainian President terminated citizenship of 5,200 people over one year
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko terminated the citizenship of 5,200 people in 2017, according to data from the Presidential Administration.
Decrees on termination of citizenship were issued on the grounds of the withdrawal from citizenship for 4,296 persons, loss of citizenship for 47 persons, and international treaties for 825 persons.
The most well-known examples are the terminations of the citizenships of Mikheil Saakashvili and MP Andrey Artemenko. At the same time, Poroshenko did …
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Poroshenko: Ukrainian membership in EU is not ‘a prospect for 2018’
While acknowledging Ukraine’s memberships in the European Union and the NATO remain the country’s strategic priorities, these are “prospects obviously not to be fulfilled in 2018,” the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, wrote in an article for the publications Novoye Vremya and The Economist Mir.
In the op-ed published under the title The Word and Development the President of Ukraine outlined his vision of the “only possible path of development for a successful country.”
“Membership in …
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Ukrainian President promises to establish anti-corruption court in 2018
In an article for publications Novoye Vremya and The Economist Mir, published on Saturday, President Petro Poroshenko discussed the need for his more active participation in the protection of the country's anti-corruption infrastructure and the inadmissibility of any pressure on the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU).
"The events at the end of 2017 showed that the anti-corruption infrastructure requires more active protection by the President, I especially emphasize the need to guarantee …
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Poroshenko: Ukraine will receive lethal weapons from the US in 2018
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko announced that the much-anticipated defensive lethal weapons from the United States would be supplied to Ukraine in 2018. He posted on Facebook that “Next year, the military budget of our country will be a record 86 billion hryvnia ($3 billion). We will receive lethal defensive weapons from our partners in the United States."
Poroshenko expressed confidence that the Armed Forces of Ukraine would continue to replenish their arsenal with the latest military …
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Ukrainian President extended the moratorium on the sale of land
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed amendments to the Land Code that will prolong the moratorium on the sale or alienation of agricultural land for another year, reported the President’s press service.
"President Petro Poroshenko signed the Law on Amendments to Section X ‘Transitional Provisions’ of the Land Code of Ukraine, passed by the Verkhovna Rada on December 7, 2017. The document extends the validity of the moratorium on sale or alienation of agricultural land for one year," the …
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Poroshenko: Ukraine will buy Russian gas on its own terms
President Petro Poroshenko has said that Ukraine is ready to resume gas purchases from Russia.
"What has happened in the past two years? We are energetically independent. They [Russia] are knocking: can you take our gas? No, we are all right. If it is cheap and honest, not corrupt, [then] please," he said during a working trip to the Odessa region, writes Interfax-Ukraine.
At the same time, Poroshenko stressed that, with respect for the above-mentioned conditions, the Ukrainian authorities …