• Amazon will launch in Ukraine this year

    Ukrposhta, the Ukrainian Postal Service plans to bring the American electronic commerce company Amazon to Ukraine, said postal service General Director Igor Smelyansky on Channel 5. Amazon.com is the world's largest seller of products and services via the Internet.

    "Presently we really want to bring Amazon to our country. We are working on this with our partners now because this is international mail and some time is needed,” he said. “Logistically, we are ready but this launch assumes …

  • Prosecutor General of Ukraine talks about 1.2 million unsolved cases

    Yuriy Lutsenko, Prosecutor General of Ukraine, said that the General Prosecutor’s Office together with the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) is investigating 1,2 million cases, the German news outlet Bild reports.

    “The problem is that my organization is much larger than the NABU. I have 10,000 employees, and 800 of them are investigators. The NABU has a total of 220 detectives. Together we are responsible for 150,000 state officials, and currently there are 1.2 million cases at …

  • Ukrainian army adds new armored vehicle to its arsenal

    On March 21, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Stepan Poltorak, signed order No. 158, authorizing the use of the Kozak-2 armored personnel carrier in the Ukrainian Armed Forces after it passed all state trials.

    According to the order, the vehicle was accepted “in accordance with the procedure for the development and release of new types of defense equipment, and taking into account the positive results of the government tests, with the goal of providing the Ukrainian Armed Forces with …

  • Prosecutor General of Ukraine: the killer of former Russian Duma MP visited separatist-held Donetsk before committing the crime

    The killer of former State Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov, former National Guard of Ukraine employee Pavel Parshov, visited the territory of the Donbas on March 6 and made contact with pro-Russian separatists. This was stated by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Yuriy Lutsenko in an interview with Bild.

    "On March 6, the killer was in the separatist-held territory, namely in Donetsk ... It's forbidden for the National Guard of Ukraine to stay in this area. We searched the apartment where he was …

  • Anti-Corruption Bureau checking National Bank of Ukraine for involvement in loss of billions due to refinancing of insolvent banks

    The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) is checking the legal basis of directing funds towards the refinancing of certain Ukrainian banks as well as the involvement of the leadership of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) in this process. This was stated Artem Sytnyk, Chairman of the NABU.

    "For several months already we have been conducting criminal proceedings that involve the management of the NBU, related to the spending of money allocated to a number of commercial banks for …