• Groysman: Ukraine insists on using its own gas transport system instead of Nord Stream 2

    Ukraine offers to use its gas transport system as an alternative to the Nord Stream-2 project, the Prime Minister, Vladimir Groysman, said in an interview with Ukrainian media.

    "The task now is diversification [of gas supplies to Europe]. And I think the capacity of Ukraine has to be utilized to its fullest. I believe it makes a lot of sense," he said. Groysman believes that the Russian gas pipeline project Nord Stream-2, which would pass to Europe while bypassing Ukraine, is a threat to the …

  • US to provide Ukrainians with $5 million for business education

    The US is planning to invest approximately $5 million into the business education of Ukrainian professionals through the SEED Grant Scholarship program. BBC reported that this was said by the Western NIS Enterprise fund.

    The scholarship program will operate between 2016 and 2018. According to reports, the program has already provided more than $1 million worth of education for 13 Ukrainian students in the US and in Britain.

    Ukrainians will be able to study at the best American and British …

  • Bulgaria urges NATO to increase support for Ukraine

    Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev met with the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.

    Bulgarian President expressed his support in continued assistence of Ukraine by the North Atlantic Alliance. The decision about the further assistence will be made at the Warsaw NATO summit in early July.

    "During the meeting of NATO defense ministers, it was decided to increase support for Ukraine. We expect that this support will be approved at the NATO meeting in Warsaw,” said Plevneliev after talks …

  • Ukraine to supply missiles for Polish MiG-29 fighter aircraft

    The Ukrainian state owned enterprise SpetsTechnoExport will supply the MiG-29 fighter jets of  the Polish Armed Forces with the medium range air-to-air missiles Р-27Р1.

    The tender of the Polish army has been won by a consortium of Ukrainian SpetsTechnoExport and Polish WB Electronics. The information was published on the Facebook page of the Ukrainian Air Force.

     “In October last year, Polish military announced a tender for purchase of 40 air-to-air missiles with the range of 50-80 kilometers …

  • US to help reform Ukrainian customs

    Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has discussed the launch of a needs-assessment mission in connection with the reform of the Ukrainian Customs Service during a meeting with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection delegation, as reported by the governmental press service on Wednesday.

    Eleven experts from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection have arrived in Kyiv at the PM’s invitation to prepare for the reform of the Ukrainian Customs Service.

    The needs-assessment mission will work …