10 schools in Donbas suspend work due to proximity to combat zone
10 institutions of general secondary education in the Donetsk region suspended work due to proximity to military operations, announced Oleksandr Kuts, the head of the Ukrainian military-civilian regional administration in the Donetsk region.
He said that on the first day of school, four fully renovated central schools will be opened in Vuhledar, Dobropillia, Kostiantynivka, and Mariupol. At the moment, 12 more educational institutions are being rebuilt.
"A total of 522 institutions of general …
USA accuses Russia of continuing to block expansion of the OSCE mission’s mandate
Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Mission to the OSCE Gregory Macris stated that “Russia continues to block the expansion of the geographic scope of the Observer Mission along the border.”
"We once again must accept an inadequate, limited-scope mission covering just two border checkpoints, which together account for only a few hundred meters of the 2,300-kilometer Ukrainian-Russian border, much of which Ukraine does not control,” reads the statement published on the US State Department’s …
Hollande: Putin threatened Poroshenko at Minsk talks
During the Normandy Format talks in Minsk in February 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to “crush” the Ukrainian troops. This is mentioned in a memoir by former French president François Hollande titled “Lessons of Power”.
“Poroshenko and Putin constantly raised their voices with each other. The Russian president was so worked up, that he started threatening to decisively crush his counterpart’s forces. This showed that there are Russian troops in eastern Ukraine. Putin …
Hungary agrees to redefine position of the commissioner for Transcarpathia after Ukraine’s protest
Hungary has made a decision to change the name of the position of the ministerial commissioner for Transcarpathia after Ukraine’s protest, said Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin.
“The morning began with a conversation with my Hungarian counterpart Péter Szijjártó. Hungarians understood us and will change the name of their commissioner for Transcarpathia. We continue constructive work on all the other issues,” he wrote on his Twitter page.
In the summer of 2018, the …
Ukraine pays part of its debt to IMF
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Ukraine transferred $160.3 million to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as payment of its principal loan, FinClub reported on Friday, August 31. According to the report, the payment was made in 114.3 SDRs or special drawing rights. Further payments are scheduled for November 1 and 5.
According to the payment schedule, Ukraine must repay more than $500 million for euro bonds and another $580 million for servicing debts to the IMF before the end of 2018.