US military equipment arrives in Germany for deployment to Eastern Europe

On Friday, January 6, the US 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team of the 4th Infantry Division in Eastern Europe began unloading military equipment in the German city of Bremerhaven as part of the unit’s new deployment, Deutsche Welle reported.

In Bremerhaven, this military hardware will be loaded onto railway cars and then sent to its destination in Poland. According to the Bundeswehr, 900 railcars with a total length of 14 kilometers will be required to transport the equipment.

On January 4, the …


Canadian groups sent 11 tons of humanitarian assistance to Ukraine

The Congress of Ukrainians in Canada together with the company Сaravan Logіstics and public organizations, Ukraine Appeal, GlobalFire, Global Medic, and the Canadian League of Ukrainians collected and sent 11 tons of humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, as reported on the website of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine. It is noted that the cargo consists of medical equipment and fire-extinguishing equipment and will be provided to hospitals and fire stations in eastern Ukraine, in particular, …


Ukraine began to receive Azerbaijani oil

In late December, the Kremenchuk Oil Refinery Ukrtatnafta received its first cargo of Azeri Light crude oil with a volume of 80 thousand tons, according to its website. “In general, Ukrtatnafta plans to receive a total 1.3 million tons of oil in 2017,” the report stated.

According to Interfax-Ukraine, the first cargo of Azeri Light crude was received by transshipment in Odessa via railway transport. After replacing Urals oil with Azeri Light in the Odessa-Kremenchuk oil pipeline, the raw oil …


Ariev: In January’s PACE session, Ukraine will demand the release of illegally detained Ukrainians

Volodymyr Ariev, the Ukrainian chairman of the permanent delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), said that the discussion topics in this January’s PACE session in Strasbourg would be the illegal detention of Ukrainians (journalist Roman Sushchenko, filmmaker Oleg Sentsov) in the Russian Federation and the persecution in the occupied Crimea of the journalist Nikolai Semena and the Crimean Tatar media.

January’s PACE session in Strasbourg will take place from …


Ukraine expects to receive a new tranche of the loan from the International Monetary Fund

The Cabinet of Ministers expects that the amount of the 4th tranche of the IMF loan within the EFF program that Ukraine can receive in February will amount to $1 billion, Ukrainian News reported with reference to a government source. The funds are earmarked for replenishing the reserves of the National Bank.

In November, they discussed the possibility of allocating approximately $18 billion but now, the expected amount is about only $1 billion. The final amount of the tranche will be known …