The  spokesman of the Ukrainian Armed Forces noted a record number of ceasefire violations in recent days.

Half of all the ceasefire violations are taking place in Avdiivka, northwest of Donetsk.

The situation remains very tense near Horlivka and Zaitseve, as well as in the area around Svetlodarsk.

Despite the difficult situation along the contact line, the Ukrainian forces seem to be slowly pushing ahead  into separatist-held territory.

According to reports emerging on social media, the 54 …

Nadiya Savchenko’s lawyer, Ilya Novikov, reported a sharp deterioration in his client’s health, Current Time reported, with reference to Ukrainskaya Pravda.

Savchenko is on the 12th day of her dry hunger strike, but agreed to have IV fluids administered.

“If yesterday, Nadiya’s sister Verna had not persuaded her to agree to go on a drip, her condition would have been even more complicated,” Novikov stated.

Novikov stated that there was a possibility that Russia would agree to transfer …

Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko will become the owner of the largest telecommunications company in Ukraine- Datagroup. She is going to acquire Datagroup through Horizon Capital, the company which she co-founded.

This was reported by the Economic Policy Journal.

Datagroup, which controls 85% of the Ukrainian market of telecommunications, is owned by businessman Olexandr Kardakov. He went bankrupt due to the fall of the hryvnia exchange rate to the US dollar. As he was unable to …

According to a report by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, Ukraine and Lithuania will sign a Memorandum of Understanding on the implementation of a joint military training exercise for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

As it was noted in the statement, the agreement will be signed on the 18th of April during a meeting between the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Stepan Poltorak, and the Lithuanian Minister of National Defense, Juozas Olekas.

“Following the talks, the parties are planning to sign a …

The West may turn its back to Ukraine if the country does not carry out the reforms. This was said by Steven Pifer, a former US Ambassador to Ukraine and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, at the IX Kyiv Security Forum on Friday, April 15th, Deutsche Welle reported.

"If you engage in political games instead of reform, you may find yourselves in a situation where the West has turned its back to you. We hope that the new government will work, and it must do so quickly, otherwise there …