According to preliminary data, about 1.6 million people live in the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR), but the exact data is no known, stated Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister for the Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories Oleksii Reznikov in an interview LB.ua.

"Previously, according to the old data, there were about five million people living in the Donetsk region, and about two million in Luhansk. Total - seven. Since 2014, some of them left for Russia, …

Mikheil Saakashvili, former president of Georgia and former head of the Odesa regional administration, confirmed his appointment to the National Reforms Council of Ukraine.

"The head of the executive committee, not the secretary," Saakashvili told Deutsche Welle .

Earlier, the media reported on his appointment to the post of secretary of the council.

Saakashvili's exact date of appointment has not yet been announced.

The National Reforms Council was created in 2014 by decree of the fifth …

Ukraine's Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk declined an invitation of Berlin Mayor Michael Mueller to attend a joint wreath-laying ceremony at Memorial Plaque Schulenburgring 2, where the Wehrmacht troops, who were defending Berlin, surrendered on May 2, 1945, reported the German publication Tagesspiegel.

"A few weeks ago, three ambassadors received an invitation from Berlin Mayor Michael Mueller. Together with representatives of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, he wanted to lay a wreath this …