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Deputy commander of Ukrainian Joint Forces Operation: We will not surrender our positions in Donbas
Bohdan Bondar, the Deputy Commander of the Joint Forces Operation, said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces would not surrender their their positions, reports Hromadske TV channel.
"We will not surrender and will not give up our positions. What is being carried out now and what is proposed to be carried out in the future are certain steps towards a real cessation of hostilities. Five years is a period that has sufficiently shown that it is necessary to use other options to end the hostilities," …
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Kyiv to demand compensation from Gazprom for gas transit termination
"Naftogaz of Ukraine intends to demand from Gazprom compensation for alleged losses from the termination of gas transit from Russia to Europe. On November 1, we will send our claims to Gazprom for more than $11 billion," wrote Chief Commercial Officer of Naftogaz Yuriy Vitrenko on his Facebook page.
A day before, during a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Gazprom's CEO Alexey Miller stressed the need to settle legal disputes before the conclusion of a new contract with Kyiv. …
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Ukrainian MPs form coalition to reclaim Russian Kuban region
13 members of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, have created an interparty coalition called “Kuban”. The new group will work on the return of Ukrainian ethnic territories and ethnic Ukrainians to the cultural and social field, MP Oleksiy Honcharenko, elected head of the union, wrote on Facebook.
“First and foremost, we will work on Kuban. But other regions that are densely inhabited by Ukrainians will also be under our close attention,” Honcharenko wrote.
The MP also published a copy …
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Ukraine may receive World Bank's funding in 2020
After the meeting of the Ukrainian delegation with the World Bank's representatives, the press service of the Ukrainian Finance Ministry reported that Ukraine might receive financial support from the World Bank Group in early 2020 if it carries out several reforms, including privatization and the continuation of a balanced fiscal policy.
The Ukrainian delegation headed by Finance Minister Oksana Markarova and Economy Minister Tymofiy Mylovanov presented the agenda for the Ukrainian government. …
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Ukraine upgrades gas pipeline to expand gas reserve from Poland
At the Komarno compressor station in Ukraine’s Lviv region, construction and installation work has been completed and a new stretch of pipeline connector has been commissioned, Ukraine’s national gas pipelines operator UkrTransGaz announced in a press statement.
“The updated configuration of the linear part of the gas pipeline will allow us to transport the blue fuel in both the obverse and the reverse modes between Ukraine and Poland. The reconstruction will increase the capacity and …