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Member of Russian Night Wolves biker club affiliated with Putin denied entry into Ukraine and banned for three years
On Saturday, February 17, Ukrainian border guards refused entry to a Russian biker nicknamed “Vodyanoy" of the Night Wolves Russian motorcycle club, the Ukrainian State Border Service reports.
On Saturday, Vodyanoy arrived on a flight to Boryspil airport where law enforcement officers established that he was a member of the notorious motorcycle gang that had strong connections to Russian President Vladimir Putin. During the border control process, he was informed of the three-year ban on …
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Russia sent a letter of protest to Ukraine over the attack on the Rossotrudnichestvo building in Kyiv
The Russian Embassy sent a note of protest to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine because of the attack on Rossotrudnichestvo (Russian Center for Science and Culture) building in Kyiv and called on the authorities to bring the attackers to justice, reported the Russian diplomatic mission in Ukraine.
"We urge the Ukrainian government to provide appropriate legal assessments of the actions of the radicals, to bring the instigators and participants of the attack to justice, and to take …
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Media: Dutch citizen who fought for Ukraine in Donbas killed in Syria
Dutch national Sjoerd Heeger, who was fighting for the Kurdish groups in Syria’s Deir al-Zor province, was reportedly killed in Syria on February 15 in an attack by an Islamic State “shahid-mobile”.
However, there has been no attack by ISIS suicide bombers during this period. The last documented attacks of this nature took place on February 11 in the vicinity of the Bakhra settlement, where the Dutchman was reportedly also killed. The attack was made by two ISIS suicide bombers – Abu Yahya al- …
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Ukrainian Military Command: one Russian soldier killed, another wounded in mine explosion at Svitlodarsk salient
On Sunday, February 18, at the Svitlodarsk salient, two Russian soldiers from the so-called 7th separate motorized rifle brigade (the LPR army) were involved in a mine explosion, reported the Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donbas.
“Both fighters were citizens of the Russian Federation. One of them – Vladimir Vladimirovich Lyubinov, born in 1988, and a resident of the Krasnodar Krai – was killed. The other – Sergey Valeryevich Mikhailov, born in 1972, and a resident of Astrakhan ( …
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Poroshenko: opinions of Ukrainian partners on the Anti-Corruption Court is not the final truth
President Petro Poroshenko believes that Kyiv should listen to the recommendations of the anti-corruption court as long as the draft law complies with the legislation of Ukraine, as he explained in responding to a question by Evropeyska Pravda.
The President stressed that there is no alternatives to the adoption of this bill.
"I will do everything possible for the bill to pass, so that the correct wording is found, but also so that this bill is in accordance with the Ukrainian Constitution …