Section: Belarus
Russia to send another ‘aid convoy’ of 120 trucks into Ukraine
Russia says it is to send another convoy of trucks into Ukraine, carrying what it says is humanitarian aid for Ukrainians in the parts of Luhansk and Donetsk regions where Russian-backed militants have seized control. …read more Source:...
Police say explosion in Odesa was terrorist attack
An explosion that hit a volunteer center in Odesa helping soldiers in Ukraine’s Donbas conflict zone is being considered as a terrorist act, police in the southern port city say. …read more Source:...
Arseniy Yatsenyuk: Russia never follows through bilateral agreements
Moscow will soon cease to be one of Ukraine’s major trading partners. …read more Source:...
UN: 4,771 people killed during conflict in Donbas
A total of 4,771 people in eastern Ukraine have been killed over the last eight months, and the number of injured is 10,360 people. …read more Source:...
Belarus president clarifies peacekeeping intentions
The head of state spoke about the conflict in Ukraine: “It is not someone else’s conflict. It is a conflict at our door”. “We should do our best to tune down the conflict or eliminate it. If we can pull it off, we, the men, and I as the commander in chief, we will do it,” continued Alexander Lukashenko. “We don’t ask for it, we...
Explosion jolts Kyiv gasoline station
An unidentified explosive device went off near a gasoline station in the Kyiv Desniansky district on Sunday night. …read more Source:...
Azarov sells house in Pechersk with no difficulties, despite being on wanted list
Runaway former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has sold his expensive house in Kyiv’s Pechersk district, despite being on the wanted list. …read more Source:...
Rada adopts state budget for 2015
The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, sat long into Sunday night and then the early morning on Monday, but finally managed to pass vital state budget legislation for 2015. …read more Source:...
Contact group on Ukraine will not meet in Minsk on 26 December
The meeting of the contact group on Ukraine that was supposed to take place in Minsk on 26 December, has been cancelled. …read more Source:...
Business community ready to help improve economic situation in Belarus
According to Alexander Shvets, the current economic situation is an absolutely natural consequence of the external factors that have affected exporters most of all. “Understanding and taking into account external factors caused primarily by the unstable development of the economies of our key partners — Russia and Ukraine — the business community...
