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      Russian coast guard ship rams Ukrainian navy tugboat
      Nov25

      Russian coast guard ship rams Ukrainian navy tugboat

      A Russian coast guard vessel rammed a Ukrainian navy tugboat, resulting in damage to the ship’s engines and hull, the Ukrainian navy said Sunday. …read more Source:...

      Ukraine accuses Russia of ramming tugboat as passage is blocked in Kerch Strait near Crimea
      Nov25

      Ukraine accuses Russia of ramming tugboat as passage is blocked in Kerch Strait near Crimea

      The Ukrainian navy claims one of its tugboats was rammed by a Russian coast guard vessel. …read more Source:...

      Ukraine accuses Russia of ‘ramming tugboat’ off Crimea
      Nov25

      Ukraine accuses Russia of ‘ramming tugboat’ off Crimea

      Ukraine has accused Russia of ramming one of its tugboats off the coast of Crimea in “openly aggressive actions”. …read more Source: Sky...

      Russia border guards rammed our tugboat, says Ukrainian navy
      Nov25

      Russia border guards rammed our tugboat, says Ukrainian navy

      Moscow says ships illegally entered its waters, off Crimea, deliberately provoking conflictUkraine’s navy has said Russia’s border guards rammed one of its tugboats in the Black Sea off Moscow-annexed Crimea in an “openly aggressive action”.Ukraine said the incident took place as three of its ships, including two small warships, were...

      Ukraine claims Russia ‘rammed our tugboat’ off Crimea
      Nov25

      Ukraine claims Russia ‘rammed our tugboat’ off Crimea

      Russia blocks Ukrainian access to the Sea of Azov after “provocative” Ukrainian action. …read more Source:...

      Ukraine bank offers 21% interest rate for doing 10,000 steps a day
      Nov25

      Ukraine bank offers 21% interest rate for doing 10,000 steps a day

      Ukraine’s Monobank offers best rates to clients who do 10,000 steps a dayAs any saver knows, interest rates can go up as well as down. But they normally do so in conjunction with the economic cycle, and not with the physical activity of the account holder.Now, a Ukrainian bank is offering better rates of interest to customers who prove they...

      Trans rights activists attacked with pepper spray during Ukraine march
      Nov25

      Trans rights activists attacked with pepper spray during Ukraine march

      Kiev demonstration was interrupted by far-right protesters who threw smoke bombs into the crowdTwo activists have been attacked with pepper spray in Kiev during a transgender rights march that was interrupted by dozens of far-right protesters.About 30 people were taking part in the demonstration in the Ukraine capital, holding rainbow flags and...

      Revisited: Five years on, what has Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution achieved?
      Nov25

      Revisited: Five years on, what has Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution achieved?

      The “Winter on Fire” of 2013-2014 saw Ukrainians oust a kleptocratic leader in violent protests, in the name of closer ties with the EU and adherence to its values of good governance. What did they achieve? Our reporter Gulliver Cragg, who covered the protests at the time, went to meet some of those whose lives were profoundly...

      Serhii Plokhy: ‘Chernobyl exposed Soviet secrecy’
      Nov25

      Serhii Plokhy: ‘Chernobyl exposed Soviet secrecy’

      ‘I remember the horror,’ says Baillie Gifford non-fiction prize-winner, who lived through the 1986 nuclear disasterSerhii Plokhy, who on Wednesday won the Baillie Gifford non-fiction prize for Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, always intended to write about the world’s worst nuclear disaster, not least because he lived through it. “I...

      Ukraine is outsourcing law enforcement to private companies that don’t respect human rights
      Nov25

      Ukraine is outsourcing law enforcement to private companies that don’t respect human rights

      Odessa Municipal Guard dismantling decorative fencing on the territory of “Dom Pavlovyh” guest house. Photo by Konstontin Puzilovskiy, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. A series of incidents involving Ukraine’s municipal guards are adding up one after another, with ever more citizens demanding they be outright banned. After the...