Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)
Naftogaz Receives $2.9 Billion Payment From Gazprom With New Agreement
Naftogaz, Ukraine’s state-owned gas company, has said it received $2.9 billion from Russia’s Gazprom to settle a legal fight, part of a larger deal the two companies reached earlier this month. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russian Church Cuts Ties With Alexandria Patriarchate Over Ukraine Church Recognition
The Russian Orthodox Church has cut ties with the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all of Africa Patriarch Theodore II after he recognized the independence of Ukraine’s church from Moscow. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Says It Has New Contracts For Second Batch Of U.S. Javelin Missiles
Deputy Defense Minister Anatoliy Petrenko says Kyiv recently concluded contracts for the delivery of a second batch of Javelin U.S. anti-tank missile systems. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
‘Serious American’ Companies Studying Purchase Of Ukraine Motor Sich, U.S. Top Diplomat Says
William Taylor, the outgoing top U.S. diplomat to Ukraine, said “serious American” companies are studying the possible purchase of Motor Sich, one of the world’s top makers of aircraft engines. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Celebrations Greet Moscow-Simferopol Train After Opening Of Bridge To Crimea
Residents of the Crimean city of Simferopol cheered the arrival of a train from Moscow, the first to make that journey since transport links with mainland Ukraine were severed five years ago. As the train arrived early on December 26, local officials thanked Vladimir Putin for the construction of the bridge over the Kerch Strait, which the...
LONG Russian, Ukrainian State Gas Companies To Meet On Finalizing New Gas Contract
The state-owned gas companies of Russia and Ukraine are set to meet in Vienna on December 26 to finalize a new natural-gas transit contract. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Launches Criminal Probe Over Russia’s Railway Bridge To Crimea
Ukraine has launched a criminal investigation after a passenger train used a controversial bridge from mainland Russia to the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukrainian City Rivne Bans ‘Deviant’ LGBT Marches
The Rivne City Council in western Ukraine on December 24 banned the conduct of equality marches. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
American Found Who Got Lost Climbing Ukraine’s Highest Mountain
Emergency workers in western Ukraine’s Ivano-Frankivsk region say they’ve found a U.S. citizen who dialed the rescue services emergency number after getting lost climbing Hoverla, the country’s highest mountain peak at 2,061 meters. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
OSCE Says Ukraine-Russia Prisoner Swap Agreed ‘By End Of Year’
Special OSCE representative in Ukraine Martin Sajdik has announced that a trilateral forum on the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine has “reached an agreement on a mutual release and exchange of conflict-related detainees by the end of the year.” …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
