Head of the Special Investigation Department of the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) of Ukraine Serhiy Horbatiuk considers the initiative to hire agents of Ukraine's National Anti-corruption Bureau (NABU) in an open competition procedure "another step to put a spanner in the works" of the Bureau, according to 112 Ukraine TV Channel.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko convened an emergency meeting of the Military Office of the National Security and Defense Council in connection with the latest developments in the militant stronghold of Luhansk, as reported on the official website of the head of state.
It is time for Ukrainians to understand: the aggravation of relations with neighboring states, as it happened recently with Poland and Hungary, is inevitable. And the reason is not only that their nationalism touches upon the Ukrainian language and territory, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the Council of Europe Dmytro Kuleba wrote for the Novoe Vremya weekly.
Poland is open to cooperation with Ukraine, but expects authorities in that country to “take concrete steps” amid tensions over historical issues, Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski said, speaking in the Ukrainian city of Lviv on Saturday, according to Radio Poland.
During an official visit to Warsaw in early October, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev called to lift EU sanctions against Russia, which were imposed after Russia annexed Crimea and unleashed a war in eastern Ukraine, Euromaidan Press reported.
Spain’s central government threatened on Thursday to suspend Catalonia’s autonomy after the region’s leader said it could go ahead with a formal declaration of independence if Madrid continued its “repression”, Reuters reports.
U.S. President Donald Trump has said he was in fact speaking about North Korea, when he told reporters at a White House military dinner recently about "the calm before the storm," according to his latest interview with Fox News.
The U.S. Army has "got to be ready" to confront the North Korean threat if diplomatic efforts are unable to resolve the U.S. dispute with Pyongyang over its nuclear weapons, Defense Secretary James Mattis said Monday, Newsweek reports.
North Korea has boosted defenses on its east coast, a South Korean lawmaker said on Tuesday, after the North said U.S. President Donald Trump had declared war and that it would shoot down U.S. bombers flying near the peninsula, according to Reuters.
In two articles published online this week, Moscow analyst Aleksandr Nemets details the evidence many have assembled showing that Moscow is heavily involved in both the rocket program of North Korea and Pyongyang’s “aggressive plans” to use it against other countries, Euromaidan Press reports.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is "very thankful" to Russian President Vladimir Putin for expelling hundreds of U.S. diplomats from Russia, because he said it helps him cut the U.S. government's payroll, according to The Washington Post.
The United States said on Tuesday it shot down a simulated, incoming intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) similar to the ones being developed by countries like North Korea, in a new test of the nation's THAAD missile defenses, Reuters reports.
The monument set up 23 years ago in honor of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in the cemetery of the village of Hruszowice, Poland, which had earlier been vandalized, was demolished on Wednesday after local authorities granted the appeal by nationalist organizations who claimed the monument had been "erected illegally," portalprzemyski.pl reported.