Excerpts from the most important news on Ukraine
Apple shows occupied Crimea as part of russia in Apple Music
20.10.2021
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has instructed the Embassy of Ukraine in the United States to contact Apple to find out why the occupied Crimea is depicted as part of russia in the Apple Music application, interfax.com.ua reported.“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has already instructed the Embassy of Ukraine in the United States to contact Apple to investigate this situation,” the speaker of the ministry Oleg Nikolenko said.Nikolenko reminded that the resolutions of the UN General Assembly ...From Urengoy, to Progress, and Souyz. russia’s GTS is in poor condition
14.10.2021
The poor condition of the russian GTS is confirmed by both its operating time and technical indicators. This is especially true of traditional transit routes – Urengoy, Progress, and Souyz, writes ukrinform.net.Since the beginning of 2021 alone, the russian GTS suffered seven major accidents: the one on the Perm-Gorky-1 trunk pipe, the emergency situation on the Kachkanar branch, accidents on the Soyuz and Orenburg-Novopskov pipelines, fires at the Yubileyniy field, a branch to the Beloretsk gas distribution system, the Central ...Ukraine tops Triple A global crypto ownership ranking
11.10.2021
Triple A payment platform estimated that over 5.5 million people, 12.7% of Ukraine’s total population, currently own cryptocurrency. The number of owners is smaller than in India, russia, the United States, and Nigeria, while the percentage of the population is higher.According to Triple A, Ukraine sent $8.2 billion worth of cryptocurrency and received $8 billion worth from July 2019 to June 2020.Five major crypto owners are russia (17.3 million owners, 11.9%), Venezuela (2.9 million owners, 10.34%), Kenya (4.5 million owners, 8.52%), the ...China’s Goldwind to build 2 wind farms in Ukraine
29.09.2021
Chinese wind turbine manufacturer Xinjiang Goldwind Technology has signed a contract to build two wind farms—”Zofia,” 337.5 MW, and “Ochakiv,” 288 MW. Construction is scheduled for completion by the end of 2022, expro.com.ua informs.“Xinjiang Goldwind Technology Co Ltd has successfully signed a contract for the Zofia 337.5 MW and Ochakiv 228 MW wind power projects in Ukraine. The two deals marked a breakthrough for Goldwind in Ukraine, making it a leader in the local market,” Goldwind said.According to Goldwind, 75 ...Ukrainians finish fifth in Tokyo Paralympic
07.09.2021
The Paralympians of Ukraine finished 5th in the overall medal count in Tokyo with 98 medals, despite having a much smaller delegation than the top four countries, writes nytimes.com.China, Britain, the US and russia — had more than 220 athletes in Tokyo, while Ukraine brought only 139. According to the International Paralympic Committee’s lead spokesman Craig Spence, Ukraine is “clearly punching above its weight.”This athletic success has been uninterrupted in recent years, despite russia’s occupation of Crimea in 2014, which ...Ukrainians in occupied Crimea subject to massive discrimination
24.08.2021
Under the occupation, the community of ethnic Ukrainians in Crimea is discriminated against in all areas of cultural and social life. That’s according to a conclusion of the research by Andriy Ivanets, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Member of the National Council of Ukrainians of Crimea, ukrinform.net reported.The study says that, under the temporary occupation of Crimea and Sevastopol by russia, ethnic Ukrainians have become a discriminated ethnic community.Components of russia’s discriminatory policy toward Crimean Ukrainians include persecution, repression of or ...Number of participants of Crimea Platform summit rises to 42
16.08.2021
The total number of participants in the inaugural summit of the Crimea Platform has risen to 42, ukrinform.net reported.“The launch day is approaching. We had 40 participants in the morning. In the afternoon, their number rose to 42,” Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba posted on Facebook on August 13.The Crimea Platform is a new consultative and coordination format initiated by Ukraine to step up the efficiency of international response to the occupation of Crimea, respond to growing ...I was lucky to work with many leaders who ended up in Hague Tribunal – Shoigu
12.08.2021
russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said he was “lucky” to work alongside former Yugoslav leaders who were accused of war crimes. He spoke about this at the Territory of Meanings forum, liga.net reported.The russian minister spoke about the alleged “internal decay” of Yugoslavia, because of which the state collapsed. “Unfortunately, I witnessed many such things, starting from Serbia, or the former Yugoslavia. With many leaders who later ended up in the Hague Tribunal, I will not hide, I was lucky ...Investigative expert: Shishov’s death in Kyiv was no suicide
04.08.2021
The Bellingcat international investigative group has been working for several days on a tip about the FSB operatives who have allegedly infiltrated Belarusian opposition circles temporarily residing in Ukraine, investigative experts Christo Grozev said in an interview with Echo of moscow, ukrinform.net reported.“For several days, we’ve been working on the tip we got that there are FSB operatives in Kyiv who have somehow infiltrated Belarusian opposition groups, opposition figures who are in Ukraine,” Grozev said, commenting on the death of Belarusian ...russia continues to use natural gas as geopolitical weapon – Naftogaz
27.07.2021
The russian Federation continues to use natural gas as a geopolitical weapon against Ukraine and the European Union, says Yuriy Vitrenko, Chairman of the Board at Naftogaz of Ukraine, ukrinform.net reported.As proof, Vitrenko cited in a Facebook post a recent statement by russia’s gas monopoly Gazprom that the continued gas transit through Ukraine depended on the EU companies purchasing additional gas volumes from Gazprom under new contracts.“Why can’t the transit volumes under the current (!) contracts of Gazprom’s gas buyers in Europe ...SBU stops operation of russian bot farm involving 12,000 SIM cards to spin fake news
26.07.2021
Security Service of Ukraine liquidates a powerful bot farm supervised from russia in Ivano-Frankivsk region.The farm was set up by a local resident, an expert in information and telecommunication technologies. Since year-start alone, he has used almost 12,000 SIM cards of Ukrainian and russian mobile operators to register fake accounts. The bot farm operated across several social networks, messengers, and e-wallets.The administrator received its orders from russia to affect public opinion through massive distortions of reality. Basically, this was done ...German-US agreement on Nord Stream 2 encourages russia to take aggressive action – Poland
26.07.2021
Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski says allowing russia to complete construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline was a bad decision that would harm European security, ukrinform.net reported.Jablonski said the German-US agreement on the gas pipeline was a bad decision that would prompt russia to take aggressive action. Moreover, he recalled that over the past few years, russia had been responsible including for starting the war in Ukraine, persecuting opposition figures, killing independent journalists, and so on.According to ...
