Excerpts from the most important news on Ukraine
russia Prepares Banking System of Donbas for Integration
22.08.2019
The volunteers from the InformNapalm intelligence community have been accumulating evidence suggesting that the banking system of the occupied territories of the Donbas region of Ukraine is at its final stage of being actively prepared for functioning within the russian Federation’s financial system. The facts proving that this integration of the banking system is close to completion are reported by both our insiders from the occupied region and the international open intelligence sources.Here is one of the puzzles from an ...Turkey and Ukraine will develop a heavy class of military drone
21.08.2019
Turkey and Ukraine will develop a ‘heavy’ class of military drone capable of flying 24 hours, as high as 12 km, and loaded with 1,000 kg in munitions. Named Akinji after the Ottoman Empire’s horse-mounted guerrillas, the drone has sensors, thermal imagers, and powerful cameras. With a 20-meter wingspan, the 4.5-ton drone will be powered by two Ukrainian engines. UkrOboronProm director general Pavlo Bukin said the drone will “carry out high-precision strikes with weaponry that is identical to what is used ...Ukraine is bound to benefit from the projected surge in electric vehicles
21.08.2019
Ukraine, home to Europe’s largest lithium reserves, is bound to benefit from the projected surge in electric vehicles over the next 30 years, according to a study by Wood Mackenzie, the Scotland-based renewables, metals, and mining research group.World supplies of lithium, cobalt, and nickel will be exhausted if electric vehicle technologies do not evolve, warns Gavin Montgomery, head of research at Wood Mackenzie.Ukraine also has deposits of cobalt and nickel in the Krivorozhsky Basin. Next month, the Rada is ...russian author boasts of “killing many” in Ukraine’s Donbas
19.08.2019
Award-winning russian author Zakhar Prilepin said the unit in which he served “killed many people” and that he has no regrets having fought in the Donbas war. Speaking to russian TV journalist Aleksei Pivovarov on August 15, Prilepin boasted that the battalion in which he was the deputy commander killed the most people than any other unit, according to RFE/RL.“When all the documents are looked over, they’ll see the most people died where my battalion was stationed,” Prilepin said. ...The end of putinism won’t be the end of russia’s geopolitical ambitions
19.08.2019
Tyrannies are fragile things and when the fear upon which they are based crumbles, they collapse, write an associate professor at the Catholic University of America and fellow at the Institute for Human Ecology Jakub Grygiel for The American Interest.The protests in russia over the past weeks may be a sign of the growing fearlessness of some russian citizens and the resulting weakness of putin and his gang. There is good reason, therefore, to be hopeful that the putinist kleptocracy ...Bank Records Link President of Cyprus to ‘Troika Laundromat’
16.08.2019
As president of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades has worked to strengthen his country’s relationship with russia while dealing with international criticism of its lax financial and money laundering controls, OCCRP reports.But several years before his 2013 election, a law firm he established and co-owned, and in which he was a partner at the time, was arranging business deals linked to a friend of russian President Vladimir putin, the infamous Magnitsky scandal, and a network of companies used in various financial crimes.Anastasiades ...AP adopted “Kyiv” instead of “Kiev” as its official spelling
16.08.2019
From now on, the Associated Press will write the name of the Ukrainian capital as Kyiv instead of Kiev. This was reported by the AP Stylebook account on Twitter.“The AP changed the spelling of the capital of Ukraine to Kyiv in line with the English-language transliteration, which the Ukrainian authorities prefer, and due to the increasing number of uses,” the letter said.https://web.archive.org/web/20190816123237/https://web.archive.org/web/20190816123237/https://twitter.com/APStylebook/status/1161628139463827456It is also noted that the transliteration in the previous materials will not be corrected.The issue of using Ukrainian-based ...UkrOboronProm wins contract to produce An-178 for Peru
16.08.2019
Ukraine’s state-run defense production concern UkrOboronProm has won a major contract to produce its newest Antonov An-178 military transport aircraft for the Interior Ministry of Peru.Ukrainian plane has beaten two competitors, the Italian-American Leonardo C-27J Spartan and C-295 produced by Airbus. The Antonov State Company was selected to produce an unspecified quantity of its An-178 planes that would replace older An-32B transporters, also produced by the Antonov, for the Latin American nation.Ukraine and Turkey will develop weapons and aerospace technologies
13.08.2019
Ukrspecexport, part of the Ukroboronprom State Concern, and Turkey’s Baykar Defense, one of the leading drones manufacturers, have set up a joint venture in the sphere of precision weapons and aerospace technologies, according to a report posted on the website of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council (NSDC).“The main objective of the joint venture is to combine the capabilities of both countries’ defense systems to mass-produce new models of modern weapons for their own armies. This will help move away ...Pro-kremlin Actors Fuel Anti-Turkish Sentiment in Georgia
11.08.2019
Over the past few months in Georgia, the spread of narratives regarding the threat of “Turkish expansionism” has intensified, as a number of pro-kremlin actors, including media outlets and far-right Facebook pages, have increasingly characterized Turkey as an emerging existential threat for Georgia, dfrlab reports.Turkey and Georgia have built a strong economic, diplomatic, and strategic relationship with one another. Of all its immediate neighbors — Azerbaijan, Armenia, russia, and Turkey -Turkey is the only country with which Georgia has demarcated ...Lviv airport sees passenger numbers leap 41%
06.08.2019
Lviv International Airport remains on track to hold onto its status as Ukraine’s busiest regional air hub with 41.2% year-on-year growth in passenger numbers during the January-July 2019 period to reach a new total of 1.2 million travelers, bunews.com.ua reports.Monthly growth in July was significantly below this seven-month result but remained strong, with an increase of 26% as the airport serviced 243,000 passengers.Lviv has recently reactivated the city’s Soviet-era terminal building to help cope with seasonal highs in passenger flows ...Danske Bank to exit russia amid money laundering scandal
05.08.2019
Danske Bank has outlined plans to quit russia by January next year after the Danish bank was rocked by allegations its Estonian branch was involved in a mind-boggling $230bn money laundering scandal, bne IntelliNews can reveal.In a memo to his contacts, russia Country Manager Edvin Kornelius yesterday said “goodbye to our moscow corporate team” as well as part of the bank’s remaining St Petersburg personnel. Kornelius said the remaining moscow-based clients will be supported out of St Petersburg until the lender’s full closure in January next ...
