President Petro Poroshenko said that Russian statements blaming the Ukrainian military for ‘attempts to perform terror attacks’ in Crimea were fantasy in a statement published on Wednesday night, August 10.
The Defense Ministry of Ukraine rejects accusations of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia that Ukrainian Defense Intelligence runs subversive activities in the occupied Crimea.
The Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB) asserts it prevented terrorist acts in the occupied Crimea, allegedly prepared by Ukrainian Defense Intelligence.
Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko ensures that the investigation of the Sheremet murder is moving forward, but he cannot release details yet, he said during a press briefing.
The occupying Russian authorities have fully restored border crossings at all three checkpoints on the administrative border with Crimea, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine reports.
A court hearing on compulsory hospitalization of Ilmi Umerov, the Deputy Head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, to a psychiatric ward for forensic psychiatric examination will be held on Thursday.
A glass jar with money was seized by anti-corruption prosecutors from judge Mykola Chaus, who was caught taking a bribe, Chief Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Nazar Kholodnytskyi claims.
Serhiy Kozachenko, lawyer of the former head of the Chief Investigation Department of the Prosecutor General’s Office Volodymyr Shapakin, dubbed the ‘diamond prosecutor’ for diamonds found during searches.
Repair works on the Nord Stream gas pipeline planned for August 9 to August 17 will lead to an increase of transit of Russian gas through the Ukrainian gas transportation system on the way to Europe by 20%.