Tag: Yuriy Lutsenko

Two Ukrainian soldiers were wounded in action today.

A Ukrainian National Guardsman has been identified as the killer of Russian MP Denis Voronenkov, who fled to Kiev citing Putin’s oppression last year.

A Ukrainian National Guardsman has been identified as the killer of Russian MP Denis Voronenkov, who fled to Kiev citing Putin’s oppression last year.

A Ukrainian jet fighter flew close to the front line for the first time in over two years.

Meanwhile fugitive MP Oleksandr Onyshchenko will only speak to investigators if they travel to London, where he is seeking asylum.

The International Republican Institute (IRI) has published a survey of political opinion in Ukraine showing overwhelming dissatisfaction with the current government. The survey, which was funded by the Canadian government, uses polling data stretching collected between May 28 and June 14 this year, with comparisons with data from as far back as 2011. 2,400 eligible […]

Oleksandr Onyshchenko is suspected of stealing around 3 billion hryvnia from state funds.

The Rada has passed a bill allowing President Poroshenko’s ally Yuriy Lutsenko to be nominated for the post of Prosecutor General despite lacking a law degree. In addition, Ihor Kononenko, against whom there are widespread accusations of corruption, has been reinstated as the deputy chairman of Poroshenko’s political party.

Following the resignation of the prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukrainian politicians are negotiating the shape of a new government, almost certainly to be headed by Rada Speaker Volodymyr Groysman.