Ukrainian studies

Prime Minister Vctor Ponta wishes "Happy Birthday!" to the Ukrainian people, on the occasion of the Independence Day, also assuring them of the entire Romania's and the EU's support.

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko on Aug. 24 decried Russian "aggression" as Kiev staged a symbolic Independence Day parade while battling pro-Moscow rebels in the east of the country.
       

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is to sign a decree on dissolving the Verkhovna Rada and calling early parliamentary elections next week.

Montenegro sees increase in tourists from Ukraine

A Ukrainian flag was unfurled on the top of a Moscow skyscraper within sight of the Kremlin on Aug. 20, officials said, as fighting in eastern Ukraine has frayed bilateral ties.
      
The Soviet star crowning the Stalin-era skyscraper, located just a kilometre from the Kremlin, was also painted in the yellow and blue colours of the national flag.
     

Ukrainian military officials say a convoy carrying refugees from Eastern Ukraine has been hit in the Luhansk area.

Information of the assault, allegedly carried out by pro-Russian rebels, has not yet been verified.

A spokesman of the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic" was quoted by ITAR-TASS as saying he did not know of such incident.

Exclusive: Security information agency on our mercenaries “Patriots” form Serbia kill all over Ukraine for 10.000 dollars

BELGRADE: Serbian fighters taking part in conflicts in the Ukraine are not patriots fighting either for the Russian or the Ukrainian side, but just mercenaries receiving monthly pay of 10.000 dollars for killing.

Ukraine’s Parliament has approved at first reading an anti-Russian sanctions package that includes 29 measures, reports RT.com. 

Some of them, including the potential ban on transit of Russian natural gas and other energy resources through Ukraine, however, could hurt the EU.

About 730,000 Ukrainians have left the country for Russia this year due to the fighting in eastern Ukraine, the European head of the United Nations agency for refugees said on Aug. 5, pointing to a far bigger exodus than previously thought.
   

More than 400 Ukrainian soldiers "flee to to Russia"

MOSCOW -- Ukrainian authorities' orders to troops to fight their own people are "impossible," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has told Itar-Tass on Monday.

His comments came as 438 Ukrainian military personnel reportedly fled across the border into Russia overnight.