2017

On December 3, a group of unidentified men in camouflage and balaclavas locked the building of NewsOne TV channel down. The President of Ukraine Poroshenko and the Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Avakov reacted immediately. Both did in Facebook.

In November, a petition appeared on the site of the Kiev City Council demanding that the monument to Prince Vladimir on Vladimirskaya Gorka has to be demolished. The authors of the appeal substantiate this by the fact that Prince Vladimir allegedly illegally came to power as a result of a coup d'état.

The subject of raiding has not come out of the news in Ukraine for several years. They seize everything: market places, shops, apartments, land property and entire enterprises. The invaders are “ATO” combatants, police, deputies, ministers and even the president of Ukraine. In any event, the accusations against the latter were brought by a figure of a loud scandal around the Zhitomir confectionery factory Igor Boyko.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that to increase Ukraine's ability to protect its territorial integrity, the States had allocated $115 million. This, according to Tillerson, will help "end the war in Ukraine."

On November 29, a regular meeting of the contact Group on the peaceful settlement of the conflict in Donbass was held in Minsk. The agenda included the observance of ceasefire, the implementation of agreements on the withdrawal of proscribed weapons and the separation of forces and means, as well as discussions on the preparation of the exchange and release of prisoners.

Another monument to the "hero of Ukraine" Roman Shukhevich was recently unveiled in Lvov on Kovelskaya Street. The monument was created on the site of the cache of the Volyn massacre's nurser, one of the ideologists and founders of the OUN and the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.

The Deputy Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Victor Kononenko stated during the forum called “Ukraine: striving for balance” that ʺthere was no revolutionary situation in the country, and all the upheavals within Ukraine were caused solely by the influence of Russian Special servicesʺ.

Experts of the World Economic Forum (WEF) recently announced a rating of the impact of organized crime on business. Ukraine occupies the 113th place right after Uganda, but before Trinidad and Tobago, that is, surrounded by Latin American and African countries, former colonies. However, Ukraine chose the fate of the European colony itself.

The Council of Europe is considering lifting of sanctions from the Russian Federation, which were imposed in connection with the so-called ‘Russian aggression’ against Ukraine. This was officially stated by the Secretary-General of the organization Thorbjørn Jagland in an interview with the Financial Times. This was immediately described in the Ukrainian press as a betrayal of Ukraine by Europe.

Igor Plotnitsky's decision to relinquish the authority of the Head of the Lugansk People's Republic will not have any negative consequences for the Minsk process, said the Chairman of the DPR People's Council, Permanent Representative of the DPR to the Contact Group in Minsk Denis Pushilin.