Viktor Voroniuk

Bundeswehr experts are studying in detail the possibility of using Ukrainian artillery proving grounds. The aim is to hold military exercises and test sophisticated artillery. Yet, as German General Staff Colonel Bernd Schulte, defense attach О at the German Embassy in Ukraine, told The Day, it is...

Federal District Court in Houston, Texas passed a ruling in Case No. n-99371, the people vs. three crew members of the China Breeze (The Day has reported on US law enforcement authorities’ performance and Kyiv’s attempts to intercede). On charges of having smuggled a large shipment of illegal drugs...

The very next day after the Ukrainian coast guard boats used weapons for the first time against Turkish poaching schooners on March 22, as a result of which one of them sank, one fisherman was killed and another wounded, the Turkish media became hysterical. Television ran pictures of the Turkish...

The 14th special Ukrainian helicopter detachment as part of KFOR started being relieved in Kosovo on February 22. The Ukrainian pilots’ performance was commended by a number of officials, including NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson and NATO Commander in Europe General Wesley Clark. “Our air...

Ukrainian roasters of natural coffee stunned us the other day: it turns out they have long been resentful of our compatriots being served various ersatz. Natalia Shapoval, manager of the Panorama Company, said in Kyiv’s House of Coffee that an unprecedented step was taken last year: Ukraine...

By Viktor Voroniuk, The Day Ukraine and Russia presented to the world their first space conversion project on April 16 The modernized carrier rocket Dnipro, converted from SS-18 strategic missile, will be launched from Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan on April 16. Borys Vasylenko...

By Viktor Voroniuk, Vitaly Kuksa, and Hleb Pleskach, The Day A fist-fight at Gala Radio’s Kyiv Office is becoming an international scandal. Joseph Charles Lemire, the radio station’s American manager, was reported to have been physically assaulted by an officer of the so-called...

By Viktor Voroniuk, The Day Well-known Kyiv businessman and Verkhovna Rada candidate Mykhailo Brodsky, arrested on March 10 on rather vague charges of financial machinations, seems likely to be freed soon thanks to his likely election to Parliament. Under Ukrainian law People’s Deputies...