Former U.S. marine Paul Whelan, convicted last year in Russia on espionage charges he denies, has been placed in solitary confinement in a remote prison for an unknown violation of the penitentiary’s regulations. Read more here. The post RFE/RL...

Jailed Kremlin’s critic Alexei Navalny’s outlawed Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), on July 29 published an investigation on YouTube claiming that Russian state TV hosts Yevegny Popov and his wife Olga Skabeeva own Moscow real estate worth more t...

Over the first half of 2021, the number of illegal detentions in the temporarily occupied Crimea rose to 156, showing a three-fold increase compared to the corresponding period last year. Read more here. The post UkrInform: Ukraine at OSCE says numbe...

An unusual and potentially dangerous situation unfolded on July 29 at the International Space Station, as the newly-docked Russian Nauka module inadvertently fired its thrusters causing a “tug of war” with the space station and briefly pu...

A total of 150,253 people were vaccinated against COVID-19 in Ukraine on July 29, the Ukrainian Health Ministry has reported on Facebook. Read more here. The post UkrInform: Over 150,000 people get COVID-19 jabs in Ukraine on July 29 appeared first o...

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed Natalia Halibarenko as the Head of the Mission of Ukraine to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Relevant decree No. 334/2021 of July 30 was published on the website of the head of stat...

The delta variant of the coronavirus appears to cause more severe illness than earlier variants and spreads as easily as chickenpox, according to an internal federal health document that argues officials must “acknowledge the war has changed.” Re...

Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) is launching seasonal flights on the Kyiv-Nice-Kyiv route from August 8, the restoration of air traffic became possible due to the mitigation of epidemiological requirements on the part of France. The press servic...

England’s decision to keep quarantine measures for travelers coming from France and not for those coming from other European Union countries is discriminatory and not based on science, a French minister said on July 29. Read more here. The post...

The railway tracks in the exclusion zone of Chornobyl NPP are ready for transportation of spent nuclear fuel, the first test train passed through the reconstructed section, the press service of Ukrzaliznytsia reported, with reference to the acting ch...