Ukrainians will be offered referendums on joining NATO and the EU in the “near future”, President Petro Poroshenko said Friday. “We are fully sticking to our path towards European integration,” Poroshenko said in remarks broadcast by several Ukrainian television stations. “Have no doubt that in the very near future there ...
Ukrainian parliament on Friday extended by another year the self-rule of its two Russian-backed separatist regions of Lugansk and Donetsk under a set of strict conditions. The vote has been welcomed by Ukraine’s Western partners but bitterly opposed by hard-core nationalists who set off flares outside the chamber during the ...