Ukrainian authorities hoisted solemnly the flag of European Union in Slavyansk.

National Bank of Ukraine (NBU). Ukraine expects it will relieve pressure on its currency which has lost above 40 percent against the US dollar in a year.

A rally calling to resignation of Yatsenyuk and Poroshenko is being held in Kiev. About 6 000 of its participants carry Ukrainian flags and chant “Order or down with you!”, “Down with the crazy authorities!”

The favourite of Euromaidan supporters, “the dame with pastry” – Victoria Nuland keeps on with the inspection of her subordinates ranks. In the course of her two-day-long visit to Ukraine the Assistant of the US Secretary of State did not only hold the scheduled meetings with the PM and the President, but also met the leader of the Opposition Bloc Sergey Levochkin.

The international participation in Russia’s Victory Day commemorations proves that the US policy of maximum political isolation for Moscow has failed, claims State Duma’s Foreign Relations chief.

Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) prepares terrorist attacks and plans to pin them on the DPR militia at the EU summit, the DPR Defense Ministry spokesperson Eduard Basurin said yesterday.

All houses damaged by the Ukrainian army will be restored after the war, the head of the DPR Aleksander Zakharchenko announced at a press-conference.

“Reconnaissance teams of the DPR keep on registering movement of Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment. Thus, movement of 20 MRLS “Grad” from Krasnoarmeysk and 5 self-propelled guns in the direction of Donetsk was registered”, – told spokesman of the DPR Ministry of Defense Eduard Basurin the journalists on May, 16.

An interview with the well-known Donbass Militia field commander, Aleksey Mozgovoy, commander of the Prizrak Brigade, now part of the People’s Militia of the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Lugansk. Notwithstanding his official position, today he is, probably, one of the leading critics of the LPR leadership.

At a press conference hosted by TASS, the human rights activist unveiled a video on a mobile phone believed to show a solider of Ukraine’s army throwing a grenade on the alleged Donetsk militias