UKRAINE TO PROVIDE ENGINES FOR CHINESE MILITARY TRAINER.
China is buying 30 Ukrainian aircraft engines to power the new "Karakoram-8" trainer and light attack aircraft that it is jointly developing with Pakistan. Oleksandr... MORE
UKRAINE LIFTS RESTRICTIONS ON RUSSIAN MILITARY OVERFLIGHTS, BUT QUESTIONS PERSIST.
The Russian and Ukrainian chiefs of the general staffs, Generals Viktor Samsonov and Oleksandr Zatynaiko, agreed in an April 5 telephone conversation on the resumption... MORE
UKRAINE-NATO COOPERATION GAINING MOMENTUM.
Gen. George Joulwan, commander in chief of U.S. forces in Europe and Supreme Commander of NATO forces, conferred with President Leonid Kuchma and other Ukrainian... MORE
UKRAINE INITIATES MAJOR TENDER ON OIL TRANSIT ROUTE.
Kiev has launched an international tender for engineering firms to plan and design an oil transit route from Azerbaijan to Central Europe via Georgia and... MORE
RUSSIA AND UKRAINE CANNOT AGREE ON PRICE FOR BOMBERS.
The latest round of talks between Russia and Ukraine on the transfer of the 40 Soviet strategic bombers inherited by Ukraine ended yesterday in Moscow... MORE
RUSSIA AND UKRAINE TO RESUME TALKS ON STRATEGIC BOMBERS.
The chiefs of the Russian and Ukrainian Air Forces are meeting today in Moscow to try to agree on the terms by which Ukraine will... MORE
UKRAINE TO DO WITHOUT RUSSIAN HELP IN BUILDING TANKS FOR PAKISTAN.
Ukrainian defense minister Col. Gen. Oleksandr Kuzmuk said yesterday that Ukraine would fulfill its commitment to supply 320 T-80UD tanks to Pakistan by itself attempting... MORE
UKRAINE STEPS RESOLUTELY TOWARD NATO.
At NATO headquarters in Brussels yesterday, Ukrainian foreign minister Henady Udovenko and Defense and Security Council head Volodymyr Horbulin opened negotiations on a special partnership... MORE
UKRAINE ADOPTS A WIDE-RANGING MILITARY REFORM PROGRAM
Ukraine adopts a wide-ranging military reform program By Serhii Markiv After five years of failed experiments and false starts, Ukraine has finalized a "State Program... MORE
KUSHNAREV REAFFIRMS NATO OPTION FOR UKRAINE.
In Kiev yesterday, presidential administration head Yevgeny Kushnarev reinforced President Leonid Kuchma's signal that Ukraine may seek NATO protection from Russia. (See Monitor, March 17)... MORE