On Monday, August 12, at 12.30 the press center of the Interfax-Ukraine news agency will host a press conference “Public Appeal of the Public Council under the Ministry of Temporarily Occupied Territories to the SBI, the NABU on bringing Minister of Temporarily Occupied Territories Chernysh to Criminal Responsibility.” Participants: Hennadiy Borysychev, the head of the public council at the Ministry of Temporarily Occupied Territories, the head of the All-Ukrainian Donbas Platform, Yekateryna Kochetkova, the secretary of the public council at the Ministry of Temporarily Occupied Territories, the head of the Union of Donbas IDPs public organization, Artem Zinchenko, the deputy head of the public council at the Ministry of Temporarily Occupied Territories (8/5a Reitarska Street). Additional information by phone: +38 050 755 5575 Hennadiy. Registration of journalists requires press accreditation.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has invited Turkish businesses to invest in projects in Ukraine, including in rebuilding infrastructure in its east, Donbas.
“I am pleased to invite Turkish businesses to visit us in Ukraine. I personally act as a guarantor of your comfortable work in Ukraine. Let’s grow together,” he said at a joint press conference following talks with President of the Republic of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Wednesday evening.
Zelensky also said that he had invited the Turkish side to take part in rebuilding infrastructure facilities in eastern Ukraine.
“We expect the Turkish side to actively participate in an international forum for the restoration of Donbas, which we plan to hold in Mariupol this autumn,” he said.
By the end of the year, Kyiv will host the next, 8th meeting of the Ukrainian-Turkish high-level strategic council, he added.
Head of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) Artem Sytnyk and Head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) Nazar Kholodnytsky are expecting the launch of the High Anti-Corruption Court and hope the Verkhovna Rada will adopt a number of bills that are important for the work of anti-corruption authorities.
At a press conference in Kyiv on Friday, Sytnyk emphasized that it is necessary to return criminal liability for illegal enrichment, as well as resolve the situation that developed after the decision of the Constitutional Court on depriving the NABU of the right to file claims under agreements in criminal proceedings.
“There is an option on how to return these powers to the NABU and the SAPO. Therefore, I hope that with the start of work of the new parliament, these bills will be adopted,” Sytnyk said.
The NABU director expressed hope that the anti-corruption court will begin its work on time, on September 5.
“We have developed a sufficiently large baggage of cases, which is now awaiting its decision in courts,” he said.
“I hope that the law on the High Anti-Corruption Court will be amended in terms of eliminating the risks of blocking its work by a very large number of cases,” the NABU director said.