Senator John McCain said today in Odesa that the United States will continue to help Ukraine. At the same time, he emphasized the importance of Ukraine's fight against corruption.
"I intend to discuss many issues with the president and prime minister, but it is our view that there still needs to be work done on the issue of corruption," he said.
McCain once again said that Russia was "a gas station masquerading as a country" and called Russian President Vladimir Putin "a bully and a thug."
The Sevastopol Gazette reports that Vladimir Galichy, a former member of the Sevastopol city council who voted in favour of unification with Russia after the takeover of Crimea last year, has been arrested by the Ukrainian authorities.
According to the report, Galichy was heading back into Crimea from mainland Ukraine when he was stopped yesterday afternoon by Ukrainian border guards at the Kalanchak checkpoint on the frontier between Ukrainian and Russian-controlled territory.
Aleksandr Zakharchenko is a leader of the pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk.
Senator John McCain is visiting Odesa today.
Tyzhden (Week) is reporting that the government has allocated 140 million hryvnyas ($6.6 million) for "sherrifs" in villages. So, naturally, Chuck Norris:
The presidential administration failed to respond to the first electronic petition, which received 25,000 signatures, on time.
The petition, asking for a constitutional right to bear arms, has been under consideration since September 4. According to law, the answer was supposed to be published online yesterday.
"I have to admit that the internal processes didn't work and commitments were not fulfilled. One must know how to recognize one's own mistakes and work to correct them. I personally apologize to everyone who signed the petition for delaying the response,” the deputy head of the presidential administration, Dmytro Shymkiv, wrote on Facebook.