On Friday, a woman jumped under the subway train at Poshtova Ploscha station of Kurenivka-Chervonoarmiiska subway line.
Head of the press service of Kyivskyi Metropoliten Nadia Shumak disclosed this to Ukrainian News.
She said that two witnesses of the incident saw that the woman threw herself under the coming train.
After the train stopped, a train driver and station duty policeman pulled out the woman who was between the first and the second cars of the subway train.
The woman was hospitalized.
The train cut off woman’s left hand.
According to Kyivskyi Metropoliten, the woman was Natalia Mironiuk, she is a dweller of the village of Novoselki in Kyiv-Sviatoshyn district of Kyiv region.
Due to the incident, Kyivskyi Metropoliten suspended train traffic for nine minutes from 12:02 pm through 12:11 pm.
The European Commission for Foreign Relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, asked Ukraine to give up visa requirements for Romanians and Bulgarians, in order to help the adoption of the special visa regime between the European Union and Kiev, according to Mediafax, quoting the Ukrainian News Agency online.
The commissioner added however that the EU is not conditioning Ukraine’s accession to the World Trade Organisation on the elimination of visa …
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News on terrorist act in Beirut on 19 of September of 2007, which caused victims among civil population, in particularly member of Lebanese parliament Antoine Ghanem, was received in Ukraine with deep concern, according to the MFA press-service.
Ukraine is strongly condemning a practice of political killings and terrorist attacks in Lebanon and hopes that Lebanese people will not be provoked and will not allow deepening of internal political …
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A Ukrainian citizen was killed in an automobile accident on the Antalia-Belek road in Turkey in September 7.
The press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ministry announced this in a statement, a text of which Ukrainian News obtained.
According to the statement, the Ukrainian citizen worked as a guide for a tourist agency.
His body is scheduled to be sent to Ukraine in a coffin on September 10.
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