Rivne region

"Trust me, guys, you'll not get out of here alive," - clash with gunfire between police and amber diggers in Rivne region. VIDEO The Interior Ministry has released a video of a clash between the police and amber miners in the Rivne region. 01.04.16 14:56 219 064 642 Previously in trend: Amber mafia

"Return our pumps or we will drown you in swamp," - amber diggers threaten police officers in Rivne region. PHOTOS+VIDEO Illegal amber diggers destroyed the bridge and blocked a police unit, threatening to drown police officers in the swamp. 01.04.17 17:05 140 873 451 Previously in trend: Amber mafia

‘Amber mafia’ sets up checkpoint, blocks road in Rivne region, - journalist. PHOTO People in military uniforms closed the road to the Rizhky tract where the miners extract amber illegally. 06.04.17 12:22 106 453 393 Incidents

Disaster reported due to amber extraction in Polissia area. PHOTOS+VIDEO The scale of the environmental disaster due to illegal extraction of amber in the Polissia area is really striking. 12.03.16 17:41 166 375 386 Previously in trend: Amber mafia

Seven police officers hospitalized after conflict with amber miners in Rivne region, - National Police Seven police officers received injuries as a result of a clash with amber diggers in the Rivne region. 30.03.16 16:10 95 496 367 Incidents

Lawyer Shablii shot dead and her husband wounded in Dubno. PHOTO The lawyer Vita Shablii who ran for the mayor post from the Svoboda party, was shot dead in the town of Dubno in the Rivne region on April 1. 02.04.17 12:57 174 088 285 Incidents

Rivne region’s prosecutor dismissed following 123 raids conducted by 300 law enforcers headed by prosecutor general and SBU chairman. PHOTOS The large-scale operation against amber mafia is underway in the Rivne region. 04.07.16 22:17 155 747 277 Previously in trend: Amber mafia Prosecutor General Lutsenko

Hundreds of people mine for amber near Kukhotska Volia in Rivne region, - AutoMaidan. PHOTOS A big variety of equipment is recorded near the illegal mining. 11.03.16 19:25 99 905 263 Previously in trend: Amber mafia

Three servicemen killed, nine injured as mortar exploded during drills at Rivne-based training area, - MoD A mortar exploded during live-fire training at the shooting range in Rivne at 6 a.m. today. Preliminary information indicates that three servicemen were killed and another nine received injuries. 06.07.18 11:31 38 005 214 Incidents

Drunken Sarny District Council member Zembitskyi remains at large after hitting and killing bike rider with his car. PHOTOS Audi Q7 with foreign license plates drove over and killed a bicyclist at Rivne- Starokostiantyniv highway near Oleksandria village at about 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 7. The car was found in a field three hundred meters away from the road accident scene. 08.08.18 15:55 28 658 210 Incidents

Amber apocalypse: hundreds of people illegally mine amber near Kukhotska Volia in Rivne region. VIDEO AutoMaidan activists took another trip to the sites of illegal extraction of amber in the Ukrainian Polissia. This time they got to Kukhotska Volia village situated almost on the border of the Rivne and Volyn regions. 14.03.16 11:38 90 218 196 Previously in trend: Amber mafia

"TrashBucketChallenge": Activists Throw First Deputy Chairman of the Rivne Regional Council Danylchuk in Dumpster. VIDEO Angry activists grabed Oleksander Danylchuk, the first deputy chairman of the regional council of the Rivne region, carried out him of the session hall, and threw in a trash can. Danylchuk had to sit there for a few minutes. 26.09.14 14:18 76 978 192 Ukrainian Politics

Another scandal with sketch of Kvartal 95: "Siskadovsk did not teach anything". PHOTOS "The Kvartal 95 is once again engulfed in controversy over bad jokes. This time, the Kvartal studio members were criticized for a sketch titled "Head of Rivne TCR encrypts himself from Russian spies," which was included in the Easter episode of the United Kvartal. 06.05.24 23:00 50 198 174 Society

Group of illegal miners detained, armored vehicle seized in special operation against ‘amber mafia’ in Rivne region. PHOTOS A group of illegal amber miners was detained by the National Police in the territory of the nature reserve in the Rivne region this morning. The miners resisted arrest. 13.07.16 13:05 112 811 166 Previously in trend: Amber mafia

After scandalous video with kisses, former head of Rivne TCR returns from front and gets post of brigadier - media The former head of the Rivne Joint Municipal TCR and SS (Territorial Center for Recruitment and Social Support), Oleksandr Yarmoshevych, who got into a scandal because he kissed female colleagues at work, is no longer at the front. 07.06.24 18:30 22 295 164

Ukraine Won Property Rights for 1,500 km of the Russian Pipeline The prosecutor's office of the Rivne region won Ukraine’s ownership of the Samara West Direction and Groznyi-Armavir-Trudovaya parts of the pipeline in the court of law. 26.11.14 18:17 39 421 161 World

"It's real war: locals beaten with batons and fired at with assault rifles," - Amber miners wreak havoc in village in Rivne region. VIDEO Several people have fallen victims to amber-rush this week as it was gaining momentum. 21.03.16 13:31 108 321 159 Previously in trend: Amber mafia

Rivne military commander touches up and kisses women who come to his office The Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will conduct an internal investigation into the video published with the alleged participation of the head of one of the territorial centers for recruitment and social support in the Rivne region. 28.03.24 21:59 55 146 153 Incidents

PGO covers ‘amber mafia’ and formally refuses to refer case filed against Rivne region SBU Deputy Head Nazaruk to NABU The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine represented by Acting Prosecutor General Sevruk has submitted to the National Anti-corruption Bureau the official refusal to refer the case of ‘amber mafia’ in the Rivne region to NABU detectives. 04.03.16 19:48 54 985 150 Previously in trend: Fighting corruption in Ukraine

Detained Rivne region’s Deputy Prosecutor Borovyk owns watches worth of $100,000, - SBU. PHOTO The collection of watches worth of $100,000 was found during the raid at the premises belonging to Rivne region’s Deputy Prosecutor Andrii Borovyk, detained on suspicion of organizing a crime ring involved in illegal amber extraction. 05.07.16 00:09 65 434 148 Previously in trend: Amber mafia

Mortar tube explosion at Rivne firing range could be caused by double loading, top military prosecutor says Double loading could have caused the explosion of mortar tube during live-fire exercise at the Rivne-based shooting ground. 09.07.18 14:09 30 726 146 Incidents

President orders Khomchak to take personal control of probe into Mi-8 accident Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi has instructed Chief of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Ruslan Khomchak to take personal control of the investigation into the circumstances of the crash of a military helicopter. 30.05.19 12:25 7 890 143 Incidents

Hundreds of people continue illegal amber extraction in Rivne region. VIDEO Hundreds of people continue illegal amber mining in the Rivne region. 12.02.16 11:26 26 622 134 Ukrainian Politics

Blow dealt to amber mafia, dismantling operation underway, - Lutsenko Combating amber mafia remains one of the priorities for the Prosecutor General's Office. 18.04.17 17:42 61 053 121 Previously in trend: Amber mafia

MoD: safety measures violation is working theory of probe into mortar explosion at Rivne training area Ukraine’s Defense Ministry initiated internal investigation into the explosion of mortar at combined arms shooting range in Rivne. 06.07.18 14:57 28 159 118 Incidents

Illegal amber dealers’ yearly earnings equal to Ukraine’s defense budget, prosecutor general says The revenues from the illegal extraction of amber in Ukraine equal to the country's defense expenditures. 11.07.16 10:12 46 208 117 Previously in trend: Amber mafia

Police officer struck and killed by car while writing road accident report in Rivne region. PHOTOS National police senior investigator Major Ruslan Machuta was killed on the Kyiv-Chop highway near the village of Zelenyi Hai in Rivne region on Thursday, Jan. 7 around 3.30 p.m. when he was helping drivers, whose cars had ended up in a ditch. 08.01.16 17:53 115 372 114 Previously in trend: Police workdays

General Prosecutor’s Office approved new plan to fight illegal amber mining The General Prosecutor's Office held a meeting on countering illegal mining and trade of amber. 11.07.15 16:15 21 878 113 Incidents

Law enforcers believe death of political analysts in deadly road accident last September was premeditated murder The pretrial investigation of the deadly road accident in the Rivne region on Sept. 6, 2017 that caused death of five political analysts has found that the truck driver deliberately collided with their car. 13.11.17 18:35 156 617 110 Previously in trend: Car Accident

Illegal amber worth $3 million nailed in Rivne region, - Minister Avakov. PHOTOS A record-breaking batch of amber is worth some $3 million by preliminary estimates. 04.08.15 10:08 28 488 109 Incidents

SBU seized equipment and amber-work worth $1 million. PHOTOS Today in Rivne the SBU and the State Fiscal Service seized equipment to manufacture amber products, as well as amber-work worth over $1 million. 04.08.15 16:58 30 779 106 Incidents

Some 30 searches underway in "amber mafia" case: off-the-book records, huge amounts of money, weapons, mining equipment seized, - SBU. PHOTOS The Security Service of Ukraine, the prosecutor's offices, and the police continue searches of "amber mafia" members in the Rivne region. 05.07.16 14:42 62 409 98 Previously in trend: Amber mafia

SBU detains ZIK TV channel reporters in Rivne region Members of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) detained journalists of ZIK TV channel filming Donbas war-related story near the village of Orzhiv in the Rivne region. 24.04.17 22:32 26 795 95 Incidents

Morning air alert in Ukraine: explosions in Volyn, Rivne, Khmelnytsk regions. In Odesa, Kyiv, Cherkasy and Chernivtsi air defense systems are operating. During the air alert, explosions were heard in various regions of Ukraine. 22.10.22 09:53 17 924 93 Previously in trend: War

At night, Rivne region suffered massive attack by drones, oil depot was destroyed Russians attacked the Rivne region with drones. An oil depot was destroyed in Dubno district. 10.08.23 07:04 25 902 92 Previously in trend: Russian aggression against Ukraine

Russians hit military facility in Rivne region, - Head of RMA Koval On the evening of August 28, Russian troops launched a missile attack on the Rivne region. A hit to a military facility in the Sarnensky district was recorded. 28.08.22 20:55 24 930 75 Previously in trend: War

SBI convicted the deputy of the Rivne Regional Council and the head of the forest industry Sukhovich of illegal enrichment for millions of dollars. PHOTOS SBI officers found undeclared assets worth millions of dollars from Vitaliy Sukhovich, a member of the Rivne Regional Council who is also the deputy head of the Polissya Forestry Office of the State Enterprise "Forests of Ukraine". 25.11.23 12:30 14 575 72 Society

New police units to be formed in five Western regions of Ukraine in October, - Interior Minister Avakov Interior Ministry intends to start enrolling new patrol police units in the Ternopil, Rivne, Chernivtsi, Vinnytsia, and Ivano-Frankivsk regions in September - early October. 06.08.15 15:58 19 914 68 Previously in trend: Ukraine's new police

Rivne Military Commissar Lutsiuk, who beat soldier, is suspected of non-declaration of 46.6 million hryvnias. PHOTOS The head of the Rivne Regional Military Commissariat, Serhii Lutsiuk, who beat a subordinate in July, was notified of a new suspicion. According to investigators, he failed to declare assets worth more than UAH 46.6 million. Some of them are registered in the name of a retired aunt. 26.10.23 13:50 12 624 67 Incidents

Five wounded by gunshot amid clash between SBU officers, amber diggers in Rivne region The State Bureau of Investigations (SBI) is verifying the legality of the actions of officers of the State Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in Rivne region during a clash with amber diggers on the evening of February 10. 11.02.22 16:13 11 199 65 Previously in trend: Amber mafia

Armed killers apprehended in Rivne region, - Avakov. PHOTOS Rivne police officers apprehended suspects for killing a local resident. 29.01.17 10:55 62 740 59 Previously in trend: Police workdays

He was preparing strikes of RF, which were supposed to de-energize Kyiv: SSU detained "Wagnerite" in Rivne region. VIDEO + PHOTO During a multi-stage special operation, the Security Service detained a militant from the "Wagner" PMC group, who was "thrown" in Ukraine by Russia’s military intelligence (known as the GRU) to carry out sabotage. He was trying to attach several GPS trackers to power lines feeding the Kyiv metropolitan area in Rivne region. 15.01.24 10:16 17 653 57 Previously in trend: War

"Amber" crime boss detained in Kyiv, - National Police As part of the operation to expose a criminal scheme involving amber extraction in the Rivne region, the police detained one of the case figures, crime boss nicknamed "Ushatyi," who organized groups of diggers and collected money from them. 05.07.16 10:10 93 087 56 Previously in trend: Amber mafia

Yatseniuk says detained amber should be sold at auction to recharge budget Prime Minister Arsenii Yatseniuk says the large batch of smuggled amber detained in the Rivne region should be sold at an auction, with the raised funds to be directed to state budget. 04.08.15 14:51 6 638 54 Ukrainian Politics

Amber mafia suspect, SBU Lt. Col. Fedoruk remanded on bail, - source Security Service of Ukraine Lt. Col. Vadym Fedoruk, who is suspected of the involvement in the organization of a criminal group for illegal production and trade in amber, has been released from a remand prison on bail. 28.02.17 11:48 26 324 53 Previously in trend: Amber mafia

Prosecutor’s Office: TCR servicewoman in Rivne region helped to avoid mobilization for $13,000. PHOTO In Rivne region, law enforcement officers detained a servicewoman of the district TCR who promised to help avoid mobilisation in return for a bribe. 05.09.24 18:23 12 023 48 Previously in trend: mobilization

Molot mortar tube blast: Minister Poltorak initiates additional check of metal used in mortar production Ukraine’s Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak instructed to check the metal which was used in production of M-15 Molot mortar tube as part of the official probe into mortar tube explosion at Rivne-based combined arms training facility. 16.07.18 15:30 16 411 46 Incidents

Detained journalists of ZIK TV channel were filming sensitive military facility, - Defense Ministry The reporters detained in the Rivne region today were filming a sensitive military facility without proper permit. 24.04.17 23:45 29 859 45 Incidents