A report from TASS:
Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko said Sunday he has no doubts Ukraine will be granted visa-free travel with the European Union in 2016.
"I have no doubt that in 2016 Ukrainian will be granted the right of visa-free travel to the European Union," he said in an interview with the Inter television channel.
On December 18, the European Commission published a report where it
recommended the Council of the European Union to consider a visa-free agreement with Ukraine in 2016. The report included a long list of anticorruption liabilities Kyiv was yet to fulfill in the first quarter of 2016.
An interesting prediction on the Avakov-Saakashvili feud from Ukrainian journalist Vitaliy Sych, who also said that Ukraine's prosecutor-general and prime minister have to be replaced in order for Ukraine to progress on reforms:
Ukrainian analyst Tara Kuzio's take on the Avakov-Saakashvili spat:
A report on alleged political repression in Crimea: