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46 residents from annexed Crimea crossed into Ukraine due to chemical emissions in Armyansk
Within three days, Ukrainian border guards allowed 46 people to pass through the temporarily closed border crossing checkpoint Kalanchak at the administrative border with the annexed Crimea to get medical aid, said the chief of the Kherson State Border Guard detachment, Ivan Shevtsov, as quoted by Hromadske Radio. According to him, no one crossed the administrative border of the Chaplynka border crossing.
"Among the people who crossed the administrative border within these three days were …
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LPR ready to hand over 44 prisoners to Ukraine
Prisoners from the Sukhodolsky penal colony in the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) who were convicted before 2014 have expressed the desire to be transferred to Kyiv’s territory to serve the remainder of their sentences.
The prisoners made this known when they were visited by Toni Frisch, coordinator of the OSCE’s Humanitarian Working Group, separatist media outlets report. Roman Vedmedenko, head of the LPR’s interdepartmental commission for transmission of persons convicted prior to …
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Kyiv: 700 residents of Kherson region evacuated due to risk of chemical poisoning from emissions in Crimea
The Ukrainian Ministry for Temporarily Occupied Territories said on September 8 that there was no need to evacuate the entire Kherson region because there have been no recorded cases of chemical poisoning due to emissions from the Titan factory in the Crimea. At the same time, about two thousand children will be transferred to Skadovsk for their health and safety.
The Ministry sent two hundred people to Skadovsk on September 7 and then another five hundred people the day after. The Kherson …
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Ukraine to appeal to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons regarding toxic emissions in Crimea
Ukraine will submit an appeal to the international Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) regarding chemical emissions and air pollution at the plant Crimean Titan plant" in the territory of the Crimea, said the press secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Mariana Betsa on Channel 5.
According to Betsa, currently, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs collects all the information from the competent authorities, including necessary materials and evidence of the …
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Ukraine closes its administrative border with the Crimea because of toxic chemical emissions
Ukraine suspended the work of entry/exit checkpoints of Kalanchak and Chaplynka, on the border with the annexed Crimea. The decision was adopted by the administration of the Kherson region on Thursday, September 6, due to toxic chemical emissions coming from the territory the chemical plant in of Armyansk , in the north of the Crimea. In addition, the administration also decided “to close schools and day cares located in areas of possible threat”.
On the same day, Ukrainian President Petro …
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Ukraine: Russia sends to Donbas weapons captured during the annexation of the Crimea
Russia is arming militants in the Donbas with captured weapons from Ukrainian military bases after the annexation of the Crimea, reported the Communication Department of the Ukrainian National Police, citing a statement of the Chief of the National Police, Serhiy Knyazev.
“Firearms, which were captured from more than 10 military bases in annexed Crimea, are used on the territories of the Joint Forces Operation. They belonged to the Armed Forces of Ukraine until 2014 but the arms were stolen …
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Ukrainian border guards poisoned by emissions in Crimea
Border guards working close to the Crimean Titan factory have been poisoned, reported Oleh Slobodyan, spokesman for the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (SBGS), in a broadcast of 112 Ukraine.
The SBGS staff who serve at the border crossing in the Kherson province, close to the Crimean Titan plant, have begun to complain of lightheadedness, nausea and headaches, following reports of an ecological catastrophe in Crimea.
“After the relevant medical consultations and medication, these …
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Ukraine: Ecological catastrophe in Crimea caused by Russian military exercises
The Chief Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry believes that the recent chemical emissions in northern Crimea were caused by projectiles hitting chemical storage facilities during military drills conducted by the Russian Armed Forces, reported Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesperson Dmitry Hutsulyak at a press briefing.
“According to the information of the Defense Ministry’s Chief Intelligence Directorate, between August 13-19 this year, during drills on covering the …
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Kyiv: German MPs at risk of prosecution for illegally entering Crimea
The Ukrainian embassy to Germany has initiated criminal proceedings against several German MPs who have visited annexed Crimea illegally, Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk told Evropeyska Pravda news outlet in an interview.
According to him, Ukrainian legislation prescribes a prison sentence of up to eight years for illegal visitation of the annexed territories.
“The fact that you are MPs does not free you from responsibility. We must use conviction in absentia and other …
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Ukraine accuses Russia of bringing ecological catastrophe to Crimea
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin believes that Russia, which annexed the Crimean peninsula, is responsible for the acidic emissions in Armyansk.
“First the Russian occupants brought human grief to Crimea and the Donbas, and now ecological catastrophes, which are destroying our land,” the minister wrote on Twitter.
Armyansk residents continue to complain about health deterioration, an acrid smell in the air, and throat irritation, especially in the evening, following the emissions …