Contents tagged with DPR
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Putin promises continued support for DPR and LPR
Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that he does not intend to abandon continued assistance to the DPR and LPR separatist republics, which control part of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine.
He said this during a "direct line" with Russian citizens while answering a question by writer Zakhar Prilepin, who participated in the war against Ukraine on the side of the militants.
Prilepin asked Putin his opinion about whether Ukraine will take advantage of the 2018 World Cup in order to …
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Ukrainian Security Service detains DPR militant in the Donetsk region
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported through its press center that SBU officers involved in the Joint Forces Operation detained a militant in the Donetsk region who belongs to the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) .
Law enforcement officers discovered that in 2014, a resident of Mariupol joined illegal armed groups, where he served as a spy. As a member of the separatists’ “mortar squad,” the perpetrator participated in the shelling of Marinka and Krasnohorivka, and counteracted anti- …
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Putin's adviser on Donbas Surkov may be replaced
The newspaper Kommersant reported that Russia will appoint a new representative in charge of the so-called to the Donetsk Luhansk People’s Republics, to replace Vladislav Surkov.
According to the newspaper, government reshuffle in the Kremlin will affect advisers and assistants to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Surkov is Putin’s aide in matters related to the Commonwealth of Independent States, South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Ukraine.
Mikhail Babich, whose appointment as Russia’s ambassador …
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Ukrainian Security Service opens criminal case against several Ukrainian media outlets for broadcasting DPR Victory Day parade
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) initiated criminal proceedings against several Ukrainian media outlets for broadcasting the Victory Day parade in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), reported the Deputy Chairman of the People's Front faction in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Victoria Syumar.
Victoria Syumar earlier sent a request to SBU about the matter.
The response of the security services, which MP posted on her page in Facebook, said that a criminal case was opened …
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Russia continues to reinforce Donbas border
Russian border guards are placing barbed-wire barriers and digging anti-tank ditches on the border with the so-called Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics (LPR and DPR), Alexander Belokobylsky wrote in an article for Radio Liberty.
There is evidence for this in stories on YouTube and in satellite images from Google. Russia’s border construction process can also be monitored using information from the country’s state purchases website.
The official explanation is the fight against smuggling. …
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US representative for Ukraine Volker: DPR and the LPR are 'wholly sustained' by Russia
The conflict in the Donbas has recently moved into an active phase - a "hot war" - and responsibility, as well as the keys to the end of the conflict, lies with Russia.
US State Department Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker noted this from London during a telephone press briefing to international journalists, writes Krym.Realii.
"This is still a very hot war. This past week we had virtually a record number of ceasefire violations. OSCE calculated over 7,000 for the week. That is …
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Former DPR Minister of Culture deported from Russia
On May 19, when crossing the Russian border in Sochi, the former Minister of Culture of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic, Natalia Voronina was detained.
Quoting sources in the Sochi Adler Court, Kommersant reported that the "official" was transferred to the temporary detention center for illegal migrants in the city of Gulkevichi, Krasnodar Krai in Russia.
The court ruled on May 20 to deport Voronina with a five-year entry ban to Russia. However, the decision did not come into force …
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DPR commander Mamai killed during filming for Russian TV
The commander of the Pyatnashka battalion, Oleg Mamiyev, was killed by a Ukrainian volunteer with the call sign “Kipish” while being filmed for the Rossiya TV station, journalist Yuriy Butusov reported on his Facebook page.
“Mamiyev personally took the film crew to forward positions in the region of Krutaya Balka near Avdiivka. Mamiyev wanted to show off. He drove the car himself, didn’t wear a helmet, and then it turned out that he wore a bullet proof vest without armor plates, in order to …
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DPR ‘thanks’ Right Sector leader for information on killers of commander Mamai
Journalist Zakhar Prilepin says that he does not doubt the reliability of the information provided by Dmytro Yarosh, former head of the Right Sector, concerning the death of Oleg Mamiyev, commander of the Pyatnashka battalion, RBC news agency reports.
“What Yarosh wrote is really true. Yarosh is a serious person. They do not hesitate and are not worried about their safety, but of course, we are not worried either,” Prilepin said.
Earlier the leader of the Right Sector posted on Facebook the …
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DPR military commander Mamai killed in Donbas
Oleg Mamiev aka Mamai, Commander of the Donetsk People's Republic and head of Pyatnashka battalion, was killed during an exchange of fire in Donbas, RIA Novosti reports.
Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin, who fights on the side of the separatists, said in a Facebook post that Mamai was killed by a grenade explosion from the automatic grenade launcher.
Mamiev came to the Donbass from Ossetia in 2014. He fought in the Vostok battalion, later he became a commander of the battalion Pyatnashka. …