Contents tagged with DPR
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Volker: Russia controls everything that happens in the Donbas
During a press briefing in Washington, US State Department Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker said that the Russian Federation controls 100% of what is happening in the Donbas.
In answering a question about the lack of dialogue between Kyiv and the pseudo-republics of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR), Volker disagreed with the assumption made by Russian journalists that the situation in the Donbas constitutes an "internal strife".
"It's …
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Zakharchenko says DPR no longer wants to join Russia
Oleksandr Zakharchenko, the leader of the Russian-backed separatist in eastern Ukraine and the head of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic or DPR, stated that joining Russia was not among the goals pursued by the people he represented.
“The goal of our movement is not to join the DPR to Russia, but to enhance communication between our citizens and authorities to make our people’s lives better,” Zakharchenko said at an on-line press conference.
According to him, “the people of Donbas must …
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LPR and DPR declare that UN peacekeepers will not be allowed into the Donbas without their permission
Representatives of the so-called LPR and DPR, Denis Pushilin and Vladislav Deynego, have reacted to statements by the US Department of State's Special Representative for Ukraine, Kurt Volker, asserting that the deployment of peacekeepers to the Donbas does not need to be coordinated with the separatist republics.
The representatives from the unrecognized republics assert that they are equal participants in the negotiations, since the leaders of the so-called “People's Republics”, Zakharchenko …
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US representative for Ukraine Volker: DPR and LPR do not belong in the Donbas negotiation process
The US Department of State’s Special Representative for Ukraine, Kurt Volker, believes that representatives from the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics have no place in the negotiation process to resolve the situation in the Donbas. He expressed his opinion in an interview with Hromadske, while answering a question regarding the role of LDPR in the Minsk negotiations.
"I believe that this issue was decided; that the Minsk agreements are between Russia, Ukraine and the OSCE. The …
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DPR authorities: budget information cannot be disclosed due the state of war with Ukraine
The Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) says that it will not disclose budget information because it is in the state of war, as stated by Alexander Kazakov, advisor to the head of the DPR, on the Union television station.
“There is martial a state of war here. The decree has not been repealed. If the republic reveals economic information, then clever and competent specialists on our enemy’s side will calculate our military budget. We cannot allow this. They will then know what kind of funding goes …
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DPR claims to have trade with Spain, Italy and France
In an interview with the Union TV channel, Minister of Revenues and Duties of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Aleksandr Timofeev said that the DPR trades with European states.
“As of today, we are trading not only with the Russian Federation and Asia. As of today, we are trading nicely with Europe – with Spain, Italy and France. We are trading with them. I can’t get into the details, since their inspection authorities would arrive at their facilities tomorrow,” Timofeev stated. …
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Founder of DPR Borodai says that Ukrainian oligarch Akhmetov financed the separatist leader Khodakovsky in the spring of 2014
One of the founders of the DPR (Donetsk People’s Republic) and Russian FSB (Federal Security Service) member Alexander Boroday, who supervised separatists at the initial stage of the conflict inn eastern Ukraine, discussed in an interview how Akhmetov had sponsored fighters from Alexander Khodakovsky’s Vostok battalion, journalist Denys Kazansky writes.
"Khodakovsky was financed by Akhmetov. Once, he tried to bring me a suitcase with 0.5 million dollars. In front of witnesses. I returned this …
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Head of DPR Zakharchenko says the detainees accused of murder attempt on Tax and Collections Minister will be executed
Authorities of the so-called DPR (Donetsk People’s Republic), most likely, will execute the captured Ukrainian "saboteurs," as stated by the leader of the separatist DPR Alexander Zakharchenko, in an interview with a Russian online news agencies.
"We caught the saboteurs who came from the LPR (Luhansk People’s Republic). Most likely we will have to shoot these saboteurs. The authorities must show their strength, otherwise we might have more fearless betrayals," Zakharchenko said.
He noted …
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Media: Russia increased import of coal from separatist-held territories of eastern Ukraine
In September, about 208,000 tons of coal, mined in the separatist-held territories of eastern Ukraine, were exported from Russia to Europe.
This is 18% increase or about 33,000 tons more than in August, which was about 175,000 tons. The estimates were provided by LIGA.net, with reference to the available data of Russian Railways and Russian Federal Customs Service.
Four Russian companies - Gas Alliance Company, Petroleum Capital, Anthracite Trade House and Russian Anthracite, accounted for 77. …
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SBU: the DPR ‘representative office’ in France was opened by politicians sponsored by the Kremlin
Marginal French politicians and experts financed by the Kremlin took part in the opening of a fake "representative office" of the separatist DPR (Donetsk People’s Republic) in Marseilles, as reported by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) on their Facebook page. The report notes that the SBU knows well the identities of five French citizens who attended the opening ceremony of the DPR center in Marseilles.
"Huber Fayyar, the chairman of the center, together with like-minded people Christian …