Contents tagged with Donbas
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Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine: Witnesses report execution of 134 people by separatists and Russian military in Donbas
In response to RBC-Ukraine’s inquiry, the Prosecutor’s General Office of Ukraine (GPU) confirmed that witnesses in the criminal case on the widespread and systematic violation of the laws and conventions of warfare by members of the DPR (Donetsk People’s Republic) and LPR (Luhansk People’s Republic) reported large-scale executions carried out by militants and Russian soldiers in the Donbas.
The response specifies that in the pretrial investigations more than 900 people have been questioned …
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National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine to consider bill to reintegrate Donbas
The National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) will soon consider a bill on the deoccupation and reintegration of the Donbas, First Deputy Chairperson of Parliament Iryna Herashchenko announced on Facebook.
According to her, work on the bill “On the characteristics of state policy regarding the restoration of Ukraine’s state sovereignty over the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine” is virtually complete, and it will be introduced during the NSDC …
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Ukraine initiates criminal investigation into export and sales of coal from the Donbas
The Main Military Prosecutor's office of Ukraine opened a criminal case in connection with the export and sale abroad of coal mined in the separatist-held territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the press secretary of the Prosecutor General Office, Larisa Sargan wrote on her Facebook page on Saturday.
"A number of websites posted materials from which it becomes clear that under the general guidance of [businessman Sergei] Kurchenko, in 2017, government officials and other employees of …
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UNICEF: 750,000 children in Donbas could be cut off from drinking water
Almost 750,000 children in Eastern Ukraine could be cut off from clean drinking water as a result of military actions in areas where important facilities of civil infrastructure are located, a representative of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said, as reported by the UN News Center.
“Nearly 3 million people in eastern Ukraine rely on water infrastructure that is now in the line of fire. We expect more families will be cut off from safe drinking water, putting children at severe risk of disease, …
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Media: thousands of Russian soldiers are currently stationed in the Donbas
The total number of military personnel from the Russian Armed Forces who are active in the separatist-held territories of Eastern Ukraine is currently 5-6 thousand, wrote journalist and military expert Yuriy Butusov on ZN.UA news website.
“Nominally assigned to the command posts, the local separatists carry out, in the best case, the functions of students and ‘advisers’, or are otherwise ‘talking heads’ for propaganda. Russian mercenaries are the linchpins in all the military subdivisions of …
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Ukrainian Ministry of Defense reports 1700 deaths of those fighting for the separatists in the Donbas
The Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has collected information about the separatist casualties in the Donbas. According to the SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) and the Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) of the Ministry of Defense, 35,000-40,000 armed separatists of the self-proclaimed "republics" and 4,000-5,000 of the Russian military are members of the DPR (Dontesk People’s Republic) and LPR (Luhansk People’s Republic) army corps.
"We collect data …
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Former US Secretary of State stresses importance of providing Ukraine with defensive weapons
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko met with a delegation from the National Democratic Institute of the United States (NDI), which was headed by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the organization, former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, as reported by the Press Service of the President of Ukraine.
"Madeleine Albright stressed the importance of providing Ukraine with defensive weapons in order to ensure the lawful right of a sovereign state to self-defense in accordance with …
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US looking for replacement for Nuland for talks on the Donbas
The matter of the format of negotiations on Ukraine, which involves Russian and American representatives, will be considered in the near future, as reported by Interfax-Ukraine citing the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Vadym Prystaiko.
"You may remember that there was the Nuland-Surkov Format [Victoria Nuland and Vladislav Surkov]. There were also talks in the 'Geneva format', which occurred without Nuland and Surkov. There is information that the US State Department is …
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Turchynov: Russia is strengthening the military infrastructure on the border with Ukraine
Russia is strengthening the military infrastructure along the border with Ukraine, and there is also constant movement of weaponry, ammunition, military equipment, soldiers and mercenaries into the territory of the Donbas, as stated by the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC), Oleksandr Turchynov, in an interview for Interfax-Ukraine.
“The situation in the ATO (Anti-Terrorist Operation) zone is prompting us to urgently make the decisions which we discussed …
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Residents from the Donbas and the Crimea need to provide additional identification documents to obtain biometric passports in Ukraine
Residents from Donbas and Crimea need to provide additional identification documents to obtain biometric passports, as stated by the Press Secretary for the State enterprise, Document, Volodymyr Polishchuk, on Espreso.TV.
“To obtain biometric passports, citizens who register in the occupied territories of the Donbas and the Crimea need to provide additional documentation to support their identification”, he said.
Polishchuk stressed that the additional check is due to the impossibility of …