Contents tagged with LPR
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Russian foreign Minister Lavrov says Russia will not recognize LPR and DPR
During a broadcast of Russia 1, when asked about whether Russia will recognize the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov responded that the Kremlin remains committed to Minsk Agreements.
According to the Russian Minister, deviation from the Minsk agreements would be a “colossal mistake." "You know, unlike some of our international colleagues, we [Russia] are still people of our word; and we always stand by our word, especially when it was the subject of …
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US expands 'Kremlin List' to include representatives of separatist LPR and DPR
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has expanded the so-called Kremlin List of Russian oligarchs and close confidants of Russian President Vladimir Putin to include the names of separatist representatives of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR), as reported by Radio Liberty.
According to the report, the list was expanded to include nine ministers and one deputy minister of the separatist-held Donetsk and Luhansk regions as well a former Luhansk official and his family …
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Security Service of Ukraine accuses cryptocurrency miners of financing DPR and LPR
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office have conducted searches on crypto-currency mining "farms" in Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast and Cherkassy. Law enforcement says that the miners are financing the DPR and LPR.
This was mentioned at a joint briefing with Oleksandr Klimchuk, head of the SBU’s Cyber-Security Department, said Chief Military Prosecutor Anatolii Matios.
According to Matios, equipment was seized from 400 farms during the searches at PJSC Kvazar in …
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Ukraine cuts off water to LPR due to debt
Luhansk has no cold water supply, LIGA.net reported with reference to sources in the city.
Yevheniy Nasedkin, press secretary of the Luhansk Energy Association (LEA), which is part of Konstantin Grigorishin’s Energy Standard holdings, confirmed that the water supply had been switched off in the former provincial center.
“It was switched off today. The reason is the Popasna Waterworks’ debt,” he said. According to him, it has been in debt to the LEA since July 2015, and today the debt amounts …
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Ukrainian court sentences Russian soldier Ageyev to 10 years of imprisonment
Russian citizen Viktor Ageyev was found guilty of being part of terrorist organization and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. This decision of the Novoaydarskiy District Court of the Luhansk region was reported by his lawyer Viktor Chevguz on his Facebook page.
According to Chevguz, on January 24, during the judicial debate, the prosecutor stated that the LPR [self-proclaimed Luhansk People's republic] is a terrorist organization, which Ageyev joined as a contract soldier. He was also …
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Ukrainian government official: trade with separatist-held territories of Donbas is ‘absolutely legal’
During the Government Question Hour TV program, the representative of the Samopomich (Self-Reliance) party, Yehor Soboliev asked First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and simultaneously Minister of Economic Development and Trade, Stepan Kubiv, when the trade with the uncontrolled territories of Ukraine would be stopped.
Kubiv replied that trade with the separatist-held territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions is not inconsistent with existing Ukrainian legislation, Ukrayinska Pravda …
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Ukrainian Parliament refuses to recognize separatist DPR and LPR as ‘terrorist organizations’
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine refused to recognize the self-proclaimed Donetsk [DPR] and Luhansk People's Republics [LPR] as "terrorist organizations" without collecting sufficient votes during the consideration of amendments to the bill on the reintegration of the Donbas, as NewsOne reports.
76 out of the 340 present in the hall deputies voted for the adoption of the amendments.
On January 16th, the Parliament of Ukraine discussed in the second reading a bill “On the peculiarities of state …
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DPR imposes sanctions on LPR
Authorities of the so-called DPR (Donetsk People’s Republic) have banned the import of excisable goods (vodka, cigarettes, petroleum products and liquefied gas) from the LPR (Luhansk People’s Republic).
"Resolution of the Council of Ministers" No. 16-12 of December 7 entered into force on December 27.
"To prohibit the importation into the territory of the DPR of excisable goods, regardless of the country of origin (with the exception of transit to the territory of the Russian Federation), …
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LPR Head Plotnitsky’s trial stalled again due to ‘judge’s illness’
The Plotnitsky case failed to be heard in court once again, thanks to the presiding judge falling ill. In Dnipro, the judges could not consider the case against the leaders of the Luhansk People’s Republic: Igor Plotnitsky, Alexander Gureyev and Andrei Patrushev, Radio Liberty reports.
The defendants are being tried for the infamous Il-76MD crash a few years ago. On June 14, 2014, separatists used a portable anti-aircraft missile system to shoot down a Ukrainian military transport plane over …
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Ukrainian President greets prisoners of war released from separatist captivity in Donbas
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko personally met Ukrainians who were released from the captivity of pro-Russian separatists in self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics. A video of the head of state greeting the freed citizens was posted on Poroshenko’s Facebook page.
Poroshenko met the former prisoners of war at the Boryspil airport where they were flown in by helicopters from the point of exchange. The President, clad in military fatigues and wearing an Armed Forces beret, …