Contents tagged with LPR
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After speaking with Putin heads of LPR and DPR agreed to prisoner exchange with Ukraine
DPR leader Alexander Zakharchenko and LPR leader Igor Plotnitsky expressed support for a prisoner exchange with Ukraine, which was proposed by "Ukrainian Choice" movement leader Viktor Medvedchuk, during a conversation with President Vladimir Putin, as reported by the Kremlin’s Press Service.
In their support for the initiative, the heads of the unrecognized LPR and DPR noted that they would need to work out this issue with Kyiv, the report said.
It became known earlier that Russian President …
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Head of LRP wants to start gold mining in the republic
The leader of the so-called Luhansk People's Republic or LPR, Igor Plotnitsky declared that he plans to start gold mining in the territory of the "Republic" in 2018.
"I will try to get our mine, let's say a gold mine, opened in 2018. We shall try to extract our gold, which is located on the territory of our Republic," Plotnitsky stated.
The leader of the LPR also noted that "[gold] will not be extremely profitable, but profit will still be there."
"But that’s also an indicator for us that we …
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Foreign Minister of LPR says separatist republic is open to being renamed
The Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), Vladislav Deynego has agreed to rename the LPR, TSN news reports.
“A same is not always important. Ukraine calls us what it wants us to call us and how European maps defined us. So be it. In international documents let’s be called what Europeans want to call us,” Deynego said.
At the same time the representative of the break-away militant-held Luhansk region (Eastern Ukraine) said the renaming could …
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Ukraine to stop water supply to separatist-held areas of the Luhansk region
The Ukrainian company Luhansk Energy Union (LEU) said that as of Monday 6 November, inhabitants of the Luhansk province will have no water supply due to the waterworks’ debt, as reported by the TV channel 112 Ukraine with reference to the LEU’s statement.
According to the TV channel, power to the Petrovsk pump station of the Popasna waterworks which supplies the inhabitants of the Luhansk province will be switched off. The LEU’s report notes that the company’s leadership has repeatedly asked …
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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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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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LPR authorities admit it is impossible for some separatist fighters to obtain ‘passports’ in the 'republic'
The Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) refuses to issue its passports to employees of the people’s militia who are registered in territory under Ukraine’s control, as stated by Dmitry Sidorov, a member of the People's Council of the LPR.
"The servicemen of our people's militia are not provided with passports because they are registered as Ukrainian residents. Here, they do not have the opportunity to register because you can’t be registered in the rented apartment. These are our servicemen and we …
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The case of the downed Il-76 against the leader of the LPR Plotnitsky transferred to the High Specialized Court of Ukraine
The case against the leader of the LPR (Luhansk People’s Republic), Igor Plotnitsky, who is accused of committing a terrorist attack where an IL-76 aircraft transporting 49 Ukrainian service members was shot down, was transferred to the High Specialized Court of Ukraine for Civil and Criminal cases, as stated by the press service of the Court of Appeal of the Dnipropetrovsk region, where on October 20th hearings on the case were held, Ukrinform reports.
"The case against Plotnitsky (the leader …
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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. …