Contents tagged with Russia
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US Representative for Ukraine Volker: Russia wants to control access to Mariupol
The developments in the Sea of Azov this past weekend show that Russia intends to take sole control over access to Ukrainian ports, said Kurt Volker, the US State Department’s Special Representative for Ukraine, as reported by Ukrinform.
“I think that this is a matter of access to Mariupol for Ukrainians. Russia is claiming the unilateral right to control this access, that’s the problem. This definitely doesn’t mean that Russia is going to undertake a new offensive on land,” the American …
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Speaker of Ukrainian Parliament calls on NATO to increase its presence in the Black and Azov Seas
During a meeting with Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg, the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Andriy Parubiy called on NATO member countries to increase the presence of NATO'S ships and aircraft in the Black and Azov Seas. The Ukrainian politician said this was the only guarantee of security.
After the meeting between Stoltenberg and Parubiy, NATO published a statement in which it again condemned the Kremlin’s actions. “There is no justification for Russia’s use of military force …
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President Poroshenko: attack on the Ukrainian ships was deliberately planned by Russia
In an interview with three Ukrainian TV channels, Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko said that Russia was purposefully preparing for an attack on Ukrainian ships.
“They knew. They were preparing. These were deliberate actions with the use of aviation and tools for electronic radio combat, with an underwater assault by special forces,” noted Poroshenko.
He added that Russia deployed a large number of warships to the Azov and the Black Sea. These warships are most densely concentrated in …
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Kyiv: Four captured Ukrainian sailors are injured, one in serious condition
Iryna Herashchenko, the First Deputy Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Presidential envoy on a peaceful settlement of the Donbas conflict, reported on Facebook that four Ukrainian sailors captured by Russia have been injured and that one of them is in serious condition.
Herashchenko stressed that during the special meeting with the participation of the Ukrainian Human Rights Commissioned, Lyudmila Denisova, representatives of the Navy, the Ukrainian Ministry of Temporarily …
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Ukrainian President warns of threat of full-scale war with Russia
In an interview with three TV channels, Ukrainian President Poroshenko said that Ukraine is under the threat of a full-scale war with Russia. Therefore, the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) decided to impose martial law in border areas for a month. The President said he could substantiate his words with intelligence data, the presidential press service reported.
Poroshenko demonstrated satellite images, which, he said, depicted a Russian military base located near the …
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President Poroshenko tried to talk with Putin after Ukrainian ships were seized by Russia
President Petro Poroshenko stated that after the Russian border guards captured Ukrainian ships in the Kerch Strait, he tried to hold a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. However, there was no response from the Russian side.
“I requested a conversation with the Russian President Putin at night, but we did not receive an answer,” Poroshenko said in an interview with Ukrainian television channels on Tuesday evening.
The Ukrainian President also said that because of …
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EU prepares new sanctions on Russia after Kerch Strait incident
The EU is considering imposing additional sanctions on Russia due to a recent incident in the Black Sea in which Russian border guards fired on and seized three Ukrainian military boats, injuring three sailors, as announced on Tuesday by Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl, following talks with her German colleague Heiko Maas.
“We’ll see about the issue of further sanctions. Everything depends on this examination of the facts,” said Kneissl, as cited by Bloomberg.
Kneissl noted that the …
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Klimkin: Ukraine has no diplomatic ties with Russia
Ukraine does not sever diplomatic ties with Russia because they are "formal", stated Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin.
“In fact, there are no diplomatic ties with Russia. This is just a formality since our diplomats in Russia are actually not able to carry out any diplomatic activity in the aggressor country. They are solely focused on helping Ukrainians, including political prisoners. We have always proceeded from this position,” he said.
According to the minister, Ukrainians who are …
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Kyiv: Russia has 500 military planes on Ukrainian border
Russia has amassed roughly 500 tactical military planes and 340 helicopters along its border with Ukraine, Ukrinform reports, citing Vadym Skibitsky, spokesperson for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. He presented this data at a briefing titled “A military and strategic appraisal of the threat of the Russian Armed Forces invading Ukraine”.
According to Skibitsky, since 2013, Russia has been upgrading its airfield network along the border with Ukraine, and has …
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Ukrainian intelligence: DPR and LPR armies have increased their combat readiness
The representative for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Vadim Skibitsky stated that military units of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics have been put in a high readiness state.
“Currently, all units of the 1st and 2nd Army Corps have increased the level of their combat readiness” reports 112 Ukraine, quoting Skibitsky.
The representative for the Main Intelligence Directorate also stated that the Russian Armed Forces moved into …