Contents tagged with Ukraine
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OSCE: Ukrainian Armed Forces and pro-Russian separatists in the Donbas are coming closer to each other
Opposing sides continue to move towards each other in the Donbas, stated Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine Alexander Hug on Monday, February 19, at a press briefing in Donetsk.
"The fact is that the sides continue to dig trenches. The fact is, that the sides move closer to one another. The fact is, that the sides keep weapons that they should have long withdrawn in areas where they should not be. And the fact is that that both sides …
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Media: Despite sanctions Ukrainian cargo ship delivers ore from Turkey to Crimea then safely sails back to Ukraine
The Nefterudovoz 45 M oil and ore tanker sailing under the Ukrainian flag has delivered approximately 10,000 tons of ilmenite ore from the city of Samsun in Turkey to the Kerch Strait, re-loaded it in a harbor for further delivery to the closed port in Kerch in the Russian-annexed Crimea and returned to Kherson (Ukraine).
The information was reported on February 17th by the Ukrainian Center of Investigative Journalism, citing data from the Marine Traffic online tracking service, which …
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World Bank discusses budget support program with leaders of Ukraine
The World Bank is discussing a budget support program with the leaders of Ukraine which provides guarantees in the amount of $800 million, as stated by Cyril Muller, Vice President of the World Bank, in an interview with ZN.UA.
“This assistance will, in fact, partially fund the costs associated with repayment of Ukraine’s debts. The program provides for the provision of 800 million dollars to the government of Ukraine. Also, we are now discussing a number of projects in the energy sector, and …
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Elections for leader of separatist LPR to be held in fall 2018
Elections for the “head of the LPR” will be held in the fall of 2018, said the head of self-proclaimed separatist republic Leonid Pasechnik.
“I announce, with a great sense of responsibility, that I intend to participate in the autumn elections as a candidate for the leader of the Luhansk People’s Republic in order to fully fulfill the tasks set before us,” Russian news agency TASS quoted Pasenchik as saying.
According to the Constitution of the People’s Republic of Luhansk, its leader is …
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Finland says it is ready to send peacekeepers to the Donbas
If an agreement is reached concerning a peacekeeping operation in Ukraine under the aegis of the UN, Finland should take part in it, as stated by the President of Finland, Sauli Niinistö, at the Munich Security Conference, Yle reports.
"This is one of the most serious problems in Europe, that is why if there is even a small opportunity to resolve the crisis, Finland should take part in the settlement of this crisis," he stated at a meeting with Finnish journalists in Munich. At the same tine …
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Member of Russian Night Wolves biker club affiliated with Putin denied entry into Ukraine and banned for three years
On Saturday, February 17, Ukrainian border guards refused entry to a Russian biker nicknamed “Vodyanoy" of the Night Wolves Russian motorcycle club, the Ukrainian State Border Service reports.
On Saturday, Vodyanoy arrived on a flight to Boryspil airport where law enforcement officers established that he was a member of the notorious motorcycle gang that had strong connections to Russian President Vladimir Putin. During the border control process, he was informed of the three-year ban on …
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Russia sent a letter of protest to Ukraine over the attack on the Rossotrudnichestvo building in Kyiv
The Russian Embassy sent a note of protest to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine because of the attack on Rossotrudnichestvo (Russian Center for Science and Culture) building in Kyiv and called on the authorities to bring the attackers to justice, reported the Russian diplomatic mission in Ukraine.
"We urge the Ukrainian government to provide appropriate legal assessments of the actions of the radicals, to bring the instigators and participants of the attack to justice, and to take …
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Poroshenko: opinions of Ukrainian partners on the Anti-Corruption Court is not the final truth
President Petro Poroshenko believes that Kyiv should listen to the recommendations of the anti-corruption court as long as the draft law complies with the legislation of Ukraine, as he explained in responding to a question by Evropeyska Pravda.
The President stressed that there is no alternatives to the adoption of this bill.
"I will do everything possible for the bill to pass, so that the correct wording is found, but also so that this bill is in accordance with the Ukrainian Constitution …
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NATO explains why Ukraine cannot become a member of the Alliance
In her speech at the Munich Security Conference, Deputy Secretary General of the Alliance, Rose Gottemoeller, insisted that Ukraine differs from other countries aspiring to NATO membership, Evropeyska Pravda reports.
Rose Gottemoeller recalled that this year marks the tenth anniversary of the Bucharest Summit, where Kyiv was denied a Membership Action Plan, but at the same time, the Alliance decided that Ukraine would eventually become a NATO member.
Since then, the Deputy Secretary General …
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US Special Representative Volker: peacekeeping mission will help to resolve the conflict in the Donbas
The US Special Representative for Ukraine, Kurt Volker believes that a peacekeeping mission in the Donbas will help to resolve the conflict and will facilitate the implementation of the Minsk agreements. He stated this at the second Ukrainian lunch "Ukraine on the Frontlines of a New Kind of Warfare: Lessons for the West, and Prospects for Peace," which was organized on the sidelines of the Munich conference on security.
According to Volker, Russia says that they care how people live in the …