Contents tagged with Ukraine
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Following assassination of Amina Okueva Ukraine will strengthen control at its borders with Russia
The SBU (Security Service of Ukraine), the National Police, and the State Border Service have been instructed to strengthen the anti-terrorist and counter-intelligence regime, NSDC (National Defense and Security Council Of Ukraine) Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov said.
This decision was made in connection with recent acts of terrorism, sabotage, daring murders, and mass provocations, the website of the National Security and Defense Council states. Turchynov said that these events are connected …
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Lavrov calls UN peacekeepers in the Donbas 'occupying forces'
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov considers US Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker's statement on the mandatory withdrawal of Russian troops from the Donbas to contradict the efforts of the Normandy format countries.
"There is a way forward: it is an unswerving, conscientious implementation of the Minsk agreements. This has long been carefully handled by the assistants of our leaders in the Normandy format, who agree on a 'road map' that synchronizes steps that increase …
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Washington: USA will continue to exert pressure on Russia with sanctions
The U.S. State Department explained the updated sanctions issued by the Ministry of Finance on October 31, saying that it will work with its allies on the issue of pressuring Russia with sanctions, RIA Novosti reported.
“We will work with our allies and partners in the implementation of these sanctions in order to impose costs on the Russian government, while seeking to avoid unforeseen negative impacts on others,” the State Department said.
On October 31, the U.S. Treasury Department banned …
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Dzhemilev: Russia has caused billions of dollars’ worth of damage to Crimea’s ecology
Russia has caused significant damage to the ecology of annexed Crimea, as stated by the leader of the Crimean Tatar people, Mustafa Dzhemilev, at a briefing on the draft resolution of the UN Security Council on human rights in the Crimea. "Russia has violated all agreements by its actions. The ecology of the Crimea has been damaged. Groundwater dropped, the territory will require billions of dollars to rehabilitate," said Dzhemilev.
The leader of the Crimean Tatar people also noted that …
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Ukrainian diplomats to Russian diplomats at UN Security Council: You have no right to talk about Ukraine
The Russian Federation has neither the legal nor the moral right to talk about the situation in Ukraine in the UN Security Council until it returns the occupied territories and compensates Ukraine for the losses incurred, said Deputy Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations Yuriy Vitrenko, at a UN Security Council meeting about children and armed conflict, in response to a statement by the Russian delegation about the situation in Ukraine.
“The UN General Assembly has …
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Ukrainian Prime Minister is calling for more investments into Ukraine
Ukraine can be the safest and most efficient start-up to invest in, as stated by Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman during the Toronto Global Forum on Monday, October 30, which he attended as part of a working visit to Canada.
"Businesses are often looking for those startups that can be invested into in order to get a high-quality business and become successful. I believe that Ukraine can be the safest, most effective start-up, where we can invest and know that we can receive income and develop …
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Since the beginning of 2017 the Ukrainian Army has received 10 aircraft and 875 units of new military equipment
Since the beginning of the year, the Armed Forces of Ukraine has received 875 units of weapons and military equipment, as reported by the official spokesman for the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, Andriy Lysenko, Ukrinform reports.
"Since the beginning of the year, 875 units of weapons and military equipment have been delivered to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including 10 aircraft, 2 helicopters, 67 armored vehicles, 26 missile and artillery armament units, and 319 cargo, ambulance, and …
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Ukrainian Foreign Minister: We cannot draw parallels between Catalonia and the Crimea
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin believes that parallels should not be drawn between Catalonia, which declared independence from Spain, and annexed Crimea because of the absence of Russian troops in the first case.
"Imagine 2,000 Russian tanks and armored vehicles, thousands of Russian regular troops and tens of thousands of Russian mercenaries all in Catalina today. All this would be controlled by Russia... But in the sense of Russia's attempts to conduct a hybrid war …
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US Senator: Russia benefits from Ukrainian corruption
US Senator Chris Murphy has shared impressions from a recent trip to Ukraine, Voice of America reports.
The purpose of the trip to Ukraine was to “learn more about the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine and how the United States can support our allies in eastern Europe against an increasingly aggressive Russia," Senator Murphy wrote on the website Medium.
During the trip, he delivered a speech at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, where he noticed that his students were concerned …
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Prosecutor General of Ukraine investigates the financing of some Ukrainian regional governments with Yanukovych’s money
The Prosecutor General's Office (GPU) is investigating the funding of the former heads of the Regional State Administration of the Khmelnytskyi and Rivne regions, Vasyl Yadukha and Vasyl Bertash, from the so-called black accounting department of the Party of Regions, Ukrainski Novyny reports, citing court documents.
The Prosecutor General's Office asked the court to provide access to documents which are currently at Khmelnytskyi and Rivne regional administrations and which contain samples of …