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Russia denies that Yanukovych sent a letter asking to deploy Russian troops to Ukraine during Maidan
According to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Yuriy Lutsenko, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation claims that the authorities of the country never received a letter from former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych asking to deploy Russian troops to the territory of Ukraine.
"A letter came from the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. They write that neither the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation nor the Federation Council of …
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International Committee of the Red Cross will expand its mission in the Donbas
The International Committee of the Red Cross is negotiating with both sides of the conflict to expand its mission in the Donbas, according to ICRC President, Peter Maurer, as reported by Interfax.
"This is my fourth visit here to talk with local authorities in Luhansk, Donetsk, and in Kyiv about the expansion of our operation into Ukraine," he said.
Peter Maurer noted that the humanitarian situation in the Donbas has become very complicated again.
"In the last couple of weeks we are seeing …
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Media: Polish LOT airline is planning to launch new flights to Ukraine
Polish airlines are becoming increasingly interested in the Ukrainian market, as stated on Polish Radio, citing the Dziennik Gazeta Prawna newspaper.
"The Polish airline LOT is planning to launch new flights to the Dnipro, Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnytsia, and Rivne. After the holidays more flights to Lviv will be launched. "There are currently two flights a day from Warsaw to Lviv, and there will be a third one," the message says.
It was also reported that according to the press secretary of LOT, …
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The largest coal mine in separatist-held territory of Ukraine stops its operations
The DTEK energy holding’s largest coal mine, Komsomolets Donbasu, which is owned by Ukrainian businessman, Rinat Akhmetov, has stopped production in the occupied part of Donetsk region, as reported by Podrobnosti, citing one of the company’s employees.
It was reported that the majority of the employees were put on leave without pay as of the 3rd of March. Currently, only maintenance personnel who measure gas levels and pump out water, remain at the coal mine. According to the mine’s employee, …
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Ukraine and five Eastern European countries ask U.S. not to remove sanctions from Russia
Diplomats from six Eastern European states, including Ukraine, made a plea to U.S. senators to help in the confrontation with Russia.
As noted by Reuters, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Pavlo Klimkin, as well as the Ambassadors of Poland, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia came to hearings of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations.
They urged the U.S. not to lift sanctions from Russia in the near future. "Until Russia withdraws from the Ukrainian territory, there should …
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Ukraine discloses all of its correspondence with Moscow since the start of the conflict
The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs handed over to the International Court of Justice in the Hague all of the diplomatic correspondence with Russia which there has been since the start of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Evropeyskaya Pravda reported on this with reference to litigator David Zionts of Covington & Burling LLP, Kyiv’s representative at the international court.
According to him, the reason for such a decision is “false accusations from the Russian Federation that Kyiv did …
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Two of Akhmetov’s factories confiscated in Kerch
Crimea’s “Council of Ministers” decided to proceed with the compulsory buyout of two factories in Kerch affiliated with Ukrainian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov, reported the Russian newspaper “Kommersant” with reference to sources in the companies’ administration and the Crimean “government”.
According to the publication, on the 6th of March, representatives of the Crimean “government” and the “administration” of Kerch met with employees of the Kerch Switch Plant and the Kerch Metallurgical …
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European Space Agency launches rocket with Ukrainian engine
A Vega rocket successfully lifted off from the equatorial Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.
The launch was broadcast on the website of the French company Arianespace.
As President Petro Poroshenko announced on Facebook, one of the stages of the rocket engine was produced by the Ukrainian PA Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant named after A.M. Makarov.
“The RD-843 of the fourth stage of the rocket was developed by the state enterprise Yuzhnoye Design Office and manufactured by the state enterprise …
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Ukraine’s Ministry of Finance explained the IMF's requirements
The Minister of Finance of Ukraine, Oleksandr Danylyuk, disclosed the details of the updated memorandum of the International Monetary Fund or IMF, UNIAN reports. The new memorandum contains provisions on pension, land, banking and other important reforms.
"In fact, we need to understand the main thing that the IMF wants; and what we want is a fair, balanced pension system," Danylyuk said.
He said that to achieve this goal it would be necessary to carry out pension reform that would balance …
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French industrial group Saint-Gobain will build two plants in Ukraine
The French industrial group, Saint-Gobain, intends to invest 65 million Euros to build two plants for the production of construction materials in the Tlumach district of the Ivano-Frankivsk region, Interfax-Ukraine reported, citing the President of the Ivano-Frankivsk Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Andrew Levkovich. The first facility will specialize in the production of construction mixes and will be completed by the end of 2017.
The construction of the second plant that will produce …