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Russian colonel who took part in Donbas war arrested in Ukraine
The State Border Guard Service (SBGS) of Ukraine arrested Russian Colonel Valery Gratov, whom Russian intelligence planned to make the “deputy minister of state security of Transnistria”.
This was reported on July 9 by Oleh Slobodyan, assistant to the head of the SBGS. According to him, the arrest took place early in June.
“The Ukrainian citizen Valery Georgievich Voytenko, born in 1954, arrived to exit Ukraine, and showed general civil control a Ukrainian citizen’s passport. He presented a …
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Ukrainian border guards: Russians create waiting lines at the administrative border with the Crimea
On Saturday, the Russian border guard along the administrative border with the Russian-annexed peninsula created queues of cars, which were traveling to the Crimea from the mainland of Ukraine and back, as reported by Ukrinform, citing the Assistant Chief of the Berdyansk Border Guard and the head of its press service, Nelya Dotsenko.
"On Saturday, a long line of vehicles that were traveling from mainland Ukraine to the annexed Crimea formed at the Ukrainian Chonhar checkpoint. At 6 a.m. there …
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Media: Former top managers of PrivatBank have left Ukraine to avoid investigation into the bank’s artificially created insolvency
Former top managers of PrivatBank and members of its credit committee have long left Ukraine, while 11 persons involved in the PrivatBank case are on the international wanted list, reports in Zerkalo Nedeli ('Mirror Weekly').
The publication writes that the case filed to bring PrivatBank to insolvency may reach a dead end.
"How long has it been since the top management of the bank, like the members of the credit committee, appeared in public; and when was the last time they were seen in …
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A resident of Crimea, owner of the Russian Medal for the Return of the Crimea, was deprived of a plot of land issued to him by Ukraine
The Balaklava District Court of Sevastopol decided to confiscate 2,000 square meters of land from local resident, Lenur Usmanov, who actively supported the annexation of the Crimea and even received a medal "For the Return of the Crimea" from the Russian Defense Ministry.
He told Novaya Gazeta newspaper that in 2010, both he and his wife had received two 1,000 square meter lots in the Druzhba-9 co-operative. But the current Kremlin-controlled administration of Sevastopol decided that the …
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Tillerson in Kyiv: Sanctions against Russia must remain until it complies with Minsk agreements
Sanctions against the Russian Federation must be maintained until Moscow has fully complied with the Minsk agreement, stated the United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson after meeting with the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, in Kyiv on Sunday, July 9.
"The territorial integrity of Ukraine must be restored. We call upon the Russian Federation to fulfill its obligations under the Minsk agreements. The sanctions of the US and the European Union against Russia will remain until the …