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400,000 Donbas residents are left without water
Four hundred thousand people were left without a reliable water supply in the Donbas due to a damaged water pipeline in South Donbas, said the Head of the Donetsk Military and Civil Administration Pavlo Zhebrivskyi.
According to him, the inhabitants of Pokrovsk, Myrnohrad, Volnovakha and Dobropillia are now without water.
“Now, together with the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, we’ll organize the delivery of drinking water and service water. If we l understand the situation in Avdiivka, …
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Kyiv may require biometric passports when entering Ukraine from Russia
Kyiv could introduce biometric passports for Russians entering Ukraine, said Mariana Betsa, press secretary of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, in a broadcast of the TV channel 112 Ukraine.
According to her, the Ukrainian foreign policy department will support the introduction of visa requirements with Russia “In future, in the broader perspective, it will also be possible to introduce entry exclusively by means of biometric passports, with visas, with registration at the migration services, …
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Sweden has provided 5 million Euro to promote gender equality in Ukraine
The government online portal reported that Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UN Women, and Swedish Ambassador Martin Hagström have signed an agreement to finance the project “Gender Equality in National Reforms and Establishment of Peace and Security in Ukraine.” The project is designed to run for four years and was given a budget of 5 million euro.
“The funds will be used for providing an integrated national mechanism for …
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Ukrainian Security Service uncovers Russian Special Services intelligence network in the Donbas
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reports that its employees have uncovered an agent network in the Donbas that is organized by representatives of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.
According to the department's press office, law enforcement officers established that Russian Special Services recruited two residents of Lysychansk and Kostiantynivka through acquaintances located in the separatist-held territories of the Donbas.
They received …
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Ukraine to appeal debt dispute with Russia on Yanukovych’s debt
By June 23, Ukrainian authorities intend to appeal the ruling of the High Court of Justice regarding the dispute with Russia over $3 billion of debt, the press service of the Ukrainian Ministry of Finance reports.
“At the session which was held in the British court on May 26, 2017, judge William Blair increased the period during which Ukraine can make an appeal by 14 days (from June 9 to June 23, 2017),” the announcement states.
Previously the Ukrainian Finance Ministry noted that at the last …