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Ukrainian Security Service declassified documents about KGB reaction to the Western studies of the Holodomor
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) published the notes of the last head of the Soviet KGB, Nikolai Golushko. The documents contain the reaction of the Chairman to studies of the Holodomor in the West. The Holodomor was a man-made famine of Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s that claimed the lives of millions of Ukrainians.
The Soviet agency was actively monitoring foreign investigations of Holodomor and reported on them to the party leaders. In the notes, Golushko refers to an artificial famine …
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Muzhenko: Russia opened an investigation into 37 members of the Ukrainian military
The Russian Investigative Committee is trying a case against 37 members of the Ukrainian military as stated by the head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Viktor Muzhenko, at a meeting with the members of the Kyiv association of military attachés,
"There are more than 30 Ukrainian soldiers, against whom the Investigative Committee of Russia initiated criminal proceedings. According to our information, there are 37 such people. I think that in this situation, law enforcement …
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Separatists agree to allow Red Cross to access POWs in eastern Ukraine
The so-called DPR (Donetsk People's Republic) and LPR (Luhansk People's Republic) have promised not to obstruct access to prisoners for representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), as reported by Russia's Interfax news agency citing the office of Ombudsman of the DPR.
"We work closely with international organizations on a range of issues. There have not been, nor are there currently, barriers that would prevent ICRC from accessing prisoners," the agency said.
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German Foreign Minister: Normandy Four format will not expand
The “Normandy Four” format will not grow to accomodate the US, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel announced at the Munich Security Conference.
According to him, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has agreed to maintain close contact with the “Four”, although there was no talk of expanding the format.
The participants of the meeting – Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany – also came to the conclusion that implementation of the Minsk Agreements is the only way out of the conflict in the …
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Strelkov: Without Russia’s support separatist armies would be destroyed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces
In his interview to Moskovsky Komsomolets daily, former leader of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, Igor Strelkov (aka Igor Girkin) spoke of the balance of forces between the armies of the s-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics and the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
When asked about the personnel composition of armies of the DPR and LPR, he answered that the main part of the personnel are now contracted servicemen.
“Main part of the armies of the LPR and DPR are contractors. They are …