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It would cost Ukraine $550 million to stop using coal from the Donbas
Almost three weeks ago, Ukrainian veterans of military actions in eastern Ukraine blocked several railway stations in the Donbas, thus declaring an economic blockade with the uncontrolled Ukrainian regions in the Donetsk and Luhansk Republics. Authorities did not support this action, insisting in particular that without anthracite coal, Ukrainian thermal power stations (TPSs) will not be able to function for a long time (of the 24 million tons annually consumed by Ukrainian TPSes, 9 million …
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Ukrainian MFA asks Moscow to provide information about Ukrainian citizens arrested in Russia for drug smuggling
Ukraine's Foreign Ministry sent a request to the Foreign Ministry and the Interior Ministry of Russia to confirm information they received about the presence of Ukrainian citizens among the detained members of the criminal group "Khimprom." This was posted on Saturday, February 11th, on the Facebook page of the Department of Consular Service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.
"The requests addressed to the Foreign Ministry and the investigative department of the Interior Ministry of Russia …
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OSCE: Number of ceasefire violations in the Donbas remains unacceptably high
The Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Alexander Hug, stated that the number of ceasefire violations in the Donbas has decreased but still remains high.
“The number of violations has significantly decreased in recent days but it still remains unacceptably high. From midnight on February 9 to midnight February 10, the OSCE mission recorded 460 violations of the ceasefire, with 55 violations in Luhansk region alone,” Hug said at a press conference …
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Media: Russia will put Crimean air defense systems on high combat alert
The Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security, Viktor Ozerov, stated that Russia will put the air defense systems of the Crimea on high combat alert during the Ukrainian missile firing exercises, RIA Novosti reported. “All our intelligence and air defense systems will be put on high combat alert in order to avoid any missiles accidentally hitting our territory,” Ozerov said.
According to him, Russia does not consider these firing exercises as a threat because the …
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Ukraine to establish institute to improve the country's image abroad
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Pavlo Klimkin announced the creation of a Ukrainian Institute for Improvement of Image with representative offices in other countries. This Institute will monitor the public image of Ukraine.
“We have analyzed the experiences of European countries. This experience isn’t the same. However, how could the country present a positive image of itself abroad? Over the past three years, we have done impressive work. There are so many separate projects but we …