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OSCE said their observers were held at a separatist checkpoint for more than an hour
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission said that members of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic held their observers for more than an hour at a checkpoint near Horlivka.
"The armed members of the so-called DPR searched the SMM cars at the first checkpoint. The patrol was released after being held for 70 minutes at the checkpoints," the OSCE SMM stated in a Twitter post, published on the evening of February 10th.
The Special Monitoring Mission of the OSCE in Ukraine has repeatedly mentioned …
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National Bank of Ukraine officials are connected to Russian banks
The Deputy Head of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), Kateryna Rozhkova, was discovered to have family connections to the head of Russian banks, the TSN news service reported.
At the same time, the leadership does not see a potential conflict of personal and public interests in this.
"The railway is serviced by the three Russian banks. How has someone come up with this! The largest taxpayer, the most extensive rail network," the chairman of the Motherland Defenders Party, Yuriy Karmazin, …
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Ministry of Justice: Yanukovych knew about plans to annex the Crimea ahead of time
Russia began to actively prepare for the occupation of the Crimea in 2013 and former President, Victor Yanukovych, knew about it, as was stated at a briefing by the Minister of Justice, Pavlo Petrenko, LIGA.net reports.
"We clearly identified and provided documents in the form of written evidence to the European Court for Human Rights which indicate that an active preparation phase for the occupation of the Crimea began in 2013. We also understand that such plans were prepared earlier. We …
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Groysman in Brussels: Oligarchs do not control the Verkhovna Rada
Ukrainian Prime Minister Vladimir Groysman stated that today, oligarchs do not control the Ukrainian parliament.
He said this in Brussels during the part of the conference devoted to the economic development of Ukraine.
“Against the backdrop of there being a number of destructive political figures, the Ukrainian parliament is capable of making the necessary decisions. That’s why I think that the issue of a monopoly is a very important issue, and it must be worked on constantly, in order to …
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The Kremlin says that the Donbas conflict would never be part of a Russian-U.S. agreement
The Kremlin claims that the conflict in the Donbas cannot be the subject of an agreement between Russia and the United States.
"It is unlikely that the internal Ukrainian conflict may become a negotiating point to any sort of agreement. This information by no means corresponds to reality," the Russian President's Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said.
Peskov was commenting on the information that the Kremlin was preparing a "big deal" with the new U.S. administration wherein the United States …