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Lavrov: Russian officials do not require Ukraine's permission to visit Crimea
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russian leaders do not require permission to visit the Crimea, commenting on Ukraine’s protest over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to the annexed peninsula, TASS reported.
On Wednesday, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry issued a note of protest over Putin’s visit to the Crimea, where he was participating in “Forum for Action” in Yalta.
"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine expresses its strong protest to the Ministry of Foreign …
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Putin: Russia and Ukraine will find a way to end the current crisis
Russian President Vladimir Putin, while answering questions during a meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club in Sochi, said Russia and Ukraine will find a way to end the current crisis, TASS reported.
"First we were separated and then set against each other. We are partially to blame for that ourselves. Now we are to find a way out of this situation on our own. I am certain that common sense will prevail and we will find a way out,” Putin.
The Russian President also noted that he is not opposed …
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Kyiv raises question of abolishing 'quasi-state structures' in the Donbas
During a Trilateral Contact Group meeting in Minsk, the aim of which was to find a peaceful settlement of the situation in Donbas, Ukraine raised the question about the possibility of abolition of the “quasi-state structures” of certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions (ORDLO). This was said by Daria Olifer, who is the press secretary of the Group’s Ukrainian representative, Leonid Kuchma.
“It is impossible to hold elections on a territory that is not controlled by the Ukrainian …
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Campaign representative: Trump supports Ukraine, not Russia
The U.S. presidential candidate from the Republican Party, Donald Trump, supports Ukraine and does not approve of Russian aggression in Eastern Europe, according to his representative and former Governor of Maryland, Robert Elrich, Ukrinform news agency reported.
"With respect to Ukraine, he [Trump] has officially declared that he is in support of Ukraine," the representative of the candidate said. He cited Trump, stating that the alliance between Ukraine and the U.S.A. is "very strong." "As …
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NATO confirms that the Russian military is still present in the Donbas
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) confirms that Russian weapons and military are still present in the Donbas. This was stated by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, in answer to a Evropeyskaya Pravda journalist’s question before the meeting of the NATO member countries' defense ministers in Brussels.
Stoltenberg noted that last week he discussed with the Ukrainian President the possibility of NATO exerting pressure on the Russian Federation.
"Russia continues to support the …