• EU leaders to discuss possibility of improving relations with Russia during summit in October

    The EU leaders will review the state of their relations with Russia and whether it will be possible to improve them during the upcoming summit, which will be held between the 20th and the 21st of October, as reported by Reuters.

    This issue was put on the agenda after a number of EU member countries started to express growing irritation with the economic sanctions against Moscow, which were imposed by Brussels due to Russia’s role in the crisis in Ukraine. However, according to Reuters, the …

  • LPR politician says Plotnitskiy is purging the separatist republic of disloyal individuals

    Ex-chairman of the People’s Council of the People's Republic of Luhansk (LPR) Aleksey Karyakin is sure that the former Head of the LPR government, Gennady Tsypkalov, was killed. Karyakin told this to the URA.ru news agency, commenting on the latest developments taking place in Luhansk these days.

    "His body was found in the basement of the administration head building,” Karyakin said. “He was totally bruised and showed signs of strangulation. I am sure that he was tortured and killed because he …

  • LPR separatists denied OSCE observers access to Zolote

    Members of the so-called Luhansk People's Republic once again did not allow the OSCE observers to monitor the situation in the Pervomaisk-Zolote region, as reported on the Facebook page of the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) of the OSCE.

    “The LPR denied access to the Pervomaisk-Zolote region. The Special Monitoring Mission cannot monitor the implementation of the Minsk Agreements by the parties without access to the region. The SMM is able and ready to monitor,” the statement reads.

    The …

  • Russia admitted that no Ukrainian aircraft was near MH17 when it was shot down

    The Russian Ministry of Defense has denied its own statements about the presence of a Ukrainian Armed Forces aircraft near the Boeing 777 at the moment of crash. On September 26, the chief spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, and the deputy chief designer of the Utes-T air route radar, Viktor Meshcheryakov, provided new information about the plane crash at the briefing.

    According to Meshcheryakov, no airborne side objects were recorded by radar near the Malaysian …

  • Former leader of Right Sector says separatist commanders should also be put on Interpol wanted list

    The former leader of the Right Sector Organization, Dmytro Yarosh, is outraged by the fact that Interpol doesn’t want to remove him from the international wanted list but, at the same time, it refuses to search for the known Commanders of the self-proclaimed DPR, Givi and Motorola, as he stated this on the air of the talk show People - Hard Talk on 112 Ukraine TV. According to him, Europe doesn’t consider them to be war criminals.

    “There is some kind of dissonance – two and a half years have …