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Experts: NATO needs to deepen cooperation with Ukraine
American Heritage Foundation experts called on the leadership of NATO to deepen cooperation with Ukraine.
“The upcoming NATO summit in Warsaw represents an opportunity to provide a real and substantial support for Ukraine,” Luke Coffey and Daniel Kochis of the Heritage Foundation wrote.
According to experts, the fact that Ukraine will not become a NATO member in the near future shouldn't mean the isolation of the country.
“It's in the interests of NATO to help Ukraine to withstand Russian …
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Survey shows there is a shortage of food and medicine in the Donbas
Sociologists have investigated the social well-being of the population of the Donetsk region.
Two years after the beginning of the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine, a quarter of the residents of the Donetsk region are still suffering from a shortage of medicines, one in five residents are in need of food products, and one in ten suffers from a lack of essential non-food items.
These shortages are reflected in the results of sociological research conducted in May-June 2016 in the Donetsk …
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Ukranian Intelligence: Eight Russian servicemen were killed and nine were wounded in the Donbas
Russian troops, waging war against Ukraine in the Donbas, continue to bear significant losses. According to the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense, eight Russian servicemen were killed earlier this week.
“On the 5th of July, eight Russian servicemen of the 3rd Independent Motorized Rifle Brigade (Horlivka), the 11th Independent Motorized Rifle Regiment (Makiivka), the 9th Independent Assault Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Naval Infantry (Novoazovsk) and the …
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Ukraine extends food embargo on Russia until 2017
The Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers has extended the reciprocal measures in response to Russia's prolonging the food embargo until the end of 2017, as reported by Interfax-Ukraine.
This decision was made during the Government’s meeting on July 6th, giving its support to the proposal by the Ukrainian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (MEDT).
As was reported, on June 29th, Russian President Vladimir Putin extended the food embargo against countries that imposed sanctions against Russia …
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NATO to discuss the situation in Ukraine with Russia
The meeting of the NATO-Russia Council will be held on July 13th in Brussels at the NATO headquarters, reads a statement issued on Wednesday on behalf of the NATO Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg. "The meeting will take place on 13 July at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, shortly after the NATO Summit in Warsaw," as mentioned in the document.
"Our discussions will focus on the crisis in and around Ukraine and the need to fully implement the Minsk Agreements. We will also look at military …