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Separatists prevented OSCE's movement by firing warning shots in the air
Members separatist groups continue to obstruct the activities of the Special Monitoring Mission of the OSCE in Donetsk and Luhansk, said First Deputy Head of the Mission Alexander Hug at a briefing in Mariupol on Saturday.
"Today at lunch time on the way to Novoazovsk to the east, on approach to the DPR checkpoint, the checkpoint staff fired warning shots into the air. The patrol had to turn back to Mariupol," news portal Novosti Donbassa quotes Hug as saying. According to Hug, the majority of …
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Turchynov: Putin publicly threatened Ukraine
Ukrainian Secretary of National Security and Defense Alexander Turchynov stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin resorted to publicly blackmailing Ukraine when he said that firing in the Donbas will not stop until the constitution of the country is changed and separatists are given amnesty, the press-service of the National Security and Defense reported on Saturday, May 28th.
"Taking responsibility for ceasefire and Minsk Agreements violations, Putin publicly threatened Ukraine with …
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Russian firing range opens in Crimea
A Naval firing range for Russian aircraft has opened in Crimea, TASS reported with reference to Russian Air Force Commander Viktor Bondarev.
According to him, the Chauda Polygon, a former landfill, has had naval targets installed. The shooting range is located on the southern end of the Kerch Peninsula.
"The polygon is in excellent condition… It’s the first time that we got a real naval shooting range, which has all the telemetry. It is possible to take pictures of any result of the bombing …
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Ukraine's anti-corruption bureau received information on Party of Region's graft scheme
As reported by their press-service, the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) confirmed that they received from former First Deputy Chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine Viktor Trepak the so-called “black accounting” documents of the Party of Regions.
"In response to numerous media requests, we announce that the National Anti-Corruption Bureau really did receive Viktor Trepak’s application with attachments on Friday, May 27th," the statement reads.
The NABU assured that …
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Center for Civil Liberties: More than 30 Ukrainians are imprisoned in Russia
The Head of the Center for Civil Liberties, Olexandra Matviychuk, reported that Russia continues to hold no less than 31 people behind bars after the release of Nadiya Savchenko. Sixteen of them are Crimean Tatars. The Center noted that Oleg Sentsov, Alexey Chirnyi, Alexander Kolchenko and Gennady Afanasiev are imprisoned in Russia as so-called Crimean terrorists.
Ukrainian citizens, Mykola Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh, were imprisoned in a fabricated criminal case against senior Ukrainian …