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SBU investigates possible involvement of Russian military in providing weapons to Savchenko
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) is investigating the possibility that Russian servicemen were involved in the transfer of weapons to the Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, Nadiya Savchenko, stated the head of the Security Service, Vasyl Hrytsak, 112 Ukraine TV channel reports. He added that the Savchenko’s case will be transferred to the court within a few months. Hrytsak noted that it will be investigated within a reasonable time frame.
The alleged weapons transfer is part of the larger …
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USAID to give Ukraine $125 million for the development of Donbas economy
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will allocate $125 million to Ukraine for the development of Donbas, the organization’s Ukrainian branch stated on Facebook.
According to the statement, the new assistance will be announced during a press conference in Sloviansk by the Assistant Administrator and Chief of Staff for USAID’s Bureau for Europe and Eurasia, Brock Bierman; U.S. State Department Special Envoy for Ukraine, Kurt Volker; and the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie …
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Merkel condemns violations of the ceasefire in the Donbas
German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed deep concern about the repeated violations of ceasefire in the east of Ukraine during the visit to the Italian town of Assisi .
“Ukraine concerns us, and in the ‘Normandy Format’ that unites Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine, we try to get the Minsk Agreements implemented. But ceasefire is violated every day; people are dying every day,” she said.
Merkel arrived in Assisi to receive the Franciscan order’s “Lamp of Peace” award for seeking the …
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US Representative for Ukraine Volker to visit Donbas next week
US State Department Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations Kurt Volker will visit eastern Ukraine next week, according to his message on Twitter. "Next week I will visit the east of Ukraine to see the situation on the ground and learn about the humanitarian crisis in the Donbas," he wrote.
This will be Volker's seventh visit to Ukraine in the last eight months of his term as a special representative. Last time, he visited Ukraine in January. President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said …
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SBU detains Deputy of LPR People’s Council who came to collect Ukrainian pension
Officers of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), who take part in the military operation in the Donbas, detained the Deputy of the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) in the Luhansk region, the press-service of the SBU reports.
According to the SBU, a resident of the city of Khrustalny (before – Krasnyi Luch) in the Luhansk region, joined illegal armed groups where he was elected a deputy of the so-called People’s Council.
“Operatives of the special service documented that the perpetrator …