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Ukrainian President Poroshenko refuses to accept ships from Russia unless Crimea is returned
Ukraine will not accept Russia’s offer to return Ukrainian military ships remaining in the Crimea without also receiving the return of the peninsula, stated during a press conference Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, a video of which was published on 112 Ukraine’s YouTube channel.
"We are ready to receive ships from Crimea. It is not important what repairs [are needed]. We are ready to receive the ships from Crimea, but only together with the Crimea," Poroshenko said.
In January, Russian …
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Media: The idea of renaming Ukrainian 'Party of Regions' to 'Opposition Bloc' belonged to Manafort
President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman and Political Advisor to the Party of Regions Paul Manafort continued to cooperate with the representatives of Party of Regions even after the former Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych, fled Ukraine, Novoye Vremya news outlet reports. The edition adds that according to Bloomberg, Manafort made 17 trips to Ukraine in 2014 and 2015.
The agency’s sources clarified that Manafort returned to Ukraine just a few months after Yanukovych had fled to …
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Russia claims there is a Ukrainian connection to NotPetya virus
A "Ukrainian trace" was found in the NotPetya virus cyber attacks according to the Russian Minister of Communications and Mass Media, Nikolai Nikiforov, Interfax reports.
"We see no Russian footprint [here]. There is a Ukrainian footprint, because it [the virus] was circulated through the Ukrainian system, through an accounting software package," Nikiforov said. According to him, "anyone could produce" the virus.
Nikiforov noted that the virus was made up of two components "that according to …
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Putin says he does not object to peacekeepers in Donbas
At a press conference following talks with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz ,Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia is not opposed to peacekeepers being placed throughout Ukraine.
However, Putin said that this would need to be coordinated with the unrecognized Donbas republics.
“We are not against it, at least. But it needs to be arranged with these unrecognized republics. Go there and make an agreement with them. No, nobody wants to do this,” Putin said.
He also remarked that …
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The Chancellor of Austria voiced his support for Nord Stream-2
After talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said his country supports the construction of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline.
After the talks, Putin said that Nord Stream-2 is not an alternative to the transit of gas through Ukraine to Europe.
Nord Stream-2 is a project to build a gas pipeline with a capacity of 55 billion cubic meters from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea. It is assumed that the route along the seabed, as well as the …