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NATO ship arrives in Black Sea ahead of schedule to assist Ukraine
The British survey ship HMS Echo (H87) entered the Black Sea on the evening of Monday, December 17. The ship arrived ahead of schedule due to Russia’s aggression, Andrii Klymenko, director of the Maidan of Foreign Affairs project, wrote on Facebook.
This class of ship is used for survey operations to support submarines or amphibious operations.
“It can provide adjusted information virtually in real-time,” Klymenko wrote.
The ship is equipped with multibeam echo sounders and numerous towable …
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Russian officer killed in Syria
Astrakhan-24 news website reported, with reference to the public group “Airborne Brotherhood, that the former senior intelligence officer of the Airborne Forces Alexander Dudchenko was killed as a result of mortar shelling.
It is reported that the deceased was from Astrakhan and was not a regular soldier.
As reported on the Conflict Intelligence Team’s (CITeam) Facebook page, those close to Dudchenko confirmed his death. The news outlet Al-Masdar News indicates that the Russian died in …
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Ukrainian President: UN resolution on Crimea is a step towards the 'de-occupation' of the peninsula
In a statement on his Facebook page, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko welcomed the results of voting in the UN General Assembly on the resolution on the militarization of the Crimea and Sevastopol.
“Today another important step has been taken towards the de-occupation of the Crimea. The resolution showed an unequivocal assessment of the world community about the continuing unlawful behavior of the Kremlin,” the president of Ukraine said.
Poroshenko said that the support of the UN will be …
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Putin condemns the inclusion of Jehovah's Witnesses in the list of extremist organizations in Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin called the inclusion of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the list of extremist organizations “complete nonsense”, Putin stated at a meeting of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights.
“There is a list of organizations, for example, that are allegedly involved in extremism and terrorism. There are 489 of them, 404 of which are Jehovah’s Witnesses. I will make an ominous pause here. There can be many claims against Jehovah’s Witnesses, for example, …
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DPR Deputy Minister of Revenues and Taxes arrested in Donetsk
Mikhail Kalin, the former First Deputy Minister of Revenues and Taxes of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic was arrested in Donetsk on charges of unlawful seizure of property, reported journalist and blogger Denis Kazansky on Twitter.
“Cleansing continues in Donetsk. Another associate of Zakharchenko-Timofeev has been arrested. Right after the Ukrainian secret subversive group blew up Zakhar [Zakharchenko], the arrests of his people began . It turned out that they all were scumbags, …