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Ukrainian Security Service: Moscow ordered Russian soldiers stationed in Donbas to hand over their passports
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has published audio recordings of intercepted phone calls made by separatist from the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR).
“The SBU has acquired repeated evidence of the presence of Russian soldiers in the illegal armed formations of the so-called D/LPR. In the audio recordings of the terrorists’ phone calls that were intercepted by the SBU, one can hear an order from Moscow to immediately hand over the Russian citizenship passports of all …
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German MPs: Expulsion of Russian diplomats from EU was done in a rush
Representatives of the German Bundestag’s Left have criticized the decision made by Berlin and various other EU states to expel their Russian diplomats in connection with the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal in the UK. On Monday March 26, Foreign Policy Committee member Stefan Liebich from The Left party said that the expulsion of diplomats was “a wrong step, which needlessly exacerbates the escalation”.
Berlin should make a greater effort to collaborate in the investigation, Liebich …
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Warsaw: Russian Special Services have stepped up operations in Poland
Polish Radio reports that Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Jacek Czaputowicz announced that Russian Special Services have intensified operations in Poland against the backdrop of the poisoning of double agent Sergei Skripal.
"This is a manifestation of solidarity with the UK. But, irrespective of this, our relevant services attract considerable interest from Russian services…[Poland] sees their activities as contrary to the Vienna Convention. This is another signal that the threat from …
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Russian warplanes intervene into NATO’s Arctic exercise
The Russian newspaper Izvestia reports that Russian Anti-Submarine Aviation recently detected NATO’s submarines carrying out tactical drills in the Arctic. Two maritime reconnaissance anti-submarine warfare aircrafts Tu-142 (NATO’s reporting name: Bear) had spotted and followed nuclear submarines of the Armed Forces of the United States and the United Kingdom participating in the Ice Exercise 2018 large-scale war games in the Beaufort Sea.
Izvestia reports that the Russian warplanes also …
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Ukrainian border guards detain a Russian fishing boat in the Sea of Azov
On Sunday, March 25, Ukrainian border guards detained a Russian fishing boat in the Sea of Azov.,as reported on the website of the State Border Service. "Yesterday, in Ukrainian waters, a maritime security ship detained a fishing boat violator under the flag of Russia. There were ten people on board,” the message reads. All ten sailors had Russian passports issued in Kerch.
The "Nord" vessel which was registered in the territory of annexed Crimea was stopped 15 miles away from the Obytichna …