Contents tagged with DPR
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Zakharchenko invited Aksyonov to visit the DPR
During a meeting with the Kremlin-controlled Crimean authorities, the leader of the DPR, Alexander Zakharchenko, invited the Russian-appointed Prime Minister of the Crimea to visit the territory controlled by their group in eastern Ukraine, as reported by the press service of the current Crimean government on 19 January.
Aksyonov, in turn, promised to invite the leaders of the DPR and LPR more often.“In the future, we will always invite them to participate in significant events. I’m sure that …
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Members of Berkut Special Forces who were involved in Maidan killings are being protected by Russia
In Kyiv, five employees of the Berkut special police force who are accused of shooting Euromaidan activists in 2014 are being tried. Despite this, Russia and the DPR (Donetsk People's Republic) have included them in the prisoner exchange list. The Russian Federation has also granted citizenship to another ten who are wanted in Ukraine.
Advisor to the head of the Security Service of Ukraine Yuriy Tandit confirmed that the DPR wants to exchange the accused Berkut special police members through …
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Ukrainian police detained three former separatists of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic
On the 15th of January, Ukrainian police in the Donetsk region reported that they have detained three former separatists of the Donetsk People’s Republic. One of them is a 45-year-old resident of the Kostiantynivka region, who was fighting in an industrial area in Avdiivka.
This man joined the Donetsk People’s Republic in November 2014 in Donetsk. He was first instructed to guard the Vostok battalion’s base, but shortly after he was deployed to Avdiivka. The man received a concussion during …
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Former separatist leader proposed uniting the two breakaway republics and making Zacharchenko a 'president'
The First head of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic, Valery Bolotov, considers it necessary to return the whole territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions to the DPR and LPR jurisdiction in order for both republics to unite.
"It is my opinion that the first thing to do, is to return the territory of the former Luhansk and Donetsk regions to the LPR and DPR. I also believe that it is necessary to unite the two Republics,” he wrote on his page on Vkontakte.
As for the head of the …
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Savchenko published the lists of POWs despite SBU’s opposition
Despite the opposition of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Nadiya Savchenko has published on her Facebook page a list of the Ukrainians who are imprisoned by the LPR and DPR, as well as those who are considered missing. She also posted the names of those who the DPR (Donetsk People's Republic) and LPR (Luhansk People's Republic) demand to be released. The SBU believes that this move could harm the prisoner exchange process and their families. Savchenko herself believes the opposite: that …
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Separatists restrict import of goods from Ukrainian territory
The import of products by citizens of Ukraine was restricted to 50 kg per person in the Donetsk People’s Republic. In November 2016, the maximum permissible weight of products allowed for import to the territories of the Donbas, which are beyond Kyiv’s control, was increased from 50 to 75 kg per person, an OSCE SMM report says.
However, OSCE observers later recorded several cars in the queue at the entrance and exit of a so-called DPR checkpoint. “An armed representative of DPR told the OSCE …
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Ukraine handed over 15 prisoners to separatists
On the 29th of December, the Ukrainian authorities unilaterally returned 15 people who were subject to criminal persecution in Ukraine, to the representatives of self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. The Security Service of Ukraine and the DPR confirmed the transfer of the 15 people, eight men and seven women.
According to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), they were previously detained for their participation in illegally armed groups. The transfer took place between Horlivka and …
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Separatists stated that two thousand Russians are kept in Donetsk detention facility
A Russian writer, who supports the activity of the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics, Natalya Makeeva, stated that about 2,000 Russians are being held in a Donetsk detention facility. It is reported that they came to the Donbas in 2014 to join the illegally armed groups. According to Makeeva, she deals with issues related to prisoners of war in separatist-controlled areas and the territory controlled by Ukrainian Government.
Natalya Makeeva claims that the detained Russians came to the …
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Pushilin does not exclude the unification of the DPR and LPR in the future
A representative of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Denis Pushilin, is not excluding the possible unification of the LPR and DPR in the future; however, this issue is not currently on the agenda, as reported by Russia's Interfax news agency.
"No one sees the usefulness of such a unification at this stage as both the LPR (Luhansk People's Republic) and the DPR have signed the Minsk Agreements. For now, we do not see any circumstances under which reunification should occur. …
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Ukrainian SBU detains one of the top managers of supermarket chain for relations with separatist republic
In Kyiv, employees of the State Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) detained one of the top managers of a supermarket chain through which the self-proclaimed DPR was financed, as the statement of the SBU press center reads.
“At the end of November, employees of the special service disclosed that merchants in the capital are part of a business which continued to function in the temporarily occupied territory. Law enforcement officers found that part of the income from these shops was being sent …