Contents tagged with DPR
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So-called DPR claims they have opened a representative office in Italy
The self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) claims that they have established a representative office in the Italian city of Turin. This information was confirmed by the Italian team of Stopfake.org project, which addresses and refutes false information about events in Ukraine. Stopfake confirmed that this information is accurate.
"We have learned that the official opening of the DPR’s representative office in Italy would be held on December 14 at 6.30 p.m. on the premises of the …
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Ukraine to hand over 15 captured separatists to LPR and DPR as a sign of goodwill
Ukraine decided to release 15 separatists who are on the exchange list for the "DPR" and "LPR" as a “goodwill gesture.” Nine of them are seriously ill, and the others are women, as reported by the representative of Ukraine to the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group, Iryna Herashchenko, on Facebook.
"In order to advance the process of releasing hostages before the New Year holiday, as part of the Minsk group we announce the transition of 15 of the 228 people who were requested …
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Nadiya Savchenko was expelled from the Batkivshchyna faction
The Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, Nadiya Savchenko, on Thursday, December 15th, was expelled from the Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) faction, as reported by the press service of Batkivshchyna. According to the statement, Savchenko was included in the electoral list during the elections in 2014 so as to free the former pilot from Russian captivity. However, "life has shown that the principles and political convictions of Savchenko do not coincide with that of Batkivshchyna," the statement read. The …
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Savchenko spoke of her meeting with Zakharchenko and Plotnitsky
The Deputy of Verkhovna Rada, Nadiya Savchenko, said that she met with the leadership of the self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republic (LPR and DPR), Igor Plotnitsky and Alexander Zakharchenko, and "the Russian side" was also present. On Monday, December 12, she said this in her speech at the Sofia Square in Kyiv, 112 Ukraine TV channel reports.
"Yes, there was a meeting in trilateral Minsk format where 'the Russian side', Zakharchenko and Plotnitsky were present. The meeting aimed …
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Media speculates that separatist leader Motorola could have been shot before the explosion in his apartment
Arsen Pavlov, known as ‘Motorola,’ could have been shot along with his guard in an elevator of his own apartment building before their bodies were blown up. This type of assassination would ensure that all aspects of the crime were concealed, Ukrinform writes.
This possibility for the removal of the separatist appears in a paper prepared by the Center of Forensic Science (CFS) of the DPR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The document was obtained by a Ukrainian hacker group who indicated it was …
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Representatives of a Czech NGO were expelled from separatist-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine
The Czech non-governmental organization People in Need (PIN) reported on its website that the self-proclaimed authorities of Donetsk revoked accreditation for the organization to work in the region. The representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic came to the local office of People in Need on November 26 to announce its decision.
They didn’t give a reason for the revocation of accreditation. A warehouse belonging to the Czech organization containing humanitarian supplies …
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Separatist Commander: Salaries in the republic are not being paid due to diminishing help from Russia
The field commander from the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Alexander Khodakovsky, explained that the pensions and the salaries to the government workers in the Republic are not being paid because Russia has cut down the funding of the “people’s republic” and the self-declared republic’s own budget does not have enough funds.
“There are certain difficulties with the help coming from Russia. So you could see that there are delays with the salaries of the government workers. This …
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DPR announces that six have been detained for assassination of separatist commander known as Motorola
The self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic has declared that members of Misanthropic Division group, whose representatives have claimed responsibility for the murder of Arsen “Motorola” Pavlov, have been detained, Korrespondent.net reported.
“On the 11th of November, six active members of the Ukrainian nationalist organization Misanthropic Division, whose leaders have claimed responsibility for the murder of legendary Commander of Sparta Battalion, Arsen Pavlov, commonly known as Motorola, …
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So-called DPR creates special police battalion to protect separatist leaders
The so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) announced the establishment of Bastion, a special police regiment, to provide security for the leaders of the self-proclaimed republic and particularly important objects, separatist online resources report.
The special unit will guard objects of important infrastructure of the DPR; be responsible for the security of valuable, important and dangerous goods such as money during transit; and ensure the personal security of the leaders of the self- …
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Zakharchenko: Motorola's assassination was organized by Security Service of Ukraine
The leader of pro-Russian separatists in the Donbas, Alexander Zakharchenko, stated on Thursday that the murder of Arsen “Motorola” Pavlov was organized by the Deputy Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) and the head of the SSU in the Donetsk region as reported by RIA Novosti.
"I’m ready to provide the names of those involved to the crime. Malikov (the SSU Deputy Head and head of the antiterrorist center at the SSU), Oleksandr Kuts, head of the Main Department of the Security Service …