• Ukraine is ready for negotiations on 'Yanukovych's debt'

    Ukraine is confident of its legal position in the court dispute with the Russian Federation in England regarding a $3 billion debt on Eurobonds; however, is still open to the possibility of a peaceful settlement of the dispute, if acceptable grounds are met. This was the report from the Ministry of Finance as told to Interfax-Ukraine when asked to comment on the statement regarding the postponement of the Russian-Ukrainian meeting on this issue that was expected to take place in Washington.

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  • Ten people reported missing in the Crimea, believed to be on political and ethnic grounds

    According to a statement issued by the press service of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, ten people are reported missing on political or ethnic grounds in the Crimea.

    “The lack of responsibility and reparations for victims nourishes impunity,” the statement stresses. As noted in the report, the right to peaceful assembly is restricted in the Crimea, and law enforcement authorities continue to examine and persecute people for expressing their opinions, which are wrongfully …

  • Ukraine acknowledges it has lost nearly all Soviet-era mortars during the war in the Donbas

    The Ukrainian Defense Ministry claimed that during the fighting in the Donbas, they used up nearly their entire stockpile of mortar weapons, which Ukraine had kept since Soviet times.

    According to UNIAN, this was reported by the Chief of Armaments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Mykola Shevtsov at a briefing in Kyiv. "The question of supplying our troops with exactly this kind of weapon is the most urgent,” he said “as during the aggressive hostilities we lost almost our entire arsenal of …

  • Former LPR official doubts there was a coup attempt in the separatist republic

    One of the Russian coordinators in the occupied Donbas, Alexander Zhuchkovsky, has accused the leader of the so-called Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), Igor Plotnitsky, of lying and commented on the situation regarding an attempted “coup d’etat.” He made this statement on his page on Vkontakte [Russian social network].

    He noted that he has not dealt with the LPR for more than a year and does not interfere in what happens there, but has a view of the situation.

    According to Zhuchkovsky, there …

  • Former Ukrainian POW: The prisoner situation in the Donbas is beneficial for Russia

    A Ukrainian militia volunteer, Volodymyr Zhemchugov, who was seriously wounded and spent almost a year in the captivity of the so-called Luhansk People's Republic, shared his opinion about the problem of prisoner exchanges between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the armed groups of the LPR and DPR. In an interview with Ukrayinska Pravda he said that the separatists often managed to “cheat” Ukrainian negotiators.

    “I was resentful when they managed to play Ukraine for a fool,” the former …