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Zakharchenko gives Kiev an ultimatum on election law in the Donbas
Ukrainian authorities have until the 14th of July to adopt a law on local elections in the Donbas. This law must, however, be agreed to by representatives of the Donbas. If not, the date of the election process will be determined unilaterally. This was said by the head of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Alexander Zakharchenko, on the 21st of June.
“Ukraine has to adopt a law on elections, which will also satisfy us, before the 14th of July. This law must be agreed to by …
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Nuland met with Poroshenko and Klimkin in Kiev
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland and National Security Council Senior Directors Charles Kupchan and Celeste Wallander met with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin, and other senior Ukrainian officials on Wednesday, June 22 in Kiev, as stated in a press release issued by the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine.
According to the Embassy, the diplomats met “to discuss Ukraine's reform agenda and implementation of the Minsk …
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NATO and Ukraine to develop framework to counter hybrid war
NATO together with Ukraine will work on creating a new framework to counter hybrid warfare. This was reported by Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Defense, Igor Dolgov, at the press briefing on Wednesday, June 22 as reported by RBC-Ukraine.
“A new mutual framework to counter the hybrid war will be a practically a new undertaking. This is unlike anything we have had before. We hope that after the specific political approvals are made Kiev will become the center of this mutual operation,” Dolgov …
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Poroshenko appoints controversial Yanukovych-era diplomat as Ambassador to Norway
The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, appointed Viacheslav Yatsiuk, the odious diplomat from the administration of the former President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, as the Ukrainian Ambassador to Norway, as indicated in an article by Sergei Sidorenko of EuroPravda. Norway is aware that "Yatsiuk was the third person assigned to the Ministry after Kozhara and his éminence grise Ruslan Demchenko, in the last years of Yanukovych’s presidency".
The signature of Yatsiuk is on some of the …
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Ukrainian Intelligence: Russia is preparing for a possible war with Europe
Russia continues to build up forces on its western and south-western borders. The spokesman of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Defense Ministry of Ukraine, Vadim Skibitsky said on Espresso TV live that the Russian Federation is preparing for a possible war with Europe.
Skibitsky announced that Canadian experts are of the opinion that Russian actions in Ukraine and the Baltic countries are a show of force and that Russia has a desire to defend its interests, most likely through …