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Poroshenko urges Washington to supply Ukraine with weapons
Since 2014, nearly 10,000 people have been killed in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, including over 2,700 military personnel. On March 31, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko provided this data in Washington during a speech at the forum “Ukraine's Battle for Freedom Continues” at the US Capitol Building.
According to Poroshenko, the number of people killed due to the conflict in the Donbas exceeds the military losses of the US in Afghanistan over 15 years. "1.8 million people have lost their …
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President of Poland: Russia must withdraw from Crimea
Poland does not want a return to the Cold War, according to Polish President Andrzej Duda. Relations with Russia "must return to the way geopolitical relations were before the annexation of the Crimea," he added, according to his press service."We must demand the return to pre-annexation geopolitical relations. This means that Russia should withdraw from the Ukrainian peninsula," Duda said at the National Press Club in Washington, while visiting the US to attend the Washington Summit on Nuclear …
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Foreign soldiers who fought for Ukraine have been abandoned by Kiev
Photo: A Russian citizen and veteran of the War in the Donbas hands President Poroshenko an application for Ukrainian citizenship in November of 2015. His request was denied in February of this year. He is the husband of a Ukrainian citizen, and the father of ten Ukrainian children. He is now facing deportation to Russia.
On Monday, March 28th, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree amending the procedure for granting citizenship to foreigners serving in the Ukrainian Armed …
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Ukraine suspends agreement with Russia on the protection of technical information
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine suspended the agreement with Russia about cooperation in the sphere of technical protection of information. The Cabinet voted unanimously in favor of the decision. "No objections here could possibly exist," the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Arseniy Yatsenyuk said about the decision.
The agreement on technical protection of information was signed in 1996 in support of the development of industrial cooperation between the enterprises and industries of the CIS …
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Poroshenko affirms conditions for elections in the Donbas
The holding of local elections in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions is only possible with the improvement of regional security, the participation of the OSCE, and the transfer of control over the self-proclaimed republics to Ukraine, as stated by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
“We are interested in unlocking the political process and holding local elections in Donbas. However, these elections are possible only under several conditions," Poroshenko said. He added that “Ukraine’s struggle …