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Kyiv: Russia refused to provide information about investigators it sent to Donbas to find Zakharchenko killers
At the meeting in Minsk, Ukraine demanded that Russia provide full information regarding media reports that Russia sent investigators to the Donbas to investigate the assassination of the separatist leader Alexander Zakharchenko. Russia categorically refused to answer, reported Iryna Herashchenko, Ukraine’s representative in the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) and First Deputy Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
Herashchenko noted that sending Russian …
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Ukraine: Russia sends to Donbas weapons captured during the annexation of the Crimea
Russia is arming militants in the Donbas with captured weapons from Ukrainian military bases after the annexation of the Crimea, reported the Communication Department of the Ukrainian National Police, citing a statement of the Chief of the National Police, Serhiy Knyazev.
“Firearms, which were captured from more than 10 military bases in annexed Crimea, are used on the territories of the Joint Forces Operation. They belonged to the Armed Forces of Ukraine until 2014 but the arms were stolen …
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Ukraine asks Russia to provide information on the fate of former LPR leader Plotnitsky
During the talks in Minsk in the light of the murder of Alexander Zakharchenko, the leader of the DPR, the Ukrainian side of the Tripartite Contact Group asked for information about the location of the ex-head of the LPR Igor Plotnitsky, said Iryna Herashchenko, the representative of Ukraine in the humanitarian subgroup of the TCG.
“The Ukrainian side was interested to find out where Plotnitsky has disappeared. Plotnitsky is involved in a number of criminal cases in Ukraine and he will sooner …
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Ukrainian border guards poisoned by emissions in Crimea
Border guards working close to the Crimean Titan factory have been poisoned, reported Oleh Slobodyan, spokesman for the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (SBGS), in a broadcast of 112 Ukraine.
The SBGS staff who serve at the border crossing in the Kherson province, close to the Crimean Titan plant, have begun to complain of lightheadedness, nausea and headaches, following reports of an ecological catastrophe in Crimea.
“After the relevant medical consultations and medication, these …
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Ukraine: Ecological catastrophe in Crimea caused by Russian military exercises
The Chief Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry believes that the recent chemical emissions in northern Crimea were caused by projectiles hitting chemical storage facilities during military drills conducted by the Russian Armed Forces, reported Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesperson Dmitry Hutsulyak at a press briefing.
“According to the information of the Defense Ministry’s Chief Intelligence Directorate, between August 13-19 this year, during drills on covering the …