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Volker: By dragging out conflict, Russia wants to involve DPR and LPR in discussion of peacekeeping
The main difficulty in working to resolve the crisis in Donbas is that Russia continues to deny its role in the fighting, stated Kurt Volker, the U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations, as reported by Voice of America.
“Russia is continuing to deny its own role in this and that it has nothing to do with the separatist governments that it has set up, and that it changes the leaders at will as they did in Luhansk just last month,” Volker said.
According to him, by dragging out the …
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Ukraine to submit complaint to NATO Parliamentary Assembly about Serbian mercenaries in Donbas
The Ukrainian delegation is preparing an appeal to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly regarding the presence of Serbian mercenaries in the Donbas, as reported on Facebook by the chairman of the permanent delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, People's Deputy Iryna Friz.
"We are preparing an appeal from our delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly regarding this issue and I am sure that it is necessary to contact all international institutions to inform them about the shameful fact of …
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Austrian court makes final decision on extradition of Ukrainian oligarch Firtash to Spain
The Vienna Court of Appeals has decided to refuse Spain’s request for the extradition of Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash. The court's decision, which was reported by Levyy Bereg, is final and cannot be appealed.
The court thus confirmed the legality of the decision taken in October by the Higher Regional Court of Vienna.
The Court of Appeals decided to refuse Firtash’s extradition to Spain due to the absence of a crime, place and time.
"The Court ruled to deny the Spanish request for …
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Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine: Russian Grads involved in bombardment of Novoluhanske
The Russian Armed Forces were involved in the bombardment of the Novoluhanske settlement in the Donetsk province, as stated by Andriy Lysenko, spokesperson for the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, on Facebook.
According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the bombardment of Novoluhanske was carried out by the Grad multiple rocket launcher systems that were stationed in Horlivka. At least 40 projectiles were fired on the settlement.
Lysenko reports that DPR (Donetsk People’s Republic) …
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Saakashvili publishes open letter to Poroshenko
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili published an open letter to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on his Facebook page.
“Our relations were friendly to begin with. But today they have reached a state where we are on different sides of the barricade,” Saakashvili observed.
He mentioned that last week he sent Poroshenko a personal note, in which he suggested that they begin talks “about the future fate of Ukraine and preventing the destabilization of the situation in the country”. “ …