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Siemens announces it will not send turbines to Crimea
The President of Siemens in the Russian Federation, Dietrich Moeller, stated that the German engineering company isn’t going to supply equipment to the Crimea in circumvention of EU sanctions. According to him, Siemens observes all export restrictions and sanctions, TASS reported.
As previously reported, the German engineering company can reach an agreement with the Crimean peninsula on supplies of turbines for Crimean power plants.
However, Moeller explained that the matter concerns the …
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Ukrainian MoD: Russia has deployed special forces to the Donbas
The units of the 604th Special Purpose Center Vityaz of the Interior Ministry of the Russian Federation arrived from the Moscow region of Balashikha to the area of Yasynuvata.
This was stated at a briefing in Kyiv by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense spokesman Colonel Oleksandr Motuzyanyk, Ukrinform reports.
“According to the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, there was another rotation in the ranks of the enemy. The units of the 604th Special Purpose …
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Ukraine's Security Service says it found eight 'torture chambers' in the Donbas
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) identified the addresses of eight alleged torture chambers in the territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, as was reported by the head of the SSU, Vasyl Hrytsak, 112 Ukraine news channel reports.
Two torture chambers were found in the Luhansk region and six in the Donetsk region.
"The data was collected gradually. I cannot say, I don’t know how many addresses are still unknown to us. Because we, by defining the legal status …
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Russia places S-400 missile system along border with Finland
The Russian Federation has deployed two S-400 anti-aircraft long and medium-range missile systems near the Finnish border, according to the Finnish Broadcasting Company, Yle. The Minister of Defense of Finland, Jussi Niinisto, said that this move was predictable.
"Earlier Russia indicated it was making such moves, for example, the placement of the S-400 in the Kola Peninsula as well as in the Crimea. It is normal practice. Russia is using these systems to replace older S-300s," Niinisto said. …
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Japan does not recognize results of Russian elections in Crimea
Japan does not recognize the illegal annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in March 2014, and, therefore, the legitimacy and results of the "elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation," which were held in the Crimea on September 18, 2016, according to a statement by the Japanese Embassy in Ukraine.
The Embassy also stressed that Japan “supports the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine and does not recognize the attempts to change the status quo by force.”
On …