-
Linkevicius: Lithuania does not recognize legitimacy of Russian elections in Crimea
Lithuania refuses to recognize the legitimacy of the elections to the Russian State Duma that took place in the Crimea. The Russian MPs elected in the Crimea will not be considered as legitimate by Lithuania with all the attendant consequences, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Linas Linkevičius stated in his interview with DELFI.
“It doesn’t mean the direct assessment of elections as a whole; it means that we believe everything that is happening in the Crimea to be illegal. We don’ …
-
Swedish MP who is native of Russia is suspected of 'political unreliability'
Political Secretary in the Government Office of the Nationalist Party of Sweden Democrats and native of Russia, Alexander Fridback (known under the pseudonym Putilov Yegor), became a reason for political scandal in the Swedish government.
Swedish Minister of Defense Peter Hultqvist demanded an explanation from the leader of the party about the presence of the Russian, who is suspected by national security experts for political unreliability. The Sweden Democrats party could now face a vote of …
-
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 …
-
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 …
-
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 …