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      KYIV, January 21 /Ukrinform/. Children to be evacuated from Avdiyivka due to unstoppable attacks – chief of Ukraine’s Internal Ministry in Donetsk region
      Jan21

      KYIV, January 21 /Ukrinform/. Children to be evacuated from Avdiyivka due to unstoppable attacks – chief of Ukraine’s Internal Ministry in Donetsk region

      Children to be evacuated from Avdiyivka due to unstoppable attacks – chief of Ukraine’s Internal Ministry in Donetsk region Because terrorists have been firing at Avdiyivka, town 10 km east of Donetsk, without cease the local children will be evacuated to the holiday resorts in Dnipropetrovsk region. Chief of Ukraine’s Internal...

      Jaresko: Investors overestimate risks in Ukraine
      Jan21

      Jaresko: Investors overestimate risks in Ukraine

      Markets and investors overestimate the risks that exist in Ukraine. This view has been expressed by Ukraine’s finance minister Natalie Jaresko during the debate of the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. “Ukraine has been often an object of overestimation of risk. In my view, the economic...

      Lavrov urges OSCE to monitor the border with militants
      Jan21

      Lavrov urges OSCE to monitor the border with militants

      Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov says that the OSCE monitoring mission will be able to work on the problem areas of the Ukrainian-Russian border only if it agrees this issue on with the pro-Russian militants. He has said this on Wednesday during his annual press conference in Moscow, an Ukrinform correspondent reports from Russia....

      Geopolitical storm clouds loom

      Geopolitical risk is back with a bang, but partying financial markets have barely registered it, yet. ||| Davos – Geopolitical risk is back with a bang due to conflict in Ukraine, the Islamic State insurgency in Iraq and Syria, the politics of anger in Europe and the collapse of oil prices, but partying financial markets have barely...

      Switzerland to freeze 72 mln of ex-MP Ivaniushchenko
      Jan21

      Switzerland to freeze 72 mln of ex-MP Ivaniushchenko

      The Ukrainian court has seized the bank accounts of ex-MP Yuri Ivaniushchenko (a.k.a. Yura Yenakiyevskiy or Yura of Yenakievo in the criminal world, a personal friend and business partner of ex-president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych) worth over 72 million Swiss francs, upon the motion of the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) of Ukraine. The...

      “Parliament” of Crimea nationalized Krymenergo
      Jan21

      “Parliament” of Crimea nationalized Krymenergo

      So-called “Parliament” of Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Moscow last March, decided to nationalize Krymenergo DTEK PAO that belongs to Ukrainian oligarch Renat Akhmetov at its meeting on Wednesday. This is reported as saying by “head” of Crimea Sergey Aksenov Kryminform news agency has reported . “After...

      Militants withdraw five convoys with their killed soldiers
      Jan21

      Militants withdraw five convoys with their killed soldiers

      The convoys with the wounded militants continue to be delivered to the transshipment sanitary points of the Russian-terrorist forces in area of cities of Khartsyzk and Torez, Donetsk region. Information Resistance group leader Dmytro Tymchuk has posted this information on his Facebook page. He affirms that at least five such convoys were noticed...

      Russia not planning oil output cut

      Russia may see a natural decline in oil output but has no plans to cut production in coordination with OPEC. ||| Davos – Russia may see a natural decline in oil output by around 1 million barrels per day (bpd) at most but has no plans to cut production in coordination with OPEC, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said on Wednesday....

      Mogherini: The EU aims to strengthen cooperation with Ukraine
      Jan21

      Mogherini: The EU aims to strengthen cooperation with Ukraine

      The EU aims to intensify cooperation with Ukraine to support its European aspirations defended by the Ukrainian people in the conflict. The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini was quoted as saying, the Ukrinform’s own Washington correspondent reports. “Undoubtedly immediate and the most...

      OSCE Mission: Debaltseve fired by “DPR” militants
      Jan21

      OSCE Mission: Debaltseve fired by “DPR” militants

      Town of Debaltseve (55km north-east of Donetsk) has been shelled by the “DPR” (Donetsk People’s Republic) militants, says the report of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission. According to the Mission, its experts have recorded at least seven unexploded rockets. “A crater analysis performed by the SMM showed that the Grad...