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      Contact group will not meet today – Belarusian Foreign Ministry
      Dec26

      Contact group will not meet today – Belarusian Foreign Ministry

      A meeting of the contact group on Ukraine, which was planned to be held in Minsk today, will not take place. BELTA informs with reference to head of the information department – Press Secretary of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry Dmitry Mironchik. “A meeting of the contact group on Ukraine will not be held in Minsk today,” he said. To...

      Militants shell ATO positions 16 times last night
      Dec26

      Militants shell ATO positions 16 times last night

      Militants last night shelled Ukrainian military 16 times with small arms, grenade launchers, mortars, armored vehicles and artillery, anti-terrorist operation spokesman Leonid Matiukhin reported. Stanytsia Luhanska, Chornukhyne, Nikishyne and outskirts of Sokolnyky were fired at with small arms and grenade launchers. The settlements of Maryinka,...

      New 100-hryvnia banknotes will be introduced in Ukraine
      Dec26

      New 100-hryvnia banknotes will be introduced in Ukraine

      The National Bank of Ukraine puts into circulation new UAH 100 banknotes, the banknotes of 2014 will be better protected. It is reported by depo.ua with reference to the press service of the regulator. Banknotes are issued to improve the organization of cash circulation and, within the frames of the planned issue for 2015, to replace worn,...

      Jaresko hopes Rada will adopt budget this year
      Dec26

      Jaresko hopes Rada will adopt budget this year

      Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko has said she hopes that Ukraine’s draft state budget for 2015 will be adopted by the Verkhovna Rada by the end of December. Jaresko wrote this on her Facebook page. “The government and the parliament are working together on the state budget for 2015. This is a complex process that causes a...

      Withdrawal of artillery to begin after December 26 – Rozmaznin
      Dec26

      Withdrawal of artillery to begin after December 26 – Rozmaznin

      The mechanism of implementation of the Minsk memorandum after the first stage – the silence mode – foresees the withdrawal after December26 of artillery systems of 100 mm caliber and above to create a 30-km security zone. A representative of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Major-General Oleksandr Rozmaznin, said this...

      OSCE vows to help deliver Ukrainian humanitarian aid to Donbas
      Dec26

      OSCE vows to help deliver Ukrainian humanitarian aid to Donbas

      Deputy Head of Ukraine’s Presidential Administration Valeriy Chaly and Chief of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine Ertugrul Apakan have discussed the results of recent talks in Minsk, the presidential press service reported. “The sides discussed the results of the last meeting of the trilateral contact group in Minsk. They...

      Cossacks returning from Donbas to Russia
      Dec26

      Cossacks returning from Donbas to Russia

      Simultaneously with the arrival of Russian army units and Russian mercenaries to Donbas, reduction in the number of the so-called “Cossacks” takes place. According to the Information Resistance group, centers for sending them to the Russian Federation are organized in Alchevsk and Perevalsk. Removal of “Cossacks” is carried out in groups by...

      Occupiers continue regrouping armored vehicles in Donbas
      Dec26

      Occupiers continue regrouping armored vehicles in Donbas

      Russian-terrorist forces, against the backdrop of “peace talks,” continue to fire at the positions of Ukrainian troops, although the number of attacks has significantly dropped. According to the Information Resistance group, along with shelling occupiers continue to regroup their armored vehicles. In particular, an armored column of...

      Ukraine cuts gross public debt to $69.335 bln
      Dec26

      Ukraine cuts gross public debt to $69.335 bln

      Ukraine’s gross public and publicly guaranteed debt in November 2014 shrank to $69.335 billion, the press service of the Ukrainian Finance Ministry has reported. As of November 30, 2014, Ukraine’s public and publicly guaranteed debt stood at $69.335 billion, including $39.756 billion as foreign debt (57.34% of the gross debt) and...

      Poroshenko orders tightening of security at strategic facilities
      Dec25

      Poroshenko orders tightening of security at strategic facilities

      Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has ordered the tightening of security at strategic facilities following the military and economic exercises “Concentration – 2014,” the presidential press office has reported. “The head of state set a number of priority tasks, first and foremost, ordered the tightening of security at...