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      Real wages decrease in Ukraine
      Nov30

      Real wages decrease in Ukraine

      Real wages of Ukrainians dropped 3% in October to the previous month, according to the State Statistics Service. Compared with October 2015, real wages increased by 6.2% though. The average monthly nominal wage of full-time employees decreased by 0.2% in October compared with September, amounting to UAH 5,350. This is 3.7 times higher than the...

      Yatsenyuk: Ukraine can`t be held hostage to internal bureaucratic conflicts in Brussels
      Nov30

      Yatsenyuk: Ukraine can`t be held hostage to internal bureaucratic conflicts in Brussels

      Ukraine expects that the EU will fulfill its part of the arrangements and its strong political will in the current international circumstances, Popular Front Party leader and former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk wrote on Facebook following his speech at a meeting of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs in Brussels...

      Klimkin shows to Normandy Four in Minsk picture of Russian UAV, its flight route over Ukraine
      Nov30

      Klimkin shows to Normandy Four in Minsk picture of Russian UAV, its flight route over Ukraine

      Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin wrote on Twitter that during a Minsk meeting of the Normandy Four top diplomats he showed a photo of a Russian drone and its flight route over the Ukrainian territory, as another evidence of Russian aggression. ”Another evidence of Russian aggression: I showed photo of UAV of Russian Armed...

      55,000 Russian troops massing near Ukraine – Ukrainian Defense Ministry
      Nov30

      55,000 Russian troops massing near Ukraine – Ukrainian Defense Ministry

      Ukraine`s Deputy Defense Minister Ihor Dolhov says some 55,000 Russian troops are now massing near the border with Ukraine. ”Currently, Russia has amassed about 55,000 servicemen near the Ukrainian border. The presence of the Russian regular army on the territory of Ukraine varies from 5,000 to 7,500 soldiers. In Crimea, this figure is 23,000...

      France says lifting sanctions on Russia would be counterproductive
      Nov30

      France says lifting sanctions on Russia would be counterproductive

      French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said on Tuesday that lifting European Union sanctions on Russia would weaken efforts to resolve the Ukraine crisis and hand a victory to Moscow, Reuters reported. ”It would weaken the objective of resolving this conflict and would be a victory to those who endangered the security of a country,” Ayrault...

      OSCE SMM: Only limited access to disengagement areas in Donbas
      Nov30

      OSCE SMM: Only limited access to disengagement areas in Donbas

      The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine reiterates it has only limited access to three disengagement areas on the contact line in Donetsk and Luhansk regions. ”Today again only limited access for OSCE SMM to Pervomaisk/Zolote, Stanytsia Luhanska and Petrivske/Bohdanivka disengagement areas – UAF (Ukrainian Armed Forces), ”LPR”, ”DPR”...

      Hryvnia strengthens to UAH 25.60 to dollar on interbank market
      Nov29

      Hryvnia strengthens to UAH 25.60 to dollar on interbank market

      Hryvnia quotations against the dollar on the interbank currency market on Tuesday strengthened to UAH 25.57/25.60 to the dollar by the middle of trade, a broker at a commercial bank has told an UaPosition correspondent. Hryvnia quotes against the euro have settled at UAH 27.29/27.35, while those against the Russian ruble have settled at UAH...

      Canada adds Crimean officials to sanctions list
      Nov29

      Canada adds Crimean officials to sanctions list

      In order to maintain the necessary pressure on Russia until it fully complies with its international obligations with respect to Ukraine, the Special Economic Measures (Ukraine) Regulations have been amended to list 15 additional separatist individuals, including six members of Russia`s State Duma from Crimea, who are subject to an asset freeze...

      France calls for U.N. Security Council meeting on Aleppo
      Nov29

      France calls for U.N. Security Council meeting on Aleppo

      French foreign affairs minister Jean-Marc Ayrault called on Tuesday for an immediate United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss the situation in the Syrian city of Aleppo, which has been devastated by fighting, according to Reuters. ”More than ever before, we need to urgently put in place means to end the hostilities and to allow...

      Ukraine reports 38 attacks in Donbas in last day, hot spot near Mariupol
      Nov29

      Ukraine reports 38 attacks in Donbas in last day, hot spot near Mariupol

      Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 38 times in the past 24 hours, and most of the attacks were recorded in the Mariupol sector in Donetsk region, according to the press service of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters. ”Russia`s hybrid military force used 120mm and 82mm mortars,...