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Russian troops violate ”Minsk ceasefire” 30 times in 24 hours – 3 Ukrainian soldiers killed, 1 wounded
Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 30 times in the past 24 hours, including 10 times in the Mariupol sector, five times in the Donetsk sector and 15 times in the Luhansk sector, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation headquarters (ATO HQ). View map in full size Three...
Savchenko: Russia sanctions must remain
Nadia Savchenko, the former Ukrainian military officer who spent nearly two years in a Russian prison, says it is too early to lift sanctions against Russia because the situation in Crimea and eastern Ukraine is unchanged, according to Radio Liberty. The comments by Savchenko, made to RFE/RL in Brussels, came amid growing talk in some Western...
U.S., Russia clinch Syria deal, aim for truce from Monday – Reuters
The United States and Russia hailed a breakthrough deal on Saturday to put Syria`s peace process back on track, including a nationwide truce effective from sundown on Monday, improved humanitarian aid access and joint military targeting of banned Islamist groups, according to Reuters. ”Today, Sergei Lavrov and I, on behalf of our presidents and...
”Plastic bags on face, electric shocks”: human rights activists tell of systemic torture of Ukrainians in Russia
Head of the Crimean Human Rights Group Olha Skrypnik during a Kyiv press conference has spoken of a systemic use of torture against Ukrainian citizens who are held as political prisoners by the Russian security forces. ”Indeed, we were afraid that in this case [the case of the so-called Crimean ”saboteurs ”], torture could be applied because,...
UN condemns North Korean nuclear test, vows to take action
The United Nations Security Council strongly condemned North Korea`s latest nuclear test and started discussing taking ”significant measures,” including new sanctions, against Pyongyang, according to Radio Liberty. The council quickly agreed to a statement on September 9 condemning the North`s fifth and most powerful underground explosion to date...
Poroshenko meets with OSCE Secretary General
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko had a meeting with OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier, according to the president`s press service. ”Today, the OSCE faces unprecedented challenge when the aggression of one state-participant against Ukraine has virtually invalidated heritage of the Helsinki Final Act,” Poroshenko said, the press service...
NBU cuts official exchange rate to UAH 26.67 to dollar
The National Bank of Ukraine on Friday evening lowered the official hryvnia exchange rate by four kopiykas, bringing the national currency to UAH 26.67 to the dollar. The Central Bank set the following official exchange rates of the hryvnia against leading foreign currencies for September 12: $100 costs UAH 2,667.4886 (on September 9, it was UAH...
Russia halts diesel fuel supplies to Ukraine – media
The Russian Federal Service for Technical and Export Control (FSTEC) on September 9 cancelled most of the earlier issued permits for diesel fuel exports to Ukraine, according to OilNews citing the importers of Russian diesel. ”On Friday, the majority of permits, earlier issued by FSTEC, were zeroed. Deliveries are halted. Ukrainian companies are...
Crimea cannot be returned to Ukraine, Czech president says – NYT
Ukraine cannot get back the Crimea peninsula, although Russia took it by annexation, Czech President Milos Zeman was quoted as saying, according to The New York Times. ”An annexation means breaching international agreements and it is doubtless that agreements guaranteeing Ukraine`s territorial integrity were breached,” Zeman said in a response to...
LPR militants block OSCE access to two villages – Ukraine intel
The militants of the so-called Luhansk People`s Republic terrorist organization have denied the observers of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine access to the villages of Pionerske and Mykolaivka in the temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk region, the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine`s Defense Ministry reported on...