Section: News & Summaries
Militants shell Donetsk airport at night
A night passed calmly in Luhansk region, no shelling of ATO positions was observed in the sector. The ATO press center informs. Instead, in Donetsk region, militants carried out mortar shelling of our roadblock near the settlement of Mykolaivka and fired the Donetsk airport from small arms and mortars. The situation on the south of the ATO area...
NATO: Hundreds of Russian troops training militants in occupied part of Ukraine
Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove, head of U.S. European Command and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, has said that in eastern Ukraine, Russia has about 250-300 troops who are training and equipping the separatists. Speaking at a press briefing on November 3, Breedlove noted that the Russian government continued to support militants in Donbas....
White House responds to Russian Foreign Ministry’s attempt to recognize separatist ‘elections’
Washington has expressed concern about the intentions of the Russian leadership to recognize as legitimate the vote organized by separatists in eastern Ukraine and has threatened to raise the costs to Moscow for “its destabilizing and dangerous actions.” The White House said this in a statement released in Washington on Monday,...
President initiates cancellation of special status for Donbas, prepares new law
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, at a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council on Tuesday, will propose cancelling the law on a special status for certain districts in Donbas, according to a presidential address posted on the website of the head of state on Monday. “One of the issues that I will submit for consideration by...
Ukraine’s crisis deepens after rebel vote
Ukraine leader Petro Poroshenko has summoned his security chiefs to discuss new ways of dealing with the separatist challenge in the east. ||| Kiev/Donetsk – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called an emergency meeting of his security chiefs for Tuesday to discuss new ways of dealing with the separatist challenge in the east after rebel...
Ukraine’s New Government: Here’s What to Expect
Amid Horse-Trading by Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk, a New Parliament Speaker Is Likely The Atlantic Council’s Kyiv-based senior fellow, Brian Mefford, writes on the likely makeup of Ukraine’s post-election government. His key observations are below, and you can read his detailed analysis on his own blog. …read more Source: Atlantic...
Russia blocks UN over Ukraine rebel vote
Russia has opposed a UN Security Council move to criticize rebel elections held in eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian ambassador said. ||| United Nations – Russia has opposed a UN Security Council move to criticize rebel elections held in eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian ambassador said Monday.A statement from the 15-member council was discussed...
Russian flight patterns provocative: NATO
NATO’s top military commander said recent incursions into European airspace by Russian fighters and long-range bombers included larger, more complex formations of aircraft flying more “provocative” routes than usual. ||| Washington – NATO’s top military commander said on Monday that recent incursions into European airspace by...
Russian-Ukraine Gas Deal Gives Moscow the Leverage and Europe the Energy
Ukrainians Will Get Gas, Too, But Their Cost and Risk of Cutoffs Remain High European Union leaders in Brussels may be celebrating the gas deal signed Thursday between Ukraine and Russia as an assurance of Russian gas supplies to Europe this winter, but Ukrainians can at best take cold comfort from the agreement. EU Energy Commissioner Guenther...
CEC names first two elected MPs
The Central Election Commission (CEC) has officially named the first two elected deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of the eighth convocation who won the most vote at single-seat electoral districts Nos. 45 and 146. CEC members signed respective protocols at a meeting on Monday, a Ukrinform correspondent reported. Thus, a people’s deputy of all...