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Rebels rifled through MH17 victims’ bags
Australia said it was “sickened” after a video emerged purportedly of rebels rummaging through luggage of Flight MH17 passengers. ||| Sydney – Australia said on Friday it was “sickened” after new footage emerged purportedly of Russian-backed rebels rummaging through the luggage of passengers killed after Flight MH17 was shot down over...
Dmitry Tymchuk: Military update 7.16
The consequences of militants’ shelling in Avdiivka, on Lenin Street (click on images to enlarge). Source In the Donetsk sector, in the areas of Pisky, Opytne, and the southern outskirts of Avdiivka, terrorists used 122 mm and 152 mm artillery and armored vehicles for shelling, at short intervals. Shellings and provocations by militants were...
National Security and Defense Council:At least one civilian was killed as a result of Russian militant attack at Kodema village near Donetsk
Kyiv, July 16, 2015. Ceasefire was generally holding in the Luhansk sector. Ukrainian troops have registered only two brief armed provocations of Russia-backed fighters near Krymske and Novotoshkivske. Ukrainian Armed Forces did not incur any lethal casualties over the last day. View map in full size In the Donetsk sector, militants started...
One year on, MH17 families want justice
A year after the passenger jet was shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine, families want those responsible brought to book. ||| Amsterdam/Hrabove, Ukraine – One by one, the names of the 298 passengers and crew who died aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 will be read aloud by relatives on Friday, a year after the passenger jet was shot...
New Ukraine law to unblock $3bn in aid
Ukraine’s parliament has passed all the laws needed to receive a new tranche of loans amounting to over $3 billion. ||| Kiev – Ukraine’s parliament has passed all the laws needed to receive a new tranche of loans amounting to over $3 billion under an IMF-backed bailout programme, Finance Ministry official Artem Shevalev said on...
Ukraine Bank Deputy Dmytro Solohub: Economic recovery ‘difficult, but still possible’
Dmytro Solohub admits that the Ukrainian economy is “very fragile” and faces “lots of security risks”— but says he’s doing everything he can to stabilize Ukraine’s currency, control galloping inflation, and return his country to prosperity as quickly as possible.Solohub, 37, took over in mid-March as Deputy...
National Security and Defense Council:Svitlodarsk, northern outskirts of Horlivka, Novhorodske and western outskirts of Donetsk are major hotspots
Kyiv, July 15, 2015. Russia-backed militants considerably increased the density of fire in several areas on the frontline over the last 24 hours. In the Luhansk region, Ukrainian Armed Forces registered the mortar shelling of Stanytsia Luhanska by militants, who also twice fired “Grad-P” rockets at Ukrainian forces in the area of Novotoshkivske....
Earth to Russia. Come Back to Reality.
The conflict in Ukraine highlights dangerous trends in Russian foreign policy. Russian-backed separatists and the Russian military have killed thousands of civilians and Ukrainian soldiers in eastern Ukraine. It’s the starkest example of Moscow’s neo-imperialist foreign policy so far. However, even more worrisome trends have...
Dmitry Tymchuk: Military update 7.14
Children in Rozsypne town, Donbas, have new toys – RPGs. Photo: Paweł Pieniążek. Source Operational data from Information Resistance: The intensity of the shelling by Russian terrorist troops in Donbas is increasing. The terrorists continue to use heavy weapons (122 mm and 152 mm artillery, armored vehicles, 120 mm mortars). The insurgents also...
What Ukraine Can Learn From Poland
When the Soviet Union crumbled in 1991, both Poland and Ukraine were poor. Since then, the Polish economy has boomed, while Ukrainians are poorer than they were twenty-four years ago.Poland got its reforms right in the 1990s, and now plays a significant role in Ukraine’s reform process. This is evident in the close relations between both...