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      Ukraine News Roundup | November 18
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      Ukraine News Roundup | November 18

      Dealing with Putin: How to Keep US-Russian Tensions from Going Critical via National InterestRussian ‘Deniable Intervention’ in Ukraine: Why and How Russia Broke the Rules via Chatham House Obama Calls Out Russia: ‘You Don’t Invade Other Countries’ via New York TimesPoroshenko Says Ukraine Prepared for ‘Total War’ as...

      Ukraine’s New Government: The Names Emerge
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      Ukraine’s New Government: The Names Emerge

      We can expect Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, to meet this week to vote on the country’s new government. The political parties of President Petro Poroshenko, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and their allies are close to completing negotiations and announcing their choices for the new Cabinet of Ministers. Critically, a...

      National Security and Defense Council: Number of militants’ offences decreased overs past 24 hours
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      National Security and Defense Council: Number of militants’ offences decreased overs past 24 hours

      18 November 2014 – Situation in the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) zone tends to become more complicated. Militants continue firing at ATO forces positions, Russian troops and terrorists’ gangs continue their redeployment along the delimitation line with the so-called “Donetsk” and “Luhansk people’s republic”. Over the past day the general number...

      Russians’ Once-Secretive Commander in Ukraine is On the Air
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      Russians’ Once-Secretive Commander in Ukraine is On the Air

      Colonel Igor Girkin Presses Kremlin to Expand Its War Through Southern and Eastern Ukraine “The Shooter” is back. Colonel Igor Girkin, the career Russian intelligence officer who disappeared three months ago from his leading role in the Russian-sponsored war against Ukraine, has burst anew into Russia’s news headlines. He has given a spate...

      Ukraine invites international observers to monitor gas transit from Russia
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      Ukraine invites international observers to monitor gas transit from Russia

      Ukraine is ready to attract international observers to monitor and control the volume of Russian gas supplied to Europe. Naftogaz of Ukraine CEO Andriy Kobolev said this in Brussels on Tuesday, a Ukrinform correspondent in Brussels reported. “The Western media have been discussing for several months whether there are Russian troops in...

      Industrial production in Ukraine shrinks by 9.4% in ten months
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      Industrial production in Ukraine shrinks by 9.4% in ten months

      Industrial production in Ukraine in January-October 2014 shrank by 9.4% compared to the same period last year, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine has reported. According to the service, in October 2014, industrial production grew by 7.5% compared to the previous month, but fell by 16.3% compared with October 2013. As reported, in September...

      NATO: Russia continues to send troops and weapons into Ukraine
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      NATO: Russia continues to send troops and weapons into Ukraine

      Russia continues to destabilize the situation in eastern Ukraine, sends troops and heavy weapons into Donbas and does not comply with the Minsk agreements. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said this before a meeting of the EU foreign ministers (defense) in Brussels on Tuesday, a Ukrinform correspondent reported. “We see that Russia...

      Poroshenko, Steinmeier discuss possibility of Weimar format of talks on Donbas
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      Poroshenko, Steinmeier discuss possibility of Weimar format of talks on Donbas

      Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier discussed in Kyiv on Tuesday the possibility of holding negotiations on the settlement of the situation in Donbas in the Weimar format – involving Germany, Poland and France, the presidential press service has reported. “In the context of...

      Poroshenko dismisses three regional governors
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      Poroshenko dismisses three regional governors

      Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed decrees dismissing the heads of the Poltava, Rivne and Ternopil regional state administrations. The decrees have been posted on the official website of the head of state. In particular, Viktor Buhaichuk was dismissed as chairman of Poltava Regional State Administration, Serhiy Rybachok as governor...

      Steinmeier sees Minsk agreements as basis for peaceful settlement
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      Steinmeier sees Minsk agreements as basis for peaceful settlement

      The Minsk agreements should remain the basis for continuing the dialogue on the peaceful settlement of the situation in Donbas. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said this after a meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday, while answering journalists’ questions, a Ukrinform correspondent reported. “I...