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Ukraine News Roundup | November 14
Now That Russia Has Invaded Ukraine Again, Let’s Stop Pretending a Cease-Fire Ever Existed via New RepublicAs Putin’s Threatens Eastern Europe, Ukraine’s Defense Is What Will Contain Him via PoliticoSentenced to Death by a Crowd: Justice Under a Russian-Proxy Warlord of Eastern Ukraine (Video) via Vice News Putin’s Revised...
Putin faces icy reception in Brisbane
Tension heightened when Vladimir Putin arrived at the G20 summit with Britain’s David Cameron tell the Russian leader to stop bullying smaller states. ||| Brisbane – Vladimir Putin faces an icy reception at the G20 summit with Britain’s David Cameron telling the Russian leader to stop bullying smaller states and...
Hryvnia strengthens by another 15 kopecks
The National Bank of Ukraine raised the official hryvnia rate against the dollar by 15 kopecks to 15.4124 UAH/USD on Friday, November 14. This is said on the regulator’s website. The official hryvnia rate against the euro is 19.1977 UAH/EUR against 19.3986 UAH/EUR a day before, against Russian ruble – 0.3341 against 0.3357 UAH/RUB on...
Steinmeier will visit Kyiv and Moscow during one day
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier will make a visit to Kyiv and Moscow on Tuesday, November 18. The press service of the German Foreign Ministry told a special correspondent of Ukrinform. “The Minister will first visit Kyiv and then Moscow on Tuesday,” the official representative of the German MFA said. Steinmeier’s press...
National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine: Terrorists do not give up attempts to establish control over the Donetsk airport
Kyiv, 14 November 2014 – The situation in Donetsk and Luhansk regions remains tense. Movement and concentration of Russian troops and militants’ groups is being continuously observed. Biggest activity of the Russian mercenaries is spotted at the Donetsk, Luhansk and Debaltseve directions. While trying to establish control over the Donetsk airport...
Yatseniuk offers his composition of government
Ukrainian Prime Minister and People’s Front leader Arseniy Yatseniuk has offered the participants of the future coalition in the Verkhovna Rada his version of the composition of a new government. He said this at a press conference on Friday, a Ukrinform correspondent reported. “As for the list – it’s a request. It is the...
Russian air defense system accompanied ‘convoy’ in Donetsk – U.S. ambassador
A Russian air defense system was working next to a “separatist convoy” in Donetsk. U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt reported this on his Twitter page. “We have information that a Russian air defense system was operating near a separatist convoy in Donetsk – suggests Russian forces were protecting,” he wrote....
“LPR border guards” will work for food
Militants of the “LPR” set up “border guard” and “police” units and issue them their wages by food. Spokesman of the NSDC Information-Analytical Center Andriy Lysenko told a briefing, a Ukrinform correspondent reports. “OSCE mission representatives in Luhansk fixed a fact of recruitment of persons by the terrorist organization “LPR” for setting...
Yatseniuk says whom he wants to see as Speaker
Prime Minister of Ukraine, leader of People’s Front Arseniy Yatseniuk considers incumbent Verkhovna Rada Chairman Oleksandr Turchynov the most professional Speaker. He told a press conference Friday, a Ukrinform correspondent reports. “I objectively consider that Oleksandr Valentynovych is the most professional Speaker. But I believe, at...
Trading on interbank opens at 15.56/15.92 UAH/USD
Trading in the hryvnia on the interbank currency market on Thursday, November 13, opened with quotations 15.56/15.92 UAH/USD. Ukrdealing portal informs. Euro-hryvnia quotations opened at the level of 19.3737/19.8172 UAH/EUR, hryvnia-ruble – UAH/RUB 0.3278/0.3357. The average weighted hryvnia rate, according to the NBU, as of 11:30 a.m. is...