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Ukrainian troops destroy three of enemy’s howitzers
Ukrainian troops last night attacked the base camp of the enemy in the vicinity of Vesele in Donbas. The fighting is going on near Debaltseve. The coordinator of the Information Resistance group, Dmytro Tymchuk, wrote this on Facebook. “Last night Ukrainian troops attacked the base camp of the enemy near the settlement of Vesele. Three...
Some NATO countries to supply Ukraine with lethal weapons – Poroshenko
Some NATO countries have agreed to supply Ukraine with lethal weapons, including precision guidance weapons. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said this as part of the NATO summit after bilateral meetings with the leaders of the alliance’s member states in Wales on Thursday, a Ukrinform correspondent reported. “As a result of our...
Poroshenko calls for release of hostages and withdrawal of Russian troops
OSCE support is important in the implementation of a peace plan for the settlement of the situation in Donbas, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said. “The support of the OSCE is crucially important for the mission on monitoring the ceasefire regime to begin and for all the hostages of terrorists to be liberated,” the...
Ukraine gets second IMF tranche
Ukraine received on September 4 a second tranche from the IMF under the Stand-By Arrangement in the amount of SDR 914.7 million (about $1.39 billion), the press service of the Ukrainian Finance Ministry has reported. “According to the Letter of Intent of the Government of Ukraine and the National Bank to the International Monetary Fund,...
Counterintelligence detains pro-Russian saboteurs in Mykolaiv
Criminals who, on the instructions of their Russian curators, intimidated volunteers by setting fire to their cars have been detained in Mykolaiv, the press center of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has reported. “SBU counterintelligence has stopped the activity of a group of persons who set fire to the cars of residents of Mykolaiv...
Law enforcers defeat recon team of Russians near Mariupol
Reconnaissance by fire, staged by Putin’s mercenaries from Novoazovsk, was repelled on Thursday. Deputy Chairman of the Donetsk Regional State Administration Konstiantyn Batozsky wrote on Facebook. “The situation in Mariupol. The border troops and the special battalion Azov repelled reconnaissance by fire, made ??by the enemy from the...
NSDC announces Ukraine’s peace proposals at talks in Minsk
The Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) has explained which proposals will be made by Ukraine at a meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk on Friday. The details of the Ukrainian president’s “peace plan” were announced at a briefing by NSDC information and analytical center spokesman Andriy Lysenko, a...
Ukraine loses 3.4 million tonnes of coal because of terrorists – Energy Ministry
Many coalmines have been destroyed as a result of fighting in Ukraine’s eastern regions, and the losses of coal needed for the country’s energy security have already reached 3.4 million tonnes. First Deputy Minister for Energy and Coal Industry Yuriy Ziukov said this on Thursday at a meeting of the coordinating council for the...
Commission on Ilovaisk was set up in Rada
MPs created the Interim Investigation Commission on recent events in the suburbs of Ilovaisk. Deputy Andriy Senchenko told a briefing, a Ukrinform correspondent reports. “A decision was taken about creation of the Interim Investigation Commission of the parliament on investigation into the circumstances of tragic events, which led to deaths and...
Militants hand out Russian passports in Torez
Russian mercenaries offer UAH 1,000 to residents of Torez who will agree to exchange Ukrainian citizenship for Russian citizenship. National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) information and analytical center spokesman Andriy Lysenko said this at a briefing on Thursday, a Ukrinform correspondent reported. “According to current reports, in...