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Obama signs Defense Act authorizing up to USD350 mln for Ukraine security
U.S. President Barack Obama has signed into law the National Defense Authorizations Act (NDAA), 2017 authorizing up to US$350 million to be made available for security assistance to Ukraine, according to Ukraine`s Embassy to the United States. This amount includes lethal defensive assistance, for the fiscal year 2017, the Embassy wrote on...
Air strikes resume around Aleppo Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said air strikes resumed in rebel-held areas of the countryside near Aleppo on Friday for the first time since the end of an operation this week to evacuate rebels and civilians from the city, according to Reuters. Strikes hit to the west, south-west and south of the city, which the Syrian government...
Ukrainian army retakes village near Svitlodarska Duha bulge
Commander of the Donbas-Ukraine Battalion Viacheslav Vlasenko has announced the Ukrainian army has retaken the village of Novoluhanske, near the so-called Svitlodarska Duha bulge. ”Nice to see you, Svitlodarska Duha. Today, the Donbas-Ukraine Battalion has successfully conducted a bold operation to liberate the village of Novoluhanske. At one...
Putin not to give a direct answer to question on Russian troops in Donbas, mumbling about ”Ukrainian occupiers” instead
Russian President Vladimir Putin during the press conference chose not to give a direct answer to the question regarding Russia`s military presence in the Ukrainian Donbas. Roman Tsymbaliuk, a UaPosition correspondent in Russia, asked Putin why he had sent troops to Donbas, allegedly to protect the Russian-speaking population, as well as where...
Russian militants attack Ukraine 22 times in last day, twice at Svitlodarska Duha
Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 22 times in the past 24 hours, including three times on the settlement, according to the press service of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO)...
8 Ukrainian troops were killed at Svitlodarsk Arc over 5 days – Lysenko
Eight Ukrainian soldiers were killed in action at Svitlodarsk Arc from December 18 to December 23, Col. Andriy Lysenko, speaker for the ATO at Ukraine`s Defense Ministry, said at a Friday briefing, an UaPosition correspondent reported. Col. Lysenko also said that over the past day, two Ukrainian soldiers were killed in action (KIA) and another...
Putin`s aide preparing ”DPR-LPR”`s accession to Russia
Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkov has pledged integration of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk ”People`s Republics” into the Russian Federation within 1.5 years, head of Information Resistance Group, military analyst and MP Dmytro Tymchuk wrote on Facebook. According to Tymchuk, ”DPR” representatives held a meeting with Surkov,...
Putin explains why he does not agree to prisoner exchange with Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin has explained why the ”representatives of Donbas” are not satisfied with the negotiations with Ukraine on the exchange of prisoners, according to an UaPosition correspondent from Russia. ”Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has once expressed the idea of an ”all for all” exchange. I totally agree with that, but...
”We do not feel guilty” – Putin comments on Crimea annexation, Donbas war
Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that Russia is not to blame for the war in Donbas and other tragedies that have taken place in Ukraine over the past three years. Speaking at a press conference on Friday, he said that Russia had not been the initiator of ”what has happened,” according to the Ukrainska Pravda online newspaper. ”We do not...
U.S. State Department appeals to Russia about accords on ”ceasefire” in Eastern Ukraine
The U.S. State Department hopes that a long-term truce will be established in Donbas in connection with the intention of parties to armed conflict to observe the ”ceasefire” from midnight on December 24. ”The United States welcomes the trilateral contact group`s announcement of an agreement for a holiday ceasefire in eastern Ukraine – excuse me –...
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General Staff operational report August 22, 2023 on the Russian invasion of Ukraine Tuesday, August 22, 2023 - 18:55 (EEST)
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