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Russia blocks Normandy meeting at G20 summit, separate meetings scheduled
Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov has announced that no meeting in the Normandy format between the presidents of Germany, France and Russia is scheduled on the sidelines of the G20 summit in China, the leaders will have separate meetings, according to Russian news agency RIA Novosti. Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to meet with...
Ukraine honoring soldiers killed in 2014 Ilovaisk battle
An official ceremony to honor Ukrainian soldiers who died in the Ilovaisk battle in August 2014 is taking place at Kyiv`s Soviyska Square on Sunday Russian-Ukrainian war veterans and relatives of the dead soldiers have gathered at the square. About 100 people have paid tribute to the victims with the singing of the Plyve Kacha po Tysyni Ukrainian...
Slovakian leader renews call for ending EU sanctions on Russia
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico renewed his call for the European Union to end sanctions against Russia after a meeting this week with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, according to Radio Liberty. Slovakia holds the rotating EU presidency and will host a meeting of the bloc`s foreign ministers next week. He is one of several central European...
Sudden combat readiness check in Russia: aircraft being deployed in military district at border with Ukraine
Crews of the air forces of the Western and Central military districts of the Russian Federation have started the redeployment of aviation equipment to tactical airfields in the Southern military district along the border with Ukraine, as part of the sudden checking of combat readiness of Russian troops. ”Fighter and bomber aircraft, as well as...
Russian troops attack Ukraine 88 times in last 24 hours
Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 88 times in the past 24 hours, with the largest number of attacks being 37 and recorded in the Donetsk sector, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) headquarters posted on Facebook. In the Donetsk sector, militants continue their armed...
Ukraine, China draw roadmap for economic cooperation
Ukraine and China are developing an economic cooperation roadmap for joint implementation of projects in agricultural, industrial, energy and infrastructure areas, Ukraine Trade Representative Natalia Mykolska said following the 4th meeting of the Subcommittee on trade and economic cooperation of the Commission for Cooperation between the...
Poroshenko discusses escalation of Donbas conflict with NATO Secretary General
President Petro Poroshenko has held a telephone talk with Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg, the presidential press service reported. The Ukrainian president informed about the escalation of the situation in Donetsk and Luhansk regions and the growing number of Russian provocations in the occupied Donbas and Crimea, according to the...
2,504 Ukrainian soldiers killed for over two years of war: Poroshenko
A total of 2,504 Ukrainian soldiers were killed defending Ukraine since the beginning of 2014, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said during a speech in the center of Kyiv on the occasion of Ukraine`s Independence Day. ”Looking back on more than two years of war, we can confidently assert that the enemy was not able to implement any strategic...
Girlfriend of energy watchdog`s head buys $2 mln house just before coal price rises – media
Sleuth journalists from the TV program `Nashi Groshi with Deny Bigus` have revealed that the common-law wife of Dmytro Vovk, 27, chairman of the National Commission of Ukraine for Energy, Housing and Utilities Services Regulation (NCER), in February 2016, acquired a mansion in the village of Ivankovychi outside Kyiv with worth an estimated...
Ukraine drafts documents calling for UN to deploy peacekeepers in Donbas
Volodymyr Yelchenko, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations has stated that Ukraine has prepared documents calling for the United Nations to send a peacekeeping force to the Donbas region, RBC-Ukraine reported. Yelchenko clarified that the draft documents focus on, in particular, establishing the UN Support Office in the...