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New music video about war in Ukraine
Director: Taras Khymych Idea: Mykhaylo Dmytriv Music: Andriana Text: Viktor Vynnyk Arrangement: Roman Mykulskyy, Mykhaylo Bushko Art director – stylist: Olena Khymych Sound producer: Liubomyr Solomchenko Make-up artist, hairdresser: Mariya Shurubura The producer of military scenes: Volodymyr Pravosudov Cast: Olesya Halkanova, Taras Pendrak,...
Human rights activists: Ukrainian citizens Karpiuk and Klykh were electric shock tortured in Russia
Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation refuses to open criminal proceedings and consider Ukrainian prisoners Mykola Karpiuk and Stanislav Klykh’s claim on torture. “The principal investigator’s arguments are that Karpiuk himself admitted involvement in the commission of these crimes and did so in the presence of a lawyer, so that his...
U.S. Ambassador Pyatt and Commander of U.S. SpecOps Command Europe visited Ukraine Special Ops Forces at Khmelnitsky
U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt joined Maj. Gen. Gregory J. Lengyel, Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command Europe (SOCEUR), visited Khmelnytskyi, where U.S. forces from the 10th Special Forces Group are training Ukrainian special operations forces as part of the Joint Multinational Training Group – Ukraine (JMTG-U) During...
Twitter banned hundreds of Ukrainian users because of fake reports made by Russian bots
On December 29, 2015, Twitter began mass block of its users with active pro Ukrainian position who have thousands of followers. The reason was the mass appeals of Russian bots that used the changes to the rules of Twitter. For several days it was blocked several hundreds of Ukrainian accounts in this social network. Among them, many popular with...
New OSCE Chairman is satisfied with the ceasefire in Donbas while 3 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the first two days of the new year
New OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Foreign Minister of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier is satisfied with the ceasefire in Donbas and hopes for further development. “It gives hope that the parties to the conflict will discuss other difficult steps that yet have to be made to fully implement the Minsk Agreements, to find constructive solutions,...
Russian soldiers of 9th motor-rifle regiment of first army corps of Russian Federation Armed Forces captured Kominternove
On December 22 the 9th motor-rifle regiment of the first army corps of the Russian Federation Armed Forces seized Kominternove located in the “grey zone” supported by armored vehicles and an 82-mm mortar unit. They took hold of the western outskirts and started installing engineering equipment and fortifications as well as started mining the...
OSCE: the situation becomes worse in Eastern Ukraine. The violence is spreading, separatists take positions in schools.
The security situation in Donbas has remained tense and unpredictable. The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine noted indications that the violence was spreading. “On Saturday, for instance, in the space of 90 minutes we recorded 99 explosions in Novotroitske, and 32 explosions in Starohnativka. The day before in Pervomaisk in Luhansk...
Russian militants do not let UN humanitarian aid enter occupied territories and fired at Ukrainian positions
Russia-backed militants refused to let pass 23 trucks with UN humanitarian aid through their checkpoints. The trucks were carrying 430 tons of food and medicine destined for residents of the territories in Luhansk and Donetsk regions that Ukraine temporarily does not control. Russian militants stopped the trucks near Olenivka village, Luhansk...
Speech of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in Ukraine’s parliament in Kyiv
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has called on the Ukrainian lawmakers and members of the Government not to miss the chance to build the better future for Ukraine. “If you succeed, you will be the founders of the first democratic and free Ukraine,” Biden said and reminded that “the whole world is watching the struggle of Ukraine...