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No NATO peacekeepers in Donbas unless UNSC decides: diplomat
NATO member states and their partners will only send their troops to Ukraine if the peacekeeping mission is approved by the UN Security Council, Acting Head of the Mission of Ukraine to NATO Yehor Bozhok said in an interview with Ukrainian online newspaper Europeiska Pravda. "If the UN Security Council approves the...
Calm night in Donbas: only one militant attack recorded
The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine only once overnight, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) wrote on Facebook on Friday. "The last day was almost calm in the Donbas conflict zone. The only shelling of our positions was recorded in the direction of...
Ukroboronprom deputy chief: Javelins are a myth from action movies
Serhiy Pinkas, deputy chief of State-owned Ukroboronprom, which unites major defense industry enterprises, has told about supplies of military equipment to the ATO zone, integration of Ukrainian arms industry with NATO, and connection between Porsche, Mercedes, Audi, and Ivano-Frankivsk-based Karpaty factory. Earlier this year,...
Ukraine Bans Silvio Berlusconi for Three Years After Crimea Visit: Reports
Ukraine's security service on Thursday banned former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from entering the country for three years, according to Ukrainian and Russian media reports, after Berlusconi visited the Crimean Peninsula with Russian Presdident Vladimir Putin last week. The Italian media mogul spent two days in...
Ukroboronprom to ship next batch of tanks to Thailand by year’s end
The next batch of Oplot tanks, the latest development of the Ukrainian armored industry, will be shipped to Thailand by December 31, 2015, First Deputy General Director of state-owned Ukroboronprom Concern Serhiy Pinkas "We have met the latest deadline for the delivery of five tanks under the contact with Thailand. The...
Poroshenko enacts anti-Russian sanctions
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has enacted a decision taken by the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine on September 2 to introduce sanctions against Russia, presidential press secretary Svyatoslav Tsegolko tweeted. "The president has signed an order to introduce sanctions against Russia. It will...
OSCE sees 43 Grads in LPR-held areas behind withdrawal lines
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine has reported that militants from the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic ("LPR") in the country's east have massed heavy weapons, including 43 Grad multi-launch rocket systems at their training area. "At a Luhansk People's Republic training...
Russia transfers $37 mln for pensions in DPR every month: Bloomberg
Dependent on almost $40 million a month from their patrons in Moscow just to pay pensions and on a circuitous transfer system via another Russian construct in northern Georgia, the Donetsk officials say they’re making progress, Bloomberg reports. Two people in the rebel administration told Bloomberg Russia transfers 2.5...
Huge arms cache discovered in Luhansk region
Officers of the Security Service of Ukraine together with the regional police have discovered one of the largest ever revealed consignments of arms in Luhansk region. During an inspection of premises of the meat processing plant in the village of Polovynkyne, law enforcers discovered 50 different kinds of weapons. Security...
Moscow to hold Congress of separatists
Congress of separatists from around the world will be held in Moscow on September 20, patronized by a Russian Anti-Globalization Movement (ADR), foundation close to the Kremlin, according to RBC. According to the organizers of the meeting it will be "the first, and so far unique, event for the exchange of views between...
Two Ukrainian soldiers wounded in Donbas conflict zone in last day
No Ukrainian soldiers were killed but two were wounded in the Donbas conflict zone over the last 24 hours, head of the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) headquarters, Colonel Oleksandr Motuzianyk said at a briefing on Tuesday "Over the last day, we haven't lost any Ukrainian soldiers, but two were...
Pro-Russian sabotage group detained in Odesa region
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in Odesa region has detained members of a sabotage group that planned a series of terrorist attacks and assassinations. "The group was formed by a former employee of the Russian special services, who is now residing in the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea. The main task of the...