Contents tagged with DPR
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What is in the cargo trains going from the separatist republics to Ukraine?
Author: Dmytro Snegiryov, Head of Prava Sprava public initiative.
The main objective of the economic blockade is to deprive separatist leaders and the separatist administration of funding. Their main source of revenue is the sale of coal to Ukraine. According to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), 47% of revenue from coal sales was spent on financing armed groups in the separatist republics. In the last year the volume of coal mined in the separatist-held territories increased by 49%, …
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Ukrainian subsidiary of Sberbank will not provide services to clients using LPR or DPR passports
The subsidiary bank of Sberbank of Russia in Ukraine, PJSC Sberbank will not provide services to individuals and legal entities based on documents issued in territories beyond the control of the Ukrainian authorities, the bank said in response to a request from Interfax-Ukraine.
"PJSC Sberbank, being a Ukrainian commercial bank and carrying out its activities on the basis of a license issued by the NBU (The National Bank Of Ukraine), strictly observes the norms of Ukrainian legislation. The …
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Ukraine to consider imposing sanctions on subsidiary of Russia's Sberbank
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) issued a statement in which it threatened that it would require the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of the country to impose sanctions against the Ukrainian "daughter" of Sberbank. The statement of the NBU followed the reports that Sberbank has begun to serve customers with passports from the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics.
"If this information is confirmed, the NBU will initiate a request to the NSDC to apply sanctions to …
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The DPR and LPR halted coal supplies to Ukraine
The coal mines located in the occupied territories of the Donbas, including those where so-called external management was introduced, halted supplies of high-energy coal to Ukraine, Interfax-Russia reported. Nevertheless, enterprises continue to work and the extraction of coal continues, the DPR (Donetsk People's Republic) Council of Ministers told Interfax news.
The LPR (Luhansk People's Republic) Government also confirmed the cessation of coal supplies to the territories controlled by …
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The Kremlin's decision to recognize 'passports' issued in the separatists republics is another attempt of Russia to destabilize the situation in Ukraine
Author: Dmytro Snegiryov, Head of Prava Sprava public initiative.
The temporary recognition of passports issued by the separatist republics is being used by Russia to exert political pressure specifically on Ukraine and not on our Western partners. By stressing the temporary character of the recognition of these documents, Putin is trying to accuse Ukraine of violating its commitments laid out in the Minsk Agreements: the elections, an all-inclusive amnesty, and a special status for these …
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The DPR announces beginning of TV broadcasting in Ukraine
The self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) announced the expansion of "broadcasts" of their own television and radio stations to three Ukrainian regions: Kharkiv, Kherson and Dnipropetrovsk. This was stated by the head of the DPP, Alexander Zakharchenko, as reported by separatist media.
It is reported that he gave the order to start the broadcasts to the Ukrainian territory directly at the press conference."It's time to launch this process. From now on, our television and radio …
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Ukrainian Government: Ukraine will cease all contacts with the enterprises ‘nationalized’ by the seperatists
Ukraine will cease all contacts with the enterprises located in the so-called DPR (Donetsk People’s Republic) and LPR (Luhansk People’s Republic) that were expropriated by the separatists, as stated by the Minister of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, Vadym Chernysh, in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine on Friday.
"All business contacts with companies where the management was changed will be stopped", he said. The Minister stressed that only those companies that work within …
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DPR announces its own trade blockade with Kyiv
Since the beginning of the Ukrainian crisis, residents of the Donbass have learned to live under the Kyiv instituted blockade, now the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic has announced their own blockade of Kyiv, the head of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) Alexander Zakharchenko said.
“We have cut off all contact with Ukraine, with whom we are fighting. Yes, we are selling coal to get money to pay our wages here. But by virtue of this we have learned to live in the blockade, …
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Tensions rise as separatist 'nationalize' Ukrainian companies in the Donbas
On March 1, separatists introduced "external management" to Ukrainian enterprises located in the territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions not controlled by Kyiv. This action is the fulfilment of an ultimatum given the day before to the organizers of the trade blockade of the Donbas. The blockade is has been manned by veterans of the war in eastern Ukraine since the end of January.
The separatists placed about 40 Ukrainian companies under "external management." This was stated by the head of …
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Separatists nationalize all Ukrainian enterprises in territories not under Ukrainian control
Enterprises under Ukrainian jurisdiction which are in the separatist-held areas of the Donbas are now being administered by separatists.
“As of midnight on March 1, Ukrainian enterprises in the jurisdiction of the DPR (Donetsk People’s Republic) are under state administration,” reported Russia's Interfax news agency citing a source in the Council of Ministers of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The LPR (Luhansk People’s Republic) also confirmed to Interfax the change to a new administration.
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