Contents tagged with Ukraine
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Ukraine and Russia carry out landmark prisoners swap
At about 9:00 a.m. Kyiv time on Saturday, September 7, two buses and a minivan, accompanied by traffic patrol cars entered the government terminal of Moscow Vnukovo airport. There was already one plane with Ukrainian state symbols which landed earlier in Vnukovo, Interfax reported. Later, another Ukrainian planed landed. According to the air traffic monitoring service, Flightradar, at around the same time, the Russian plane of the special flight detachment "Russia" flew to Ukraine and crossed …
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Ukraine releases another witness of the MH17 crash
The Ukrainian court released from custody ex-militant of Donetsk People’s Republic Aleksandr Nevedrov, who guarded pieces of MH17 Boeing 777 which was shot down over the Donbas in 2014. The court gave him a suspended sentences of 5 years, reports LB.ua news outlet citing the materials of the court.
Nevedrov was arrested in February in Toretsk and was accused of involvement in an illegal armed groups. Nevedrov had admitted his guilt.
He was born in Yenakiieve. Since 2002 he was convicted five …
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Russian activist who assisted Ukrainian sailors sentenced to 4 years in prison
On September 5, a court in Moscow sentenced the Russian activist Konstantin Kotov to four years in prison for “repeated violation of the rules for holding rallies” (Article 212.1 of the Russian Criminal Code), Radio Liberty reports.
“The court found that Kotov had repeatedly violated the rules for holding public protests over the past 180 days,” noted Judge Stanislav Minin.
The aforementioned article of Russia’s Criminal Code has become known as the “Dadin” article, after the activist Ildar …
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US senators urge Trump to release security financing for Ukraine
A group of US Republican and Democrat senators have sent a letter to President Donald Trump asking his administration to allocate $250 million to security assistance for Ukraine, Senator Rob Portman announced on his website.
The Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative has been approved by US Congress, but the Trump Administration has not yet released the funds.
In their letter, the three Democrat and two Republican senators urged the presidential administration to release the funds that are “ …
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Ukrainian court releases MH17 plane crash suspect
On Thursday, September 5, the Kyiv Court of Appeals decided to release from custody Vladimir Tsemakh, who is suspected of involvement in the crash of flight MH-17 in the Donbass in 2014, reported TSN.
The former militant was released under a personal obligation.
Thus, the judge overturned the decision of the Shevchenko court to extend Tsemakh's detention until October 20 next year.
"To apply to the suspect Tsemakh Vladimir Borisovich a measure of restraint in the form of a personal …
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Ukraine requests Russian ceasefire observers for Donbas
Ukraine has asked for Russia to send representatives to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC) of the ceasefire in the Donbas.
“As part of the TCG (Trilateral Contact Group) session, Ukraine submitted a request for Russia to return to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination,” wrote Darka Olifer, press secretary to Leonid Kuchma, Ukraine’s representative in the TCG, on Facebook.
According to her, this decision was prompted by the growing number of ceasefire violations by …
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Lukashenko: Belarus has closed its border with Ukraine due to the weapons flow
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, during his speech at international anti-terrorist conference in Minsk, said that Minsk was forced to tighten border control with Ukraine because of the flow of weapons, reports Interfax-Ukraine.
"We had to close the border completely with our brothers and close people [in Ukraine], even more than with the North Atlantic bloc, which for us has always, for a long time, allegedly seemed to be the number one enemy," Lukashenko said.
According to him, the …
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Ukrainian court sentences Russian to 15 years in prison for fighting in Donbas
Ruslan Gadzhiev, a Russian citizen who fought for the Luhansk People’s Republic LPR as a tank crew member in the “August Battalion”, was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a court in Ukraine.
The Artyomovsky District Court found him guilty of participating in aggressive warfare, planning an act of terror which led to human deaths, and of committing crimes in collusion with others.
The Russian citizen was sentenced to 15 years in prison and the confiscation of his property.
Gadzhiev arrived …
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Dutch investigators want to interrogate MH-17 catastrophe suspect detained in Ukraine
Russia wants to exchange the former DPR anti-air commander for Ukrainian political prisoners because he knows too much about Russia’s crimes in the Donbas.
Tsemakh’s testimony to the Dutch investigators will be different to the propaganda videos that he used to feature in.
Dutch investigators from the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) would like to question Vladimir Tsemakh, a former anti-air commander for the Russia-controlled Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) terrorist group. Tsemakh is a …
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Ukraine abolishes parliamentary immunity
Today, September 3, the Ukrainian Parliament approved the removal of parliamentary immunity provision from the Ukrainian Constitution.
373 Ukrainian MPs voted in favor of the bill. The bill comes into force on January 1, 2020.
The entire faction “Opposition Platform — For Life” refused to vote for the bill.
Before the vote, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky spoke from the podium and called on the parliamentarians to complete the process of abolishing the parliamentary immunity. He …