Contents tagged with Ukraine
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Lithuania expands sanctions against Russia for aggression in the Kerch Strait
Lithuania expanded “the blacklist” of Russian citizens in connection with the incident in the Kerch Strait.
The country’s Migration Department has added twenty people to the “black list”, reports the news agency BNS.
Earlier the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry proposed the introduction of restrictive measures against those responsible for aggression in the Kerch Strait. The Ministry stated that Russia’s actions grossly violated international law and represented a threat to international security. …
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Ukrainian Army Commander: Russian military threat highest since 2014
The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Victor Muzhenko, believes that Russia is increasing its military presence in the border areas, reports Reuters.
Russia is increasing its military presence near the border with Ukraine since August, and now the military threat is the highest since 2014 when Moscow annexed the Crimea.
Muzhenko refers to a series of satellite images, which according to him shows the Russian T-62M tanks stationed 18 kilometers from the …
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Russian Foreign Minister denies the possible release of Ukrainian sailors before a court sentence
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that the Ukrainian sailors captured near the Kerch Strait won’t be released until they receive a court sentence.
“There will be a trial after the investigation. As soon as it is over, we can talk about how to facilitate their fate or agree on some specific steps. But this will be done after the trial is completed,” Lavrov said, as quoted by TASS.
The Russian minister repeated that the Ukrainian servicemen are accused of illegal invasion of …
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Ukrainian Defense Minister: Ukraine to sign weapons delivery contracts with Western partners
Ukrainian Minister of Defense Stepan Poltorak stated in an interview with Priamyi TV that the Ukrainian government signed contracts with international partners for the supply of weapons, equipment and machinery.
“Martial law gives us the opportunity to develop ways of cooperation with our partners. We have consent that the contracts for the delivery of weapons and equipment will be signed in the near future,” said Poltorak.
He also said that several NATO ministers of defense will visit …
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Hungary stops issuing passports to Ukrainians in Zakarpattia
The Hungarian consulate in Ukraine has stopped and will not resume the practice of issuing Hungarian citizenship to Ukrainian citizens inside its consulates in Zakarpattia and in Kyiv,said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin in response to a question he was asked in Milan about the outcome of the negotiations with Hungary.
Last week in Kyiv, Ukraine and Hungary held consular consultations, and their foreign ministers met in Milan on December 6. Klimkin confirmed that at these meetings, …
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Ukrainian Parliament supports termination of Friendship treaty with Russia
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine voted for the termination of the Friendship Treaty with Russia. The draft law that was submitted to Parliament by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was supported by 277 deputies while 20 opposed. The treaty will be terminated on April 1, 2019, not immediately, according to the terms set for unilateral withdrawal from the treaty.
Poroshenko stressed earlier that the matter was not about the termination of the agreement but that Kyiv refuses to extend it. …
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Ukraine deploys air assault troops to Russian border
The air assault units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are being redeployed to the most dangerous directions of the Ukrainian-Russian border, as stated by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko during a working visit to the Zhytomyr region. Poroshenko's statement has been published by the press-service of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC).
The NSDC noted that the President and the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov visited one of …
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Kyiv authorizes Ukrainian coast guard to fire without warning
The Verkhovna Rada has passed a bill concerning Ukraine’s surrounding zone on its second reading. The bill states that the sea division of the State Border Guard Service (SBGS) may open fire without warning in an event of an armed aggression in order to protect Ukrainian ships.
244 MPs voted in favor of the bill the second time.
The zone surrounding Ukraine is defined as a sea belt adjacent to Ukraine’s territorial sea, the outer border of which is no more than 24 nautical miles from the …
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Volker: Russian ships may be banned access to European ports
US Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker demands that Russia release the Ukrainian sailors captured in the Kerch Strait at the end of November before Christmas or New Year.
During an interview with the Voice of America, Volker explained that the US and its western allies are considering a number of ways to prevent new instances of Russia’s “unilateral control” of the shared waters of the Sea of Azov.
“We do not accept or agree to the annexation of Crimea claimed by Russia,” he said, …
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A new gas field discovered in Ukraine
The press service for UkrGasVydobuvannya (Ukrainian largest gas producer) stated that from the beginning of the year they had discovered the fourth gas field in the Kharkiv region.
“At this stage of the geological study, according to Ukringaz, the reserves of the discovered field make up at least 400 million cubic meters, and perspective resources of the field as a whole can equate to 3.7 billion cubic meters of blue fuel,” the statement reads.
It is noted that the discovery of the field took …