Contents tagged with Ukraine
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Kyiv: Russia completes formation of strike forces near Ukrainian borders
The Chief of the General Staff and the commanding officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Viktor Muzhenko, has announced that Russia is completing the formation of its strike forces on the border with Ukraine, which together with special-operations military units will form the basis of the invasion forces, Interfax reports.
"In the current geopolitical realities, we predict military threats from three out of four directions: north, east and south. Russia is completing the formation of the …
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Poland appoints new Ambassador to Ukraine
Poland has appointed the Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland as the new Ambassador to Ukraine, reported the press service of the Polish Foreign Ministry on Twitter. "The Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowic, on behalf of the Polish President, handed Bartosz Cichocki his nomination to the post of Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Ukraine,” the statement reads.
The former ambassador, Jan Piekto had served at his post since October 2016. His resignation was revealed on December 19 and he …
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Ukrainian Foreign Minister: Number of Russian military in Crimea nears 50 thousand
The Ukrainian Minister of Foreign, Affairs Pavlo Klimkin stated that the militarization of the Donbas territories which are not under Ukraine’s control, continues and in the next few years the number of Russian military personnel may reach 50 thousand people, reports Ukrinform.
“The militarization of the Crimea has reached a certain limit, but it will continue. We know that in the following years there will be almost 50 thousand Russian personnel [ in the Crimea],” said Klimkin.
The Foreign …
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Kremlin: Russia is ready to prevent color revolution
The Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, the first Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation and Army General, Valery Gerasimov, announced at a conference on the development of the military strategy that the Pentagon has begun to develop a new warfare strategy called the Trojan Horse. According to Gerasimov, the essence of this strategy lies in the active use of the "fifth column" protest potential in order to destabilize the situation in the enemy state while …
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US urges Russia to put an end to violence in eastern Ukraine
Speaking at a session of the OSCE Permanent Council on March 7, Acting Deputy Chief of the US Mission to the OSCE Gregory Macris said that for five years Russia has been destabilizing Ukraine through its “manufactured conflict” in the country’s east, and breaching its obligations according to the Minsk Agreements, which constitute the roadmap to peace.
According to Macris, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) has been observing numerous violations of the Minsk Agreements, and most of them …
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Italian Embassy in Ukraine still investigating reports about Italian equipment in Crimea
The Italian Embassy in Ukraine is continuing to investigate the reports of shipments of Italian-produced equipment to the Zolotaya Balka factory in Russian-annexed Crimea, said Italian Ambassador Davide La Cecilia while giving a presentation on Ukraine-Italy relations in Kyiv, Krym.Realii reports.
“We are currently trying, through the ministry, to obtain information in order to find out what actually happened, because there are mechanisms for contravening sanctions. And when we clear up the …
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Kyiv denies Austrian pro-Russian journalist entry to Ukraine
The Head of Ukrainian Bureau of the Austrian television channel ORF, Christian Vershutsu has been banned from entering Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU)The reason is the threat he poses to national security.
“The head of the Ukrainian bureau of the Austrian television channel ORF, Christian Vershutsu, was banned from entering Ukraine for one year. This is reported by my sources in the Ukrainian Security Service,” the first deputy head of the Rada Committee on Freedom …
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Military expert: Ukraine will create a 'retaliation' weapon against Russia
Ukraine can and must create a “retaliation”, “deterrence and attack” weapon in order to “adequately respond” to Russia, Oleh Starikov, a retired colonel of the Security Service of Ukraine, said on News One TV channel.
According to him, “retaliation” weapons are short-range missiles with a range of 500–1000 kilometers.
“This is a weapon for deterrence and attack,” Starikov said.
At present, Ukraine does not possess such missiles but it can create them at the Yuzhmash plant. The former colonel …
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Turkey delivers Bayraktar combat drones to Ukraine
On Wednesday, at the meeting of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced the delivery of a batch of Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles to Ukraine from Turkey.
"Now, exercises with the new, powerful Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicle will be carried out, the supplies of which I managed to agree with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. I can even say that these drones are already in the territory of Ukraine,” he said.
The …
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Poroshenko: Ukraine has no restrictions to create long-range ballistic missiles
At the National Security and Defense Council's meeting, Ukraine’s President, Petro Poroshenko announced that Ukraine no longer has an obligation to refrain from developing powerful long-range missile systems.
Poroshenko stressed that Ukraine welcomes the United States' decision to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty, formally Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range …
