Contents tagged with Donbas
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Poroshenko proposes that the EU send a diplomatic mission to the Donbas
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko met with the Vice President of the European Commission, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini. The President’s website reports that after the meeting he proposed that the European Union send a diplomatic mission to the Donbas.
"To understand the real situation in the Donbas and to see with your own eyes how Russia fulfills its part of commitments under the Minsk agreements, I appealed to Ms. …
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US Representative Volker plans new visit to Ukraine
Kurt Volker, US State Department Special Representative for Ukraine, will visit Kyiv in the near future, reports Voice of America.
"In the near future I will visit Ukraine, I want to go to the eastern part of the country", Volker said, speaking at the Brussels forum. The American diplomat emphasized that the date of the visit hasn’t yet been set.
The last time Volker visited Ukraine was the day before his meeting with Russian Presidential Aide, Vladislav Surkov. Negotiations between Volker …
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Girkin: Russia on brink of war with Ukraine
Igor Girkin (Strelkov), former leader of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), said the air on Roy TV that victory in the Donbas by the Ukrainian Armed Forces would lead to a full-scale war between Ukraine and the Russian Federation.
“We have a war with Ukraine close at hand. Everyone understands this, but the Kremlin does not want to understand this. If the Ukrainian army unexpectedly attacks and sweeps the Donbas, an inevitable domestic political crisis in Russia will follow," the Russian …
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Ukrainian Military Command: Separatists are strengthening their combat positions in the Donbas
The Press Center of the Ukrainian Military command in the Donbass reports via Facebook that the Ukrainian side of the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire in the Donbas (JCCC) has discovered that separatists are using the ceasefire to secretly concentrate military equipment and armament within the temporarily uncontrolled territory of Ukraine.
Observers from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in the vicinity of the settlement of Buhaivka in the Luhansk region …
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US strategic drones conduct reconnaissance flights near Crimea and Donbas
American Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk drone has conducted reconnaissance near the coast of Crimea, reports CivMilAir twitter service which tracks the traffic of military aircraft.
According to the report, the drone with the tail sign 10-2043 took off from the Naval Air Station Sigonella (Sicily, Italy) and spent several hours over the western and southern coasts of the Crimea flying at the altitude of 16,000 kilometers.
Another aircraft tracking service, the PlaneRadar, reported that the …
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Head of separatist LPR says he is ready for negotiations with Kyiv
Acting head of the LPR Leonid Pasechnik said he is ready to enter into direct negotiations with the Ukrainian authorities concerning the settling of the situation in Donbas. He stated this in an interview with a Russian television station, reports 112 Ukraine.
“We don’t know what will happen, but we are ready for a dialogue, we are in favor of a round-table discussion to solve all of the conflicts,” said Pasechnik.
According to him, Kyiv is allegedly evading such a dialogue.
“Unfortunately, …
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Former NATO Secretary General calls Putin's plan for the Donbas a 'trap'
Deutsche Welle reports that former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has claimed that the introduction of a full-fledged peacekeeping mission in the Donbas would contribute to the implementation of the Minsk agreements.
"I believe that the peacekeeping mission would become a mechanism for the implementation of the Minsk agreements," he said.
In the meantime, according to Rasmussen, "there is no progress at all." He believes that the reason for this is precisely the absence of a …
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Ukraine’s Military Command announces new military operation in Donbas
The General Staff of Ukraine has drafted documents on the start of the Joint Forces Operation in the Donbas. The documents are awaiting ratification by President Petro Poroshenko, as announced by Yuriy Bobrov, spokesperson for the General Staff’s legal support office, as reported by the Ukrainski Novini (Ukrainian News) Agency.
“The beginning and end of the actions to ensure national defense, the repelling and deterrence of the Russian Federation’s armed aggression in the Donetsk and Luhansk …
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Poroshenko discusses war in Donbas with US Vice President
President Petro Poroshenko had a telephone conversation with U.S. Vice President Michael Pence.
He brought the U.S. Vice President up to date on the current situation in the Donbas and the continued aggressive actions of Russia-controlled militants who continue to violate the complete ceasefire announced yesterday, the website of the head of state said. In connection with this, Poroshenko stressed the importance of continued pressure on Russia to ensure proper implementation of the security …
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Media: Former LPR leader Plotnitsky killed his predecessor Bolotov
Former leader of the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) Igor Plotnitsky is the prime suspect in the murder case of Valery Bolotov, who was the republic’s leader before him, sources close to the current LPR leadership told Apostrophe news outlet.
According to the article, rumors of Plotnitsky’s return are circulating in Luhansk. Sources in the LPR claim that the current head of the republic is more afraid of Plotnitsky than of the Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups.
“We remember all too …