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Russia files new lawsuit against Ukrainian military leaders
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reported that it has initiated two new criminal proceedings regarding military actions in the Donbas. The first case concerns genocide of the national group of Russian-speaking people from January to August 2016, the website of the Russian Investigative Committee said.
The high military leadership of Ukraine, including the Minister of Defense, Stepan Poltorak, and the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Viktor Muzhenko, are …
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Steinmeier: Progress on Minsk II is urgently needed
The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, said that there is still a lot of work to be done to reach a full implementation of the ceasefire agreement in the Donbas region. However, progress on it is "urgently necessary," the German Foreign Minister said during a joint press conference with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Pavel Klimkin, on Thursday, September 8, 2016 in Berlin.
"With regard to the implementation of the Minsk Agreements, we must also talk …
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IMF to consider next tranche to Ukraine on September 14
The IMF will consider the allocation of the next tranche of financial assistance to Ukraine on the 14th of September, 2016 as evidenced by information in the schedule of meetings of the Executive Board of the Fund, posted on the IMF website.
The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, said that the IMF has officially included this issue in the agenda after his conversation with the MD of the Fund, Christine Lagarde. "At the end of my conversation with Christine Lagarde, the International …
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UK to train 5,000 Ukrainian soldiers in accordance with NATO standards
In 2017 Great Britain will train 5,000 Ukrainian servicemen in accordance with NATO standards, as was said by the British Secretary of State for Defence, Michael Fallon, during a meeting with Ukrainian Defense Minister, Stepan Poltorak.
"The volume of training and advisory support from Britain is expected to increase. Five thousand Ukrainian servicemen will be trained in accordance with NATO standards next year - this is the new goal of the British training mission in Ukraine," Fallon stated, …
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Kyiv Court of Appeal does not recognize Russia's aggression against Ukraine
The Kyiv Court of Appeal has dismissed a crucial lawsuit on the recognition of Russia’s armed aggression in the Crimea and eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian open-court.org portal reported. The plaintiff, Ukrainian activist Stanislav Batryn, stated that he refuses to give up and will file an appeal to the Court of Cassation, noting that the Court has committed a number of procedural violations.
Batryn believes that there is also positive news. “The statements by skeptics that a petition by a …