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Ukrainian Armed Forces headquarters: Separatists attacked Avdiivka with heavy artillery
On Sunday, separatists in the Donetsk area used 152mm and 122mm heavy artillery weapons, which are prohibited by the Minsk Agreements, the Ukrainian Headquarters press service reported on July 31. According to them, Russian forces opened fire 27 times on Ukrainian positions on Sunday.“The most challenging situation is in the Donetsk area. Heavy artillery of 152mm and 122mm caliber, 120mm mortars, grenade launchers, large-caliber machine guns and small arms were used by the enemy in Avdiivka. …
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Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office sets up hotline to gather information on creation of separatist republics
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko, commenting on the detention of one of the ex-leaders of the Party of Regions, Oleksandr Yefremov, who is suspected of involvement in the creation of the so-called LPR, stated that the General Prosecutor’s Office has set up a telephone line and two email accounts to gather information about individuals who helped to create the terrorist organizations Luhansk People’s Republic and Donetsk People’s Republic.
"The GPU has set up a direct telephone line ( …
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Detained former head of Ukraine's 'Party of Regions' is suspected of helping to create so-called LPR
On Saturday, July 30, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Yuriy Lutsenko, announced at a press conference in Kiev that the former head of the Party of Regions faction in the Verkhovna Rada, Oleksandr Yefremov, is suspected of assisting in the establishment and activities of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic.
“A week ago we received direct testimonies about the involvement of the citizen Yefremov in the organization of the LPR,” Lutsenko said. He added that Yefremov is suspected of …
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Ukrainian PACE delegate condemns visit of French MPs to Crimea
The Ukrainian delegation to PACE spoke about the illegality of the visit of French deputies to Crimea.
According to MP Volodymyr Ariev, the chairman of Ukraine’s permanent delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), the Ukrainian PACE delegation was disappointed to receive news about another visit of a group of French deputies headed by PACE delegate Thierry Mariani to Crimea.
“On behalf of the Ukrainian delegation, I declare that we are outraged by the defiant …
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OSCE mission threatened at gunpoint in eastern Ukraine
The observers of the OSCE SMM reported that they were threatened by two armed supporters of the self-proclaimed Donetsk Peoples Republic (DPR) near Lukove, 72 kilometers south of Donetsk according to their July 29th report.
OSCE SMM members were stopped by two armed representatives of the DPR who blocked the road with a jeep and pointed weapons in their direction. They ordered SMM observers to leave this area, the report explained. The OSCE SMM representatives followed the order.
The report …