Erdogan Hopes To Hold Talks With Putin
Our desire is to bring together Presidents of Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul or Ankara.
Our desire is to bring together Presidents of Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul or Ankara.
The United States has provided nearly $5 billion in financial, humanitarian, and military aid -- including lethal, anti-tank weapons -- to Ukraine since 2014, when Russia forcibly annexed Crimea and backed separatists in two of its eastern provinces, sparking a war that has killed more than 13,000.
On the other hand the situation in eastern Ukraine can be intensified deliberately in order to stop US President Donald Trump’s plan easing of sanctions against Russia.
According to the Ukrainian officials sources, on January 30 that there was heavy shelling in Avdiivka, near the city of Donetsk overnight.
The investigation has provided sufficient evidence that unlawful actions were committed against civilians at the orders of Ukraine's senior military leadership.
“Maybe I’ll have to thank him released for the rest of Ukrainians”, — said Savchenko.
“In light of the current difficult situation in and around Ukraine, we fully recognize the need of ensuring the global jurisdiction, legitimacy and the International criminal court”, — said in a statement diplomats.
The corresponding resolution on the anti-Russian sanction was passed by the European Parliament on 4th of February.
The sides are set to discuss strengthening the cease-fire regime in the Donbas as well as holding local elections in certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
It is necessary to clearly distinguish between security in Ukraine and in Syria...
According to the German weekly Der Spiegel, the administration of the Ukrainian president was dissatisfied with the fact that BBC staff held parade dedicated to the 70th anniversary of World War II...
The massive bombardment hit the villages of Staromikhaylovka, Gorkogo and Oktyabrsky.
Earlier in July, a draft resolution was submitted to the UN Security Council calling for the creation of an independent UN tribunal to identify and prosecute those responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 that crashed in the Donbass region on July 17, 2014.
Details are being investigated.
Details are being investigated.
SMM monitors of OSCE recorded 76 explosions of mortars and heavy artillery rounds in the area around the Donetsk central railway station...
Washington hopes that Russia will fulfill commitments it has undertaken.
It is still not clear who was guilty of the crash. Separatists of Donbass are the first ones to be suspected, and not only Kiev blames them, but also most of the western world. Separatists, in turn, blame Ukrainians for the tragedy, and this time Moscow shares their view.
Because of the violent conflict with the police, during which three people died and 13 were injured, nationalists published a manifesto that practically equals to the declaration of war.
Yanukovich admitted that he did not do enough to stop the conflict though he did not personally give any orders to fire at protesters...
Current referendum law was passed in 2012, when the head of the state was Viktor Yanukovych.
The huge expenses on the other hand raise various questions concerning the efficiency, as the level of corruption both in the Ukrainian state system and in the army is quite high.
"As for Ukraine, we have repeatedly expressed our position on the sanctions and threats of their implementation. We believe that the resolution of the crisis in Ukraine is possible only through dialogue and consultation."
Ukraine needs "only defensive weapons to protect its territory from aggression."
This decision, uatoday.tv writes, also says that military units from countries "involved in military aggression against Ukraine" will be prohibited from participating in such deployments.
We are ready today to restore all economic ties with the temporarily occupied areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, remove all internal barriers and restrictions on the way of people and goods.
The city of Maryinka that has been devastated by months of heavy fighting, is a strategically located town 9 miles west of Donetsk which had a pre-conflict population of about 9,900.
The voluntary reunification of Crimea is legitimate within the current laws, including Ukrainian.
Naryshkin said he was born optimist and believes that "the black stripe in relations between Russia and the West will end and common sense will prevail."
Ukraine’s army has deployed BM-21 Grad and Uragan 9K57 multiple rocket launcher systems to the villages of Velikaya Novoselka and Olginka...
There is no offer or plan to place US or NATO ballistic missile defense systems in Ukraine...
Russia’s top diplomat answered that respect to Russia’s legitimate interests was the only thing that Moscow expected from the European Union.
The Baltic states, which were once part of the Soviet Union and have considerable number of ethnic Russian minorities, will appeal to NATO to ask for a brigade, which, in NATO case, is usually comprised of 3,000 to 5,000 soldiers.
According to NATO Ukrainian Defense Ministry and the Ukrainian Army are not inclined sufficiently to realize reforms.
"At this moment, to be honest, I do not see any enthusiasm in Europe when it comes to sending a special peacekeeping mission in Ukraine. Although, the things could change,"- EU Council President Donald Tusk said.
The main task is to fully implement ceasefire and conclude the removal of heavy weapon. Among those weapons which should be removed are not only mortars and heavy weapons below 100mm, but also the tanks.
It is noteworthy that if previously mainly Republicans were demanding to provide military assistance to Ukraine, then in the case of this resolution a great number of Democrats also joined. Such interest of the Republicans is conditioned by their close links with the military-industrial complex of the country.
British military personnel have started training members of the Ukrainian army fighting pro-Russian rebels, the BBC reports.
According to the President the rebels have pulled back heavy artillery weapons as well.
According to the estimations of the UN 3.2 million people in Eastern Ukraine need emergency aid for which $316 million is needed.
The three leaders spoke by telephone, and "expressed their desire for observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to have free access to implement the ceasefire".
Judging by the reports the truce is being observed by both sides of the conflict – both the militia and the Ukrainian army. Media reports give positive signals.
The authorities of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics proposed to discuss the amendments of the Ukrainian Constitution in the next meeting of the Contact Group.
After heavy fighting in eastern Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, the President of Ukraine declared that the peace deal is "in danger".
The military actions in the south-eastern Ukraine resumed. The new stage of the armed confrontation was marked by a shooting on a passenger bus in the city Volnovakha in the Donetsk region, near the Ukrainian checkpoint.
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