Contents tagged with Donbas
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So-called Donetsk People's Republic postpones elections
The so-called Donetsk People's Republic will postpone elections until October 30th. They were initially scheduled for July 24th.
"The elections will be postponed until the 30th of October, 2016 as a result of Kiev's failure to adhere to the Minsk agreements. The decree will be signed in the coming days. We hope that the Western partners of Kiev will force them to vote on the Electoral Act this year, which will be coordinated with us," the leader of the so-called DPR, Alexander Zakharchenko, …
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Ukraine installs transmitters to resume broadcasting in the Donbas
The Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Information Policy, Tetiana Popova, stated at a briefing on July 19th that 60 transmitters have been installed for the resumption of Ukrainian broadcasting in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, RBC-Ukraine reported.
“Currently, 60 transmitters that we installed in the east of the country are already functioning,” Popova stated. According to her, the majority of these transmitters were provided by the governments of other countries at a total cost of 60 million …
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Ukrainian Intelligence: Russia is preparing the residents of the Donbas to resist peacekeepers
The Russian Command of troops in the Donbas is preparing local citizens for organized resistance against the possible presence of an international peacekeeping mission. This was reported by the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (HUR MOU) via Facebook.
“Training for ‘unarmed resistance to the invasion of the foreign armed mission’ has been planned in Luhansk on the 19th of July. According to the training schedule, a demonstration will be held on the …
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Turchynov: The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine could consider implementing martial law
The Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC), Oleksandr Turchynov, stated that NSDC can consider the implementation of martial law in Ukraine due to the situation in the Donbas. According to him, active aggressive actions by Russian troops have led to a systematic deterioration of the situation in the east of the country.
“Continuous shelling with the use of powerful weapons by Russian aggressors, modern means of guidance and correction of fire, prohibited by …
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Ukrainian Intelligence: Pro-Russian separatists opened fire on a crowd in the Donbas
Three civilians in the occupied part of the Donbas region were shot by pro-Russian separatists. The dissatisfaction of the local population with the presence and actions of the separatists is growing within the occupied territories of the Donbas region, as reported by the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine on Facebook.
According to Ukrainian Intelligence, three local residents were seriously wounded by gunshots during a spontaneous meeting against the …
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Seven Ukrainian soldiers killed in the Donbas
Seven Ukrainian soldiers were killed and 14 were wounded on Monday in the deadliest day for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in two months, RBC-Ukraine reported.
"In the past 24 hours, as a result of military operations, seven Ukrainian servicemen died and 14 were injured," military spokesman Andriy Lysenko told reporters.
"Things have escalated for the simple reason that this is what [the separatists] want. They do not want to live in peace,” Lysenko added.
Monday had the highest death toll for …
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Ukrainian representative in Minsk: There are 702 Russian tanks in the Donbas
There are more Russian tanks in the temporarily occupied territories than in Germany and the UK combined.
This was said on-air on Channel 5 by the representative of Ukraine in the Minsk talks, Yevhen Marchuk.
He assured that Ukrainian intelligence knows exactly through which railway crossing and border checkpoints trains come from the Russian side, how much and what kind of equipment is being transported, and where it is being unloaded.
“It is absolutely certain that on that side there are 70 …
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Ukrainian Journalist: The war in the Donbas was started by a sexton from the Moscow Patriarchate
On the 13th of April, 2014 in Sloviansk, Serhiy Jurikov, nomme de guerre 'Romashka' (Chamomile) was in command of the separatist unit that engaged in one of the first fights with the Ukrainian forces in the Donbas. The captain of the ‘Alpha’ special forces unit of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), Gennady Bilichenko, was killed in that fight, according to an article written by Yuriy Butusov, a journalist of Ukrainian censor.net news portal.
Butusov states that Jurikov was a member of the …
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Separatist fighter: Without the help of Russia, DPR would not last a week against Ukrainian forces
Alexander Zhuchkovsky, a known Russian fighter and volunteer who supports separatists in the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, acknowledged that without the help of Russia, the self-proclaimed republics in eastern Ukraine would not last a week against Ukrainian forces. He also said that in the Donbas, the war against the Armed Forces of Ukraine is in fact being fought by the Russian Federation. He wrote this on his page on the VKontakte social network.
“Some comrades resent and protest when …
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OSCE: Tensions in the Donetsk region remain high
The level of tension in the Donbas region remains high. The observers of the Special Monitoring Mission of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) note the increase in violations of the ceasefire near the Donetsk region, the Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Alexander Hug, said at a press conference on Friday, July 15, 2016 in Kiev, according to Interfax-Ukraine.
“The level of violence remains high. The number of attacks …