Contents tagged with Ukraine
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Sources suggest Savchenko will be returned to Ukraine in the coming weeks
Nadiya Savchenko, who was recently sentenced to 22 years imprisonment in Russia, will be returned to Ukraine in the coming weeks, as reported by Grani, citing a closed-door meeting held by the Ambassador of Russia to Ukraine, Mikhail Zurabov. Zurabov didn’t specify whether the release would be an exchange of Savchenko for arrested Russians.According to a spokesperson for Grani, who attended the meeting, Zurabov noted that Russia was ready to return Savchenko to her homeland by the 8th of March. …
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Kiev accuses separatists of blocking the exchange of prisoners
During the meeting of the humanitarian subgroup of Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk on Wednesday, March 23rd, representatives of the self-proclaimed republics of the Donbas were "debating absolutely destructively," said a spokeswoman for Ukraine, MP Iryna Herashchenko, as reported by Deutsche Welle. "They, yet again, artificially understate the number of hostages on their territories. We are painstakingly collecting information about the locations of prisoners, whom neither the mission of the …
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Biden calls on Poroshenko to fix political crisis in Ukraine
US Vice President Joe Biden reminded the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, about the critical importance of creating a stable government and parliamentary coalition in his country during a telephone conversation with the Ukrainian leader on March 22nd, 2016.
According to a White House report on the conversation, the stabilization of the Ukrainian political system is the main condition for the successful implementation of the necessary reforms in Ukraine.
In addition, Biden and …
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Poroshenko: Ukraine opened first nuclear research lab 'for peaceful purposes'
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, took part in the launch of the Neutron Source Facility on March 23. The research lab is located at the National Science Center, Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology.
"The Neutron Source Facility will allow Ukraine to conduct research in various fields of science and technology, produce almost the entire spectrum of radioisotopes for needs of medicine and industry, as well as solve problems of the …
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World Bank: Ukraine has removed the middleman in relations with Gazprom
The World Bank notes that the government of Ukraine has made decisive steps towards removing the middleman between Gazprom and Ukraine in an attempt to root out a major source of corruption. This was stated by the World Bank Country Director for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, Europe and Central Asia, Qimiao Fan.
"The Ukrainian government has already taken some important steps towards transforming the gas market… [by removing things] that resist change in the area that drives reforms. An …
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Kiev announced successful test fire of Ukrainian-made missiles
The Secretary of the National Security Council of Ukraine, Oleksandr Turchynov, announced the successful test of fire missiles made in Ukraine.
"We began testing missiles produced in Ukraine, and today's launch showed that our rocket completely fulfilled the planned tasks and hit the intended target precisely," the press service of the National Security Council (NSDC) quoted Turchynov on Tuesday.
Turchynov was present at the site when the test launches happened.
According to him, the …
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State Border Service of Ukraine says Russian Mi-8 helicopter violated Ukrainian airspace
Ukraine has accused Russia of violating its airspace, according to a statement issued by the Ukrainian State Border Service on Wednesday.
According to the statement, on March 23rd at 12:08 local time, a Russian Mi-8 helicopter crossed into Ukrainian airspace near the Kherson region. At 12:10, the Mi-8 turned south over the Ukrainian gas production platform “Strelkova-5” in the Sea of Azov.
At 12:12, the helicopter crossed the administrative border between the Kherson region and the Crimea.
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Poll: Almost 30% of Ukrainians think it is necessary to continue the war in the Donbas
Almost a third of Ukrainians (29.9%) believe that it is necessary to continue the war in the Donbas until Ukraine has fully regained control over the entire region, as indicated by data from a survey by the Razumkov Center.
At the same time 22.6% of respondents supported providing a special autonomous status to the territories not controlled by Kiev and 21.5% would support their separation from Ukraine.
As noted by sociologists, in comparison with data from March of 2015, the share of those …
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The EU calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Nadiya Savchenko
The EU has called for the immediate and unconditional release of Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko on the basis of the Minsk Agreements which state that “all hostages and illegally detained persons” in connection with the Ukrainian conflict must be released.
The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, Federica Mogherini, stressed in a statement that Brussels is worried about the fate of not only Savchenko, …
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Media: Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk agreed on Groisman as Prime Minister
The so-called Strategic Seven agreed that speaker, Volodymyr Groisman, will take the post of the current Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, as reported by the Ukrainskaya Pravda newspaper, which received this information from sources familiar with the progress of the negotiations.
The negotiations on Groisman’s candidacy finally made progress only on Monday, March 21.
The negotiations of the Strategic Seven were conducted in an intense atmosphere starting Friday, March 18.
One of the …