Section: News & Summaries

      Reuters: Battle for Aleppo intensifies after ceasefire ends
      Oct23

      Reuters: Battle for Aleppo intensifies after ceasefire ends

      The battle for control of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo intensified on Sunday with air strikes, ground offensives and shelling, the morning after a resurgence in fighting ended a Russian ceasefire, a monitor and rebel groups said, according to Reuters. There was fierce fighting between insurgents and Syrian government and allied forces along...

      Kremlin: Common language at Normandy Four talks not often
      Oct22

      Kremlin: Common language at Normandy Four talks not often

      The Normandy Four talks are not easy, and it is not often the parties manage to have common language, both literally and figuratively, press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with the Vesti V Subbotu weekly television program on Saturday, according to Russian news agency TASS. ”Common language is seen not that...

      Polish commission presents new Smolensk plane crash findings
      Oct22

      Polish commission presents new Smolensk plane crash findings

      A commission set up to carry out a new probe into the 2010 crash of a Polish presidential plane on Friday presented findings which it said cast doubt on earlier official reports by Poland and Russia, according to Radio Poland. The commission concluded that the bodies of some of the passengers showed signs of damage that could not be explained by...

      Ukrainian citizen Klykh convicted in Russia gone mad due to torture – human rights activists
      Oct22

      Ukrainian citizen Klykh convicted in Russia gone mad due to torture – human rights activists

      Ukrainian citizen Stanislav Klykh contained in the Grozny detention center, Chechnya, has gone mad because of the torture, which was applied to him during the arrest and during the preliminary investigation, Russian human rights activist and member of the Moscow Public Oversight Commission to monitor compliance with the rights of prisoners Zoia...

      Russian proxies attack Ukraine 39 times in last day, use Grads in Luhansk sector
      Oct22

      Russian proxies attack Ukraine 39 times in last day, use Grads in Luhansk sector

      Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 39 times in the past 24 hours, including 18 in the Mariupol sector, 12 barrages in the Luhansk sector, and nine in the Donetsk sector, according to the press service of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) headquarters. In the Mariupol sector, the occupiers...

      ”Yefremov`s case”: Former ex-Regions Party faction MP Medianyk can be released – Ukrainian Prosecutor General
      Oct22

      ”Yefremov`s case”: Former ex-Regions Party faction MP Medianyk can be released – Ukrainian Prosecutor General

      Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko does not exclude that former Party of Regions MP Volodymyr Medianyk accused of aiding terrorists will soon be released due to lack of sufficient evidence against him. ”As for Mr. Medianyk. If there is no sufficient evidence, he will not be prosecuted. It is my deep belief that that the prosecutor`s...

      Merkel threatens sanctions on Russia over Aleppo bombing
      Oct22

      Merkel threatens sanctions on Russia over Aleppo bombing

      German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday demanded an end to attacks by Syrian government forces and Russia on the northern city of Aleppo, adding that the European Union would take measures against both if the ”barbaric” campaign continued, according to Reuters. ”We demand an end to the attacks. We have not only said that we could not only...

      Ukraine to gain access to border with Russia on second day after elections in Donbas – Deputy Head of the presidential administration
      Oct22

      Ukraine to gain access to border with Russia on second day after elections in Donbas – Deputy Head of the presidential administration

      Ukraine will gain access to the uncontrolled border section with Russia on the second day after the local elections in the occupied part of Donbas, Deputy Head of the presidential administration Kostiantyn Yeliseyev said during the Pravo na Vladu political talk show, according to TV news service TSN. It is provided by the Minsk agreements, which...

      Russia refuses to hand over to Ukraine prisoner Kolchenko
      Oct22

      Russia refuses to hand over to Ukraine prisoner Kolchenko

      The Russian Federation refused to transfer to Ukraine the Ukrainian activist, Oleksandr Kolchenko, who had been illegally sentenced to a prison term in Russia, according to Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine on European Integration Serhiy Petukhov. Petukhov said that the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine has received from the Russian Justice...

      Industrial output in Ukraine slows down to 2%
      Oct22

      Industrial output in Ukraine slows down to 2%

      The growth of Ukraine`s industrial output in September year-over-year slowed down from 3.4% a month earlier to 2%, as reported on the website of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Compared with the previous month, August 2016, September saw growth of industrial output by 4.4% after a 0.8% fall in August against July. Since the beginning of...