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Ukraine receives NATO`s demining equipment worth EUR 1 mln
Ukraine has received the next batch of material and technical assistance from NATO for the humanitarian work of mine clearance, the Mission of Ukraine to NATO wrote on Facebook. ”The State Emergency Service of Ukraine has received from the NATO program `Science for Peace and Security` the next batch of material and technical assistance for the...
Ukraine reports 3 WIA, 1 slightly injured in past 24 hours
Three Ukrainian soldiers were wounded and one suffered slight injuries while fighting in eastern Ukraine in the past 24 hours, according to a spokesman for the Ukrainian Presidential Administration. ”There were three wounded in action (WIA), while one suffered slight injuries,” Andriy Lysenko, administration spokesman for Anti-Terrorist Operation...
Provocateurs from DPR, LPR and Transnistria accompany religious march: Tandyt
Provocateurs from the Donetsk and Luhansk People`s Republics (DPR and LPR) and Transnistria were participating in the religious procession of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, Yuriy Tandyt, adviser to the chief of the SBU Security Service of Ukraine, said on Ukrainian TV Channel 5. ”We knew that the provocateurs, who were...
Poland resumes small border traffic with Ukraine
Poland has resumed small border traffic with Ukraine, the press center of Ukraine`s State Border Service reported. All the checkpoints are operating normally and the number of vehicles crossing the checkpoints on the Ukrainian-Polish border has been increasing. Small border traffic between Poland and Ukraine was suspended on July 4, 2016, as a...
Obama: U.S. to continue to ensure Russia, militants stop terrorizing Ukraine
Despite the current strained relationship, the United States will try to reach a settlement on the implementation of the Minsk agreements, U.S. President Barack Obama told journalists on August 2. ”And so, I don`t think that it wildly sways what is a tough, difficult relationship that we have with Russia right now. But it`s not going to stop us...
U.S. supplies maximum arms to Ukraine: Media
Of all the countries, the United States provided the largest military support to Ukraine, the Office of Public Relations of the Ministry of Defense said, according to Ukrainian online news source Apostrophe. From January 1, 2014 to July 15, 2016, 18 countries provided different kinds of logistical and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine. These are...
Savchenko begins indefinite hunger strike
Ukrainian MP Nadia Savchenko has begun an indefinite hunger strike demanding the release of Ukrainian hostages held in occupied Donbas and Russia, her press secretary Tetiana Protorchenko told a UNIAN correspondent. ”Yes, Nadia is on an indefinite hunger strike until the exchange of prisoners takes place and our guys are released from Russian...
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin: Timeline of a Bad Bromance – NBC News
They`re friends. They`re strangers. They talk. They don`t talk. It`s not entirely clear. The on-again, off-again relationship between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin is either a figment of the Republican presidential nominee`s imagination or a bad bromance between two alpha males, NBC News reported. But even if it`s true they`re...
North Korea launches ballistic missile
North Korea on Wednesday fired off a ballistic missile into waters off its east coast, the South Korean military said, in an apparent show of force against the deployment of an advanced U.S. missile defense system, South Korea`s Yonhap news agency reported. North Korea launched a missile into the East Sea from its western province at 07:50,...
Russian troops attack Ukraine 71 times in last 24 hours, use artillery
Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 71 times in the past 24 hours, including 26 times in the Mariupol sector, 30 times in the Donetsk sector and 15 times in the Luhansk sector, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters. From 11:00 to 20:00, the enemy was...