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      NATO`s Supreme Commander Scaparrotti calls on U.S. to provide lethal aid to Ukraine
      Mar29

      NATO`s Supreme Commander Scaparrotti calls on U.S. to provide lethal aid to Ukraine

      U.S. Army Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, who is both the U.S. European Commander and NATO`s Supreme Commander, told a House of Representatives Armed Services Committee Tuesday that Washington should consider granting Ukraine lethal aid to deter Russian-backed militants, Washington Examiner reports. ”I personally believe that we need to consider lethal...

      Donetsk militants open fire as OSCE monitors try to enter occupied village of Kozatske
      Mar29

      Donetsk militants open fire as OSCE monitors try to enter occupied village of Kozatske

      Russian-controlled militants of the ”DPR” terrorist organization have opened fire to force the Special Monitoring Mission`s patrol out of the eastern part of the occupied Kozatske in Donetsk region, according to the OSCE spot report. ”At 11:07 on 28 March, an SMM patrol composed of six members and two armored vehicles approached a compound where...

      Toshiba to declare nuclear service company Westinghouse bankrupt
      Mar29

      Toshiba to declare nuclear service company Westinghouse bankrupt

      Japanese Toshiba`s subsidiary company Toshiba Westinghouse Electric, the American-Japanese company servicing nuclear power plants, will be declared bankrupt due to losses reaching $7 billion with another $2 billion to be lost due to the bankruptcy procedure, according to Reuters. Toshiba plans to file for Westinghouse Electric`s bankruptcy on...

      Occupation of Donbas, Crimea makes Ukrainian exports lose almost $14 bln – economy ministry
      Mar28

      Occupation of Donbas, Crimea makes Ukrainian exports lose almost $14 bln – economy ministry

      Export losses due to the occupation of Donbas and Crimea amounted to US$12.9 billion, while total export losses of Ukraine amounted to $25.2 billion over the past years, that`s according to a draft export strategy, published on the website of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. ”The cost of export losses at the expense of these areas...

      Ukrainian army Geneneral Nazarov sentenced to 7 years in prison in Il-76 case
      Mar28

      Ukrainian army Geneneral Nazarov sentenced to 7 years in prison in Il-76 case

      Ukrainian army Gen. Viktor Nazarov has been sentenced to seven years in prison on charges of neglect of duty and inaction in the case of an Il-76 transport aircraft downed in Luhansk in 2014, which resulted in the death of 40 Ukrainian paratroopers, according to the media outlet InfoResist. ”Viktor Mykolayovych Nazarov is found guilty and...

      EU top court upholds sanctions against Russia`s Rosneft
      Mar28

      EU top court upholds sanctions against Russia`s Rosneft

      Europe`s top court on Tuesday upheld European Union sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine conflict, including on its largest oil group Rosneft, in a ruling that asserts the court`s jurisdiction over the bloc`s foreign policy, according to Reuters. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) said ”restrictive measures … in response to the crisis in...

      Putin`s press secretary Dmitry Peskov pays secret visit to occupied Luhansk
      Mar28

      Putin`s press secretary Dmitry Peskov pays secret visit to occupied Luhansk

      On March 27, Vladimir Putin`s press secretary Dmitry Peskov has reportedly arrived on a secret visit to the militant stronghold of Luhansk, OstroV online news outlet reported citing its source in Ukrainian intelligence community. The purpose of the visit has not been verified, OstroV writes. One of the possible versions is a potential change in...

      U.S., Britain, France, others skip nuclear weapons ban treaty talks
      Mar28

      U.S., Britain, France, others skip nuclear weapons ban treaty talks

      Almost 40 countries, including the United States, Britain, and France, chose not to join talks on a nuclear weapons ban treaty at the United Nations Monday, Reuters reported. U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley told reporters the countries skipping the negotiations are instead committed to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, which entered into force in 1970...

      Chornobyl 2: conflict in the eastern Ukraine can cause to chemical disaster, warn experts
      Mar28

      Chornobyl 2: conflict in the eastern Ukraine can cause to chemical disaster, warn experts

      A whole host of experts on eastern Europe have lined up to warn that the conflict in the eastern Ukraine could spark a widespread chemical disaster if industrial storage units of chlorine gas are damaged and the contents released into the environment, according to express.co.uk. The threat is not just hypothetical. On February 24 a stray...

      Escalation in Donbas: 169 Russian shellings, 3 Ukrainian soldiers killed, 16 wounded in past 48 hours
      Mar27

      Escalation in Donbas: 169 Russian shellings, 3 Ukrainian soldiers killed, 16 wounded in past 48 hours

      The situation in the zone of the Anti-Terrorist Operation has become more intense as Russian-terrorist forces have attacked 88 times the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the past day, according to the ATO Headquarters. The shelling was most intensive on the Mariupol line, the ATO HA wrote on Facebook. View map in full size The...