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December 18 – 185 military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are currently being detained by Russian terrorists, another 298 are considered missing, – informed Acting Head of the press service of the General Staff of Ukrainian Armed Forces Vladyslav Seleznyov.
December 18 – Russian President Vladimir Putin hopes that ruble’s value will stop decreasing, and that the country will overcome crisis in 2 years.
December 18 – German Chancellor Angela Merkel had said that sanctions against Russia are inevitable as long as it fails to respect sovereignty of Ukraine – Reuters.
December 18 – EU Council has approved new sanctions against Crimea, applicable also to investment, services and trade with Crimea and Sevastopol.
December 18 – First group of Ukrainian military will travel to Lublin in order to participate in joint Ukrainian-Polish-Lithuanian training as soon as first quarter of 2015, – stated Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak.
December 18 – In Donbas terrorists and Russian troops continue to accumulate manpower and equipment, – said National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) spokesman Andriy Lysenko. President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has called a meeting of NSDC due to certain deterioration of the situation.
December 18 – For Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian authorities overall, it is time to radically change their attitude to the rest of the world, – said EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Federica Mogherini.
December 18 – Ukrainian volunteer battalion “Dnipro-1” has stopped humanitarian aid from Donetsk oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, who is suspected of supporting separatists, from travelling further. Battalion commanders reported that they will let food supplies through only in exchange of prisoners: 1 truck with food supplies in exchange for 2 prisoners.
December 18 – It was obvious that Putin would accuse others in the state of existing relations between Russia and the West, – said President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite to reporters when arriving at the EU summit in Brussels.
December 18 – Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has stated that Russia has the right to “adequate” response to EU Council sanctions because in “Brussels they should have understood already that Crimea and Sevastopol are an integral part of Russian Federation”.
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