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Ukrinform. Ukraine and world news
March 16, 2018
Russian-backed militants launched four attacks on positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) area in Donbas over the past day. This is reported by the ATO Headquarters press center. In Luhansk direction, illegal armed formations opened fire from grenade launchers,Ãâà...
Kyiv Post
March 16, 2018
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has appointed the Armed Forces Lieutenant General Serhiy Nayev, as commander of Joint Operation Headquarters, making the high-ranking military officer the head of all Ukrainian forces in the war zone of Donbas. “I entrusted the Joint Forces commander with theÃâà...
Kyiv Post
March 16, 2018
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine has noted a significant improvement in the security situation in Donbas last week, as the number of shelling cases has significantly decreased, OSCE SMM Principal Deputy Chief Monitor Alexander Hug has said. “At the beginning of last week, theÃâà...
UNIAN
March 16, 2018
Meanwhile, First Deputy Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada and Ukrainian envoy to the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk on Donbas Iryna Gerashchenko wrote on Facebook that Poroshenko had visited the Zolote checkpoint whose opening has been blocked by Russian-led militants for two years.
UNIAN
March 16, 2018
Russia's hybrid military forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in Donbas four times in the past 24 hours. Read alsoVodiane comes under militant mortar fire after daylong truce. "In the Luhansk sector, the enemy used grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms against the Ukrainian fortifiedÃâà...
Eurasia Daily
March 15, 2018
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov once again expressed solidarity with the Donbass republics. He made the statement while speaking at the youth forum called “Russia is a country of opportunities”. The minister said this answering a question of a participant from Lugansk, although the question wasÃâà...
UNIAN
March 15, 2018
The Ukrainian army says the situation along the entire contact line in Donbas is under control. Photo from UNIAN. Russia's hybrid military forces fully adhered to the ceasefire in Donbas in the past 24 hours. Read alsoUkraine reports 1 WIA, four enemy attacks in last day. "The truce established from March 5Ãâà...
New Eastern Europe
March 13, 2018
Contrary to heightened Western expectations, negotiations on the deployment of a UN peacekeeping mission in Donbas are doomed to fail. The current situation surrounding the conflict is not ideal for Moscow, but it also has no reasons to make any concessions to neither Ukraine nor the West. ThereforeÃâà...
New Eastern Europe
December 31, 1999
The war in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region will soon enter its fifth year. In September 2017, talk of a settlement picked up after Russia circulated a draft UN Security Council resolution proposing the deployment of UN forces along the front line separating Kyiv's forces, on one side, from Kremlin-backedÃâà...
