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112 International (blog)
April 26, 2018
It extends only to certain specified localities in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. The notification specifies the Convention rights from which Ukraine derogates and indicates the nature of the circumstances in which the derogation may be withdrawn. In regard to this, the Assembly expresses concern:.
Kyiv Post
April 11, 2018
A missing family of four Ukrainians were killed by an anti-tank mine blast near the frontline, the National Police department in Luhansk Oblast reported on April 11. A couple, both 57, their 38-year-old son and his wife, also 38, from the village of Pischane in Stanytsia Luhanska district of Luhansk Oblast,Ãâà...
UNIAN
April 5, 2018
On April 4, Volodymyr Yelchenko, the Ukrainian ambassador to the United Nations, spoke at Princeton University about the now four-year-long crisis of Russia's annexation of Crimea and the brutal “hybrid war” being waged in the provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk. According to Yelchenko, the crisis beganÃâà...
Kyiv Post
April 5, 2018
In Donetsk Oblast, the defenders of the Butovka coal mine came under fire from 82 millimeters mortars, grenade launchers, sniper rifles, and small arms. ... In Luhansk Oblast, the Russian-backed forces opened fire from small arms at the Ukrainian fortified positions near the village of Stanytsia Luhanska,Ãâà...
The Daily Princetonian
April 4, 2018
On April 4, Volodymyr Yelchenko, the Ukrainian ambassador to the United Nations, spoke at the University about the now four-year-long crisis of Russia's annexation of Crimea and the brutal “hybrid war” being waged in the provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk. Yelchenko began by summarizing the events ofÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 23, 2018
Joint Market Monitoring: Situation in Critical Markets along the Line of Contact in Northern Donetsk and Luhansk GCA August-September 2017 ... The survey of 20 market centers along the contact line in Luhansk and Northern Donetsk oblast GCA provides a comprehensive picture of the markets in theÃâà...
Kyiv Post
March 23, 2018
Savchenko was captured by Russian-backed separatists in June 2014 in Luhansk Oblast, transported to Russia, and imprisoned on bogus charges. She was released after almost two years in exchange for two Russian intelligence officers captured in Ukraine. She was returned to Ukraine in a presidentialÃâà...
HeraldScotland
March 22, 2018
Pro-Russian separatists have controlled most of the provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk - and their rich coalfields - since 2014. Widely regarded as Kremlin proxies, the unrecognised Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk have relied on exports of coal and steel to stay afloat. They can ship their product overÃâà...
Transitions Online
March 22, 2018
[Editor's note: Referendums on the status of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts took place on 11 May 2014 in many towns under the control of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics. The local authorities claimed an overwhelming number of people voted for self-rule, but theÃâà...
Eurasia Daily
March 21, 2018
Voloshin criticized governor of Nikolayev Oblast Oleksiy Savchenko but the man he was afraid of was not him but some more influential person. Here it's well worth reminding you who Voloshin was and how he became a media personality. Vladislav Voloshin was born in Lugansk in 1988 and grew up inÃâà...
Kyiv Post
March 15, 2018
Savchenko was captured in June 2014 by Russian-backed armed groups in Luhansk Oblast, when she was participating in a rescue operation for the volunteer Aidar Battalion, which she joined after taking leave from military service. She was secretly transported to Russia, where prosecutors blamed herÃâà...
Realnoe vremya
March 12, 2018
The document creates conditions for the forced conquest of the territories of Donetsk and Lugansk Oblasts, which aren't controlled by Kyiv, legalised the use of the Ukrainian army against the civilians.'' Escalation of the conflict began almost the following day. Such messages started to be spread in in socialÃâà...
UN News
March 1, 2018
People crossing the 'contact line' at Stanytsia Luhanska which is the only one operational entry/exit checkpoint in Luhansk province, Ukraine. 1 March 2018. Humanitarian Aid. With 4.4 million people in Ukraine soon to enter a fifth year of conflict, the international community has an important role to play in supporting conflictÃâà...
Business Insider
February 25, 2018
Ukraine has been fighting Russian-backed separatists in its Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts — a region known as Donbas. Two peace agreements have been signed between the warring parties and their sponsors, but ceasefire violations happen almost every day along the conflict line. Thursday's incidentÃâà...
TASS
February 21, 2018
On January 18, the Verkhovna Rada voted in favor id the draft law "On the peculiarities of state policy to ensure Ukraine's sovereignty over the temporarily occupied territories in Donetsk and Luhansk regions". In the law, Russia is called an aggressor state, regions of the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblast that are not controlledÃâà...
Kyiv Post
December 31, 1999
A brewery in the Luhansk Oblast city of Lysychansk, 742 kilometers southeast of Kyiv, is an unlikely place for a publicly traded U.S. energy company to reap all of its profits. But that brewery was the sole customer of Ukrainian National Securities and Stock Market Commission Chief Timur Khromaev, whoseÃâà...
