Thursday, February 5, 2015
8:41 AM PST
Process of peace
negotiations on Donbas came to a dead end, and we all see it- Foreign Ministers
of Poland and Germany
(Censor.NET) --- The escalation of the
conflict in the Donbas actually showed that
the peace talks came to a dead end.
Recent events in
Mariupol and Donetsk demonstrated a setback in
the peaceful settlement of the conflict in eastern Ukraine . Foreign ministers of Poland and Germany Grzegorz Schetyna and
Frank-Walter Steinmeier recognized during a meeting in Poland ,
Censor.NET reports citing Telewizja Republika.
"The process
of peace negotiations on Donbas came to a dead
end, and we all see it," Schetyna said.
However, according
to him, any initiative that will contribute to the settlement of the crisis
will be received and find all kinds of support.
"We want
efficient policy, fruitful diplomacy; we want to solve the conflict together.
The efficiency is of high priority for us today," Schetyna said.
However, as
Steinmeier noted, there is a "bitter setback" in the diplomatic
settlement process.
He assessed the
situation as a return to the "sharp conflict" phase.
"People,
including civilians perish again and it's all thanks to the separatists' desire
to expand their influence," Steinmeier said adding that "the
separatists are seemed to get support from Russia ."
Thursday, February 5, 2015
8:26 AM PST
Russian-backed
militants trying to occupy new territories - NATO
NATO Secretary
General Jens Stoltenberg said this during a meeting of NATO Defense Ministers
in Brussels on
Thursday, an Ukrinform correspondent reported.
"There is a
sharp escalation of violence in Ukraine .
Separatists, supported by Russia ,
are trying to expand their territory, despite the Minsk agreements," he said.
He reiterated that Russia supplies
militants with hundreds of modern weapons, as well as troops.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
8:11 AM PST
Ukraine, IMF agree on
terms of further funding - NBU
(Zik) --- Ukraine and the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) have agreed on the conditions of providing financial aid to
the country, Head of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Valeriya Gontareva has
said.
"The IMF
mission is working. I hope that tomorrow or the day after tomorrow we will have
the final version of the memorandum. We are coordinating it, while they will go
and prepare their proposals for the board of directors... I think the time
between their arrival and a meeting of the board of directors will be two or
three weeks," she told reporters.
"We are
optimistic about the future...The NBU and the Individuals' Deposit Guarantee
Fund have agreed on all the parameters for the EFF program," the banker
added.
According to the
director of the department for monetary policy and economic analysis, Serhiy
Nikolaichuk, the need for foreign currency for the government's and the NBU's
payments amounts to slightly more than $1 billion in February and March,
Naftogaz's need for foreign currency is about $500 million a month.
As reported, the
government should in the current year repay about $11 billion on the state
direct and guaranteed debt, while the NBU's international reserves by February
decreased to $6.4 billion.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
8:04 AM PST
OSCE registers use of
cluster ammunition in Luhansk
(Zik) --- OSCE observers registered the
use of banned cluster ammunition during last week’s shelling of Luhansk,
Interfax-Ukrayina reports Feb. 5.
This was the first
for many weeks use of cluster ammunition, OSCE says.
OSCE established
the direction of fire but could not say who had used deadly cluster
ammunition.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
7:48 AM PST
Ukrainian tanker from
Debaltseve: Every day we have tank battles. The enemy got a lot of new tanks
(Censor.NET) --- Ukrainian soldier
Yevhen Horinov states that the militants in Debaltseve (Donetsk region), where active hostilities are
currently under way, received a lot of tanks.
He stated this on
his Facebook page, Censor.NET reports.
"Situation in
Debaltseve. Every day, the enemy shells our positions with mortars, Grads,
cannon artillery. They got a lot of new tanks. Yesterday I was leaving
Debaltseve, and a little further notices 3 enemy tanks, one T-64 and two T -72.
We had to shy away from a fight any way we could. Also recently I came across a
car with ammunition. I shelled it. "Fireworks" went on until night.
On one of the roads the separatists set up a roadblock. A surgical strike
completely destroyed it. In the last three days our losses are as follows: one
tank destroyed and two were disabled. A couple of days ago at Vuhlehirsk we
destroyed two enemy and neutralized one more. At the storming towards
Debaltseve bridgehead the enemy lost one tank (left it and fled) - we took it
as a trophy, three were destroyed, and five disabled . While accompanying a
convoy from Artemivsk the guys spotted an enemy sabotage reconnaissance group and
shot it with a machine gun leaving three corpses laying in the open," the
soldier wrote.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
7:48 AM PST
Police catch woman
with explosives in Kiev
(Zik) --- Patrolmen detained a 28-year
old woman in the Kiev
metro who was carrying explosives, interior ministry website reports Feb. 5.
The woman had two
grenades and 5 empty Kalashnikov magazine cases on her.
The woman didn’t
explain the origin of the explosives.
If proven guilty,
she may be jailed for up to 5 years.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
3:28 AM PST
Ovidiopol, Odesa
region, residents bought three vehicles for Ukrainian soldiers in Donbas .
(Censor.NET) --- Three all-terrain
vehicles, food, and warm clothes were bought by residents of Ovidiopol city,
the Odesa region, for the Ukrainian soldiers in the Donbas .
As reported by
Censor.NET, money for the vehicles and humanitarian aid for the soldiers was
raised by the residents altogether. Two minibuses were sent to the front line,
one for soldiers of the 28th infantry brigade in Marinka, the Donetsk
region, and another for Zoloti Vorota (Golden Gate )
battalion in Shchastia, the Luhansk region.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
2:33 AM PST
Five Ukrainians
soldiers killed, 29 wounded in Donbas fighting Wednesday
(Censor.NET) --- Five Ukrainian soldiers were killed, 29 wounded in
the fighting in the Donbas on Feb. 4.
Over the past day,
five Ukrainian soldiers were killed and 29 wounded in the anti-terrorist
operation area. This was announced by the press officer of the Joint Staff
Vladyslav Selezniov, Censor.NET reports citing lb.ua.
As reported
earlier, four Ukrainian soldiers were killed on Feb. 3, 25 received injuries.
The total number of Ukrainian soldiers killed in the ATO area is approaching 1,500, according to the official data.
The total number of Ukrainian soldiers killed in the ATO area is approaching 1,500, according to the official data.
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
10:16 AM PST
Ukraine special
troops kill 11 Russian soldiers involved in shelling Mariupol, SBU says
(Zik) --- Ukrainian special troops have
killed 11 Russian soldiers and one officer who were involved in shelling
Mariupol on Jan. 24 in which 30 civilians died and 100 were wounded, SBU chief
Valentyn Nalyvajchenko told journalists Feb. 4.
The 11 Russians
were destroyed near the village
of Bezimenne
The enemy gun fire spotter
SBU arrested in Mariupol the day after the shelling pointed his finger at the
Russian artillery officer and his team.
Next in line, the
SBU chief said, is to identify the enemy servicemen who shelled Volnovakha,
killing 10 and wounding 17 civilians.
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