The deployment of the UN peacekeeping mission in Donbass will probably take place in three stages - the beginning of the mission and providing conditions for its deployment (up to 2 months), promotion and establishment of control over the border (from two months) and the beginning of preparing infrastructure for local...
US intelligence predicts that the conflict in eastern Ukraine will continue in its current form and calls an offensive by either side unlikely. In addition, Ukraine is threatened by internal turmoil, which Russia is ready to take advantage of, writes Voice of America. “Each side’s calculations may change if he sees that...
Ukraine at the legislative level recognized Russia as a country that temporarily occupied territories in Donetsk and Luhansk regions. This is stated in the law "On the specifics of state policy to ensure the state sovereignty of Ukraine over the temporarily occupied territories in Donetsk and Lugansk regions", voted ...
US President Donald Trump proposed moving negotiations on Donbass from Minsk to another location. The American president expressed this initiative at a press conference in New York following a meeting of the UN Security Council in dialogue with the leader of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, Interfax reports. "We spoke…
Representatives of the Russian foreign policy department are alarmed by the plans to supply lethal weapons of American production to Ukraine. This was stated by State Secretary - Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Grigory Karasin in an interview with the Russian news agency. According to the Voice of America, the Russian diplomat stressed that the recent decision ...
The US presidential administration has approved the supply of Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine. Writes about this The Wall Stree Journal. The final decision must be made by Congress, which will consider the document for a month. According to preliminary data, the United States can supply Ukraine with 210 missiles and 35 ...
US State Department Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker says that if the situation in Donbass de-escalates, the US will increase pressure on Russia. “Where would the role of the United States be important? It is to focus Vladimir Putin's vision on the strategic dimension of the problem...
US State Department Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volcker said that the advisor to the President of the Russian Federation Vladislav Surkov is "the architect of what is happening in the Donbass" and can influence the course of negotiations to resolve the military conflict. “Yes, unlike Surkov, I don't have ...
Volunteers returning from the combat zone in Donbass are treated as an annoying inconvenience, and not as heroes, writes Inosmi, citing a full translation of an article from the American The Atlantic. Russian volunteer Andrei Kamaev arrived in the war-torn eastern Ukraine at the end of September 2014...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov admitted that Russia had bombed and shelled the sovereign territory of Ukraine, and noted that the military force is not capable of ensuring the rights of the inhabitants of Donbass. This was stated on Friday by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a meeting with ...