Ukraine expresses support for Sentsov on his birthday, again demands that Russia release him - Interfax Ukraine

July 13, 2019

Russia Ukraine Ukraine expresses support for Sentsov on his birthday, again demands that Russia release him - Interfax Ukraine No, we aren’t on the brink of a new Cold War with Russia and China - Brookings Institution Giacomo Sanfilippo: Confronting the Orthodox Church's Soviet past - Kyiv Post UNIAN: Zelensky pardons Kremlin's political prisoner Lytvinov - Kyiv Post NEWSBRIEFS - The Ukrainian Weekly Ukraine expresses support for Sentsov on his birthday, again demands that Russia release him - Interfax Ukraine Interfax Ukraine 15:32 13.07.2019 Ukraine expresses support for Sentsov on his birthday, again demands that Russia release him Director Oleh Sentsov, unlawfully convicted in Russia, turned 43 years old, and the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine again demanded his release. Read More No, we aren’t on the brink of a new Cold War with Russia and China - Brookings Institution Brookings Institution Increasingly in U.S. national security circles, it has become common to hear talk of a new Cold War with great-power rivals. But this way of thinking is imprecise at best, dangerous at worst. Read More Giacomo Sanfilippo: Confronting the Orthodox Church's Soviet past - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post My readers can be forgiven if they hoped that my July 5 “The Patriarchal Saga that Keeps on Giving” would be my final word on Filaret Denysenko. I had certainly hoped that it would be. Read More UNIAN: Zelensky pardons Kremlin's political prisoner Lytvinov - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post UNIAN: Zelensky pardons Kremlin’s political prisoner Lytvinov Published July 13. Updated July 13 at 9:11 am Ukrainian citizen Serhiy Litvinov was among those who were unlawfully held and convicted in Russia. Read More NEWSBRIEFS - The Ukrainian Weekly The Ukrainian Weekly Zelenskyy: ‘No expensive military parade’ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced that the country will not hold an “expensive” military parade as it has in years past on the country’s Independence Day, August 24. Read More

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Ukraine forces in Donbas shoot down another Russian drone - UNIAN

July 12, 2019

Russia Ukraine Ukraine forces in Donbas shoot down another Russian drone - UNIAN Russia conducting operation to force Ukraine to restore water supplies to Crimea – Information Resistance - Interfax Ukraine Japanese Ambassador Takashi Kurai pledges strong support for Ukraine - Kyiv Post MFA Ukraine responds to Russia's move to recognize "undesirable" activities of Ukrainian World Congress - UNIAN NATO North Atlantic Council to visit Ukraine in October - 112 International Ukraine forces in Donbas shoot down another Russian drone - UNIAN UNIAN Ukraine forces in Donbas shoot down another Russian drone13:20, 12 July 2019 War 0 0 The UAV was flying at an altitude of about 500-600 meters. REUTERS Azov regiment reports on the downing in the Donbas warzone's Svitlodarska Duha arc area of a Russian-made Eleron-type drone."The UAV was spotting the enemy artillery fire amid intensified shelling. Read More Russia conducting operation to force Ukraine to restore water supplies to Crimea – Information Resistance - Interfax Ukraine Interfax Ukraine 13:05 12.07.2019 Russia conducting operation to force Ukraine to restore water supplies to Crimea – Information Resistance Russia is actively lobbying for the restoration of water supplies to Russia-occupied Crimea using the North-Crimean Canal, the public organization Information Resistance (IR) has said. Read More Japanese Ambassador Takashi Kurai pledges strong support for Ukraine - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Takashi Kurai, Japan’s ambassador to Ukraine, arrived in Kyiv for assignment in January. But he wanted to take several months to meet people, travel the country and gain a better understanding of what’s happening before giving interviews. Read More MFA Ukraine responds to Russia's move to recognize "undesirable" activities of Ukrainian World Congress - UNIAN UNIAN MFA Ukraine responds to Russia's move to recognize "undesirable" activities of Ukrainian World CongressThe ministry added that Ukraine was ready to take all steps necessary in response to this "shameful" decision of the aggressor state. Read More NATO North Atlantic Council to visit Ukraine in October - 112 International 112 International Zelensky, Stoltenberg in Brussels, June 2019 NATO North Atlantic Council will visit Ukraine on October 30-31. However, it should take place in July 2019 as Deutsche Welle reported. Read More

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Ukraine soccer league expands after conflict disruption - Washington Post

July 11, 2019

Russia Ukraine Ukraine soccer league expands after conflict disruption - Washington Post Russian police detain Crimean Tatar protesters outside supreme court: monitor - Reuters Tensions between Russia and Georgia are on the rise again: Here's why it matters - CNBC Press review: How Ukraine's vote will affect Moscow and Syria slams UK over seized tanker - TASS Associated Press: Russia urges restraint amid new Gulf tensions - Kyiv Post Ukraine soccer league expands after conflict disruption - Washington Post Washington Post KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s soccer league is expanding back to 16 teams after years of turmoil sparked by the annexation of Crimea and the conflict in the country’s east. The Ukrainian Football Federation says the coming 2019-20 season will be the last with 12 teams before an expansion to 14 for 2020-21 and 16 the following year. Read More Russian police detain Crimean Tatar protesters outside supreme court: monitor - Reuters Reuters FILE PHOTO: A still image taken from a video footage and obtained by Reuters on July 10, 2019, shows Crimean Tatars during a demonstration to draw attention to alleged rights abuses in Crimea, in Red Square in Moscow, Russia. Read More Tensions between Russia and Georgia are on the rise again: Here's why it matters - CNBC CNBC Demonstrators attend a march on the tenth day protests over a Russian lawmakers visit to Georgia's parliament on June 29, 2019 in Tbilisi, Georgia. The protests erupted after a controversial visit by Sergei Gavrilov, a Russian lawmaker of the Russian State Duma from the Communist Party. Read More Press review: How Ukraine's vote will affect Moscow and Syria slams UK over seized tanker - TASS TASS Vedomosti: Kremlin’s backing of Medvedchuk’s party mobilizes anti-Russian forces Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev held talks with leaders of Ukraine’s Opposition Platform - For Life party Viktor Medvedchuk and Yuri Boiko on Wednesday. Read More Associated Press: Russia urges restraint amid new Gulf tensions - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Associated Press: Russia urges restraint amid new Gulf tensions Published July 11 at 12:47 pm The flag of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) flutters in front of the IAEA building in Vienna on July 10, 2019. Read More

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Russia urges U.S., Ukraine to support its anti-Nazism efforts - The Jerusalem Post

July 10, 2019

Russia Ukraine Russia urges U.S., Ukraine to support its anti-Nazism efforts - The Jerusalem Post Russian police detain Crimean Tatar protesters on Moscow's Red Square - Reuters Robert Mueller Missed the Crime: Trump's Campaign Coordinated With Russia - The Daily Beast UN Human Rights Council 44: Ukraine - GOV.UK Kremlin sees no progress on exchange of detained individuals between Russia, Ukraine – spokesman - RT Russia urges U.S., Ukraine to support its anti-Nazism efforts - The Jerusalem Post The Jerusalem Post The United States should support efforts by Russia to combat the glorification of Nazism, including a draft UN resolution submitted by Russia against the glorification of Nazism, said its ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov, according to the Russian Tass News Agency. Read More Russian police detain Crimean Tatar protesters on Moscow's Red Square - Reuters Reuters MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police detained seven Crimean Tatars on Moscow’s Red Square on Wednesday after dispersing a demonstration that had aimed to draw attention to alleged rights abuses on the Black Sea peninsula which Russia annexed from Ukraine five years ago. Read More Robert Mueller Missed the Crime: Trump's Campaign Coordinated With Russia - The Daily Beast The Daily Beast Ever since the release of the Mueller Report, countless commentators have implored everyone to just #ReadtheReport. The problem is not who is reading it—the problem is the report itself, and its many errors.  Read More UN Human Rights Council 44: Ukraine - GOV.UK GOV.UK Thank you, Madam Vice-President, The United Kingdom thanks the High Commissioner for her update and welcomes the 26th report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, based on the work of the Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine. Read More Kremlin sees no progress on exchange of detained individuals between Russia, Ukraine – spokesman - RT RT There has been no progress regarding the exchange of detained individuals between Russia and Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. “The issue is discussed by the Contact Group [on eastern Ukraine], but for now we see that there are no results,” he told reporters. Read More

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UNIAN: Russian anti-submarine corvette enters Sea of Azov - Kyiv Post

July 09, 2019

Russia Ukraine UNIAN: Russian anti-submarine corvette enters Sea of Azov - Kyiv Post Friday Night Fights With Ukraine's Far Right - The New Republic Associated Press: Russian officials raise alarm over bee deaths - Kyiv Post Russia-occupation forces shell Ukrainian positions 17 times on July 8, no casualties reported – JFO HQ - Interfax Ukraine Tusk notes Russia's particular responsibility" to implement Minsk agreements - UNIAN UNIAN: Russian anti-submarine corvette enters Sea of Azov - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post UNIAN: Russian anti-submarine corvette enters Sea of Azov Published July 9 at 1:04 pm Russian navy sailors stand on the deck of their ship, the 'Aleksandrovets' anti-submarine warfare (ASW) corvette, preparing to make its way in the bay of the Crimean city of Sevastopol on March 25, 2014. Read More Friday Night Fights With Ukraine's Far Right - The New Republic The New Republic “So harden your hearts, sharpen your swords and when the enemy is here gut him like a pig!”Korotkikh became commander of the Azov Battalion’s intelligence service. Despite a past that included ties to notorious Russian neo-Nazi organizations, even reportedly running training for them on everything from hand-to-hand combat to knife fights, Korotkikh was given Ukrainian citizenship by then-president Petro Poroshenko in 2014. Read More Associated Press: Russian officials raise alarm over bee deaths - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Associated Press: Russian officials raise alarm over bee deaths Published July 9 at 12:45 pm A bee draws nectar from the flowers of a Sorbaria sorbifolia bush in a garden outside Moscow on June 22, 2019. Read More Russia-occupation forces shell Ukrainian positions 17 times on July 8, no casualties reported – JFO HQ - Interfax Ukraine Interfax Ukraine 11:11 09.07.2019 Russia-occupation forces shell Ukrainian positions 17 times on July 8, no casualties reported – JFO HQ Russia-occupation forces have fired on Ukrainian positions 17 times on Monday, July 8, and no losses have been reported, the press center of the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) has said. Read More Tusk notes Russia's particular responsibility" to implement Minsk agreements - UNIAN UNIAN Tusk notes Russia's particular responsibility" to implement Minsk agreementsAlso, he said the EU condemns the Russian measures "entitling Ukrainian citizens of the areas currently not under the control of the Government to apply for Russian citizenship in a simplified manner." Read More

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Ukraine's president says ready to meet Russia's Putin in Minsk - Reuters

July 08, 2019

Russia Ukraine Ukraine's president says ready to meet Russia's Putin in Minsk - Reuters Kremlin hails Russian-Ukrainian televised linkup initiative - Interfax Ukraine MH17 case being transferred from Ukraine to Netherlands - UNIAN Ukrainian TV channel NewsOne cancels TV linkup with Russia due to 'threats' - Kyiv Post First batch of U.S. crude oil unloaded in Ukraine's Odesa port - UNIAN Ukraine's president says ready to meet Russia's Putin in Minsk - Reuters Reuters KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said on Monday he was ready to meet Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Minsk for talks that he said should also involve Germany, Britain, the United States and France. Read More Kremlin hails Russian-Ukrainian televised linkup initiative - Interfax Ukraine Interfax Ukraine 13:52 08.07.2019 Kremlin hails Russian-Ukrainian televised linkup initiative The Kremlin welcomed the initiative on holding a televised linkup between Russia and Ukraine as the peoples need to talk, despite the political and diplomatic problems in the relations between the two countries. Read More MH17 case being transferred from Ukraine to Netherlands - UNIAN UNIAN MH17 case being transferred from Ukraine to NetherlandsThe trial of suspects will begin on March 9, 2020. REUTERS Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Justice for European Integration Sergiy Petukhov has said the Netherlands has started the procedure of transferring the criminal case on the downing of MH17 from Ukraine."Two years ago, the justice ministers of Ukraine and the Netherlands signed an agreement on cooperation in investigating the downing of MH17 Boeing. Read More Ukrainian TV channel NewsOne cancels TV linkup with Russia due to 'threats' - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Russia's War Against Ukraine Ukrainian TV channel NewsOne cancels TV linkup with Russia due to ‘threats’ Published July 8. Updated July 8 at 1:38 pm The photo shows activists, taking part in a rally against announced teleconference between Ukrainian NewsOne TV channel and Russian propaganda channel Rossiya 24 on July 8. Read More First batch of U.S. crude oil unloaded in Ukraine's Odesa port - UNIAN UNIAN First batch of U.S. crude oil unloaded in Ukraine's Odesa portIt is planned to be transmitted to the Kremenchuk oil refinery through the Odesa-Kremenchuk oil pipeline. REUTERS The first batch of U.S. Read More

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