Live Blog: Ukraine Election Run-Up - RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty

March 30, 2019

Russia Ukraine Live Blog: Ukraine Election Run-Up - RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty RFE/RL: EU calls on Russia to stop targeting Crimean Tatars | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice - Kyiv Post Analysts: Russia Using Disinformation to Try to Disrupt Ukraine Election - Voice of America RFE/RL: Scientology properties raided in Russia | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice - Kyiv Post UNIAN: One Ukrainian soldier killed, four wounded in Donbas | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice - Kyiv Post Live Blog: Ukraine Election Run-Up - RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty Live Blog: Ukraine Election Run-Up RadioFreeEurope/RadioLibertyFollow all of the latest developments as they happen. Read More RFE/RL: EU calls on Russia to stop targeting Crimean Tatars | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Russia's War Against Ukraine RFE/RL: EU calls on Russia to stop targeting Crimean Tatars Published March 30 at 1:25 pm Ukrainian singer Jamala attends a ceremony commemorating the victims of the 1944 deportation of the indigenous people of Crimea, the Crimean Tatars, at Sofiyivska Square in Kyiv on May 18, 2018. Read More Analysts: Russia Using Disinformation to Try to Disrupt Ukraine Election - Voice of America Voice of America Analysts: Russia Using Disinformation to Try to Disrupt Ukraine Election Voice of AmericaRussia is trying to influence the outcome of the upcoming presidential election in Ukraine by stirring up division and amplifying negative news stories, according ... Read More RFE/RL: Scientology properties raided in Russia | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post RFE/RL: Scientology properties raided in Russia Published March 30 at 12:16 pm (Archive photo) Members of the pro-Kremlin youth group Young Guard protest against Scientologists in Moscow on March 21, 2008. Read More UNIAN: One Ukrainian soldier killed, four wounded in Donbas | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Russia's War Against Ukraine UNIAN: One Ukrainian soldier killed, four wounded in Donbas Published March 30 at 11:46 am A Ukrainian serviceman shoots from the dugout on the front line with Russian-backed separatists near Zhelobok village, Luhansk region on March 25, 2019. Read More

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Want to know what’s next in Russian election interference? Pay attention to Ukraine’s elections - Brookings Institution

March 28, 2019

Russia Ukraine Want to know what’s next in Russian election interference? Pay attention to Ukraine’s elections - Brookings Institution CNN: Russia confirms its military personnel are in Venezuela | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice - Kyiv Post Russia opens probes against Ukrainian military for alleged attacks at LNR - 112 International Ukraine says it found Russian SAMs destined for Eritrea - IHS Jane's 360 Jyri Raitasalo: Scandinavia won't be Russia's next target | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice - Kyiv Post Want to know what’s next in Russian election interference? Pay attention to Ukraine’s elections - Brookings Institution Brookings Institution No one knows who will come out on top among the 39 candidates running for president in this Sunday’s election in Ukraine, but one thing is nearly certain: The winner won’t be a pro-Russian candidate. Read More CNN: Russia confirms its military personnel are in Venezuela | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post CNN: Russia confirms its military personnel are in Venezuela Published March 28 at 3:24 pm Handout picture released by the Venezuelan Presidency showing Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro (C) speaking next to Venezuelan Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino (R) and Venezuelan Vice-President Delcy Rodriguez (L) during the closing ceremony and balance of military exercices in Caracas, on Feb. Read More Russia opens probes against Ukrainian military for alleged attacks at LNR - 112 International 112 International Russian Investigation Committee opened new criminal cases against the Ukrainian military accused of “attacking” the territories of Luhansk controlled by the militants of Luhansk People’s Republic, as the press office of the Committee reported. Read More Ukraine says it found Russian SAMs destined for Eritrea - IHS Jane's 360 IHS Jane's 360 Ukraine says it found Russian SAMs destined for Eritrea IHS Jane's 360A consignment of 36 surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) for the S-125 (SA-3 'Goa') air-defence system that were destined for Eritrea have been discovered by the ... Read More Jyri Raitasalo: Scandinavia won't be Russia's next target | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Jyri Raitasalo: Scandinavia won’t be Russia’s next target Published March 28 at 1:58 pm People walk on a bridge across the Moskva river with the Kremlin in the background on Feb. 17, 2019 in Moscow. Read More

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UNIAN: Russian mercenaries shelling civilians cannot be called the military - Kyiv Post

March 27, 2019

Russia Ukraine UNIAN: Russian mercenaries shelling civilians cannot be called the military - Kyiv Post Daily: Ukraine imposes sanctions on pro-Russian Finns - YLE News France 24: As conflict drags on, Ukrainians spurn Russian culture - Kyiv Post Lithuania finds ex-Soviet defense minister guilty of war crimes - Reuters Halya Coynash: Russia eliminates all classes taught in Ukrainian since Crimea annexation - Kyiv Post UNIAN: Russian mercenaries shelling civilians cannot be called the military - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Russia's War Against Ukraine UNIAN: Russian mercenaries shelling civilians cannot be called the military Published March 27 at 2:31 pm Tourists stand next to a silhouette sculpture of an Israeli soldier at an army post on Mount Bental in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights on March 22, 2019. Read More Daily: Ukraine imposes sanctions on pro-Russian Finns - YLE News YLE News Johan Bäckman at the Helsinki District Court in June 2018. Image: Jarno Kuusinen / AOP Ukraine has added four Finnish citizens to its sanctioned persons list, reports news consortium Lännen Media. Read More France 24: As conflict drags on, Ukrainians spurn Russian culture - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post France 24: As conflict drags on, Ukrainians spurn Russian culture Published March 27 at 2:04 pm Nata Zhyzhchenko, the lead singer of Ukrainian electronic pop band Onuka, plays a Ukrainian sopilka folk flute during the band's interval performance at Eurovision grand final on May 13 in Kyiv. Read More Lithuania finds ex-Soviet defense minister guilty of war crimes - Reuters Reuters VILNIUS (Reuters) - A Lithuanian court found former Soviet defense minister Dmitry Yazov guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity on Wednesday for his role in a 1991 crackdown against the Baltic state’s pro-independence movement. Read More Halya Coynash: Russia eliminates all classes taught in Ukrainian since Crimea annexation - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Russia's War Against Ukraine Halya Coynash: Russia eliminates all classes taught in Ukrainian since Crimea annexation Published March 27 at 1:51 pm (Archive photo) Students at a Ukrainian language school in the Crimean capital of Simferopol, Crimea, during a lesson. Read More

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UNIAN: Ukraine in January buys nuclear fuel from Russia alone - Kyiv Post

March 26, 2019

Russia Ukraine UNIAN: Ukraine in January buys nuclear fuel from Russia alone - Kyiv Post Russian Passport Holders Enjoy 47th-Highest Ease of Travel – Ranking - The Moscow Times Ukraine in Jan buys nuclear fuel from Russia alone - UNIAN-Economy US Embassy calls on Russia to immediately release captured Ukrainian sailors - Kyiv Post Turning Muslims Away, Poland Welcomes Ukrainians - Wall Street Journal UNIAN: Ukraine in January buys nuclear fuel from Russia alone - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post UNIAN: Ukraine in January buys nuclear fuel from Russia alone Published March 26 at 2:00 pm This illustration shows a man counting US dollars in Caracas on Jan. 28, 2019. Photo by AFP Read More Russian Passport Holders Enjoy 47th-Highest Ease of Travel – Ranking - The Moscow Times The Moscow Times Russia ranks in the top 25 percent of countries whose citizens can enjoy the most freedom of travel abroad, according to an annual rating of passport “strength.” The Henley & Partners residence and citizenship planning firm ranks the strength of 199 different passports based on the availability of visa-free or visa on arrival travel to 227 destination countries. Read More Ukraine in Jan buys nuclear fuel from Russia alone - UNIAN-Economy UNIAN-Economy Ukraine in Jan buys nuclear fuel from Russia aloneNuclear fuel imports totaled US$17.436 million in the first month of 2019. REUTERS Ukraine in January 2019 imported 14,903 tonnes of fuel assemblies for its nuclear power plants from the Russian Federation alone.The said nuclear fuel imports totaled US$17.436 million, according to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Read More US Embassy calls on Russia to immediately release captured Ukrainian sailors - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post US Embassy calls on Russia to immediately release captured Ukrainian sailors Published March 26 at 11:07 am A Russian security service officer escorts a detained Ukrainian sailor to a courthouse in Moscow on Jan. Read More Turning Muslims Away, Poland Welcomes Ukrainians - Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal WARSAW—Four and a half years ago, Maryna Karalop packed up and moved from Ukraine to Poland. Since then, so did some two million other Ukrainians—the biggest wave of migration into the European Union in recent times. Read More

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Ukraine election polls 2019: Voter payoffs and secret donations in 'dirtiest' race ever - Express.co.uk

March 25, 2019

Russia Ukraine Ukraine election polls 2019: Voter payoffs and secret donations in 'dirtiest' race ever - Express.co.uk Ukraine proposes Russia to exchange prisoners on March 30 - 112 International Podcast: The Week Ahead In Russia - RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty The Moscow Times: Russian space firm to scrap rocket deal with Ukraine - Kyiv Post Ukraine's top cop walks thin blue line between Russian meddling, free election - National Observer Ukraine election polls 2019: Voter payoffs and secret donations in 'dirtiest' race ever - Express.co.uk Express.co.uk Ukraine will take to the polls on Sunday, March 31 for initial voting and the fight for one of the places is heating up between incumbent Petro Poroshenko and ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Read More Ukraine proposes Russia to exchange prisoners on March 30 - 112 International 112 International Ukraine has offered Russia to conduct prisoners exchange – 25 Ukrainians for 25 Russians convicted in Ukraine on March 30, as Iryna Gerashchenko, First Vice-Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament, representative of Ukraine to the humanitarian subgroup in the Trilateral Contact Group, said, Interfax-Ukraine reported. Read More Podcast: The Week Ahead In Russia - RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty Podcast: The Week Ahead In Russia RadioFreeEurope/RadioLibertyRFE/RL's enterprise editor, Carl Schreck, joins host Steve Gutterman to discuss how the Kremlin may be interpreting -- and spinning -- two election-related ... Read More The Moscow Times: Russian space firm to scrap rocket deal with Ukraine - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post The Moscow Times: Russian space firm to scrap rocket deal with Ukraine Published March 25 at 1:36 pm A Soyuz MS-11 rocket carrying Russian, American and Canadian astronauts takes off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Dec. Read More Ukraine's top cop walks thin blue line between Russian meddling, free election - National Observer National Observer Two weeks after Serhii Kniaziev's military career ended, the Iron Curtain fell, the Soviet Union crumbled and the young ex-soldier returned to Ukraine and quickly found his calling — the thin blue line of policing. Read More

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Senator Kosachev: Poroshenko's Talk Of Restoring Crimea To The Ukraine Is Futile, Crimeans Will Never Return To Those Who Treated Them As Servants - Middle East Media Research Institute

March 24, 2019

Russia Ukraine Senator Kosachev: Poroshenko's Talk Of Restoring Crimea To The Ukraine Is Futile, Crimeans Will Never Return To Those Who Treated Them As Servants - Middle East Media Research Institute U.S. Department calls for immediate release and medical treatment of Ukrainian Pavlo Gryb - 112 International Donbas war: Russia fires with mortar near Zolote-4, - Ukraine's Defense Ministry - 112 International UNIAN: 5 Russia-backed separatists killed, 1 wounded in Donbas - Kyiv Post Day in Donbas: Russia violates ceasefire regime three times, no casualties - 112 International Senator Kosachev: Poroshenko's Talk Of Restoring Crimea To The Ukraine Is Futile, Crimeans Will Never Return To Those Who Treated Them As Servants - Middle East Media Research Institute Middle East Media Research Institute March 18 marked the fifth anniversary of Moscow's annexation of Crimea. On March 17, in an interview with TV channel Ukraina, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that "Crimea will be returned to Ukraine, without haggling and behind-the-scenes agreements."[1] Read More U.S. Department calls for immediate release and medical treatment of Ukrainian Pavlo Gryb - 112 International 112 International Pavlo Gryb, the Ukrainian political prisoner The U.S. condemns the verdict to Pavlo Gryb by the Russian authority and calls on Russia to lent Ukrainian go home, who needs immediate medical treatment. Read More Donbas war: Russia fires with mortar near Zolote-4, - Ukraine's Defense Ministry - 112 International 112 International The Russian militants attacked the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the Minsk-banned weaponry near Zolote-4 settlement of the Luhansk region. Olexand Motuzianyk, the Spokesman of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, stated this during the session, as the press service of the Ministry reports. Read More UNIAN: 5 Russia-backed separatists killed, 1 wounded in Donbas - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post UNIAN: 5 Russia-backed separatists killed, 1 wounded in Donbas Kyiv PostDuring the past day, March 23, Russia-backed separatists in Donbas three times violated the ceasefire. Five enemy troops were killed, one injured, the ... Read More Day in Donbas: Russia violates ceasefire regime three times, no casualties - 112 International 112 International The Russian militants fired three times the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donbas conflict zone. The Joint Forces Operation (JFO) HQ reported this on Facebook. “The enemy violated the ceasefire regime three times on March 23”, - the report said. Read More

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