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‘Normandy 4′ Leaders’ Phone Talks on Ukrainian Settlement to Take Place Monday
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The date of the telephone call was officially confirmed by the sides in the course of the previous week. On Saturday, the Elysee Palace issued the timetable of French President Emmanuel Macron marking the inter-state call. “At 11 a.m. [09:00 GMT] — the phone talks in Normandy format with Ukraine’s President Petro...
Two Ukraine Officials Arrested in Absentia in Russia Over Admiral’s Prosecution
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Russian court has authorized arrest in absentia of Ruslan Kravchenko, the prosecutor at the Chief Military Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine (PGO) and Vadim Priymachok, PGO’s investigator, over illegal criminal prosecution of Russian Black Sea Fleet Commander Adm. Aleksandr Vitko, the spokeswoman said. “The Basmanny...
Politics: New White House communications director: Trump is still not sure Russia interfered in the election
Scaramucci also characterized Trump Jr.'s controversial meeting with a Russian lawyer last June as a "non-event" and a "nothing meeting." “He called me from Air Force One and he basically said to me, ‘Hey, you know, maybe they did do it, maybe they didn’t do it,'” Scaramucci, who started his new...
Politics: White House communications director: Trump is still not sure Russia interfered in the election
Scaramucci also characterized Trump Jr.'s controversial meeting with a Russian lawyer last June as a "non-event" and a "nothing meeting." President Donald Trump’s new White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, told CNN on Sunday that Trump is still not convinced that Russia interfered in the 2016...
In Ukraine: Activists struggle to stem HIV spread
As clashes drag on in east Ukraine between government forces and Russian-backed rebels, health activist Natalia Gurova is fighting another battle of her own. As clashes drag on in east Ukraine between government forces and Russian-backed rebels, health activist Natalia Gurova is fighting another battle of her own.Gurova manages a project in her...
Return of Botulism to Europe: Ukraine’s Health Crisis Threatens Whole Continent
Ukrainians’ health has been seriously compromised by the liquidation of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service, Ukraine-focused observers have reported, citing a dramatic rise in the number of incidents involving mass poisonings, including botulism. Ukraine’s government formally liquidated the agency earlier this year,...
In rebel-held Ukraine, activists struggle to stem HIV spread
A patient waits in a hospital treating drug users in the rebel capital of Donetsk, Ukraine © AFP / Aleksey FILIPPOVDONETSK, Ukraine, Jul 22 – As clashes drag on in east Ukraine between government forces and Russian-backed rebels, health activist Natalia Gurova is fighting another battle of her own. Gurova manages a project in her...
Politics: 5 more Ukrainian soldiers have been killed as a bloody surge in fighting continues
Fifteen soldiers have been killed and 24 more have been wounded in the last three days. Five Ukrainian soldiers were killed and eight more were wounded Thursday night and Friday morning in eastern Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. One soldier was killed and another was wounded on Thursday night near the Butovka coal mine, and...
Lukashenko Offers Kiev Joint Humanitarian Aid Deliveries to East Ukraine
KIEV (Sputnik) — Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday offered his Ukrainian counterpart, Petro Poroshenko, to cooperate in delivering humanitarian aid to the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR) in war-torn eastern part of the country via Ukrainian territory. Earlier in the day, the Belarusian...
Ukraine Ceasefire Fails Due to Lack of Political Will – German Foreign Ministry
BERLIN (Sputnik) — The ceasefire regime introduced in eastern Ukraine on June 24 has failed largely because the parties to the conflict have no political will to fulfill their commitments, the German Foreign Ministry said Friday. “The agreed truce is not being maintained. We continue to observe numerous instances of the use of weapons along the...
