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Poroshenko puts in operation NSDC’s decision over Russia’s aggression
Feb20

Poroshenko puts in operation NSDC’s decision over Russia’s aggression

The cabinet of ministers of Ukraine is ordered to take a number of urgent measures to overcome the consequences of the situation in Donbas and recognise the DNR/LNR as terrorists. …read more Source:...

Nadiya Savchenko refused from glucose injections
Feb20

Nadiya Savchenko refused from glucose injections

Ukrainian pilot and the Verkhovna Rada Deputy Nadiya Savchenko, who is 68 days into her hunger strike in Moscow jail, refused from glucose injections. …read more Source:...

Elmar Brok: West can provide Ukraine with AT
Feb20

Elmar Brok: West can provide Ukraine with AT

United States and some EU countries may provide Ukraine with the AT. …read more Source:...

Sikorski: Aim of militants’ offensive in Donbas is changing power in Ukraine
Feb20

Sikorski: Aim of militants’ offensive in Donbas is changing power in Ukraine

The situation in Ukraine remains complicated in what concerns the implementation of the Minsk agreement. …read more Source:...

Normandy Four foreign ministers agree to develop recommendations for Contact Group
Feb20

Normandy Four foreign ministers agree to develop recommendations for Contact Group

The ministers agreed to work our recommendations for the contact group on the Ukrainian settlement aimed at the implementation of all provisions of the Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements signed in Minsk on 12 February 2015. …read more Source:...

Latvia’s Foreign Minister comments on Minsk Normandy Four talks
Feb20

Latvia’s Foreign Minister comments on Minsk Normandy Four talks

Edgars Rinkevics stressed that both Belarus and Ukraine are members of the Eastern Partnership initiative and took note of Belarus’ role in the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis, including the provision of a platform for the Normandy Four summit. Taking into account the fact that among the participants of the summit, apart from Vladimir...

Makei against linking Belarus’ position on Ukraine to its relations with EU
Feb20

Makei against linking Belarus’ position on Ukraine to its relations with EU

“These are two different things, Belarus’ relations with the European Union and our position on Ukraine. Do not link them,” the minister stressed. In his words, Belarus’ position on Ukraine has been clearly outlined before and is aimed, first of all, at putting an end to the conflict in this brotherly country as soon as possible and...

Poroshenko: As country-aggressor Russia will not participate in peacekeeping mission in Ukraine
Feb19

Poroshenko: As country-aggressor Russia will not participate in peacekeeping mission in Ukraine

Russia cannot and will not participate in the peacekeeping mission in Ukraine. …read more Source:...

Myasnikovich: Tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees in Belarus
Feb19

Myasnikovich: Tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees in Belarus

We have received tens of thousands of refugees. We have done everything to help these people. We have sent the children to school, provided accommodation and job opportunities. For seniors we have provided some financial assistance. We have undertaken these expenses because they are our brothers, said Mikhail Myasnikovich. …read more...

Belarus president: Nobody needs weapons without professional soldiers to use them
Feb19

Belarus president: Nobody needs weapons without professional soldiers to use them

“If we preserve the officer corps as a well-trained part of the army, we will have combat-effective armed forces. Nobody needs piles of weapons, even state-of-the-art ones, without true professional military. We can look at Ukraine for an example. If multiple-launch rocket systems are used over there and the strikes are based on guesswork, it...