Section: B92 (Serbia)
“Neo-nazi becomes Ukrainian army chief’s adviser”
Dmitry Yarosh, who heads the Ukrainian extremist organization “Right Sector,” has been made an adviser to the Ukrainian army chief, RT is reporting.“Colonel General Viktor Muzhenko, chief of general staff, and Dmytro Yarosh agreed the format of cooperation between Right Sector and the Ukrainian Armed Forces,” Ukraine’s defense...
Poroshenko “not against” Donbass referendum
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that he is not against a referendum “that could give much more powers” to Donetsk and Lugansk, AP reported.Poroshenko’s statement on Monday “reversed his government’s previous position,” the agency said. …read more Source:...
OSCE calls on all sides to respect ceasefire in Ukraine
Ivica Dacic has expressed his concerned over an increase in fighting in southeast Ukraine and urged all sides to respect the ceasefire, the OSCE said.Dacic is chairperson-in-office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and Serbia’s foreign minister and first deputy prime minister. …read more Source:...
Ukraine plans to stop buying Russian gas on April 1
Ukraine plans to stop buying Russian natural gas on April, Ukraine’s Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Vladimir Demchishin said on Monday.”There is no need to buy Russian gas at the moment. We will simply stop buying it. There is no sense of buying it at a price higher than in Europe,” he said, according to Reuters....
“No easing of sanctions until Minsk deal is implemented”
U.S. President Barack Obama and German chancellor Angela Merkel discussed the situation in Ukraine by telephone on Thursday.They “stressed they would keep up sanctions on Russia over its role in the crisis.” …read more Source:...
Unrest in Ukrainian town after tank kills 8-year-old
An 8-year-old girl was killed in the eastern Ukrainian town of Konstantinovka when Ukrainian army soldiers lost control of a tank and hit several pedestrians.Large scale unrest spread through this town, located in the Donbass region, north of Donetsk. Angry local residents “wanted to lynch the soldiers responsible for the death.”...
“Tens of thousands of Russian troops are in Ukraine”
Petro Poroshenko, who is in Berlin for a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, has said that the Minsk agreement is “not working.”The Ukrainian president, demanding an extension of the sanctions again Russia until the end of the year, also said that Russia “no longer recognizes red lines and is waging a war against...
Dacic welcomes extension of OSCE mission to Ukraine
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia’s FM Ivica Dacic has welcomed the OSCE Permanent Council’s decision to extend the mandate of the mission to Ukraine.Thursday’s decision by the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna to extend the mandate of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) and allocate necessary resources...
Russia launches large-scale drills in south
Military exercises have been launched in Russia’s southern regions and in Georgia’s breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.The drills are also carried out in Crimea, that was in 2014 reintegrated with Russia, Tanjug reported. …read more Source:...
NATO officials on “EU army,” Kiev’s “peacekeepers” idea
NATO leaders have reacted with restraint to the proposal of EC President Jean-Claude Juncker to create the army of the European Union.”The EU decides on its defense strategy, while it’s important to us to avoid duplication of capacities,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg was quoted as saying on Wednesday at the NATO...
