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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]

Sat Jan 16, 2016 12:31 am
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News -
Russians attack Ukraine 40 times yesterday.
AP reports no deaths or injuries yesterday.
Plane skids of runway at Zhuliani (Kiev)

Weather -
Snow overnight. Near zero. The last "warm" day for a while, if the forecasts are right.
Nearer normal next week, i.e. -10 at night, -3 day. Something like that.

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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty ATO Soldiers repelled attack by terrorists during night at Trohizbenko

Sat Jan 16, 2016 12:39 am
http://gazeta.ua/articles/np/_bijci-ato-vidbili-nichnij-napad-bojovikiv-pid-trohizbenkoyu/671850
..[worst area] was in the area of ​​Marinka. There are three positions by forces ATU militants fired 82-mm and 120-mm mortars. In addition, once used small arms and rocket launchers, the press center of Staff TU.
In Mariupol direction bandits fired mortars caliber 82 and 120 mm...
Near temporarily occupied Gorlovki militants opened fire with small arms and heavy machine guns..
Do not stop shelling and near the Donetsk airport. The invaders systematically fired by the Ukrainian defense Opitnoe, Pisky and south Avdeevki. That night they used there only small arms and grenade launchers.
"Organised crime groups again violated the terms of cease-fire in the Luhansk region. So, the village Trohizbenka came under enemy fire from small arms, rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns. To prevent loss of personnel and the local population, strength ATO had open aimed fire back with permitted arms, after which the militants stopped firing, "- said in a statement.
Overall, during the last day pro NFP 40 times violated the regime of "complete silence" in the zone of ATO. Several minor shelling our positions recorded by the invaders after midnight.
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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Ukraine abolished the special duties on some Belarusian goods (Telegraph)

Sat Jan 16, 2016 12:49 am
http://telegraf.com.ua/biznes/ekonomika/2259216-ukraina-otmenila-spetsposhlinyi-na-nekotoryie-belorusskie-tovaryi.html
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Rather unclear. But as I see it, trying to increase trade between Belarus and Ukraine. Better to concentrate on the EU. Free market.

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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Russian in Ukraine was sentenced to 13 years in prison for participating in "LNR" (Commander in Chief)

Sat Jan 16, 2016 12:53 am
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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty ‘War Buryats of the Russian World’: Russian 5th Tank Brigade in Donbas [Engl]

Sat Jan 16, 2016 2:03 am
https://informnapalm.org/en/jan12-donbas-buryat/
Further photo evidence of Russian Brigade in Donbass from 2014 and 2015.
What we all know - regular Russian troops killing Ukrainians.

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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Poison Puzzle: A Search For Answers In Kremlin Critic's Mysterious Illness [Engl]

Sat Jan 16, 2016 2:19 am
http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-kara-murza-poisoning/27490121.html
...Kara-Murza also believes his poisoning may have been an act of revenge for his lobbying for U.S. sanctions against Russian officials under the Magnitsky Act, named for Sergei Magnitsky, a whistleblowing Russian lawyer who died in a Moscow jail in 2009 after accusing officials of large-scale fraud.
A month before his illness, Kara-Murza and opposition politician Mikhail Kasyanov, Putin's former prime minister, met with U.S. lawmakers in Washington to request that the United States impose Magnitsky Act sanctions on Russian television "propagandists" they accuse of leading a media vilification campaign that helped lead to Nemtsov's slaying. ...

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Quite a long article. Reminds me of what happened to Yushchenko.
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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty 'Downshifter' Russia Is Losing Global Competition, Warns State Bank Chief [Engl]

Sat Jan 16, 2016 2:30 am
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/downshifter-russia-is-losing-global-competition-warns-state-bank-chief/555889.html
...: "Our most terrible export, and our largest export, which we must stop, is the export of brainpower. ..
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Indeed, anybody with any intelligence, and without fixed assets in Russia would want to leave that place. Simply no future under Putin. Just repression.

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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Hryvnia updates nine-month low against dollar [Engl]

Sat Jan 16, 2016 2:35 am
http://www.unian.info/economics/1237836-hryvnia-updates-nine-month-low-against-dollar.html
The National Bank of Ukraine set the official hryvnia exchange rate to the dollar at UAH 24.1874 on January 15, the lowest rate over the past 9 months.
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Frankly, the British pound and Euro have fallen massively against the dollar in the past month.
The dollar is very very strong. Oil prices are falling like crazy for the world's largest consumer of oil.
Ukrainians always get worried about the currency - more than any other country I know - probably because so many took out loans in dollars and euros.
At the Bureau de Change yesterday I saw 25.7 / 26.2 uah for one dollar. Basically at 26 now.
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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Against Savik Shuster opened a criminal case (Mediananny)

Sat Jan 16, 2016 2:52 am
9:42
http://mediananny.com/novosti/2314218/
Schuster - popular tv journalist. Adores Tymoshenko, therefore he makes me puke.
Summons for tax evasion. He is a multi-millionaire. But if Tymoshenko can get away with a declaration that says she earns 2 dollars a day, whilst going out shopping for 10,000 dollar handbags in Paris every month, then... he'll get off also - if guilty. Despite all the talk of cleaning up the legal system it still works on the principle that - who pays the most money to the judge wins the case. But the price is higher now, of course, as the risks for the judge are higher.

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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Kievans are again thinking about a "successor" to Lenin on Bessarabka (Styler)

Sat Jan 16, 2016 2:56 am
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http://www.rbc.ua/styler/zhizn/kievlyane-zadumalis-preemnike-lenina-bessarabke-1452929381.html
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Not easy. Schevchenko, maybe a group statue from Maidan 2014...
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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Citizen of Vinnytsia fell through the ice and died (UNN Center)

Sat Jan 16, 2016 3:00 am
10:04
http://region.unn.ua/uk/news/24438-vinnichanin-provalivsya-pid-lid-i-zaginuv
Sad. Common at this time of year. The ice is still very thin. This should change next week, when temperatures are expected to drop to nearer normal for this time of year.
Today - probably the last "warm" day of January, I would think. Currently zero where I am, but fresh snow - perhaps 5 cm - on the ground. Forecast - Two weeks or more of winter ahead.

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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Russia’s 200th Motorized Infantry Brigade in the Donbass [Engl]

Sat Jan 16, 2016 3:55 am
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2016/01/16/russias-200th-motorized-infantry-brigade-in-the-donbass/
In the fierce battles near Luhansk at the end of August 2014, Ukrainian soldiers and volunteers faced a group made up of various units of Russian military brigades. The 200th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade (military unit 08275, Pechenga) was one of them. This post will given direct evidence of of the participation of units of the this Russian brigade from Pechenga in the war in the Donbass...
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Long, detailed, excellent report showing massive evidence of direct Russian involvement in the war in Donbass.
It is - for certain - a war against Russia. Russia fighting against Ukraine.
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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Pushilin: the return of Donbass to Ukraine is impossible [Ru source]

Sat Jan 16, 2016 4:03 am
http://m.ria.ru/world/20160115/1360135113.html
If by the sovereignty of Donbass, which said Petro Poroshenko, meant a return to a unitary Ukraine, this is "physically and practically impossible," said the envoy DNR Dennis Pushilin.
DONETSK, January 15 - RIA Novosti. Return of Donets Basin in the Ukraine is impossible, reiterated envoy breakaway DNI contact group to resolve the situation in the east of Ukraine Denis Pushilin....

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Putin wants the Donbass wasteland to stay under Russian control, but for Ukraine to pay for it.
Please note - from a Russian source, RIA Novosti, Shaun Walker's buddies.
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Pushilin, I understand, currently head of the "DNR" contact group at the Minsk talks.
This about Pushilin, from wiki -
Since 2002, he worked in the trading company "licorice life" [4] [5].
.. Pushilin ... in 2013, he ran to the Verkhovna Rada re-election in District 94 in the Kiev region, took 19th place and received 0.08% (77 votes [7]).

Пушилин, Денис Владимирович - wikipedia (very long link)
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So.. 0.08% of the vote. Less than one tenth of One percent!!
Amazing that a man who got only 77 votes in all of Kiev can determine the lives of millions in the Donbass. Thanks to Putin's tanks.

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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty UIA plane skids off runway at Zhuliany airport on Saturday [Engl]

Sat Jan 16, 2016 5:45 am
http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/317889.html
"A UIA plane carrying out Lviv-Kyiv 34L flight skidded off the runway at Airport Kyiv (Zhuliany). All passengers are safe and sound; the airport was closed until 12:30 local time [on Saturday, January 16]," Zhuliany's information service reported.
... The plane had to land at Zhuliany due to bad weather conditions in Kyiv on Saturday.

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Strange - you would have thought it was easier to land at Borispol. Zhuliani has one very short runway!
Anyway, good that everybody is ok.
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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Insider's guide to who owns Ukrainian news media

Sat Jan 16, 2016 6:20 am
http://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/business/insiders-guide-to-who-owns-ukrainian-news-media-405941.html
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Purely factual. Detailed listing. Many many oligarchs and Yanukovich allies. Good listing.
Normally I would not publish links to Kyivpost because of their historical strong links with billionaire / penniless pensioner (depending on whom you believe) Yulia Tymoshenko.
The Kyivpost was for ever publishing articles in favor of YT, particularly by Taras Kuzio, describing - for example - Yatseniuk as "a jew", rubbishing Poroshenko also, in the hope of reducing their popularity in favour of Tymoshenko, the gas princess. It seemed clear to all that Kuzio was a "prostitute" on YT's payroll. Such journalism - and rascism - disgusts me and offends me. Perhaps it is a little better now. Time will tell. Although several years ago, old habits die hard, for them, as for me also.

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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty No dead or wounded in the Donbass yesterday - HQ

Sat Jan 16, 2016 6:36 am
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2016/01/16/7095585/
Saturday, 16 January 2016 12:37
During the last day of hostilities in the zone of ATO no Ukrainian soldier was killed and none injured.
A briefing on Jan. 16 AP spokesman for ATO Andrey Lysenko.
January 15 was the hottest in the direction of Mariupol, militants fired on the forces ATU towards Marinka: shelling started at night and continued with small intervals during the day.
"Terrorists have used forbidden Minsk II weapons - mortars caliber 82 and 120 mm," - said a spokesman for the AP.
On the same weapon attacks militants committed town Vodyanya in the "gray" area.
According to the staff, while armed provocation continued overnight on the northern outskirts Gorlovka, nearby towns Troitskoi and Mayorska.
Also, two militants violated the regime of "silence" near towns Luhansk.
"There they used anti-tank missiles," - said Lysenko.
During the last day the guards also recorded two aircraft flying in the direction of the militants' Mariupol- Kostiantynivka. "
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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Dispatchers called the reasons for UIA aircraft leaving the runway at airport "Kiev" (RBC-Ukraine)

Sat Jan 16, 2016 6:56 am
http://www.rbc.ua/rus/news/dispetchery-nazvali-prichiny-vyezda-samoleta-1452943389.html
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Photo at link. No real info. Looks to me like it ran out of runway. You can see a fence beyond the plane.
Other photo posted on this link - first post today, above. From facebook.
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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty In Kiev waiting for an explanation of the closed meeting Nuland and Surkov

Sat Jan 16, 2016 8:38 am
US officials have informed Ukraine about the results of the meeting the US Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland, and Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Vladislav Surkov, said the agency "Interfax-Ukraine" a source in the diplomatic circles.

"Of course, our partners will share information about details of the meeting", - he said, answering the question whether the Ukrainian side informed about the results of the meeting Nuland and Surkov.

As reported, on Friday, January 15 at the presidential residence in the pioneering near Kaliningrad (Russian Federation) held a closed meeting Nuland and Surkov. Their conversation lasted a total of about 6 hours.

In a statement, US State Department spokesman John Kirby says that "discussed the situation in the east of Ukraine and the need for full implementation of the agreements in Minsk."

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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Weapons for ISIS manufactured in Donbas

Sat Jan 16, 2016 2:22 pm
Information Resistance NGO claims there is conclusive evidence that weapons for ISIS are manufactured in the rebel-held territory of Donbas.

IR describes an accident when a rebel truck carrying portable mobile missiles with operating instructions in Arabic hit a mine in Donbas.

“The truck was moving away from the touchline toward Russia without any escort,” IR says.

The Grad-P mobile missile was earlier produced by the Kovrov Mechanical Works, Russia.

“Apparently, the missile is now produced in Donbas with instructions in Arabic. It’s not difficult to guess who the client is,” IR says.

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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Law on international broadcasting comes into force

Sat Jan 16, 2016 3:05 pm
Today, Jan. 16, the law "On the system of international broadcasting in Ukraine" comes into force.


The law presupposes establishment of a channel, which will broadcast outside Ukraine to protect national interests and form a positive image of the country in English and other languages.

As Censor.NET reports citing Channel 112 Ukraine, the document was published in Governmental Courier magazine on Jan. 15. The law comes into force the day after publication.

The law defines the tasks and functions of state international broadcasting in Ukraine, principles of its subjects in order to protect the national interests of Ukraine abroad, as well as to form and support the positive image of Ukraine in the world by prompt and objective information about the events in Ukraine.

Read more: Poroshenko signed law on international broadcasting

Multimedia broadcasting platform of Ukraine has been created as a state enterprise on the basis of the State TV and Radio Company Ukrainian Television and Radio Broadcasting. It is subject to the central body of executive power, which provides forming and implementing of the state policy on information sovereignty of Ukraine.

According to the law, intervention of public authorities and local self-governments, their officials, as well as non-governmental organizations into international broadcasting in order to establish censorship, preliminary control or undue influence on the content is prohibited.

The system of international broadcasting in Ukraine will include Multimedia broadcasting platform of Ukraine and Ukrinform Ukrainian National Information Agency.

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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Terrorists shelled their own positions to blame Ukrainian troops – press officer of the M sector

Sat Jan 16, 2016 3:07 pm
Terrorists fire at their own positions, and then accuse the Ukrainian military.

Censor.NET reports citing the commentary of the press officer of the Mariupol sector Oleksandr Kindsfater for Channel 112 Ukraine.

Intelligence data show that all the attacks on Kominternove were carried out from Sakhanki and Zaichenko, where the mlitants' positions are located. "Unfortunately, the OSCE representatives did not confirm any cases of usage of 120 mm and 82 mm mortar shells by the militants. In Kominternove, they drive only through those places which the militants show them," he said.

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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Bellingcat: Russia's 200th motorized infantry brigade in the Donbas

Sat Jan 16, 2016 3:16 pm
In the fierce battles near Luhansk at the end of August 2014, Ukrainian soldiers and volunteers faced a group made up of various units of Russian military brigades. The 200th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade (military unit 08275, Pechenga) was one of them. This post will given direct evidence of of the participation of units of the this Russian brigade from Pechenga in the war in the Donbass.

Going into the warzone in the Donbass, Russian military units paint over the signs of their tactical units on military equipment in order to avoid detection. Some military units apply temporary identification signs. This is done in order to minimize the chance of accidentally opening fire on one's own combat vehicles in a situation in which the enemy has the same or visually similar military equipment. However, now it is possible to identify which Russian military units fought in Ukraine by the visible identification signs..................

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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Special envoys of German Chancellor and French President to visit Ukraine

Sat Jan 16, 2016 3:19 pm
On January 18-19, special envoys of German Chancellor and French President will come to Ukraine, according to the official website of Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko.

The visit will take place pursuant to the agreements achieved during the phone conversation of Petro Poroshenko with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande on January 13, 2016, the report says.......

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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty "Yes, we are preparing it" - Isliamov on naval blockade of Crimea

Sat Jan 16, 2016 6:15 pm
The naval blockade of the occupied Crimea is now being prepared, but it is not yet known when it starts.
Initiator of the civil blockade of the Crimea Lenur Isliamov announced, Censor.NET reports citing News.liga.net.

"Yes, we are preparing it, but we are still waiting for authorization to launch it," he said. Isliamov did not voice the terms and added that the talks are now about the format of the naval blockade.

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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty The occupants ultimately killed the freedom of speech in Crimea – Minister Stets

Sat Jan 16, 2016 6:35 pm
Russian occupation authorities in Crimea ultimately suppressed the freedom of speech, having made it impossible for professional activities of independent journalists.
Minister of Information Policy Yurii Stets said, Censor.NET reports citing the Government portal.

"The aim for punitive operations is the inability of professional activity of journalists and independent media, destruction of the freedom of expression, intimidation of the population and suppression of any disagreement by the repressive policies of the current 'Crimean authorities'," Stets underlined.

"The detention and interrogation of the Crimean Tatar journalist Zair Kadyrov, as well as blackmail and unmotivated use of force by the Russian security officials - representatives of the infamous 'riot squad' - demonstrate the unprincipled disregard of the occupational administration not only to their own, Russian, legislation and international law, but also an example of cynical disregard for human rights and international standards of professional ethics," he announced.

An appeal with the requirement to identify all the facts of offenses and establish those responsible for obstructing the professional activities of the Crimean journalists was filed to the Public Prosecutor of the Crimea.

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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Ukraine’s Information Policy Minister Stets resigns

Sat Jan 16, 2016 6:40 pm

Minister of Information Policy Yurii Stets wrote a letter of resignation.

Censor.NET reports citing Ukrainska Pravda.

He demonstrated his letter of resignation while reporting on the activities of the Ministry on Tuesday.

"Today, I am announcing my resignation and I will submit the letter of resignation to the Verkhovna Rada today," Stets said.

He thanked his colleagues: "I think that it was a great learning experience. I am proud of every colleague, whom I have worked with."

He also added that any Ukrainian journalist had no grounds to accuse the Ministry of Information Policy of being a "ministry of censorship".

"And there is not a single citizen of Ukraine, who could say that we have become the ministry of corruption. We have not acquired official cars and do not even have a position of driver. I can definitely say that we have spent only 2.5 million hryvnia for the activities of the ministry whereas attracted dozen millions hryvnia not from the Ukrainian taxpayers, but from our partners," Stets said.

"Shattering the Ukrainian government in such a hard time is betrayal of the interests of Ukraine. No matter where I'm going to work after that, I will contribute to the Ukrainian victory and will assist my colleagues in the Ukrainian government," he added.

At the same time, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, who took the floor after Stets, criticized the move of the information policy minister: "Yura, you must work harder. It is too early to throw around letters of resignation."

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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty 2,998 POWs released from terrorists' captivity

Sat Jan 16, 2016 8:12 pm
2,998 persons were liberated from the terrorists' captivity in the Donbas. 131 persons remain imprisoned by the terrorists.

Censor.NET reports citing the press service of the SBU. Negotiations continue about all-for-all exchange prescribed by the Minsk Agreements.

A Joint Coordination Center for search, release of illegally detained persons and hostages, and establishing the whereabouts of missing persons in the area of anti-terrorist operation has been created.

"We thank all the volunteers and social activists, who have been helping us for a long time to save the hostages. We stay side by side with those who have truly plunged into other people's lives, supporting the families of the hostages. We work together and believe that we will complete this thing. We will return everyone without exception. There is result when each step is weighed and people are not looking for vanity or benefits, and when they have only one motivation, that is selfless aid," the SBU stressed.

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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty "Savchenko - hostage of the Kremlin junta" and "Ukraine will win" - rally in support of the Ukrainian pilot was held in downtown Moscow. PHOTOS

Sat Jan 16, 2016 8:17 pm
Another action in support of Ukrainian pilot Nadiia Savchenko was held in Moscow. There were flares burning in blue and yellow fire in the hands of the protesters. One poster read "Savchenko - hostage of the Kremlin junta."

The rally in support of the Ukrainian pilot Nadiia Savchenko, suspected by Russia of involvement in the deaths of the All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK) journalists near Luhansk, took place near the General Prosecutor's Office in Moscow. Blogger Philip Kireev reported on his Twitter Thursday, Dec. 25, Censor.NET informs citing Dozhd TV channel.

According to him, the action lasted for about a minute. The police did not detain anyone.

The pictures show that the protesters are carrying flares burning with blue and yellow fire. One poster read "Nadiia Savchenko - hostage of the Kremlin junta."

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Similar action took place earlier, on Nov. 26. Then, 11 people gathered near the State Duma building . The rally lasted for about two minutes, after which the participants dispersed. The police arrested no one at the time.

The Ukrainian pilot is forcibly held in Russia after being kidnapped in the Luhansk region in June. She is accused of involvement in the murder of two VGTRK journalists who died in June during the Russian aggression in the Donbas. She is detained until Feb. 13, 2015 for the time of investigation.

Читайте: Savchenko Goes on Hunger Strike - Lawyer

Savchenko categorically denies all charges. She was elected deputy from Yulia Tymoshenko's Batkivshchyna party in the elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Ukraine's Foreign Ministry insists that Savchenko is held illegally. The EU and the U.S. call on to release Savchenko.

The pilot has been on hunger strike since Dec. 15.

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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty SBU unmasked the agent of the Russian special services

Sat Jan 16, 2016 9:19 pm
SBU unmasked native Rivne region, who had been recruited by the Russian secret services in Donetsk and agreed on intelligence-subversive activity in Ukraine.

This was reported on January 16, the press center of the SBU.

"On the instructions of Russian intelligence agent was prepared in exactly the place for temporary accommodation of groups of 5-6 people, and find ways of establishing contacts with the representatives of the criminal environment in the region," - said in a statement.

He also provided information on the location of the curators of military and transport facilities in the Rivne region.

Investigation Department of the SBU opened criminal proceedings on Article 111 of the Criminal kodeksuUkrainy - "treason."

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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty The attack in Burkina Faso killed four Ukrainians

Sat Jan 16, 2016 9:28 pm
The victim of a terrorist attack militants "Al-Qaeda" in the restaurant and hotel in the African country of Burkina Faso has become a Ukrainian family.

This information was confirmed by Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin on Twitter.

"Shocked terrorist attack in Burkina Faso and the loss of family Ukrainians - three adults and a child 10 years. The tragedy for all of us "- wrote the head of the Foreign Ministry.

Recall that in Burkina Faso, the terrorists killed 27 foreigners.

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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Putin hopes to raise oil prices

Sat Jan 16, 2016 9:38 pm
Minister of Economic Development of Russia Alexei Ulyukayev said that oil prices will stabilize by the end of the first quarter, then there might be some growth, which will lead to the strengthening of the ruble.

"Analysts and I share this view, it is expected that by the end of the first quarter may come to stabilize the oil market," - he told reporters on Saturday in Beijing, where he took part in a meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Bank of infrastructure investments.

Then, in his opinion, it could increase oil prices. "By year end, we expect some restorative movement dynamics of oil prices and the associated price of gas and oil. We are in the long term do not expect some ups, but, of course, prices will be significantly higher than it is now, "- said Ulyukayev.

In addition, the Minister said that this year, payments on foreign obligations of Russian companies and banks will be more than two times lower than in the past.

According to him, these factors can lead to the strengthening of the ruble.

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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 16 January [Ukrainian sources]  Empty The Russian Energy Ministry complained about the monopoly in Ukraine

Sun Jan 17, 2016 12:46 am
The Russian Energy Ministry complained about the monopoly in Ukraine.  Novak said that Ukraine is very difficult to negotiate with.

The issue of transit gas supplies after 2019, when the current contract expires, will largely depend on the situation that would emerge by the time of expiration of the contract for gas transit. Negotiations are always difficult, when the position of a transit country monopoly.

In an interview with RBC, said Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak.

"The existence of such a monopoly with a fairly decrepit transit gas transportation system is a big risk, especially for European consumers. So, of course, need to deal with the diversification of gas supplies", - said Russian official.

He noted that, "of course, possible, some amounts of gas, and will (be transported through Ukraine)": it will depend on negotiations between "Gazprom" and "Naftogaz of Ukraine" towards the end of the existing contract.

"These negotiations are always difficult, when the position of a transit country monopoly. We remember quite complex negotiations that have been in 2009. If there are alternative routes, the negotiations will go much easier," - said Novak.

As previously reported by the "Observer", the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine has recognized the Russian "Gazprom" monopoly on transit of gas in 2009-2015. Ukrainian legislation allows to impose a fine on the company of up to 30% of turnover ($ 3 billion).

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