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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources]

Thu Mar 03, 2016 1:04 am
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62 attacks by Putin on the Ukrainian people yesterday.
Sadly reading of one soldier killed yesterday (sniper), and one injured.

Weather -
Maybe a touch of sunshine today. Just above zero this morning. High maybe of +6. Ok.
Weekend and beyond looking very warm. Double figures!


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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty 62 attacks on Ukrainian forces yesterday in the Donbas - HQ

Thu Mar 03, 2016 1:07 am

Headquarters ATO recorded 62 APU fire positions in the Donbas
In Donbass recorded 62 firing positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, at the same time quickens the use of mortars by the illegal armed formations (IAF), the press center of the ATO on his page on Facebook on Thursday morning.
In the Donetsk direction 34 militants shelling fortifications Ukrainian fighters. From rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns of different systems caliber of illegal armed groups fired on the strong points near the Trinity, Krasnogorovka, Opitnoe, Pisky, Zaitsev and Lugansk.
In Mariupol the direction of the 82-mm and 120-mm mortar shells at militants firing position and Gnutova Talakovke of BMP - under Novotroitskaya and granite. From grenade launchers of various systems and heavy machine guns the enemy was shooting at reference points close to Marinka.
At 21.00 the enemy sabotage and reconnaissance group of hand-held grenade launchers and small arms fired a foothold close to Novotroitskoye. Having rebuffed by Ukrainian defenders, militants moved in the direction Dokuchaevsk.
Unsighted fire from mortars at ATO forces near Vodnaya, Pavlopolya, Talakovki and Gnutova.
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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty 'Norman Four " ministers to gather in Paris to resolve the situation in the Donbass (RL)

Thu Mar 03, 2016 1:18 am
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http://www.radiosvoboda.org/content/news/27586473.html
Today in Paris a meeting of Foreign Ministers of Ukraine, Germany, France and Russia to resolve the situation in the Donbass. Agenda of the meeting, which agreed at the Conference on Security in Munich on February 13, no.
It is expected that at the meeting the sides will discuss a regime of silence, the exchange of hostages and holding elections in the occupied territories.
Recently, during a visit to Ukraine German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said the meeting "Norman Quartet" at the level of Foreign Ministers in Paris on March 3 will be key. In addition, it expects to achieve "the necessary compromises" on the situation in eastern Ukraine during this meeting....
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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty "Naftogaz" is in talks with the Cabinet on possible mechanisms to reduce the price of gas for the population (ISLE)

Thu Mar 03, 2016 1:26 am
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http://www.ostro.org/general/economics/news/494106/
...As of March 1, 2016 the largest recorded in the last 5 years of gas reserves in Ukrainian underground storage facilities - 10.02 billion cubic meters, which is 23% or 1.9 billion cubic meters more than last year.
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Or at least, not to increase it further, as planned. That would be a help. They need to stop all the massive price rises. The gas price has fallen by about half since the agreement was made with the IMF.
Reading more, the problem is the fall in the value of the hryvnia. This has completely offset the fall in the price of gas. The former has cancelled the latter out.
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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Russia Without BS [Engl] [Alexei Kovalev: Why I’ve got no love for Margarita Simonyan]

Thu Mar 03, 2016 1:37 am
http://nobsrussia.com/2016/03/02/alexei-kovalev-why-ive-got-no-love-for-margarita-simonyan/
Frequent readers have no doubt noticed my, shall we say, “special” feelings toward Russia Today (RT) and MIA Rossiya Segodnya chief editor Margarita Simonyan. I’ve decided that it’s finally time to explain them in more detail, and frankly I just wanted to get it off my chest....
So here’s what I really don’t like and in fact despise about Margarita Simonyan- her duplicity, hypocrisy, and constant lying. Margarita is an extremely intelligent person with a well-tuned moral compass. The only pity is that she shows this in all the wrong ways. In every interview Margarita loves to lecture about journalistic ethics, addressing both her Russian colleagues and Western counterparts. The problem is that all her moral preaching would best be applied to herself. Besides that, she’s continuously lying. ...
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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty “L-DPR” children battalions: Games are over [Engl]

Thu Mar 03, 2016 1:43 am
http://novosti.dn.ua/details/270431/
...Are games with arms dangerous? In 2015 members of an armed “Ghost” started educating a girl, 12-year-old Bohdana. She was a daughter of one of the militants. According to her, she cooks food for the militants, makes tea for them, and practices bandaging the wounded. The girl also writes poems, and words “junta” and “fascism” are widely used in them. The militants teach her to fire at “fascists”.
The girl says in front of the camera that she does not want to live in Ukraine because beasts live there, and she enjoys firing in the direction where “fascists” are, according to her instructors.
If to admit that not only Bohdana, who is injured by the war and manipulated by adults, but other children share such views, those who are taught to fire, to crawl with an automatic gun, and to love the motherland through hatred to enemies, then the reality of “children diversionary units” is not a fantastic idea.
Duting the peaceful time, psychologists, doctors, and parents argued whether it is useful for children to play “a war”, whether computer games with shooting are harmful. However, when the reality of the Donbas is a real war, it is unlikely that there are people who think that children should participate in a real war. It may be said only by those who do not care about their children....
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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Column of Russian military vehicles entered eastern Ukraine [Engl]

Thu Mar 03, 2016 1:47 am
http://www.uawire.org/news/column-of-russian-military-vehicles-entered-eastern-ukraine
....“On the 29th of February, a column of military vehicles came from the Russian Federation into Ukraine through the Novoazovsk checkpoint, which is not controlled by Ukraine. The column included six armored combat vehicles, four ammunition trucks and two mobile refueling stations,” the statement said.
Also, new personnel are being added to the motorized rifle brigade in the occupied Lugansk region....
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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Russia paratrooper battalion CO killed by Ukrainian sniper

Thu Mar 03, 2016 10:44 am
The Russian troops in Donbas have lost another officer - this time the CO of the paratrooper’s’ battalion, blogger Oleh Yarchuk reported March 3.

According to the intelligence intercept, the rebels reported the death of 498th paratroopers’ battalion CO who was killed by a Ukrainian sniper from the super-long range gun.

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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Russia spurns new gas transit tariffs – Ukraine

Thu Mar 03, 2016 11:10 am
ussia’s Gazprom has spurned higher gas transit tariffs via Ukraine, Naftohaz Ukrayiny director for development Yury Vitrenko said, speaking on Hromadske TV March 2.

“The contract with Russia envisages raising transit tariffs, and Russia has no legal grounds to ignore the fact,” the Ukrainian official said.

In 2016, Gazprom has to pay in taxes about $6.4 billion or thrice as much as in 2015.

Higher tariffs are not Ukraine’s whim, the official said. They are prescribed by the Ukrainian law following the implementation of EU’s energy legislation, he said.

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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty One soldier killed, one injured yesterday in the ATO zone - Staff

Thu Mar 03, 2016 11:19 am
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2016/03/3/7100995/
At night in the area ATO 1 soldier killed, 1 injured suffered - Staff
Thursday, March 3, 2016, 12:52
Over the past day in the area of anti-terrorist operation killed one military and one injured.
This at a traditional briefing on Thursday, spokesman of the Presidential Administration Alexander Motuzyanyk.
"One day that passed, one soldier was killed (in the Luhansk region from sniper bullet) and another soldier suffered wounds our (due to fire fighters settlement Pisky)," - he said.
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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Lyashko complains that he is not in talks regarding the coalition

Thu Mar 03, 2016 11:24 am
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2016/03/3/7101012/
..."The government continues imitation of the old coalition," - he said.
Asked whether Lyashko invited to a meeting to create a new majority, he replied:
"No, last week we have talks with no one there. Neither the president nor the prime minister."...

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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Russia's Gazprom short of money, gets EUR 2 bln loan from Bank of China [Engl]

Thu Mar 03, 2016 11:35 am
http://www.unian.info/economics/1281800-russias-gazprom-short-of-money-gets-eur-2-bln-loan-from-bank-of-china.html
...The duration of the loan, the first for Gazprom from a Chinese bank, is five years. It did not disclose the purpose, Reuters wrote.
Gazprom has tried to diversify fund raising by tapping Asian markets as Moscow pivots to the East amid chilling relation with the West over Russia's involvement in the Ukraine crisis.
Kremlin-controlled Gazprom signed a deal in 2014 to supply 38 billion cubic meters of gas per year to China later this decade. But the project faces problems, including plunging commodity prices and China's cooling economy, sources have said....

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Gazprom's main problem is that it is run by a psychotic dictator nutcase called Vladimir Putin, rather than some even moderately intelligent business man/woman.
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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty NBU decides to ease part of forex restrictions [Engl]

Thu Mar 03, 2016 11:37 am
http://www.unian.info/economics/1281914-nbu-decides-to-ease-part-of-forex-restrictions.html
...The maximum amount of cash currency purchase by individuals will increase from UAH 3,000 to UAH 6,000 per day.

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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty EU to extend sanctions on Putin 'cronies', - media [Engl]

Thu Mar 03, 2016 11:54 am
http://en.censor.net.ua/news/377397/eu_to_extend_sanctions_on_putin_cronies_media
...Ambassadors said during a meeting in Brussels on Wednesday (2 March) that visa bans and asset freezes on 149 people and 37 entities deemed responsible for violating Ukraine's "territorial integrity" would stay in force for six more months, Censor.NET reports citing euobserver.....
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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Ukroboronprom ships first batch of Ukrainian 120mm Molot mortars to army [Engl]

Thu Mar 03, 2016 12:06 pm
http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/economic/328954.html
...."The new model of the mortar has got the positive feedback from the military and technical experts. Now it may demonstrate its full capacity in real battles. Mayak plant is ready to fully meet the Ukrainian army's demand in that armament," the press service quotes Mayak Director Oleksandr Perehudov as saying.
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How about some guided anti-tank missiles next?
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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Hackers "burned" SWAT FSIN Russian phone.

Thu Mar 03, 2016 12:48 pm
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[Informnapalm publish images from hacked phone of Russian special forces soldier. Various assignments all over the Donbass.
Yet yet more evidence of direct Russian involvement in the war in Donbass. ]



[More photos, video, at link]

During the analysis of the data and conduct additional monitoring data, it was found that the owner of the photo and video archive Reichenau Nikolay Vladimirovich, born 17.5.1985. In his modest salary employee FSIN or money for the murder of Ukrainian he managed to get the car Mitsubishi Eclipse black with r011ne registration number (161 region - Rostov region).... [extra pay from Putin]
There have been archived at the Russian SWAT photos and videos from the Donetsk airport, dated January 2015 - the so-called series of materials for a report about the "winter trip", of which he made a photo Ukrainian soldier killed.
Materials of this study are further confirmation of the participation of Russian military personnel in the war in the Donbass, which through a system of "travel" in the voluntary-compulsory for increased material rewards are sent to kill Ukrainians and pursue the occupation of action in the interests of the Russian Federation.
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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty The Daily Vertical: RIP Minsk (Transcript) [Engl]

Thu Mar 03, 2016 12:54 pm
http://www.rferl.mobi/a/daily-vertical-minsk-accords-paris-legal-fiction/27586712.html
When the foreign ministers of Russia, Ukraine, Germany, and France meet in Paris today to discuss the Minsk ceasefire, they may as well be attending a funeral.
Because if the Minsk agreement is not dead, it is -- at the very least -- clearly on life support.
And this was all very predictable from the very start. Minsk, in many ways, was a legal fiction.
It was signed under duress amid fears that Russia would mount a full-scale invasion of Donbas.
It pretended that Moscow was a mediator in a conflict in which Moscow was the aggressor.
And it made unreasonable demands on Ukraine to overhaul its domestic political arrangements with a Kalashnikov pointed at its head.
This wasn't a ceasefire. It was blackmail. It was extortion....

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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty In Belgorod-Dniester police covered drug labs

Thu Mar 03, 2016 1:18 pm
34-year-old resident of the city of Belgorod-Dniester equipped at home drug labs.

As the press-service of GUNP, everything you need to "work", he bought over the Internet and in the warehouses of medical equipment.

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"During the raid authorized residence attacker police confiscated medical equipment for home-made amphetamine, sulfuric acid, isopropyl alcohol, and 40 grams of a substance similar to amphetamine. The cost of one gram on the black market of up to 400 hryvnia, "- said the head of the Belgorod-Dniester police department Vitaly Ovcharenko.

Also, law enforcement officers found a man of brass knuckles and two telescopic baton, which are directed to the examination.

The information entered in the Unified Register of pre-trial investigations on the basis of Articles 313 and 263 of the Criminal Code.

"Measures are taken for the establishment of possible accomplices of illegal activity through which, sale of drugs", - concluded the police.

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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty More Russian casualties in Donbas

Thu Mar 03, 2016 1:20 pm
Five Russian servicemen were killed near Maryanka March 3, Ukraine army intelligence says March 3.

 “We reiterate the loss on March 2 of 5 Russian servicemen from the 100thinfantry brigade deployed in the Maryanka area,” the army says.

Another 4 servicemen were wounded.

Russia has recently moved a unit of special troops to Donetsk, the report says.

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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty How Boris Nemtsov Was Murdered: Novaya Gazeta’s Investigation [Engl]

Thu Mar 03, 2016 2:28 pm
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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty UN Says Civilians Still Suffer In Ukraine, Despite Lull In Fighting

Thu Mar 03, 2016 3:54 pm
The report by the UN's human rights office comes as the foreign ministers of Russia, France, Germany, and Ukraine were gathering in Paris on March 3 for talks on how to push the peace process forward.

The Paris talks, assessing implementation of the Minsk accords that were signed a year ago, are aimed at reaching a political resolution to Ukraine's two-year-old civil war.

UN human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein said on March 3 that full implementation of the Minsk accord was crucial "for resolving the human rights crisis in Ukraine."......

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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Kremlin 'Regrets' Extended U.S. Sanctions

Thu Mar 03, 2016 3:58 pm
Obama announced on March 2 that he was extending the sanctions. He said Russia's actions in Ukraine "continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States."

The sanctions initially were imposed in March 2014 in response to actions by the Russian government in Ukraine that "undermine democratic processes and institutions in Ukraine; threaten its peace, security, stability, sovereignty, and territorial integrity; and contribute to the misappropriation" of Ukraine’s assets.

U.S. sanctions specifically mention Russia's "purported annexation of Crimea and its use of force in Ukraine."......

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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty The Daily Vertical By Brian Whitmore (VIDEO report): RIP Minsk

Thu Mar 03, 2016 5:02 pm
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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty French mayor signs official document with Yalta, occupied Crimea

Thu Mar 03, 2016 5:19 pm
Christian Estrosi, head of the French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and mayor of Nice, has called the Crimean city of Yalta as belonging to the Russian Federation and signed a letter of intention and renewal of friendly relations with Yalta.

As reported by Ukrinform, the delegation of the so-called “mayor of Yalta” had been on a visit to Nice from 26 February to 1 March. The visit had taken place with the participation of Aleksander Orlov, ambassador of Russia to France.

A statement on Estrosi’s official site mentioned that “the first visit of the official delegation of the official delegation of Yalta (Crimea) to Europe after the referendum on independence and joining Russia is a highly symbolic step.”

Moreover, a letter of intention of developing friendly relations between the two cities was signed during the meeting, according to the statement: “Following the signing of the Sister City Agreement between Yalta and Nice on 26 November 1960, the mayor of Nice, in the presence of the ambassador of Russia in France, met with the mayor of Yalta Andrew Postenko to sign a letter of intent for the development of friendly relations and restoration of twin-city relations between Yalta and Nice.”.............

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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Ukraine does not join the EU in the next 20-25 years - Juncker

Thu Mar 03, 2016 5:58 pm
"Ukraine is definitely in the next 20-25 years will not join the EU", - he said.

The same, according to the leader of the European Commission, concerns the prospects of Ukraine's accession to NATO.
However, Juncker expressed his hope that the citizens of the Netherlands in a referendum on April 6 vote on ratification of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU.

"I know how the Dutch think and assume that they will vote" for ", - he said......

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Ukraine can do just fine independently. As we can see, the EU's not the best place currently to be involved in, and I don't think it's going to get much better, anytime soon.

Ukraine's resources and products they produce and manufacture will allow them to have a very economic development. They can set the market on certain goods, if they wanted to, once they're fully up and going. Don't forget, Ukraine's the second largest European country. So they have lots to offer, not only Europe but globally, as we can see with China being supplied by Ukraine, along with what's called the silk road. They'll be receiving LNG from the US very soon, so the dependence on Russia will diminish.

So! IMO, Ukraine doesn't need to become a member of a union that's basically in place for less than a handful of its members. Can Ukraine survive without it being a member? Aboslutely. The Association Agreement's almost fully in place. That will open many doors and not being an EU member. Canada's increasing imports from Ukraine now, as will the US. North America's a very big region to export to, so Europe won't be the only place in town to do business in. Being an EU member country will only bring more restrictions to Ukraine which they can do well without. So don't think that Ukraine not being an EU member will hasten its advancement.  As we see some EU members struggling. Why? This isn't a real union, IMO. It only works for a handful of oligarch. Ukraine has had enough of that in its past history. Time for it to expand its horizons.
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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Luhansk journalist Maria Varfolomeyeva freed after 14 months captivity

Thu Mar 03, 2016 7:36 pm
Kremlin-backed militants have finally released Maria Varfolomeyeva, the Luhansk journalist held hostage since Jan 2015. She was exchanged for a Russian soldier and a civilian, and is now safely on government-controlled territory.

Serious concern for the 31-year-old journalist’s health had been expressed after the promised exchange a week ago fell through. The prisoners who were freed on Feb 29 reported seeing Varfolomeyeva the previous day and said that she was in a bad state and weighed only around 30 kilograms. She was being held in a separate basement cell without any light and by herself. This prompted the militants from the self-proclaimed ‘Luhansk people’s republic’ to release another video with Varfolomeyeva on March 2. If they wanted it to calm concerns, it did not, since the young woman seems alarmingly thin.

Despite the obvious danger to a pro-Ukrainian journalist who had supported the Luhansk Euromaidan, Varfolomeyeva stayed in the city to care for her elderly grandmother, who died shortly after Maria was taken prisoner.

Varfolomeyeva had been asked by Yury Aseyev, a Luhansk journalist now working for the Kharkiv Human Rights Group to take some photographs for him. It was while doing what for any journalist is part of their job that she was taken hostage.

Although captured on Jan 9, 2015, at a time when there had been no shelling in Luhansk for several months, the militants claimed that she was taking photos of buildings where militants were staying in order to pass on the coordinates to the Ukrainian military..............

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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Klimkin handed "Norman" ministers treatment of mothers and relatives of prisoners Ukrainian

Thu Mar 03, 2016 8:22 pm
Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin handed foreign ministers' Norman "format treatment of mothers and relatives of Ukrainian prisoners.

"Tell all the" Norman "ministers treatment of mothers and relatives of our prisoners. This is about our loved ones with you that we must immediately release, "- he wrote on Twitter head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry after the meeting," Norman Quartet "in Paris.

Earlier, Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin on the basis of "Norman Quartet" of negotiations said that no conclusions participants of the meeting in Paris did not agree.

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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Ukraine asked not to insist on holding elections in the Donbass in the first half of the year - Lavrov

Thu Mar 03, 2016 9:01 pm
Russia was ready to support the proposal by Germany and France to hold the elections in the Donbass in the first half of the year, but Kiev has asked not to insist on it, and a consensus has not happened, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

"The proposal to call for our today's meeting, the parties to agree on the basis of the Minsk documents to hold local elections in the Donbass in the first half to June, July, it was made today by our German and French counterparts," - he told reporters after the talks in " Norman "format.

"We were ready to support him, but the Ukrainian side asked not to insist on this, and as a result of a consensus could not", - the minister added.

Lavrov stressed that the local elections in the Donbass need a law on the special status on a regular basis and constitutional reform.

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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty US State Department: Savchenko should be released unconditionally

Thu Mar 03, 2016 9:20 pm
The US State Department demanded the immediate and unconditional release Ukrainian pilots Hope Savchenko and People's Deputy, who was arrested in Russia. An appropriate statement was made ​​on Thursday, a representative of the US foreign ministry, John Kirby, reports "Ukrinform" .

"Our position has not changed - it must be emptied. We have been insisting on this. She was detained unreasonably, and we want to see her freed immediately and unconditionally, "- he stressed.

Kirby confirmed that the State Department aware of the statement of Ukrainian pilots on a dry hunger strike. In this regard, he said the US official, the severity of the need to release it only increases.

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Ukrainian - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Thursday 03 March. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Klimkin: Russia is not ready to go into the security issues in the Donbas

Thu Mar 03, 2016 9:23 pm
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin said that the talks in "Norman format" in order to resolve the crisis in Ukraine, which took place in Paris, were not decisive, but only the next step in solving the problem. He stated this in an interview late on Thursday evening in Paris to conclude the negotiations, which lasted nearly 5 hours, reports "UNIAN" .

"Today's meeting is the next step, but to talk about the decisive progress, given the real security situation, given that yesterday we had 63 fire, given that the OSCE does not have access to many regions of Donbass and Ukrainian-Russian border, you can not" - the minister said.

According to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, "was not willing to go deeper into the security issues in terms of access to the special monitoring mission of the OSCE." "He proposed to leave it to the experts in Minsk consideration (the Trilateral contact group), so he expressed a willingness to support a conceptual ideas and some proposals of the OSCE. But we need a comprehensive security ", - he stressed.

According to Klimkin, integrated security - "this is not only an end to attacks on and abduction of arms." "This is, first of all, the OSCE control over the territory of Donbass and Ukrainian-Russian border. Safety - is allocating all weapons that are there. Without security, we can not move towards the elections ", - announced the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's position.

Klimkin emphasized again that "in respect of the present round of negotiations, we can not talk about the decisive progress." "But we were able to discuss in detail the number of positions of the OSCE, on the other hand - a clear picture of the security vision" - he detailed.

The foreign minister of Ukraine stated that "it was a very difficult meeting." "We came at it with three key priorities. The first - is security. Based on discussions with CMM we have expressed clear proposals ", - he stated.

According to Klimkin, these proposals is to clear access to the territory of Donbass, "this is a very clear pattern of how the CMM can get effective monitoring along the Ukrainian-Russian border." "This is, firstly, the organization of a number of bases along the border of the CMM, the ability to carry out inspections, establish the appropriate technical equipment, which would monitor the border and the most critical point of both day and night, the possibility of the presence of CMM on our part. We believe that this proposal, if implemented, can effectively ensure the site monitoring of the Ukrainian-Russian border, which is still not controlled by Ukraine ", - detailed Klimkin.

Also, according to him, the Ukrainian side "placed special emphasis on the establishment of a security zone, such as in Debaltsevo, or around Donetsk airport." "We have focused on the need for exchange of hostages. All that is happening now is the lack of any progress - we were able to make very limited exchange ", - said the Minister.

According to Klimkin, he also gave Lavrov, one of the non-governmental organization reports that "how the bullying Ukrainian hostages in Donbas."

Also Klimkin said that the main topic of discussion was the issue related to the modality of elections. "Here, our main focus was the need to ensure security and to make such election modalities, which would correspond to Ukrainian legislation and OSCE standards," - Klimkin said.

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Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin did not want to be photographed next to the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Paris. About this he wrote in his Twitter.

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Recall, held in Paris meeting of foreign ministers, "Norman Quartet".

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"Putin is trying to weaken Europe, separating us and causing us to perceive themselves as individual countries, and we should not dance to his tune" - Schaeuble said during his visit to London.

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He noted that the tested "Maluk" in two variations: the caliber of 7.62x39 and 5.56 (NATO).
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"On the whole, made a positive impression burrow, threw in a puddle, shooting rusty bullets that even after one misfire ... Good Machine in service -. It is certainly nice, but we need tanks, planes, artillery and air defense systems, and to war is possible and old AK, which can be purchased from the Warsaw Pact countries that have switched to the NATO standard, for a penny and for special forces in the run-in to purchase a trial lot, "-. Lukyanov wrote.

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