Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Tueesday 8 November. [Ukrainian sources]

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U.S., Russia object altering UN Security Council veto right.  Russia imposes sanctions on Ukraine.  Russia wants to ban money transfers to Ukraine. Americans in Ukraine already voted for new U.S. president.  1,000 Jews Gather in Lviv - Ukraine City Honors Far Right Wing Nationalists.

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The two nations possess the veto right as the UN Security Council permanent members, along with China, the United Kingdom and France. Washington would support substantiated propositions on the marginal inclusion of new permanent or non-permanent members to the Council, the US representative Michelle Sison noted in her letter.

Nevertheless, the U.S. shows no support for "any enlargement or altering of the veto right", the agency notes.......

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Russia has banned shipments of cargo via Russia in rail cars owned by ten Ukraine shipment companies, podrobnosti reports Nov. 8.

Empty Ukrainian rail cars will be allowed to proceed back to Ukraine.

Ukraine had banned rail tanks owned by the Russian companies to enter Ukraine as of Oct. 31,

Ukraine had also banned transit of the Russian rail cars via Ukraine.

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Americans living or residing in Ukraine temporarily have already exercised their right to vote in the U.S. presidential election.

According to the U.S. Embassy's Consular Service, there are approximately 8,000 Americans residing permanently in Ukraine. In addition, there are American citizens in Ukraine on a temporary basis or travelling in Ukraine, bringing the number to 16,000. Those Americans, who decided to vote in Ukraine, have already voted by mail, as is usually done during American elections, the press service U.S. embassy told Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday.

The U.S. diplomatic mission said voting booths are not opened at the embassy, but ballots are cast according to the procedure proscribed the voter's home state........

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Nearly 1,000 people attended the largest Jewish gathering held in decades in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, which has numerous monuments honoring Holocaust-era alleged war criminals.

The mostly Jewish crowd of 900 people on Saturday night filled the Lviv Theater of Opera and Ballet for a concert and ceremony celebrating a decade of activity by the Ukraine branch of Limmud FSU – a network of organizations responsible for holding Jewish learning conferences across the former Soviet Union and other countries with Jewish Russian speakers.

Many of the participants of the four-day event in Lviv belonged to the city’s Jewish population of 1,200 but most came here from across Ukraine for the 10th anniversary event, which also was attended by Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi.

Lviv, whose pre-Holocaust Jewish population of 150,000 was virtually wiped out by the Nazis and their local collaborators, is widely seen as the cradle of the country’s nationalist revival................

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This step is aimed at eliminating the consequences of the ban on the activities of Russian payment systems in Ukraine

Russia intends to ban the transfer of funds from the Russian Federation to Ukraine. It is reported by "RBK-Ukraine" referring to Russian media.

Thus, the deputy of the faction of the party "United Russia" Vladislav Reznik introduced to the State Duma a bill that may restrict foreign remittances by payment systems from Russia to Ukraine.

In explaining the bill stating that it aims to eliminate the negative effects of the ban on the activities of Russian payment systems in Ukraine. Violation of these limitations expected recovery of the Central Bank of the fine on the person who made the transfer in the amount of payments made.

Recall Ukraine has banned the activities of Russian payment systems. But, as reported Russian payment systems have found a way to stay in Ukraine after the October 26 National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has banned their activities annually through sanctions.

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European Union finance ministers included Members of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from Crimea and Sevastopol to the EU sanctions list.

As reported by Censor.NET, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Kestutis Vashkelyavichyus told Kommersant newspaper.

The diplomat confirmed that Lithuania was among the countries that initiated expansion of sanctions adopted today, Nov. 8. Kestutis Vashkelyavichyus reiterated that maintaining the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine was not only Lithuanian government's but all the EU countries' firm stance.

A total of seven Members of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from Crimea including Konstantin Baharev, Andrey Kozenko, Svetlana Savchenko, Ruslan Balbek, Pavel Shperov, Mikhail Sheremet, and Natalia Poklonskaya as well as Dmitry Belik representing Sevastopol in the State Duma were included in the list of sanctions. Sheremet and Poklonskaya have already been subjects to the EU sanctions.

Earlier, European Union finance ministers agreed new targeted sanctions against Crimean officials Nov. 8. They were added to restrictive measures adopted after Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014.

As previously reported, in 2014, the European Union, the United States and several other countries imposed sanctions against Russia in connection with the occupation of Crimea and aggression in eastern Ukraine. These restrictive measures were repeatedly extended and expanded. In particular, the talks on visa waiver and a new basic agreement on cooperation were suspended; several Russia's officials were banned to travel to the EU while their assets were attached. Trade, financial, and military restrictions were introduced.

The sanctions list included a total of 151 individuals and 37 entities. The sectoral sanctions were imposed against 20 Russian financial, oil-producing and defense companies.

The Russian Federation introduced a package of retaliation restrictions against the EU, the U.S., Australia, Canada, and Norway in August 2014. The so-called counter-sanctions prohibited imports of fruit, vegetables, as well as dairy and meat products to Russia from these countries for a one-year period.

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Chairman of the Odesa Regional State Administration Mikheil Saakashvili, who has recently tendered his resignation, announces his intention to pay a visit to Kyiv.

As reported by Censor.NET citing 112 Ukraine, he said as he was delivering a speech in Odesa.

"I'm leaving for Kyiv, I know that Trukhanov (Mayor of Odesa - Ed.) arranged celebrations. I see his henchman Holubiev spending his money to give away kebabs on the streets. I want to tell Holubiev that these kebabs will turn out a proper mess for him. I am going to Kyiv not just to liberate Ukraine. I am going to release Odesa and sweep the hell away all the mobsters from Odesa, don't even question this.

"The gangsters of Odesa, who throw you a sop, they prosper only because they bribe the members of the prosecutor's office, the SBU in Kyiv, the Presidential Administration, they are members of the parliament themselves. We will sweep clean either this parliament, and this [Presidential] Administration, and the Cabinet. We will also establish order in Odesa and it will become what must be - the most stunning city in Ukraine and Europe," Saakashvili said.

On Monday, Nov. 7, Head of the Odesa Regional State Administration Mikheil Saakashvili announced his resignation amidst complaints that he was tired of constant deception and corruption, including on the part of Ukrainian senior officials.

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The Russian aircraft carrier "Admiral Kuznetsov" jets and the Northern Fleet vessels in the Mediterranian are getting ready to strike a blow upon the city of Aleppo, the Interfax agency reports, referring to its military sources.

"Admiral Kuznetsov's deck-based aviation and battleships armed with high-precision weapons are getting ready to strike blows upon to militants in the outskirts of Aleppo. The strikes will be dealt upon the distant outskirts of the city. Militants' attempts to break free from inside are senseless", the agency's source said........

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Women chanted slogans critical of Trump

In the US, two half-naked women staged a protest at a polling station in New York, where voting Republican candidate Donald Trump. The protest took place a few hours before Trump came to vote.
It is reported by Radio Liberty.

Participants of the protest, members of the American police feminist women's movement "Femen" launched his time in Ukraine, shouted slogans critical of Trump. They were detained by police.

The laws of the United States and New York State, the shares for or against candidates at polling stations or directly at them considered a crime. Police said the women filed the appropriate charges.

Donald Trump in the election campaign repeatedly acted with or derogatory and obscene statements against women. But he rejects the accusations of critics of misogyny or sexism.

On Tuesday, the US presidential elections take place. One of the two leading candidates - Democratic vysuvanets Hillary Clinton.

Recall Trump, unlike its rival, has repeatedly expressed his pro-Russian views. The former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Hayden said that Trump - "useful idiot , such a naive person, which manipulates Moscow". According to the former head of the CIA, the Kremlin "secretly despises" the Republican candidate, but gladly accepts and uses his support. Hayden said that the two politicians have always been generic 'authoritarian chord."

Meanwhile, former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul believes that in case of victory of Hillary Clinton in the presidential election in the US in her administration will actively discuss the possibility of supplying lethal weapons Ukraine . This McFaul urged Russia to unilaterally go to the de-escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, not to prove possible to supply Ukraine arms.

As you know, the Kremlin is trying to influence the outcome of elections in the United States. In particular, US intelligence believes that the latest cyber attacks on the electronic correspondence of individuals and institutions in the US, including breaks e-mail political organizations is the Russian government. The Chairman of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity in the Senate Cory Gardner took the initiative to impose sanctions against Russia for hackers who, as established in Washington, was made to influence the electoral process. Russia's goal, according to US intelligence - not only to increase the popularity of Trump at the expense of Clinton's image, but also Zabdi impact on the US political system. Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urges : the impression that Russia interferes in the election of the US president is the Americans artificially. "With the really important issues for American voters to candidates for president of the United States say is nothing if Russia turned into the main topic of discussion. Just amazes me is, "- he said.

Meanwhile blow suffered not only the image of Clinton (after the publication of letters), but Trump, caught in a sex scandal. First, the media appeared records with sexist remarks Trump. After that, a number of women charged with harassment policy.

glavcom.ua In Ukrainian