Ukraine News in brief. Sunday 15 October. [Ukrainian sources]

TODAY'S HEADLINES:
Ukrainians fight for Americans: military expert explains the opposition to the Kremlin's aggression in the Donbas. In Ukraine, they called a condition in which Putin would agree to withdraw troops from the Donbas.  In Austria, a party can come to power, which recognizes the annexation of the Crimea: In Ukraine, they are preparing a provocation against the UOC-MP: the organizers are named. Putin: "Attempts to restrict parliamentary contacts and impose sanctions are unacceptable".

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The United States seeks to weaken Russia to curtail its expansion to the West, applying the tactics of "thousands of cuts" and pressure from many fronts, but for the time being, the executor of this plan is Ukraine, which has shown the ability to successfully fight against the Russian Federation.

This was stated by an expert and blogger Oleksiy Arestovich in an interview with "Apostrophe".

"We have proved that we can fight Russia and bring losses - reputational, financial, military, human, whatever. If this were not done by Ukraine, then it would have to be done to American soldiers. Why did the US transfer the second armored brigade to Poland? They are obligated to do this, but they prefer to fight the hands of Ukrainian soldiers, "Arrestovich said.



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Russia will be ready to leave the Donbas peacefully if it is confident in lifting sanctions that will allow it to launch a new military adventure in another region.

This was stated by an expert and blogger Oleksiy Arestovich in an interview with "Apostrophe".

In his opinion, Russia is currently "pulling time", creating conditions for a calm election campaign in Russia, which will take place in the spring of 2018.

The current situation in the Donbass for Russia is relatively comfortable and only intensifies sanctions for negotiations.

The United States is trying to push Russia, but Russia has significant counterarguments to maximize the benefits of these negotiations.

"They can go in conditions where it will be clear that they will take sanctions out of them, in order to start mutating elsewhere. The global strategy of the offensive on the West will not go away, the Balkans will mutate, Spain will be mutilated, Yemen will mutate, Syria will be mutiti, the Kurds will be mutilated, Korean will be mutilated. The game is great, "Arrestovich said.



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Getting ultra right into a coalition can be dangerous for Ukraine

In Austria, parliamentary elections are held. The main contender for their victory is called the conservative Austrian People's Party headed by the current foreign minister, Sebastian Kurtz. However, as the "Case" writes, in the event of the victory of conservatives, they can form a coalition with the Party of Freedom, which recognizes the occupation of the Crimea by Russia.

"Despite the certain orientation of most parties to domestic politics, the issue of Ukraine and sanctions against Russia is clearly reflected in political programs. The reason for this is the position of the leaders. Kurtz positions himself as an example of Emmanuel Macrona - a young politician with great ambitions regarding the future of the European project. As Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kurtz promoted Austria's increasing involvement in resolving the conflict in the Donbass, having visited Ukraine three times during 2017 under the Austrian presidency of the OSCE. In addition, Kurtz unequivocally condemned the annexation of the Crimea, assessing it as a violation of international law. However, he supports the idea of ​​step-by-step lifting of sanctions against Russia in the event of the implementation of the Minsk Agreements, and also offered Austria as a neutral territory for the meeting of Trump and Putin. On the other hand, the Party of Freedom has a tradition of cooperation with Russia. In fact, it is the only ultra-right party that has entered into formal cooperation with the United Russia in 2016. The ultra rights have repeatedly argued for the lifting of sanctions against the Russian Federation, and also consider it necessary to admit that the Crimea will now be Russian. In addition, members of the Freedom Party visited the occupied Crimea, "the newspaper notes.

Such an ultra-right position makes them a dangerous partner for the coalition from the point of view of Ukraine, the article says. However, it is highly probable that the Narodniks will give ultralight internal political offices, while preserving the Foreign Ministry.

They involve 16 parties and political movements. According to the latest polls, the Austrian People's Party will gain about 33%, the Social Democratic Party of Austria - 27%, the Freedom Party - 25-27%. As

As the Deutsche Welle writes, both the "Green" and the liberal party NEOS - "New Austria and the liberal forum" can overcome the four percent barrier.

Early elections to the Austrian Parliament take place a year before the scheduled term, as this year's coalition of Social Democrats and Conservatives (SDPA and ANP) collapsed.

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The Security Service of Ukraine reported that provocations against the religious structures of the UOC-MP were being prepared in Ukraine.

This is stated in a statement on the site of the SBU.

It is noted that members of individual national civil society organizations that actively cooperate with Russian special services and their political projects in Ukraine can be involved in the provocation.

"The SBU officially informs that the representatives of the so-called" Rescue Committee of Ukraine", which are personally responsible for organizing mass killings of civilians during the Revolution of Dignity and solving the military aggression of RF against Ukraine, are directly behind the attempts to organize these provocations and their information support."- said in a message.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said about attempts at the international arena to restrict direct contacts and communication between legislators within inter-parliamentary structures.

As the Tsenzor.NET referring to Krym.Realiyi, about this, as reported by Russian media, he said October 14 in St. Petersburg.

"Unfortunately, we see that attempts to limit direct contacts and communication of legislators have become more and more active recently. I mean the practice of introducing discriminatory restrictions and sanctions lists, in which parliamentarians often appear." We consider such practice unacceptable, harmful and just stupid " - said Putin.

Russian mass media do not report whether Vladimir Putin pointed out in his speeches directly about the situation with the Russian delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. At the same time, it is reported that, in the opinion of the Russian president, the situation where "interference of the whole delegations" within the inter-parliamentary structures is counterproductive.

"This, in our opinion, is contrary to the principles of free inter-parliamentary cooperation, the sovereign right of every state to express and civilized, to openly defend its point of view," Putin said.

In April 2014, the Russian delegation to the PACE was deprived of the right to vote because of the illegal annexation of the Ukrainian Crimea. Russia refused to participate in all PACE events. And after the expiration of the initial restrictions in early 2016, Russia has not returned to the PACE, fearing new sanctions. In June 2017, Russia withdrew its financial contributions to the Council of Europe.

On October 11, the PACE adopted a resolution calling on the Council of Europe's next summit to "harmonize" the rules for the participation of member states in both the constituent bodies of the Council of Europe - the Parliamentary Assembly, in which Russia does not take part due to fears of new sanctions, and the Committee of Ministers, against which it does not sanction were injected This, according to diplomats, does not reject the return of the Russian delegation to the PACE.

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A spokesman for the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, commenting on NBC's information on his financial ties with Paul Manaforth , predicted the ex-head of the Donald Trump Electoral Headquarters legal consequences.

This is reported by the Russian agency Interfax.

"As for Mr. Manaforth, the results of his manipulations with Oleg Deripaska's investments will have obvious legal consequences," said Deripaska's representative.

He noted that the NBC channel allegedly "saw its goal in supporting hysteria and contributing to the development of a conspiracy theory from Russia whose investigation into a dead end."

It is also indicated that Deripaska is engaged only in the interests of its business.

Recall, according to NBC, for over ten years the Deripaska company has transferred about $ 60 million to Manaforta companies.

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