Ukraine News. Monday 23 July. [Ukrainian sources]

MONDAY HEADLINES:
In the US, a working group on countering Russian threats in cyberspace was created.  "We need to have new sanctions hanging over Putin's head," - US Senator Graham calls to prepare new sanctions against Russia.  Russia wants to talk about "referendum" on the Donbas in the Norman format.  Paul Gryb was arrested for 3 months - until October 22, 2018.  Russian Court Sends Terrorism Case Against Ukrainian Back For Additional Investigation. NATO ships entered the port of Odesa.  A mushroom recorder weighing almost 18 kilograms was found in the Kyiv region.  Poroshenko: "We are ready and will defend our land even if left alone, without international support".  London continues supporting sanctions introduced in response to action Russia took in Crimea.

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Director of the National Security Agency of the United States Paul Nakasone said that the cyber command of the country created a working group to counter Russia's threats in cyberspace.

According to Censor.NET, referring to the Correspondent , he stated this on July 21st at the annual Security Forum in Aspen, Colorado.

"I have created a Russian group, a small one, which contributes to the fact that the intelligence community (the USA) does from 2016-2017," the general said.

According to him, Russia has great opportunities in the cyberspace, which "we will have to withstand" and "if this happens, we will undoubtedly be able to do this".

Earlier, the US Justice Ministry accused 12 Russian intelligence officers of plotting to intervene in the 2016 US presidential election.

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U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham calls to come up with a set of sanctions that would be a hammer over Russia's head if Moscow continues to interfere in the 2018 election.

As reported by Censor.NET, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said in an interview with CBS News aired Sunday, July 22, 2018.

"Well if he does show up we need to have new sanctions hanging over Putin's head," Graham said commenting on possible meeting of Russian and U.S. presidents in the White House this fall.

Asked what could those sanctions look like, the politician said: "Well you need to get with Rubio and Van Hollen and myself and others and come up with a set of sanctions that would be a hammer over Russia's head if they continue to interfere in the 2018 election."

"Just have sanctions that can fall on Russia like a hammer. Do not meet with this guy from a position of weakness. You need to do two things you need to harden our electoral infrastructure. You need to be the leader of that movement and you need to work with Congress to come up with new sanctions because Putin's not getting the message," Sen. Graham stressed.

According to him, U.S. President Donald Trump has been tougher than Obama but it's not working: "If you were really tough with Putin he would not be doing what he's doing. So being tougher than Obama doesn't get me to where I want to go. I want this man to stay out of our elections and quit disrupting the world. We need new sanctions. Heavy handed sanctions hanging over his head. Then meet with him," he said.

Earlier, U.S. senate minority leader called for more sanctions on Russia after Trump-Putin summit.

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Russia plans to raise the issue of a "referendum" in the Donbass during negotiations in the Normandy format in Berlin

This was stated by the State Secretary - Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia, Gregory Karasin, reports Radio Liberty.

"At the end of this week, a meeting will take place at the level of political leaders of the Norman four countries in Berlin, where we will talk about how we can move forward in implementing the Minsk accords," Karasin said in response to the question of Vladimir Putin's idea to hold such a " referendum".

Earlier, in 2014, Russia has already organized illegal "referendums" on the territory of Ukraine - March 16 in the Crimea and May 11 - in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

Recall that on July 16, 2018, Donald Trump met with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. According to the Bloomberg publication, Putin offered Trump to hold a "referendum" in the occupied Donbas.

The US Department of State ruled out the possibility of a "referendum" in the Donbass, stating that it would be illegitimate.

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The Rostov Court has returned to prosecutors an indictment in the case of Ukrainian Mushroom. He was arrested.
This is reported by Tsensor . NET .

The panel of judges of the North Caucasus District Military Court in Rostov decided: to return the case to prosecutors for revision.

The chairman of the board of the three - judge Gorelov.

The judge explained that the prosecutor noted in the indictment the old version 205.1, which provides for up to 8 years imprisonment. And in the new edition of this article, threatens Gryb to 10 years in prison. This became the reason for the return.

The arrest of Paul Gryb was continued for 3 months - until October 22, 2018.

Recall Pavel's father Igor Grib told about the kidnapping by the special services of the Russian Federation of his son in Belarus: "The FSB drove Paul to Gomel, under the guise of meeting with a girl, and detained." Paul Gryb on August 24, 2017 went to a meeting with a girl, whom she had previously only talked through social networks, to Belarus. After that disappeared.

When Igor arrived in Belarus, he was informed that his son was wanted in search of an initiative of the FSB of the Russian Federation. The border authorities of Belarus refused to inform their father of any information about his son. Paul's father is confident that the RF special forces carried out this operation in order to lure his son into Belarus and " put on him handcuffs there for posts in social networks." In addition,

On September 7, 2017, the director of the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Vasyl Kyrylych said that 19-year-old citizen of Ukraine Paul Gryb, who disappeared in the Belarusian city of Gomel, is in the administration of the FSB of Russia in Krasnodar.

According to Russian media, investigators believe that Pavlova Gryb is allegedly a supporter of the extremist UNA-UNSO banned in Russia and suggests that he allegedly inclined a famous resident of the Kuban to blow up an improvised explosive device on the graduation line at Sochi's school.

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A court in Russia halted the trial of a 20-year-old Ukrainian man charged with abetting terrorism shortly after it got under way, sending the case back for additional investigation.

Pavlo Hryb, who denies the charge and whose family contends he was set up by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), went on trial at the North Caucasus Regional Military Court in Rostov-on-Don on July 23.

But the court said it found that the formal charge against Hryb was based on a clause of the Criminal Code that had not been in place at the time of the alleged crime.

There was no indication that Hryb would be released from custody.

Hryb pleaded not guilty after he hearing began, saying that "critical mistakes have been made during the investigation."

Hryb went missing in August 2017 after he traveled to Belarus to meet a woman he met online.

Relatives believe he walked into a trap set by the FSB, which later told Ukraine that Hryb was being held in a detention center in Russia on suspicion of abetting terrorism.

Russian investigators accuse Hryb of using the Internet to instruct a teenage girl in Russia's southern city of Sochi to carry out a terrorist act using an explosive device.

Hryb's father, Ihor Hryb, has argued that the case against his son was Russian retaliation for Internet posts that were openly critical of Russia's interference in Ukraine...................

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The ports of the NATO Naval Nation 2 (SNMG2) and the permanent missile defense group No. 2 (SNMCMG2) entered the port of Odesa with a visit.

As informs Censor.NET, this is stated in the statement of the press service of the Navy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Among the ships that arrived in the port of Odesa were the De Ruyter frigate of the Royal Navy of the Netherlands, the Fatih frigate and the Aammur minesweeper of the Turkish navy, the Rhein auxiliary vessel VDR of Germany, and the minesweeper "Lupu Dinescu" of the MS of Romania.


Frigate "DE RUYTER" of the Royal Navy of the Netherlands


Frigate "FATIH" of the Navy of the Turkish Republic



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In the village Drozdy of the Bila Tserkva district of the Kyiv region, found a mushroom-rainbow weighing 17.75 kilograms.

This is reported by Censor.NET with reference to the TSN.

"The mushroom giant weighs 17.75 kilograms", - the message says.




The National Register of Records of Ukraine reported that the application for the registration of the findings was not received. At the same time in the organization noted that previously recorded mushrooms, recorders were smaller.

"We have seen this information, but, unfortunately, this giant was not included in the National Register of Records, but the application for such registration was not received," Lana Veterova, the registry manager, said.



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