Ukraine News. Thursday 25 October. [Ukrainian sources]

THURSDAY HEADLINES:
NATO began the largest military training exercise for half a century.  Russia methodically disarmed Ukraine using the Ministry of Defense officials.  New ammunition for the Ukrainian Armed Forces showed in Ukraine.  Moscow has accused the United States of assaulting unmanned aerial vehicles in its air base in Syria.  Ecumenical Patriarch so far wants Ukrainian church to be headed by metropolitan rather than patriarch.  Ukraine has to set "red lines" - US General Hodges on the response to the threat of the Russian Federation in the Azov Sea.  The court continued the arrest of Savchenko almost until the New Year.  In the case of Gryb again returned to court in Rostov-on-Don.  Activists under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs demanded "to punish Phillips' scum" for breaking at the grave of Bandera. The European Parliament condemned Russia's actions in the Azov Sea and called for sanctions to be prepared.  European Union together with Ukraine will resist "creeping annexation" by Russia to the Azov Sea - Poroshenko on a resolution of the European Parliament.  There is evidence that Russia sends Crimeans to fight in Syria.  The situation in the Sea of ​​Azov is serious and quite threatening - there are already concentrated more than 120 vessels of the Russian Federation.  The SBU exposed the separatist who called for the creation of the "Odesa People's Republic".  A Russian woman who carried a dead woman to Ukraine as a passenger was denied crossing the border.  12 powerful companies from the USA are looking for objects for investments in Ukraine.  

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In Norway, the NATO Trident Juncture-2018 training, which is considered to be the largest since the Cold War, has begun in Norway.

This is reported by DW.

It is specified that 31 states will take part in the exercises: 29 NATO countries, as well as Sweden and Finland.

According to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday, October 24, 50,000 troops, 10,000 units of equipment, 250 planes and 65 ships will be involved in maneuvers, including the American carrier Harry Truman.

So, according to the scenario, in the training in the central part of Norway, the "North" group will depict the enemy who occupied part of the country. Then the forces of the South will come to the rescue. They will stop the attack "North", switch to counterattack and release the country. "South" is NATO forces. Thus, the script of Article 5 of the NATO Charter states that an attack on any country in the North Atlantic Alliance is equivalent to an attack on the entire organization.

At the same time, NATO emphasizes that the script is fictitious. That is why the forces of the "North" are not a specific country, but an imaginary enemy.



As reported by the "Apostrophe", earlier the Kremlin excited the NATO-led exercise in the Azov Sea.

apostrophe.ua  In Ukrainian/український

Corruption in the armed forces of Ukraine undermines national security, and Russians have had an impact on the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine through loyal high officials for years.

This is stated in the material of one of the most famous American daily newspapers The Washington Times, the Ukrainian version of which has been published by the newspaper in Ukrainian.



The reason for such statements was the catastrophe of the Su-27 aircraft, which occurred during the international exercises Clean Sky-2018. Washington is believed to have thoroughly investigated the incident, as one of the plane's dead pilots is a US National Guard soldier. However, according to Ukrainian law, American experts are not allowed to investigate - Kyiv is proposing to set up another investigative group. In the United States, it is believed that because of corruption and politics, the work of the investigation team can last for years. As an example, the situation with the whipped Malaysian flight MH-117 - four years after the disaster, the investigation has not ended.

American journalists focus on the fact that military news from Ukraine have ambiguous reputation in the United States. On the one hand, the Ukrainian authorities voiced suspicions to the whole world that, according to recent explosions on arsenals, there is a sabotage, hinting at the same time on the interested party - Russia. Ukrainians are afraid of the whole world that as a result of numerous bombings in the military warehouses, the country was left without much needed ammunition, which weakens the capabilities of the Ukrainian army in conditions of Russian aggression.

On the other hand, in 2007, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, headed by Anatoly Gritsenko, and subsequently headed by the profile committee of the Verkhovna Rada, was subjected to methodical attacks on the state's defense capability by removing weapons and sending only the only type of heavy missile at that time to the scrap metal, operatively - tactical rocket complexes (OTRK) "Elbrus" (Russian development and production of Kazakhstan). The liquidation of missiles began just at the Kalinovka military arsenal of the Vinnytsia region, American journalists remind.

General Mykola Malomuzh, former head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine from April 2005 to June 2010, explained that Ukraine was deprived of heavy rockets not just like that. Malomuzh is convinced that Russia has used its influence agents, who held senior positions in the Ministry of Defense; Several Russian citizens were even appointed to the position of Minister of Defense of Ukraine.

According to him, Russia has always wanted to have no operational tactical missile systems in Ukraine to be removed or moved away from the Russian border. The Russians actively followed the liquidation - they categorically disagreed with the deployment of Ukrainian military systems closer to the Russian border.

Russia has carried out such a large-scale operation with the help of defense ministers Dmitry Salamatin and Pavel Lebedev, who at all had Russian citizenship, and thanks to Defense Minister Anatoliy Hrytsenko, who was one of the main supporters of the process of disarmament.

Malomuz explains to American journalists that these officials have tried to convince the Ukrainian audience that there will never be a war with Russia. This allowed them to eliminate military objects, systems and equipment. The newest systems were not bought, military operations were stopped, pilots did not fly for decades, maintenance and repairs were stopped, tanks were sent to scrap metal, and the aircraft carrier was sold to China.

"Would the public health minister tell the story that people will never get sick? So how can defense ministers say that there will never be a war? This can be understood in the case of those defense ministers of Ukraine who were in fact Russians if they sought to weaken or destroy defenses Ukraine, but moved motives other people and why Anatoly Gritsenko, who is a citizen of Ukraine, supported these ridiculous schemes disarmament?"- quotes the American newspaper The Washington Times General Nikolai Malomuzh, former head of external shnoyi intelligence Ukraine.

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In Kiev, the latest thermobaric munitions of Ukrainian production were presented .

This is reported by " Defense Express ".

As it is noted, they were presented as ammunition for use in the Land Forces (hand grenades, combat units for RPDs and RPGs), and BC for shock-guided UAV-Kamikaze and corrected air bombs.

The specialists of the "Adron" company have developed thermobaric munitions of 4 generations. They are based on several developed NFF formulations. In addition, Ukraine has already mastered the technologies of their serial production.

It is reported that the developers managed to achieve in their products a significant increase in the so-called "T-shirt equivalent". If in the Soviet flame meter "Jmel" 3 generations it is 1.2%, in new developments "Adron" this figure is 2.7%, and in perspective formulations it will grow to 3% (at the maximum rate for such ammunition 3.2 %)

According to the company representatives, thermobaric hand grenades of their development have already passed state tests and will be soon adopted by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The weight of the combat part of such a typical cylindrical grenade is 300 grams (for the model RGT-27C2). The blast of such an ammunition is sufficient to destroy all those who sit in a typical dote, zotti or room (the volume of damage is 15 cubic meters).

In addition, similar grenades (RGT-27C) were developed to destroy the infantry in the trenches. They do not have the usual shape of a cylinder, but a rectangular, which provides a zone of damage in a horizontal plane, and not in a spherical, as in a standard grenade. Of these ammunition, it is also convenient to make bombs and stretch marks. In addition, this grenade is equipped with a magnetic belt, so it can "stick" to steel surfaces (for example, armor or motor vehicles). Grenades of this form are also suitable for use in mountainous terrain, since they do not roll. This ammunition was created, first of all, for the landing and special units.

In the thermobaric part for a new domestic fire-rocket RPV-16 there is about 2.5 kg of active substance. The zone of defeat in buildings at detonation of such thermobaric shot is 30 cubic meters.

Also, HFF "Adron" presented thermobaric combat units for Ukrainian-Polish shockwaves Kamikaze Warmate (1.5 kg) and Warmate 2 (4.8 kg) and for corrected air bombs.






Recall, as previously reported by the "Apostrophe", the state concern "Ukroboronprom" introduced a new high-speed radar reconnaissance firing line 1L221E development and production of NPK "Iskra".

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Ministry of Defense of Russia believes that attacks by unmanned aerial bases of the Russian Armed Forces Khmeimim in Syria were carried out by the United States

Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia, Colonel-General Alexander Fomin, stated at the plenary session of the Xiangxiang Security Forum in Beijing, TASS reports.

"13 drones were the only combat command operated by a joint team. At that time, the American reconnaissance plane Poseidon-8 was operating in the waters of the Mediterranean for eight hours," he said.

According to the military, when unmanned pilots faced a Russian radio-electronic suppression system, they switched to manual control.

"So, manual control is not done by a peasant, but by a normal, equipped with modern Poseidon-8 technology, and he took on manual control. When these 13 drones stumbled upon our curtain of electronic warfare, they went a certain distance, got the corresponding teams, and they began to manage from outer space and instruct them on the so-called holes in which they began to penetrate. They were further destroyed, "Fomin said.

A corresponding statement from the Russian Ministry of Defense also reacted to the press secretary of Russian President Dmitry Peskov, who noted that this attack could be a topic of discussion during a conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump. In the United States, there was no official reaction to these allegations.

Recall that the US-led coalition on October 22 struck air strikes on IDIL positions in Syria.

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Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP) Filaret voiced criteria that will be taken into account when electing the head of an independent Orthodox Church that will be created in Ukraine.

Speaking on the Ukrainian radio, he said that according to the terms of the Patriarch of Constantinople, the Ukrainian church should be headed by an archbishop who is a metropolitan rather than a patriarch, Censor.NET reports citing UNIAN.

In this regard, the head of the UOC-KP received the expanded (the archbishop and metropolitan of Kyiv and All Rus-Ukraine) and reduced titles (the patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus-Ukraine, for internal use).

"It is necessary to have a degree in theological education, know the canon law, have experience in managing a diocese and a church. And if there is no experience, things won't go well," Filaret said.

He stressed he was not ready to sacrifice personal ambitions in the issue of electing the head of the new church. "No! But not because I consider myself as such. But because Moscow will do everything to destroy the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. And therefore, to preserve the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and bring it to fruition, I have to work to the end," Filaret said.

On April 17, 2018, President Poroshenko said Ukraine was closer than ever before to creating an autocephalous united local church.

On Sept. 2, hierarchs held meetings (Synaxis) of the Hierarchy of the Ecumenical Throne Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) to confirm that the Church of Constantinople is authorized, without the consent of other churches, to grant autonomy, or autocephaly, to a church that has requested it. This paves the way for autocephality of Ukraine's church. Further measures, such as the adoption of documents at the Synod, are expected to be taken in October.

Subsequently, on Sept. 7, Ecumenical Patriarchate has appointed two Exarchs in Kyiv as part of preparations for granting autocephaly to Ukraine's Orthodox church. "Within the framework of the preparations for the granting of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, the Ecumenical Patriarchate has appointed as its Exarchs in Kyiv His Excellency Archbishop Daniel of Pamphilon from the United States, and His Grace Bishop Hilarion of Edmonton from Canada, both of whom are serving the Ukrainian Orthodox faithful in their respective countries under the Ecumenical Patriarchate," the Ecumenical Patriarchate said in an announcement.

On Sept. 25, the UOC-MP declared that it was demanding that the Patriarchate of Constantinople withdraw its exarchs from Ukraine. In particular, the Holy Synod of the UOC-MP at a meeting held in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra September 25, expressed its attitude regarding the appointment of the Exarchs of the Constantinople Patriarchate to Kyiv.

On Oct.11, 2018, Ecumenical Patriarchate has decided to proceed to the granting of autocephaly to the Church of Ukraine. In addition, the legal binding of Synod’s Letter of 1686 was abolished, thus pulling the Kyiv Metropolis from under Moscow jurisdiction. The Ecumenical Patriarchate also reinstated head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Philarchate Filaret and head of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church Makariy in their canonical status.

On Oct. 12, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP) called for the episcopate, clergy and believers of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) to begin preparations for a unifying Council.

On Oct. 15, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church decided to break the eucharistic communication with the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

On Oct. 18, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed the law on the transfer of the St. Andrew's Church to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople for perpetual free of charge usage.

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Ukraine's response to the threatening situation in the Azov Sea should be a clear strategy and policy on what is happening.

This was stated by former US forces commander in Europe (2014-2017) Ben Hodges, speaking at the Lviv Security Forum, reports Censor.NET with reference to Novynaryn.

So, Ben Hodges said that Ukraine should develop a clear strategy of its actions in the Sea of ​​Azov for an effective counteraction to the Russian Federation.

"First of all, Ukraine should create a strategy, as well as a policy for the Azov Sea, to establish where the" red lines "pass. Secondly, Ukraine should demand freedom of navigation in Azov, so that Russian ships would not stop the Ukrainians," Hodges said.

He noted that it is necessary to increase the number of representatives of the Navy in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Ministry of Defense.

"It should be people who understand the situation and can make decisions," - said the general.

In addition, Ben Hodges said that the United States should support Ukraine in conducting military exercises, providing technical support, as well as in the information sphere, to cover events in the Azov Sea.

Read also: The European Union, in conjunction with Ukraine, will resist the "creeping annexation" of Russia to the Azov Sea, - Poroshenko, on the European Parliament resolution on the situation in the Azov Sea

"Russia's actions in the Azov Sea are part of the efforts aimed at economic suppression of Ukraine, which does not require an invasion, it is enough to stop exports from Mariupol, Berdyansk, for this purpose these actions are planned," the general noted.

Earlier, the deputy head of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine Vasyl Seratyuk informed that more than 120 ships and boats in the Azov Sea had already been concentrated.

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The Shevchenko District Court of Kyiv extended the term of arrest of People's Deputy Nadya Savchenko to December 30, which is suspected of actions aimed at forcible change or overthrow of the constitutional order or the seizure of state power.
According to Censor.NET, referring to "Interfax-Ukraine", the corresponding decision was passed by the court at a meeting on Thursday.

The meeting was attended by lawyers Nadya Savchenko, who on October 24 made such a demarche, insisting that they did not provide enough time and opportunity to get acquainted with the case files. After they were denied a retreat from the judge, the lawyers did not appear to be on the continuation of the hearing on Wednesday. The court upheld the decision to attract a state attorney to N. Savchenko and postponed the meeting on Thursday.

As you know, at present, Savchenko and her lawyers are familiar with the materials of the so-called case Savchenko - Ruban, whose investigation was completed on August 1. On September 25, the Shevchenkivskyi court refused to comply with the prosecutor's request to restrict the terms for familiarizing them with the criminal case materials by 25 calendar days.

Valentin Ruban, a lawyer at the Center for the Liberation of Captives "Officers' Corps" Vladimir Ruban, has already completed the review of the case file, which was reported on August 30 by the investigation.

Recall that on March 15, 2018, the Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko submitted to the Verkhovna Rada three applications : the removal of immunity, detention and arrest of People's Deputy Nadya Savchenko. She is suspected of trying to organize an "armed state coup by terror".

Savchenko himself, commenting on these allegations, said: "I was planning to show the authorities what might be. I began to create surrealism."

The Standing Committee unanimously voted and recommended the Verkhovna Rada to support the submission of the Prosecutor General.

On March 22, the General Prosecutor's Office published operative audio recordings and video materials on the involvement of Nadya Savchenko in organizing and planning a terrorist attack in the Ukrainian parliament.

The same day The Council revoked the immunity, as well as granted the detention and arrest detention of Nadya Savchenko.

After such a decision, Nadia Savchenko was arrested in the premises of the Verkhovna Rada and taken to the SBU's investigatory detention facility.

On March 23, Savchenko declared a hunger strike . On the same day, the court chose her a preventive measure in the form of detention until May 20 . In addition, Savchenko complained to the representatives of the ombudsman on video surveillance in the cell.

Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova exercises personal control over the observance of constitutional rights of Hope Savchenko.

On July 14, Savchenko again declared an eternal hunger strike through an arrest.

Savchenko accuses the crimes stipulated by the articles: "actions aimed at forcible change or overthrow of the constitutional system or the seizure of state power", "preparation for a crime", "committing a crime by a group of persons, a group of persons under a preliminary conspiracy, an organized group or a criminal organization" "encroachment on the life of a state or public figure", "terrorist act", "the creation of a terrorist group or terrorist organization", "the illicit handling of weapons, combat supplies or explosives".

According to the Prosecutor General's Office, Savchenko was a member of Volodymyr Ruban, who was detained on March 8 at the KPVV "Mayorskoye" during an attempt to transport large quantities of weapons from the territory of the Donetsk region under the control of the Russian occupation administration. Savchenko had previously stated that he planned not a terrorist act, but only a "political provocation."

Ruban is suspected of illicit handling of weapons and preparation of terrorist acts, including armed attacks on state officials and political leaders, including President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and NSDC Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov. Ruban himself rejects the allegations.

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The date of the next meeting in the case of an illegally held Ukrainian is still unknown.

The case of the illegally held in the Russian Federation of Ukrainians, Pavlo Gryb from the Kuban Prosecutor's Office, was again returned to the North Caucasus District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don. However, the date of the next meeting has not yet been appointed. This was announced on Thursday, October 25, spokeswoman of the court Elena Katkalo, reports Censor.NET with reference to zn.ua.

"The case concerning Mushroom has returned to us for a new consideration after the return of the prosecutor to the Kuban. The date of the court session is not yet scheduled," Katkalo said.

Earlier, in July, the North Caucasus District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don returned to the Prosecutor of the Krasnodar Territory the case of Ukrainians Paul Gryb. According to the spokeswoman of the court, Olena Katkalo, the case was returned for refinement because of an error during the investigation.

Recall Pavel's father Igor Gryb told about the kidnapping by RF special services of his son in Belarus: "The FSB vomited Pavel to Gomel, under the guise of meeting with the girl, and detained." Pavlo Gryb on August 24, 2017 went to a meeting with the girl, whom he 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 by 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." At the same time, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine officially confirmed the intersection of Paul Gryb with the border with Belarus.

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, Pavlo 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 Pavlova Gryb is alleged to be a supporter of the extremist UNA-UNSO banned in Russia and suppose that he allegedly inclined a famous resident of the Kuban to blow up a homemade explosive device at the exit line in the Sochi school.

Details of what this story began about, the essence of the case and the prosecution, as well as the court session, read in the article "There were no children plans to blow up the school!". Love-Agent History of Paul Gryb".

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Today, activists have come under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a demand to take action to bring terrorist accomplice Graham Phillips to responsibility for defiling the grave of Stepan Bandera in Germany.

This is reported by the correspondent Censor.NET.

So, the participants of the action deployed posters with the inscription "Picaras of the Phillips Scum" and "Return Bandera to Ukraine" in front of the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

After that, they went inside the building and talked with Olesya Yurchenko, Head of the Department for Foreign Ukrainians and Humanitarian Cooperation, who suggested signing the statement, and also reported that the Ministry is holding the issue under control.

In addition to prosecuting the propagandist Phillips, the issue of creating a pantheon of prominent Ukrainians and the transfer of Bandera's remains to Ukraine was also raised.

After communicating with an employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, activists wrote a statement asking them to take action on the issues and left the building.



Recall that in the German Munich pro-Kremlin propagandist Graham Phillips ripped flags from the grave of OUN leader Stepan Bandera and attached a banner with the inscription on the "Ukrainian Nazi" to the grave cross.

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European Parliament adopts resolution condemning Russia's actions in the Azov Sea that violate international maritime law

This is stated in the resolution of the European Parliament, adopted on Thursday, October 25.

The document condemns "excessive" blockade and inspections by Russia of commercial vessels. Before the opening of the Kerch Bridge from the Russian Federation to the annexed Crimea, inspections were carried out only selectively and did not violate the free movement of ships and cargoes.

The European Parliament has recognized the right of Russia to carry out audits, but expressed the conviction that this right "should not be abused or applied for political reasons."

Instead, the European Commission should evaluate the economic damage caused by this "de facto blockade" and help the economic development of Mariupol and Berdyansk.

Also, the European Parliament "is seriously concerned about the continuation of the militarization of the Azov Sea and the Black Sea region, especially the illegally annexed and occupied Crimean peninsula." An example is the deployment of Russia's C-400 anti-aircraft missile systems in Crimea and the transfer of warships and patrol boats from the Caspian Sea to the Azov Sea.

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The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, congratulates the European Parliament on the situation in the Azov Sea.

This is reported by Censor. NET with reference to the press service of the AP.

"I welcome the approval of an important European Parliament resolution on the situation in the Sea of ​​Azov. The Russian aggressor must understand that all his actions, in violation of international law and bilateral agreements, will continue to receive a decisive and adequate response from the democratic community," said Petro Poroshenko.

The Head of State stressed: "The European Union, together with Ukraine, will counteract the" creeping annexation "of Russia to the Azov Sea and violate the freedom of navigation."

The President noted that he highly appreciates the support of the European Parliament by the initiative to assist Ukrainian ports and implementation of projects of socio-economic support of the Ukrainian Azov Sea. "I am grateful to the European Parliament for the call for the introduction of additional targeted sanctions for the Kremlin's aggressive actions in the Azov Sea and the Kerch Strait. I hope for the practical realization of these initiatives by the institutions and EU member states," Petro Poroshenko emphasized.

The head of state also added that he would coordinate further joint actions to protect Ukraine's national interests during the coming meetings with European leaders.

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The Russian Federation involves illegally recruited to the military service of the inhabitants of the occupied Crimea for military operations in Syria.

According to Censor.NET, referring to Ukrinform, an analyst at the Crimean human rights group Oleksandr Sedov informed during a press conference.

"We found 9 orders for the awarding of the Crimeans for participating in an armed operation in Syria, which suggests that the Russian authorities use the inhabitants of the occupied territories to participate in military operations outside the Russian Federation," he said.

Also read: The invaders introduce the same religious policy in the Donbas, as in Russia: minorities are persecuted - human rights activists

Sedov also noted that human rights defenders conducted an analysis of so-called "courts" in the Crimea.

"As of now, 33 decisions were made on the inhabitants of Crimea for evasion from service in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Russia, three more cases are under consideration," he said.

Sedov also said that this could be evidence of the coercion in the conscription campaign of illegal service in the armed forces of the RF.

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There are more than 120 ships and boats in the Sea of ​​Azov.

This was announced by deputy chairman of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine Vasyl Seratyuk, speaking at the Lviv Security Forum, reports Censor.NET with reference to LIGA.net .

"The situation (in the Sea of ​​Azov - Ed.) Is serious and quite threatening," he stressed.

According to Serovtjuk, after the seizure of Crimea and the occupation of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Russia's next goal is to capture Azov.

He reminded that Ukraine has already begun to increase its presence in the Sea of ​​Azov - plans to roll over ships from the Danube, the renovated ship Donbass has been thrown over, the modernization of posts of technical observation and anti-missile defense defense is planned.

The commander of the Naval Forces of Ukraine Igor Voronchenko previously questioned that Russia would go to open aggression in the Sea of ​​Azov, but noted that Ukraine was ready to reflect.

Last week, Russia threw two warships into the Azov Sea.

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In Odesa, a local resident was exposed, who distributed anti-Ukrainian materials through social networks.

According to Censor.NET, the SBU staff found that the pro-Kremlin provocateur regularly posted propaganda there calling for a change in the state border and the constitutional order of Ukraine.

In addition, he also popularized the terrorist organizations "DNR" and "LNR".

Information was received by an attacker from Russian propaganda Internet publications and sites of militants from temporarily occupied territories.

Also see: Oppublok's MP Vinnichenko, who in 2014, under the screams of "Russia", took part in the funeral of terrorists, speaks in a city council in the form of the All-Large Donskoy Army, a journalist. PHOTOS

During a search on the place of residence of the intruder, law enforcement officers seized several mobile devices and computer equipment with separatist materials.




Criminal proceedings have been initiated under Part 1 of Art. 110 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (up to three years of imprisonment).

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A citizen of the Russian Federation, who was detained yesterday at a checkpoint on the Ukrainian-Russian border at a checkpoint at the attempt to illegally bring into Ukraine a corpse of women, was sent back to Russia.

As informs Censor.NET, this was reported to the correspondent of LIGA.net in the press service of the GU National Police of the Kharkiv region.




They said that the customs officers had decided to refuse a man to cross the border on the grounds that he had violated the rules of customs and border control.

According to the representative of the Kharkiv police, a citizen of the Russian Federation was obliged to indicate in the documents at the crossing of the border that his car had a dead body.

"Our colleagues (from the customs service. - Ed.) Made a decision that their entry to the territory of Ukraine is undesirable," said the police press officer.

Asked if the Ukrainian side offered her options for legalizing its crossing of the border with the body of his wife, the police replied that they could not comment on it, because this allegedly does not belong to their authority.

The press service also added that the fact of the death of a woman was registered in the territory of Russia, and "objective evidence that the actions of these citizens have signs of a crime committed on the territory of Ukraine is not established."

Yesterday from Russia to Ukraine, through the checkpoint Hoptivka in the Kharkiv region, a citizen of the Russian Federation tried to bring the corpse of a woman, giving her a living. The body found the frontier guards in the Ford car sitting in the back seat. Also in the car was a son of a man who has a Ukrainian passport. They explained that they carried the body to Zaporozhye region for burial.

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Representatives of 12 major American companies go to Ukraine to look for profitable opportunities for investment

This is reported by the press service of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine.

MERC Chairman Stepan Kubiv met with Deputy Minister of International Trade of the USA Gilbert Kaplan. During the meeting they discussed the priorities of trade cooperation between Ukraine and the United States.

Cubs said that the Ukrainian side offers foreign partners to invest in power companies, infrastructure and industrial companies.

"Now in Ukraine there are many small businesses that we are already successfully privatizing through the system of state auctions of Prozor.Sales, but I want to draw American business attention to large objects, the privatization of which under the new rules is just beginning. We offer private investors energy companies spheres, as well as large infrastructure and industrial companies, "said Kubov.

Gilbert Kaplan in turn said that in the end of October, in search of interesting investment opportunities, the First Official Trade Mission goes to Ukraine: 12 major American companies aim to find attractive investment opportunities in Ukraine, in particular with the use of privatization.

Kaplan emphasized that investments in the Ukrainian economy are one of the most important areas of American business.

Stepan Kubiv and Gilbert Kaplan also discussed strengthening of cooperation between the American and Ukrainian chambers of commerce, the replacement of Russian goods in the Ukrainian market and other issues of trade and economic cooperation.

-Recall that in February "Ukrzaliznytsya" signed an agreement for $1 billion with American General Electric.

-The Kharkiv State Aviation Production Enterprise (Kharkiv Aviation Plant) will invest in a large American company.

-In October, a business forum Horasis China Meeting Ukraine was held in Ukraine, attended by investors from 28 countries.

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