Ukraine News in brief. Saturday 22 July. [Ukrainian sources]

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The Russian warship spies on the Sea Breeze exercises.  Ukraine agrees contract with US to supply coal. Several thousand Russian soldiers and mercenaries have already died in Ukraine.  The Senate of Poland has adopted a scandalous judicial reform. Journalist described the details of the meeting with his mother and Ageev, captured Russian in Donbas.  OSCE observers record the movement of military transport near the border of Ukraine with the Russian Federation in the Donetsk region.  The UN International Court of Justice was handed over thousands of pages of evidence on the financing of terrorism by Russia.  Putin used Ukraine, talking about the fight against Russian corruption. Putin TV caught on a fake of protests in Ukraine.

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The SBU passed thousands of pages of documents, documentary evidence of crimes committed by the Russian Federation in the Donbas and Crimea.

The International Court of the UN has handed over thousands of pages of evidence base on Russia's financing of terrorism. This was announced by the head of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Hrytsak during a briefing, reports Tsensor. NET with reference to "112 Ukraine".

"As you know, Ukraine has initiated a lawsuit against the International Court of Justice in support of the Russian Federation of terrorism in the east of our country. We have handed over thousands of pages of documents, documentary evidence of Russian crimes in the Donbass and Crimea," said Hrytsak.

On January 16, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine filed a lawsuit on Russia's violation of the United Nations Convention against Terrorist Financing and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination to the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Ukraine demands from the Russian Federation the cessation of financing of illegal armed forces in the Donbass and the restoration of the Mejlis activity in the occupied Crimea.

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The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission records the movement of military vehicles in the direction from and to the Ukrainian border with Russia in the Donetsk region not far from the checkpoint in Novoazovsky.

As informs Tsensor.NET, the OSCE PMM reported in its microblog on Twitter .

"More military vehicles in the direction from and to the border of Ukraine with the Russian Federation. The SMM will not be allowed to block the checkpoint in Novoazovsky for more than 2 hours. Violation of Minsk continues," the statement reads.

It is known that observers left the area.

"After more than 3 hours of waiting, SMM will leave Novoazovsk, but will return. SMM continues to monitor and seek full access throughout Ukraine in accordance with the mandate," the report said.

We remind you that the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) reported on obstruction of the access of observers to Novoazovsk (Donetsk region), which is currently under the control of militants.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking about corruption in the Russian authorities, did not give a clear answer to the struggle against it, for some reason, gave Ukraine an example.

He said this at a meeting with students from the Sochi Educational Center "Sirius", a video clip shared by his Ukrainian blogger Michael Golub in his Twitter.

"One can not only speculate on the problem of corruption, it is widespread throughout the world, and even in countries with economies in transition, where legislation is not yet regulated, [ insecure mourning - edit ] is not even fully operational, even economic laws, where it is growing, this corruption. Watch what happened to our neighbors. The authorities came to power on the wave of fighting corruption... Ukraine is choking on corruption, "Putin said.

As reported by the "Apostrophe", the Foundation for the fight against corruption Alexei Navalny after the release of the loud movie "He is not a Dimeon" on the wealth of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev showed a new video with the great dacha of the head of the Russian government.

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Russian propagandists were again caught on distributing Fake news about Ukraine.

This time on the television channel "Russia 24" there was a story that employees of the Kharkov factory of reinforced concrete structures allegedly arranged a protest with the requirements to immediately resume economic relations with the Russian Federation. Also, propagandists assured that the company is on the verge of bankruptcy because of the termination of cooperation with Russian enterprises.



The journalists of the Kharkov edition 057.ua conducted their own investigation and proved that the plot of Russian propagandists is staging. The clip was shot explicitly in the territory of another company, and the specified plant of 20 years old does not cooperate with Russia, and produces its products for local consumers.



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Russian serviceman Victor Ageev, who was captured by Ukrainian soldiers in the Donbas, met with his mother at the SIZO.

The details of the meeting are transmitted by the journalist edition novayagazeta.ru.



"We went inside, everything was under the rules, and Svetlana Viktorovna wrote a statement to the meeting, after which the meeting took place. First, my mother saw her son at the journalists, my colleagues from foreign publications are present here, and now Svetlana Ageev talks to Victor alone. The promises were fulfilled, "the statement reads.

It is noted that the representatives of Russia did not hold any meeting with Ageev for all his time in captivity.

As reported by the "Apostrophe", before the arrival of a mother in Ukraine, a Russian contractor, Victor Ageev, was captured under the Zhaolobka Luhansk region, causing a lot of questions and a wave of indignation in Ukrainian society.

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The Senate of Poland has adopted a bill on the reform of the Supreme Court, despite the criticism of the European Union and mass protests in the country.

The vote on the bill, which had previously been supported by the Polish Diet, was held this night, according to Deutsche Welle.

It should be noted that the reform involves the dismissal of all current judges of the Supreme Court and the appointment by the Minister of Justice of executors of duties in their place.

Subsequently, the National Judicial Council will have to approve a new composition of the Supreme Court, which will be proposed by the Ministry of Justice.

Moreover, the head of the Ministry of Justice of Poland will be able to independently appoint the heads of the appellate and district courts without consulting the representatives of the justice system.

On July 19, the European Commission stated that sanctions against Poland could be applied in the event of a judicial reform that would undermine the independence of the courts.

On July 20, the leader of the Polish opposition, Grzegorz Schetyna, said that in Poland, his "Maidan" is brewing.

On July 21, more than 100,000 Poles across the country opposed the adoption of judicial reform, for which the EU has already promised to impose sanctions on Poland.

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Several thousand Russian soldiers and mercenaries have already died on the territory of Ukraine.

According to Tsensor.NET , referring to Ukrinform , the Head of the Security Service Vasyl Hrytsak stated at a briefing on Saturday.

"According to the SBU, several thousand Russian soldiers and mercenaries have already died in the territory of Ukraine," he said.

At the same time, Hrytsak reminded that in Ukraine there is the Uniform Database of DNA of Missing Persons . According to him, today in this base there are more than 300 DNA-profiles of persons who do not coincide with samples of missing military personnel and civilians in the ATU area .

The head of the SBU is convinced that some of these DNA profiles precisely belong to the Russian military and mercenaries.

"We urge all mothers, parents of children of Russian citizens who went to build the" Russian world "on the Donbass and disappeared, to contact the hostage exchange center for establishing communications and carrying out the necessary examinations," Hrytsak said.

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A preliminary agreement has been reached on the supply of two ship loads of anthracite coal from America, Interfax-Ukrayina reports July 19.

“We are working on the schedule to make sure the supply of coal from America do not coincide with the supplies from the South African Republic,” Ukraine’s energy and coal minister Ihor Nasalyuk said.

Earlier Pres Donald Trump expressed readiness to supply coal to Ukraine.

Ukraine stopped supplies of anthracite coal from rebel-held territories in Donbas not to support the enemy economically.

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Russian exploration ship SSV-201 "Azov Sea" is following international exercises Sea Breeze-2017
This is reported by the newspaper Dumskaya .

It is noted that he replaced the Russian ship "Lyman", which carried out a similar operation to track the training last year. The fact is that "Lyman sank in March this year near the coast of Turkey.

In particular, on July 21, during the exercise, the multinational squadron worked on maneuvering with multiple rebuilding.

"Azov" was a few miles and constantly track all the actions of the order. "Judging by the number of antennas, he has on board the most up-to-date equipment," - said in the publication.

On July 10, Ukrainian-American military exercises began in Odessa.

For participation in military exercises , the Osprey aircraft , known as converting planes, are unique in their nature .
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko called the Sea Breeze training a response to sponsors of hybrid wars.

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French President Emmanuel Macron will hold a telephone conversation with the leaders of Russia, Germany and Ukraine on Monday. Discuss the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

This is stated in a statement by the press service of the French president, reports Reuters.

Earlier, the deputy chairman of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission, Alexander Hug, said that the number of bombardments in the Donbass , despite the announced ceasefire, exceeded 1.5 thousand per day.

Recall that the situation in the Donbas despite the so-called "cereal armistice" has become more acute. Last day , five Ukrainian soldiers were killed as a result of hostilities , eight were wounded, and another was captured.

Ukrainian soldiers attacked militants from "Oplot", reported at ATO headquarters.

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According to the SBU, more than 500 Russian citizens are now fighting in Syria, who before that participated in the conflict on the Donbass on the side of the militants.

This was during a briefing head of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Hrytsak, the correspondent of Hromadskyi reports.

"According to the intelligence of the SBU, more than 500 Russians who fought in the Donbass region are fighting in Syria," he said.

He added that most of them are professional military personnel from special forces airborne troops and marines, as well as special operations forces.

"I emphasize that this is not about the official Russian military contingent in Syria. These are the mercenaries of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation under the shade of the private military company Wagner or contractors such as Victor Ageev, "he added.

At the same time, Hrytsak added that the SBU employees installed 124 people from among the citizens of Russia, who died in Syria.

Earlier, during a briefing, Hrycak said that another 15 Russian citizens were fighting in the subdivision of the Ukrainian military captured by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Luhansk region, Victor Ageev .

Recall that on June 24, the Military Armed Forces of Ukraine defused the sabotage and reconnaissance group of militants and captured 4 people, one of whom was a resident of the Altai Territory of Russia, a citizen of Russia, Victor Ageev.

The Russian military department officially declared that Ageev was released in reserve in May last year, and the contract service Agaev did not pass .

Later in the "LNR" reported that Ageeva had entered the lists for exchange.

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Soon the US military may be forced to leave Syria.

It informs Tsenzor.NET referring to DW , so Aku opinion was expressed by chief US special operations command Raymond Thomas.

"Soon the day when the Russians say," Why are you still in Syria? "We went back justified, but if the Russians will compete this map, perhaps, we want to stay, but will not be able to do it" - said he.

Thomas added that the goal of the military operation in Syria, held an international coalition led by the US - the fight against terrorism. However, he said the government Syrian President Bashar Assad did not give Washington a mandate to conduct military operations on its territory.

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The Russian government estimates the negative US new bill on sanctions against Iran.

It informs Tsenzor.NET with reference to RIA Novosti , This was stated by the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov.

When asked how the Kremlin evaluate the bill, the official said: "very negative."

Earlier, the site of the US Congress were made public agreed by both chambers of the text of the bill on sanctions against Iran.

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