Ukraine News in brief. Friday 11 August. [Ukrainian sources]

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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
United States may require Russia to close one of its consulates in the US.  United States is building a command center for the Ukrainian Navy in Ochak.  Russia has placed ballistic missiles in the Crimea that can affect Europe.  Putin introduced bill to Duma that allows using anti-aircraft defense on Ukraine and Belarus border.  Russian command of occupation forces, forcing local militants to conduct provocative shelling of civilian buildings.  Kievanin killed two women and set fire to the apartment, and then threw himself out of the window.  Destruction of an anti-aircraft installation of Russian mercenaries in the Donbas.  It became known how many Ukrainians were victims of slave traders in Britain.

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The United States may require Russia to close one of its consulates in the United States.

This, with reference to diplomatic sources, reports Kommersant.

Such a decision by the States could be a response to the sanctions imposed by Moscow against American diplomats.

Currently, Russia has 4 Consulate General in the United States, and the US has three in Russia.

The decision of America to respond can be announced before September 1.

Recall that on July 30, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that 755 American diplomats should leave the Russian Federation.

Later in the US, they said they were preparing a response to the sending of US diplomats from the Russian Federation.

Donald Trump also thanked Putin for sending out American diplomats from Russia, as this would allow "save a lot of money."

hromadske.ua , Original in Ukrainian / Українською мовою

US Navy began construction of the Military Naval Operational Command Center in Ochakov, Mykolayiv Oblast

This is reported by the press service of the United States Navy.

Work on the Foreign Military Construction Sales started on July 25. Construction is being carried out by the first US Naval Construction Marine Battleship (NMCB-1) - the so-called Sea Bees (Seabees).

"The start of construction in Ukraine is a significant achievement for NMCB-1. Our ability to maximally support Ukraine's aspirations towards Europe is strategic, with the result of improving infrastructure, enhancing defense capabilities, strengthening our relationships and new opportunities for training," said Seabees spokesman, junior lieutenant Jason McGee.

The construction project includes the construction of a center for operational management, repair workshops, as well as checkpoints along the perimeter of the base.

Earlier, the United States provided the Army with equipment for $ 22 million for the latest center of simulation of the battle.

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Russia equipped the ships of the Black Sea Fleet with "Caliber" missiles, whose radius of damage is about 2500 km, and similar weapons came to the navy of the Baltic Sea

The press center of the Ministry for Temporary Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons reports.

"The Russian Black Sea Fleet has been replenished with two small rocket ships" Green Dil "and" Serpukhov "equipped with rocket systems" Caliber-NK. "According to military experts and reports from Russian media, these missiles allow targets to be hit at distances up to 2,500 km," says Message.

Provided the ships of this class are based on the territory of the Crimea within the radius of defeat, there are European countries, from Romania to France and Scandinavia, as well as the countries of the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia-Pacific and an important strategic object - the Suez Canal.

In addition, warships of this class are part of the Baltic Fleet of Russia, in Kaliningrad. Thus, virtually all European countries, including Iceland, are in danger zone. It should be noted that 20 nuclear power plants and 139 chemical enterprises of the European Union are located on this territory.

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The bill is aimed at alleged enhancing of security of the borders of the Union State of Russia and Belarus, which are also borders with Ukraine.

The bill was introduced on Thursday, Aug. 10, Censor.NET reports citing Russian State Duma website.

According to the submitted document, Putin asks the State Duma to ratify the protocol "on introducing amendments and additions to the Agreement between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus on joint protection of the external border of the Union State in airspace and the creation of the Unified Regional Air Defense System of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus of Feb. 3, 2009".

The protocol was signed on Nov. 2, 2016 in Minsk.

"Its provisions clarify the conceptual apparatus of the Agreement, as well as introduce amendments concerning the organizational and staff structure of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the procedure for the use of weapons and military equipment by air defense duty officers in the joint performance of combat duty missions," the Russian State Duma website said.

"The implementation of the Protocol will improve the security of the external border of the Union State in the airspace, contribute to strengthening the security of the two states, and will not require additional allocations from the federal budget," the report says.

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Local militants are increasingly refusing to serve in the Russian-occupation groups in the Donbas.

As informs Censor.NET, this is stated in the message of the press center of the ATU, published in Facebook.

"According to our operational information, temporarily occupied territories, local militants refuse to serve in Russian-occupation groups more often," it was reported.

The staff noted that compared to the regular Russian military, residents of the Donbass receive several times less. They are transferred to a barracks position, on their own territory they are forced to conduct provocative shelling of the buildings of the local population, they have a much lower level of medical care. And it is these mercenaries who are primarily sent to the hot spots on the line of demarcation.

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Law enforcement agencies establish the circumstances of the death of three people in Kyiv
This is reported by the press center of the National Police Headquarters of the capital on its Facebook page.

The department said that, according to preliminary information, the Kievan killed the owner of the apartment and her daughter, and then set fire to the apartment and jumped out of the balcony.

Witnesses said that her husband was talking loudly on mobile, while in a conversation he mentioned that he was standing on the balcony and commit suicide.

During the inspection of the house, the police found the bodies of two women with head injuries.

Two criminal proceedings have been initiated: under Part 2 of Art. 115 (The deliberate murder of two or more persons) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and Part 1 of Art. 115 (Intentional Murder) with additional legal qualification - suicide.



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Ukrainian fighters destroyed the antiaircraft installation of Russian mercenaries, which the terrorists delivered but a new position.

According to Tsenzor.NET , Foundation volunteers " Turn zhivim " published in the social network record destruction antiaircraft installations created using quadrocopter.

It was through this drone that the attack on enemy equipment was corrected.



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More than 200 Ukrainian citizens became victims of the international network of trafficking in human beings - they were brought to the United Kingdom for forced labor

This was stated by Oleg Slobodyan, aide to the head of the State Border Guard Service, reports Espresso.

"In general, this channel was organized by participants from several countries, operating since 2012. There are grounds to say that more than 200 people have been victims of the organizers of this channel, but, unfortunately, not everyone wants to cooperate with the investigation," said Slobodian.

According to him, it is actually about slavery in the 21st century, when people were deceived, taking advantage of their aspirations to help their families and earn money, slavery to other countries.

At the same time, according to Major Police Andrei Gomenyuk, the Ukrainians received a meager salary there, lived and worked under terrible conditions of insecurity.

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Spoofing-attack on GPS, which misled marine ships in the Black Sea, suggests thoughts of Russian cyber weapons.

As reported by Censor.NET with reference to Inopressu, this is stated in the article New Scientist .

"Reports on problems with satellite navigation on the Black Sea suggest that Russia may be experiencing a new GPS spoofing system (spoofing attack - a situation in which one person or program successfully masquerades as another by falsifying data and getting illegal Advantages. - Ed.)", - says the material of the popular science edition.

"Perhaps this is the first hint of the existence of a new form of electronic weapons, which will be available to everyone - from rogue countries to petty criminals," writes journalist David Hambling.

On June 22, the US Navy Department received a message: the captain of the ship near Novorossiysk discovered that the GPS had incorrectly located its location: it allegedly was on land at the Gelendzhik airport. Having ascertained that the equipment itself is working properly, the captain contacted the neighboring vessels and found that the signals from the aeronautical information service indicated that they were all at the same airport. "It touched at least 20 vessels," the newspaper writes.

The author notes: "Although the incident has not yet been confirmed, experts believe that this is the first recorded case of manipulation of the GPS - spoofing attacks, which had long warned, but "Nature".

It was never observed before. "In this case, spoofing is a fake signal from a ground station that deceives a satellite receiver."

In 2013, Todd Humphreys (University of Texas) demonstrated how GPS spoofing can knock the yacht out of the way with the latest equipment. " The operation of the receiver during the incident in the Black Sea was in many respects similar to what happened during the controlled attacks carried out by my team, "says Humphreys."

"According to Humphreys, That Russia is experimenting with a new form of electronic weapons. Last year, GPS spoofing randomly disrupted the operation of receivers in smartphone applications in the center of Moscow, "the author writes." A false signal, Which seems to be concentrating around the Kremlin, "throws" all those who are nearby, for 32 km to Vnukovo airport.

This is probably for defense purposes: many guided bombs, missiles and UAVs are guided by GPS navigation, and successful spoofing will not allow them to hit targets, "says David Last, former president of the Royal Institute of Navigation (UK)," Said that the incident on the Black Sea suggests the existence of a new device that can provoke widespread disruptions, for example, if applied in an ongoing dispute with Ukraine, "the newspaper writes.

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The first trailer of the comedy "Death of Stalin" was released by British satirist and director Armando Iannucci.



The film tells about the last days of Joseph Stalin's life and the "chaos of the regime after his death".

In "Stalin's Death" Steve Buschemi (played by Nikita Khrushchev), Jason Isaacs (Georgy Zhukov), Rupert Friend (Vasyl Stalin) and Olga Kurylenko (pianist Maria Judin) starred.

In Britain, Death of Stalin will begin to appear in October 2017.

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The American company, Avellana Gold, has developed a project to extract gold and gold-polymetallic ore in Transcarpathia (Zakarpattia Region of Ukraine), and will invest about $100 million in this project, as reported by the State Service of Ukraine on Geodesy, Cartography, and Cadastre.

The company plans to develop new infrastructure and a development strategy for the Muzhijevo deposit using modern equipment. The old infrastructure of the Muzhijevo deposit limited the capacity of the mine, the production volume has reached 120,000 tons per year.

Investors plan to organize a highly efficient production system aimed at long-term operations with an annual output of 500,000 tons. In order to accomplish this, Avellana Gold plans to include the development of both gold and polymetallic ores. In fact, this will be its new production strategy.

The company is led by Brian Savage, the Chairman of the Board of Directors for Pioneer Management LLC, a private company he founded in 2009 to provide consulting and investments in projects and companies in the natural resources sector.

The Ukrainian office of Avellana Gold is headed by Mykola Gozhyk, who was previously the chief engineer of Zakarpatpolymetal LLC and the director of Saulyak LLC.

In 2014 it was reported that a license for mining at the Muzhijevo gold deposit was owned by the ‘Carpathian ore company,’ which was controlled by the Donetsk businessman, Valery Bredykhin, associate of the former Minister of Internal Affairs, Yanukovych Vitaly Zakharchenko.

However, later that year, the company re-registered and became a private joint-stock company, without changing its name. The new owner, according to the register, became Avellana Gold LTD, registered in New York.

Interfax-Ukraine reported earlier that Avellana Gold bought the ‘Carpathian ore company’ in 2016. Details of the deal were not disclosed..................

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Construction of the operational center of the Naval Forces of Ukraine at the naval base in Ochakov, Mykolaiv region, by engineers of the US Navy fully complies with the legislation of Ukraine

This was reported on Facebook by the People's Deputy, member of the Verkhovna Rada's Committee on National Security and Defense Irina Frisz.

Frice commented on recent statements by Deputy Chairman of the RF Federation Council on Defense and Security Franz Klyntsevych on supposed provocations by the US Navy: "Obviously, Franz Klytsevych did not notice any changes in the legislative and foreign policy of Ukraine."

The People's Deputy recalled that this year the Verkhovna Rada adopted the Law "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine (Regarding the Foreign Policy Course of Ukraine)".

"The bill allowed us to clearly set Ukraine's course for membership in the North Atlantic Alliance. I want to remind Franz Klyntsevich that the non-aligned status was abolished by Ukraine shortly after the annexation of the Crimea and the beginning of the Russian aggression in the Donbass," Frice said.

The People's Deputy noted that Ukraine considers such construction as an urgent need to increase the defense capabilities of the state, to develop the Ukrainian Navy, and to conduct and coordinate joint security measures with NATO member states.

"Such a necessity is caused by Russia's long-term policy aimed at the destruction of Ukrainian independence and sovereignty, and from 2014 - the conduct of an undeclared war," she said.



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In the coming months, food prices will rise in Russia
This is stated in a press release from the Central Bank of Russia.

"Over the coming months there is a risk of rising food inflation due to the possible decline in the yield of some vegetables and fruits, which may also lead to an increase in inflationary expectations," the report said.

To limit inflationary risks in Russia are planned by observing strict monetary conditions.

At the same time, the Central Bank noted the seasonal decrease in prices for "borscht set" vegetables - potatoes, beets, onions, carrots and garlic.

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