Ukraine News in brief. Tuesday 10 October. [Ukrainian sources]

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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
Donbass became the subject of Tillerson's telephone conversation with Lavrov. Volker talks with Surkov: a source told about the threat of "autonomous" Donbas.  Ukraine will not take part in the PACE if Russia returns there.  Czech President proposed to pay Ukraine and recognize the Crimea Russian.  Klimkin is surprised by the Hungarian statement on the revision of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement.  NATO to increase its Black Sea group up to 4,000 people to retaliate Russia in own way.  Ukrainian border guards were kidnapped during consultation meeting.  Bill on special status of separate areas of Donbas came into force. The head of the bank's branch in Sumy issued loans to citizens without their knowledge. Russian plane crashed on airfield Khmeimim in Syria, crew killed.

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In a talks with Russian President's assistant Vladislav Surkov, the US Special Envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker agreed that the conflict in the Donbas should be regulated solely by the Minsk Agreements. At the same time, the conditions of the Russians can lead to the formation of the autonomy of the Donbas.

This was stated in a comment to the "Apostrophe" by a source in the Ukrainian government.

"In Moscow, after Surkov's report on talks, they are ready to decompose champagne, even the optimists did not expect such a result." Volker agreed that "the settlement should definitely be based on the letter of Minsk and peacekeepers should not contradict Minsk," the interlocutor said.

According to him, peacekeepers will be admitted to the Donbass on the conditions of the Russians - they should not repulse the power of the local leaders there.

"In fact, the settlement of the conflict will take place according to the scheme: the decision on peacekeepers - the adoption by Ukraine of the law on local elections in the Donbass - the introduction of peacekeepers - elections - the legitimation of local power structures, provided by Minsk - the admission of Ukrainian forces to the border," - said the interlocutor, adding that this may lead to the formation of an autonomous Donbass.

At the same time, the People's Deputy and Dmitry Timchuk, coordinator of the "Information Opposition" group, are confident that such a situation will not be tolerated.

"The creation of an autonomous Donbass is not even considered in the theory. Ukraine has never abandoned this territory and will never give up, and I do not think that our allies (the US," the Apostrophe ") behind our backs will negotiate that we are not in able to implement, "- he said.

I agreed with him and the military expert Oleg Zhdanov.

"The United States and Russia will not be able to negotiate an autonomous Donbass because it does not suit the Americans," he commented.

However, the source of the "Apostrophe" also noted that the Russians signaled to the Americans about the readiness to wait and the unpreparedness to easily go to actions.

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Heads of foreign policy departments of Russia and the United States Sergei Lavrov and Rex Tillerson October 9 held phone talks, during which they discussed ways to resolve the conflict on the Donbass.

This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

"The Russian minister noted that the bill on the" reintegration of Donbass ", which is promoted by the Kiev authorities, clearly contradicts the Minsk agreements and undermines the peaceful settlement," the statement said.

During the conversation, attention was also paid to the outcome of the meeting of Russian President's assistant Vladislav Surkov and US Special Envoy Kurt Volker in Belgrade on October 7 in Belgrade. The parties pointed out the importance of such negotiations "in the interests of developing realistic approaches to the implementation of the" Complex of Measures "agreed in Minsk.

During the telephone conversation, the parties also discussed the situation in Syria, the North Korean crisis, as well as the seizure of Russian diplomats in the United States.

It is noted that the initiator of the conversation was Lavrov.

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In the event that the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will allow the Russian aggressor to return to full participation in the work of the organization, Ukraine will hibernate to suspend its activities in it.

This is a member of the Ukrainian delegation in the PACE, deputy member Vladislav Holub told on Espero.TV .

"Mr. Jagland's position is contrary to all the resolutions adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, because during this time absolutely nothing was fulfilled by Russia," the People's Deputy said.

According to him, the main argument of Jagland in favor of Russia comes to the conclusion that absolutely all delegations can be present.

"This session, in fact, was preparing for Russia to return to the next session, but yesterday, we have clearly stated to Mr. Jagland on the faction of the European People's Party that in this case the delegation of Ukraine will seriously consider the possibility of termination of work in PACE meetings," he said. Dove.

He said that Ukraine's position on this issue is unshakable.

"But if you want to return an aggressor country, then you will lose Ukraine", - said the Ukrainian delegation to the leadership of the Assembly.

Before this, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Turbjorn Jagland, was in favor of returning the rights of the Russian delegation in order not to remain without Russia's contribution.

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The President of the Czech Republic, Milos Zeman, considers the loss of Crimea Ukraine "a completed cause" and proposes to settle it with the help of payments to Ukraine.

He stated this in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, answering the questions of the Ukrainian deputy Oleksiy Goncharenko, reports "European truth".

"In my opinion, there will be some kind of compensation for Ukraine - either in financial form, or in oil and gas," he stressed.

Zemen acknowledged the illegality of the annexation of the Crimea, but said that the issue was resolved: "Crimea is an annexation, without a doubt. But this is a completed case (fait accompli). "

Seman explained that in the event of Ukraine's disagreement, a "European war" will begin to be compensated. On this basis, Zeman concluded that the "war" is also indispensable in the case of preserving Ukraine's efforts to return the Crimea.

"We must avoid the European war, and you must understand that," he said to the deputies.

Goncharenko left PACE hall in protest.

"Zeeman in his words betrayed the memory of victims of the Prague Spring. It is advantageous for him to forget about Russian tanks on the streets of Czech cities. And we see them right now on the streets of our cities! "- wrote the MP on Facebook.

Goncharenko also reminded that in the 1930s there was already an aggressor who was trying to calm down, and as a result there was a terrible war, one of the first victims of which was his (Zemaana) Motherland. "

On September 14, 2017, the EU continued individual sanctions against Russia through the annexation of the Crimea.

Earlier, the US Special Envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker has said that sanctions against the RF will not be lifted through the Crimea even if the Minsk agreements are executed.

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The revision of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement is possible only in the context of ensuring a clear European perspective of Ukraine.

This was stated by Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin, commenting on the Hungarian colleague 's statement that the new law "On Education" of Ukraine "significantly violates the principles of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU".

"For us, the revision of the Association Agreement is possible only in the context of ensuring a clear European perspective of Ukraine. Very surprised by statements by the Hungarian Foreign Minister regarding the revision of the Association Agreement. I plan to discuss all issues on October 12 in Budapest, " Klimkin wrote on Twitter.

He also invited European politicians to visit Transcarpathia.

"I plan a visit of foreign ambassadors to this region, direct communication with its inhabitants," he said.

On October 10, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Syyyarto said he plans to initiate a revision of the Association Agreement through an educational law October 16 at a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Ministers of the member states of the European Union in Luxembourg .

On September 28, the Law "On Education" came into force in Ukraine . The document determines that the language of the educational process in educational institutions is the state language, but according to the educational program one or more disciplines can be taught in two or more languages.

The same day, the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine sent the Law "On Education" for examination to the Venice Commission .

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary and Romania will jointly require the change of the Ukrainian law on education . PACE will consider the Ukrainian law on education on October 12.

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The State Border Guard Service has decided to limit the number of border consultation meetings with Russia due to kidnapping of two border guards in the Sumy region.

This was announced by Head of the State Border Service Petro Tsyhykal, Censor.NET reports citing 112 Ukraine.

He said regular border consultation meetings between two neighboring countries is common practice around the world, but given Russia's unpredictable behavior, the Border Service has decided to limit their number.

"We have decided to limit these meetings to the level of heads [of border guards serviced - ed.] in order to secure personnel who are less prepared," the head of the agency said.

Tsyhykal said the two border guards from the Sumy unit were kidnapped by Russians during such a meeting. He says the Russians did not necessarily entered the Ukrainian territory but kidnapped the officers from the border.

On Oct. 3, two officers of Znob-Novhorodske unit of the Sumy border guard service were monitoring a section of the state border, when connection with them was lost at around 8 p.m. Later, Russian media reported of detention by FSB border detachment of two 'violators' who called themselves Sumy unit border guards.

On Oct. 9, Russian court arrested the officers for two months for alleged illegal border crossing. Ukrainian consul is not allowed to visit the prisoners. A meeting of border guard representatives of Ukraine and the Russian Federation regarding the detained Ukrainian border guards was supposed to take place in Bryansk, Russia, on Oct. 9, but was sabotaged by the Russian side.

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NATO will strengthen its presence in Romania in response to Russia's increase of its grouping in the Black Sea.
This was announed by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg during the Alliance Parliamentary Assembly in Bucharest, Censor.NET reports citing 5 Channel.

The planned increase is up to 4,000 military on NATO's eastern border.

Stoltenberg said the multinational brigade will comprise military of 10 member countries and will be headed by Romanian military.

The Alliance also said it's planning to increase the number of visits of NATO military ships to ports of Romania and Bulgaria. The defense of airspace above these countries is also planned to be enhanced. It is currently guarded by planes from Canada and Italy.

Stoltenberg said NATO is responding to Russia's acts in its own way, but not just mirroring them. NATO is acting wisely and deliberately, and cares to protect the security of its allies. The major goal of the Alliance it to be strong and act as a whole and be able to clearly explain its position to the enemy. The idea of success, Stoltenberg said, is not to provoke a conflict, but to prevent it.

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The Law on creating conditions for peaceful settlement of the situation in separate areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions has come into force.

The bill has been published in Holos Ukrainy governmental newspaper, Censor.NET reports.

According to final and transitional provisions, the law comes into effect on the day following the publication.

The bill introduces amendments to the Law on special order of self-government in separate areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions (ORDLO) dated 2014. The article 1 of the Law has been worded differently and prolongs the special order of local self-government in ORDLO for another year.

As reported, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed the Law #2167-VIII "On creation of required conditions for peaceful settlement of the situation in separate areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions," passed by the Rada on Oct. 6.

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Several local residents with identical allegations appealed to the Belopillian Police Department, who claimed that their addresses began to receive messages from one of the leading banks requesting to pay overdue payments on loans that they had never actually issued.

According to Tsensor.NET, this is stated in the report of the Police Department's Department of Communications.

In the course of the investigation, law enforcement officers found that 32-year-old local resident, who at that time held the post of head of local branch of the bank, was involved in the registration of non-existent transactions in fact.

As it turned out, under the official authority an attacker had access to salary projects of citizens, and decided to use it.

"By falsifying the signatures of clients, without their knowledge, the suspect filed for them loans and took money by repaying only interest on the loan, thus, during the last year and June, he opened credit lines for 13 people without their knowledge, establishing a credit limit of 900 to 39 thousand hryvnias. In general, it was enriched by 220 thousand hryvnias, "law enforcement officials said.

Currently, a criminal prosecution is open to the suspect on the grounds of Part 4 of Art. 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (appropriation, embezzlement or seizure of property by abuse of office, committed in large amounts).

He is threatened with up to 8 years of imprisonment with a prohibition to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for up to 3 years.

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Russian front bomber Su-24 crashed when taken off from the Khmeimim airfield in Syria
As informs Tsensor.NET with reference to RIA " Novosti ", this was reported in the Ministry of Defense of.

The crew did not manage to catapult and perish.

The plane rolled out of the runway and crashed. There are no destructions on earth. According to preliminary data, the cause of the event could be a technical malfunction of the machine.

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