Ukraine News in brief. Friday 17 November. [Ukrainian sources]

FRIDAY HEADLINES:
Trump does not consider it useful to argue with Putin.  The US State Department made a loud statement about the dangers of Russia.  In Britain, an investigation into Russia's intervention in the Brexit referendum began.  Putin has officially recognized its influence on the leaders of the DPR-LNR.  Negotiations with Russia on Donbas: Ukraine was named Putin's weakest place.  In Lithuania, an important decision was made on the analogy of the "Magnitsky Law".  President said: "You are doing Ukraine, Joe," - Biden said that he was the main one on Ukraine's issues under Obama.  Russia's actions over the last decade have shown that Moscow's willingness to violate the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other peoples is "real" and not "just rhetorical."  Worse than Transnistria: Kuchma spoke about Russia's attempt to establish a new border with Ukraine on the Donbas.  US State Department warned of possible terrorist attacks in Europe for the New Year.  NABU confirmed the opening of criminal proceedings against the Attorney General Lutsenko.  Zaharchenko said about the preparations for the exchange of prisoners.  The US military delegation, headed by Colonel Woofford, visited the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the ATO zone.  "The nerves could not stand": 6 people cut their veins at a meeting in the Moscow City Cour.  Russia wants to make another frozen conflict in Donbass: such actions do not have a chance to achieve peace.  Mercenaries of the Russian Federation in the occupied Donbass region are inspecting the vehicles of the mission patrols, the OSCE.  Russia is actively expanding its military presence in the Arctic, Stoltenberg.  Another meteorite fell to Russia.  Militants in Syria captured a warehouse with Russian weapons.  Russia is preparing a boycott for the Winter Olympics.  

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US President Donald Trump believes he needs to cooperate with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on the most important issues, despite disagreements.

According to Tsensor.NET, referring to the Correspondent, a spokeswoman for the White House, Sarah Sanders, told a briefing on November 16th.

"As President has repeatedly said, he does not consider it useful to enter into controversy with Vladimir Putin, who believes that there are opportunities for working together with Russia, in particular, with regard to Syria, the DPRK and other global challenges facing the world," he said. she.

Sanders said that Trump will continue to work on establishing a partnership with Russia "to help the United States."

The spokeswoman also noted that the American leader is confident that there are some ties between the US Democratic Party and Russian politicians, but he is not going to argue with the Russian president about this, while they have many important issues to be addressed.

Recall that the presidents of the United States and Russia talked briefly on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Vietnam. Trump told journalists that in a conversation with Putin, he again raised the issue of Russian interference in the elections, and believes in the assurances of the Russian leader that he was not involved in this process.

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Acts of the Russian Federation over the last decade demonstrate its "real" and not "just rhetorical" willingness to violate the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other states.

This was stated by Director of Policy Planning US State Department Brian Hook, reports "Radio Liberty".

So, acting on transatlantic forum in Russia, he said Moscow's actions in the war with Georgia in 2008 and most recently in Ukraine is "a violation of the UN Charter and the Helsinki several articles Final Act."

Hook said that the threat to Europe from Russia similar to the threats facing the West during the "Cold War".

"As in the past, threatened territory from the Baltic to the Black Sea", - he said.

However, US State Department spokesman said on the desire to modernize Moscow's troops and pointed out that "the location of military forces in Europe contributes to Russia."

"And as in the past, Russia is propaganda and deceptive game destroying society electorates and institutions of the Euro-Atlantic community" - said Hook.

He cited the war of Russia against Georgia in 2008, its illegal annexation of the Crimea and support of separatists in eastern Ukraine as examples of failure to meet its obligations in Moscow at the end of the "Cold War".

At the same time Hook said that the US demand that Russia regained sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine before the sanctions imposed by the United States and Europe could be mitigated.

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According to a study by the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Swansea, Russia could influence the outcome of the referendum on the UK's exit from the European Union.

This is transmitted by the Voice of America.

Researchers have found tens of thousands of accounts in social networks that agitate for the exit from the EU or fuel political and inter-racial conflicts.

In two days before the victory of Brexit supporters in June 2016, almost 45,000 posts were posted on Twitter on accounts registered in Russia, mainly against British membership in the EU. The day after the referendum, most of the accounts stopped working.

"Russia intervenes and tries to undermine public trust in political institutions and leading media in Western countries," said Damian Collins, a member of the British parliament, in a bid to see the distribution of fake news from false accounts on Twitter and Facebook in this key as a real threat to our democracy.

As the "Apostrophe" reported earlier, on October 24, the British Parliamentary Committee addressed a written request to Facebook founder Mark Zuckenberg to provide information on Russian actions in the social network connected with the referendum on the withdrawal of the country from the European Union and the parliamentary elections in Britain in 2017.

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The Kremlin admitted that President Vladimir Putin had a "certain" influence on the leadership of the terrorists in the Donbass.

This was announced by the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, Russian media reported.

He answered the question whether Putin's telephone conversation with militant leaders regarding the release of Ukrainian prisoners was a direct intervention of Russia in the Donbass War.

"We have no way to squeeze somehow into these unrecognized republics, we have no way of giving someone an order there because these republics live an independent life, but the president has never concealed that he has the opportunity to make appeals, the opportunity to exercise some influence - not unlimited, but definite,"- said Peskov.

He also noted that Putin had an understanding "in his interlocutors with the reservation that further details should be agreed upon with representatives of the Ukrainian side."

Recall that on November 15, Putin talked with the leaders of the terrorists "DNR-LNR" and offered them to exchange prisoners with Ukraine.

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In order for the United States and Russia to negotiate a war on the Donbas to produce the desired results, it is necessary, in particular, to reduce the export of petroleum products from Russia.

This was stated in a comment to the "Apostrophe" by a non-factional MP and chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Anna Hopko.

" Ukraine needs to rely on the United States to help the European Union understand that it is necessary to reduce the export of petroleum products and gas from Russia to the EU markets, because Putin's weakest point lies in the fact that 75 percent of all petroleum products from the Russian Federation go to the EU markets. it will not understand the EU, Putin will not be compliant,"- said the People's Deputy.

"The United States and the EU need to come up with new strategies, because this negotiation moment can be endless," Hopko categorically stated.

In turn, political analyst Andriy Buzarov believes that such a variant of pressure on Russia is unlikely.

" I do not agree that these measures can somehow influence Putin in terms of actions. Perhaps such measures can be used as a form of punishment for the fact of aggression in the Donbas, the annexation of the Crimea. But from the point of view that this will give a result, I do not consider such an option. It all depends on Putin's position, "he said.

About which scenarios of the end of the war are agreed by the representatives of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin and what can be expected from their talks in Ukraine in more detail read in the material "Apostrophe" - Trump and Putin are preparing a breakthrough on Donbass: a scenario for the end of the war.

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On Thursday, November 16, the Sejm of Lithuania adopted the so-called Magnitsky law , which prohibits visiting people in the country related to corruption, money laundering and human rights violations.

Delfi reports.

The decision was taken unanimously, thus, Lithuania became the fourth in the world the state where this law was adopted.



Note that on Oct. 18, the so-called Magnitsky Act, which introduced personal sanctions against official officials from Russia, Venezuela, Iran, Myanmar and Vietnam, began to operate in Canada. The Magnittian Act was adopted in December 2012 in the United States.

In accordance with the law, the Jackson-Vanik Amendment was abolished and personal sanctions were imposed on persons responsible for violating human rights and the rule of law in Russia.

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Former US Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday, speaking at the University of Pennsylvania, who had the full confidence of US President Barack Obama on issues related to Ukraine.

This is reported by Tsensor.NET with reference to Voice of America.

"The president does not just give absolute power to a vice president for a particular matter... It is very important for the president to say:" You are engaged in Iraq. You're doing Ukraine, Joe, "says US Vice President Biden's Center for Diplomacy and Global Policy at the University of Pennsylvania.

Biden, who repeatedly visited Ukraine with working visits, does not rule out the possibility of running for the next presidential election in the United States.

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Russia's actions over the last decade have shown that Moscow's willingness to violate the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other peoples is "real" and not "just rhetorical."

As informs Tsensor.NET with reference to the League , said at the transatlantic forum in Russia director of the Department of Political Planning of the US Department of State Bryan Hook, writes Radio Liberty .
He stressed that the threats to Europe from Russia are similar to those threatened by the West during the Cold War.

"As in the past, the territory from the Baltic to the Black Sea is under threat," he said.

He pointed to Moscow's desire for the modernization of troops and noted that "the military presence of forces in Europe contributes to Russia."

"Moscow has developed a cruise missile with nuclear engines," with a clear violation of the "Medium-Range Nuclear Arms Agreement," he added.

He believes that, as in the past, Russia has a propaganda and disinformation game.

"The big difference between today's Russia and its Soviet form is that it lacks the ideological coherence that would support its actions, but Russia, nevertheless, is a serious rival," Hook added.

Hook reminded of Russia's war against Georgia in 2008, the illegal annexation of Crimea and the hybrid war on the Donbas.

The Foreign Policy Office of the United States knows that Putin's Russia controls pro-Russian militants in the Donbas, holds them and teaches with the help of army advisers.

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On November 17, the second president of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma announced that Russia intends to protect the occupied territories on the Donba border, creating "something like Transnistria."

His words are quoted by Interfax-Ukraine.

"What Russia offers on the line of collision is to make a new border with Ukraine, and to do something like Transnistria, again one of the frozen conflicts, but it will be much worse, because Transnistria has no border with Russia", - said Kuchma.

The second president of Ukraine noted that he does not see the prospects for resolving the conflict on the Donbas.

" I do not see the prospect of solving the Ukrainian-Russian conflict today , I do not see." Such actions do not have a chance to achieve peace in the region, "he said.

He also believes the meeting of US special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker and Russian assistant Vladislav Surkov to be unproductive.

"29 points were proposed by the United States, Russia is ready to accept three points, and the fact that it (Surkov - ed.) Says" three are not zero "is zero," Kuchma said.

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The US Foreign Office warned its citizens about possible terrorist attacks during the New Year holidays in Europe.

It is reported by the press service of the US State Department.

The ministry noted that recent events in France, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Spain and Finland indicate that terrorists from the Islamic State and Al Qaeda can plan new attacks.

In particular, the US agency mentioned a terrorist attack at the Istanbul club for New Year and an attack on the Christmas fair in Berlin in December 2016.

"Although the local authorities continue to carry out counter-terrorism operations, the Department remains concerned about the potential for future terrorist attacks. Citizens of the United States should always be careful about the possibility that supporters of terrorists or extremists who are self-organizing can carry out attacks with virtually no warning, "the statement said.

The ministry notes that extremists carry out attacks in places where many tourists, transport, shopping malls and local government facilities.

According to him, hotels, clubs, restaurants, religious buildings, parks, educational establishments, airports and other vulnerable objects remain the priority areas for possible attacks.

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On October 30, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau opened criminal proceedings against the possibility of illegal enrichment of the Prosecutor General, Yuriy Lutsenko.

This was announced by the speaker of the NABU Svitlana Olifira, the Ukrainian News reported .

"According to the decision of the court, which obliges to enter data in the ERDF, the detectives made this information, and an investigation into the possibility of illegal enrichment was commenced," she said.

The case is based on part 3 of Article 368-2 of the Criminal Code ("Receiving a bribe of a particularly large size or an official who occupies a particularly responsible position").

No suspicion was reported to anyone.

Earlier, the prosecutor-general Renat Kuzmin, who is currently outside the territory of Ukraine, reported on a criminal case against Lutsenko yesterday.

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The leader of the self-called "Donetsk People's Republic" Alexander Zakharchenko instructed "Ombudsman of the DPR" Daryn Morozova to prepare for the exchange of prisoners with the Ukrainian side.

This was reported to Interfax by representatives of Zakharchenko.

"Yesterday, Alexander Zakharchenko after speaking with Vladimir Putin ordered the Ombudsman of the Dnieper Dani Morozova to prepare for the exchange of prisoners with the Ukrainian side, to clarify the lists for exchange, and to make all necessary arrangements for its conduct," - said the representative of the militants.

The leader of the LNR instructed to check the health of Ukrainian hostages after Putin's call.

Recall Russian President Putin, at the request of the leader of the Ukrainian election, Viktor Medvedchuk,  promised to talk with the militant leaders  about the release of the prisoners.

On November 15, Putin spoke with the leaders of the so-called "DPR" and "LNR"  on the issue of exchanging  hostages.

Earlier, Rina Gerashchenko reported that  there were journalists, volunteers, teenagers and 9 women among  152 hostages in the Donbas.

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Six accused of hooliganism tried to cut their veins at a meeting in the Moscow City Court.

According to Tsensor.NET , the lawyer of one of the accused, Shamil Yandarbayev, told Interfax about this.

"Today, at a meeting, six people cut their veins straight into the courtroom, they were called fast, they provided the necessary assistance," he said.

According to the lawyer, all accused natives of Chechnya. At the court session they considered the extension of their term of arrest. Yandarbayev noted that they are in custody from 2015.

"I'm sure that they just could not bear their nerves, it was from hopelessness," said the lawyer.

He clarified that he did not know how they managed to pierce the blades. Yandarbayev added that the meeting on the extension of the term of arrest was postponed at 16:00 Moscow time.

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Leonid Kuchma, the second president of Ukraine (1994-2005), a representative of Ukraine in the Trilateral Contact Group on the Situation on the Donbass (TKG), believes that Russia intends to make a frozen conflict on the Donbas.

"What Russia offers on the line of collision is to make a new border with Ukraine, and to do something like Transnistria, again one of the frozen conflicts, but it will be much worse, because Transnistria has no border with Russia", - he told reporters on Friday in Kiev, reports Tsensor. NET with reference to Interfax-Ukraine .

According to L. Kuchma, the meeting of Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkov and US Special Envoy Kurt Volcker in Ukraine had no results. "29 points were proposed by the United States, Russia is ready to accept three points, and the fact that he (V. Surkov, ed.) Says that" three are not zero "is zero," he said.

L. Kuchma noted that he does not see the prospects of resolving the conflict on the Donbas. "Such actions do not have a chance to achieve peace in the region," he added.

The representative of Ukraine in the TKG also noted that the Ukrainian position should be unchanged - peacekeeping troops should be on the entire territory of the Donbas, in particular on the Ukrainian-Russian border.

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An incident occurred near the temporarily occupied village of Kremenets.

The mercenaries of the Russian Federation from the terrorist organization "DNR" check cars of the OSCE special observation mission 16 kilometers from the temporarily occupied Donetsk. About this LIGA.net informs the press-service of the mission, reports Цензор.НЕТ.

"In two cases, armed men stopped missionary patrols at a roadblock located on the highway N15 near the Cargill plant in Kremenets and allowed observers to drive only after the examination of CMM trailers. In both cases, the mission informed the SCCM," the press service said.

According to the OSCE, the Mission Patrol also could not travel on roads of secondary importance south of the plowing area in the Golden area, due to the possible presence of mines and ammunition there.

Russian mercenaries on the southern side of the breeding grounds in the Golden area informed observers that no mine work was carried out last night.

Observers decided that it was dangerous to continue the traffic, and reported it to the SCCC.

On October 29, Russian mercenaries surveyed OSCE vehicles in the area of ​​the temporarily occupied village of Olenivka.

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Russia has significantly increased its military presence in the Arctic.

According to Censor.NET , referring to DW , NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told Die Welt.

According to him, Russia actively opens up the conserved military bases of the USSR, places new weapons and radars, and also launches a new fleet of icebreakers. September exercises "West-2017" were partially held in the Far North, said Stoltenberg.

"The Allies are closely monitoring the number of Russian troops in the Arctic, and the Alliance is counting on any differences and territorial disputes between Russia and neighboring states to be resolved through dialogue and diplomacy," the NATO Secretary General said in the Die Welt issue of Friday, November 17th.

In the spring of 2017, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it would rebuild a network of polar airfields in the Arctic and build up military towns. Moscow also announced its intention to deploy two new C-400 "Triumph" anti-aircraft missile systems in the Arctic. And in 2016, the construction of a large military base "Arctic shamrock" on the land of Franz Josef.

The military presence of the RF in the Arctic has reached an unprecedented scale since the Cold War, Western observers say. Sen. Alaska Den Sullivan in May urged Washington to strengthen the US military presence in the region through the build-up of the armed forces in Moscow. According to him, in April five "provocative" incidents took place with Russian bombers.

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On Thursday, November 16th, the Murmansk region of the Russian Federation fell a meteorite.

The corresponding video has been posted to YouTube.

It is noted that this happened near the Russian-Finnish border, and now scientists are looking for the exact place of the meteorite.

Information about the fall of a meteorite has appeared in social networks.

"Attention! In the Murmansk region, maybe, a meteorite has fallen! Today, around 19:40, a bright bolt floated in the sky above the Murmansk region! According to the available online video recording, the flight time was at least 7 seconds, and the flight itself was accompanied by a few bright flashes "- said in a message in the group" AstroAlert | Observation Astronomy."



As reported by the "Apostrophe", in September, thousands of residents of the Krasnodar Territory noticed an unidentified flying object in the sky, which flew at high speed and shone brightly.

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Syrian militants from the "Ahraz al-Sham" group, as a result of the attack, seized the base of the Syrian army, located in the Eastern Guate.

This is reported by Telegram Channel Directorate 4 and published photo of trophy weapons.

It is known that after capturing the composition of the fighters now have Kalashnikov's automatics, ammunition for large-caliber machine guns and several jet flamethrowers RPO-A "Jmelil". It is also noted that seized weapons were delivered to Syria by the Russian Ministry of Defense "within the framework of support for the fight against terrorism".



Recall that in late October, it became known about the capture of militants "Islamic State" in Syria Russian T-90A. The tank became a trophy of militants during the fighting east of the city of Meyadin.

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Russian TV channels can completely refuse to broadcast the 2018 Olympics if the International Olympic Committee will remove the Russian national team from participating in the Games.

A possible boycott on the part of the three Russian TV channels with reference to their own sources reported "Vedomosti".

The 2018 Olympics in Russia are scheduled to broadcast "First Channel", "Russia 1" and "Match TV". However, according to Vedomosti, several interlocutors familiar with the situation, if the Russian team does not go to South Korea, "First" and "Russia 1" with a high probability will refuse to show the Games.

For the "First Channel" and "Russia 1" purchases of the 2018 Olympic Games will be economically unprofitable. The absence of Russian athletes at the Olympics will significantly reduce interest in broadcasts, and because of low ratings channels will not be able to earn on advertising. In addition, in such a situation, television channels will be difficult to keep Russian sponsors of Olympic broadcasts.

As for "Match TV," he, as a specialized sports channel, may be able to raise enough for himself without the participation of the Russian national team. However, according to another interlocutor of the publication, "Match TV" will probably also refuse to broadcast the Games.

In addition, it is noted that the decision on the boycott of broadcasts can be taken by the Russian authorities.

The decision on possible removal of Russia from the 2018 Olympic Games will take the IOC on December 5-6.

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