Ukraine hand over 235 prisoners, 40 were released earlier, 31 refused to leave to occupied territories
Third vessel with U.S. coal arrives in Ukrainian port
4 month agoAll 74 Ukrainians are free. POWs exchange completed
4 month agoYavoriv, Ukraine – While most of their families back home in New York were waking up and unwrapping presents, the more than 220 men and women of the Joint Multinational Training Group – Ukraine were just sitting down to their Christmas dinner
4 month agoReleased Vladyslav Ovcharenko talking to @poroshenko on the phone. Eduard Nedelyaev in the background
4 month agoThe biggest POW swap between Kyiv and "DPR"/"LPR"underway near Horlivka in uncontrolled part of Donetsk region. So far 16 Ukrainians out of those 74 in the list have been released by "LPR". Pic by Ukraine's Minsk group negotiator Iryna Gerashchenko
4 month agoKerch policemen trained to fight off the police Department from invaders
Among hostages released from/"LNR" captivivty, there are Vladislav Ovcharenko (@LUGASNSKA_JUNTA), Artem Akhmerov, Valentyn Bohdan, and Eduard Nedelyaev (@Edward_Lugansk)
According to Pershiy TV Vladislav Ovcharenko was released from captivity
"Admiral Makarov" the 3-rd RuNAVY frigate (11356) entered into service in Kaliningrad shipbuilding dockyard. Home naval base-Sevastopol (Black Sea Fleet). Others 3 frigates stay without Ukrainian made turbines. No decision
Rafis Kashapov, who was arrested in December 2014, has been released from prison after serving his full sentence for criticising Putin's annexation of Crimea.
4 month agoPhoto: Waiting for the POW swap at Mayorsk
4 month agoMayorsk: Images from the site where prisoner swap is being prepared
ATO spox: Donetsk sector – militants delivered a single 45-minute small arms attack in Shakhta Butovka area.
ATO spox: Russia-backed militants violated the ceasefire 6 times yesterday. Unfortunately, this resulted in one Ukrainian serviceman killed and five more wounded in action.
ATO spox: Luhansk sector – Russian proxies committed 5 ceasefire violations, used 82mm mortars in Luhanske area twice, attacked Novoluhanske, Zolote, and Stanytsia Luhanska areas.
PM Groisman adviced chief of Ukroboronprom to resign
4 month agoRally on question of Kateryna II monument in Odesa
4 month agoFor robbery in the Kyiv region detained armed foreigners
Ukraine govt inject another UAH16bn $600mn into privatbank bring total to UAH77bn $2.8bn.
4 month agoOccupied Luhansk: another fotage of hostages
4 month agoPrisoners swap between Ukraine and Russia is set up for today
4 month agoATO HQ: 1 soldier was killed, 5 wounded in 6 ceasefire violations yesterday
4 month agoFrom Baikonur cosmodrome successfully launched rocket "Zenit-2ЅB" with the upper stage "Fregat-SB", which is supposed to deploy the Angolan satellite Angosat.
4 month agoRussia's state TV: Host says that by providing lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine, the U.S. crossed Russia's red line. Alexander Khinshtein (advisor to Dir of Nat'l Guard) claims Russian Cornet is better than Javelin and "someone" could provide it to the other side "for balance."
4 month agoLiftoff of Zenit-2SB with Fregat upper stage with Angosat satellite from Baikonur
4 month agoRussia's state TV: Female host remarks that for the first time in modern history, Ukraine celebrated Christmas according to the Gregorian calendar - just so they could do it "mentally together with Donald Trump."
4 month agoSimferopol': Possible jet breaks the sound barrier over city
4 month agoReports of explosion over Simferopol', Crimea
Reports of explosion in Simferopol'
4 month agoDodon: Moldova cannot develop without cooperation with Russia
4 month agoPhoto: Glow over Luhansk, Millerovo and Volhohrad
4 month agoVideo: strange glow over Luhansk this morning
Police reports that they have exposed criminal ring in Kyiv. Members of which involved in Sheremet murder
ATO spox: Russian proxies committed two ceasefire violations in eastern Ukraine yesterday: used small arms near Stanytsia Luhanska (Luhansk sector) and shelled Pavlopil area with 120mm mortars (Donetsk sector). Fortunately, Ukrainian Armed Forces suffered no casualties.
The @OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM) will not send their representatives to the occupied Crimea to monitor the Russian presidential election in 2018.
MFA Russia: Karasin: Do Washington and Ottawa have the guarantee that their lethal weapons will not fall into the 'wrong hands'? That they won't be picked up by militants? Or, for example, that they won't be sold somewhere in the Middle East?
4 month agoMFA Russia: Karasin: Washington 'hawks' are thus attempting, the way they see it, to raise 'the price of the conflict in Donbass' for Russia. This is a deficient and dangerous reasoning. It leads to the war, not to the peace
4 month agoHMS Tyne also escorted a Russian intelligence gathering ship through the North Sea and English Channel on Christmas Eve
4 month agoMykolaev shipbuilders have again blocked Yuzhnobugsky bridge. Demand salaries
4 month agoBranch of "Sberbank of Russia" was vandalized in L'viv
2 attacks on Ukrainian positions yesterday, no casualties