Ukrainian armed formations shelled northern Donetsk today after Christmas ceasefire came into force shortly after midnight, the DPR mission to the JCCC said. “Shelling was recorded at 12.30 p.m. originating from Ukrainian positions, direction of Peski, targeting Zhabitchevo with small arms.” Over the past...
The rescue operation on the site of the residential building collapse in Magnitogorsk has finished, there are no bodies left in the rubble, first deputy head of the Russian Emergencies Ministry Alexander Chupriyan told reporters on Thursday. «Half an hour ago, we have recovered the last body. The search...
The ceasefire in Donbass timed for New Year and Christmas holidays has entered into force at 1:01am Moscow time on December 29. The ceasefire agreement was reached on December 27 during the videoconference of the Contact Group’s subgroup on security. During its last meeting this year, the Contact Group on Ukraine failed to reach a ceasefire agreement because of Ukraine’s position. Kiev refused to discuss the issue before the December 26 expiration of martial law imposed in several regions,
The DPR Head Denis Pushilin has lifted curfew for New Year and Christmas nights. The decree published today says that “curfew is lifted from 11 p.m. December 31, 2018 to 5 a.m. January 1, 2019; 11 p.m. January 6, 2019 to 5 a.m. January 7, 2019”. DPR Minister of Internal Affairs has been ordered to reinforce...
Ukrainian forces have taken under control two thirds of the so-called «grey security zone» in Donbass, Ukrainian presidential advisor and aide to the defense minister Yury Biryukov told Pryamoy TV channel on Wednesday. «From the situation that we began with in May 2014, two thirds of the territory were liberated. Almost the whole ‘gray zone’ was liberated and taken under control,» Biryukov said. The so-called «gray security zone» separates the forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk
Many Ukrainian citizens still hold a deep fraternal affinity with Russians and have nothing to do with the Russophobic policy pursued by the current Ukrainian authorities, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said during the Bolshaya Igra (Big Game) program aired by Russia’s Channel One He noted...
The People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk (DPR and LPR) support in full the calls of Moscow, Berlin and Paris for a new ceasefire, Natalia Nikonorova and Vladislav Deinego, the republics’ Plenipotentiary Representatives to the Contact Group seeking peace for Donbass, said in a joint statement. «On behalf...
The death toll in a tsunami in Indonesia has reached 429 people, Xinhua News Agency reported on Monday, quoting spokesman for the National Agency for Disaster Countermeasure Sutopo Nugroho. According to earlier reports, 373 people were killed and 1,459 were injured. A heavy tsunami struck the coastal...
Crimea’s Supreme Court has upheld the decision on the arrest of two Ukrainian sailors detained in the Kerch Strait in November for violating Russia’s border and clarified that they will remain under arrest until 24 January 2019, a TASS correspondent reported on Friday. The court reviewed appeals by the Berdyansk artillery boat commander Roman Mokryak and sailor Viktor Bespalchenko. An appeal by another Ukrainian sailor, Vladislav Kostyshin, will be reviewed on Monday, December 24. «The court
Work of the group on security issues in Minsk was disrupted by the Ukrainian party. At this sitting it was planned to confirm the commitment of the parties to adhere cease-fire regime on the eve of the New Year and Christmas holidays, but representatives of Kiev deliberately delayed it for several hours, and after...
