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Reuters: Germany says Putin move on UN peacekeepers in Ukraine a ‘step’

BERLIN – Germany welcomed on Sept. 6 a suggestion by Russian President Vladimir Putin that armed U.N. peacekeepers could be deployed to eastern …
Reuters

Jeffrey Mankoff, Jonathan Hillman: Russia seeks to close Ukraine’s window to the west

Last month, Russia completed a railway that bypasses Ukraine. The project was entrusted to a special military unit and completed a year ahead of …
Jeffrey Mankoff
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Jonathan Hillman

Ukrinform: Poroshenko welcomes EU decision to extend anti-Russian sanctions

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has welcomed the decision by EU ambassadors to extend sanctions against Russia. Read more here.
UkrInform

Paul Niland: Minsk matters. Russia’s obligations

(Part one of a two part series.) Terminology matters. Minsk is not a “ceasefire agreement” – Minsk is a framework to return Ukrainian sovereignty over …
Paul Niland

Sourse says Contact Group in Minsk postpones discussion on peacekeepers in Donbas

MINSK – The Contact Group for Ukraine did not discuss at its latest meeting in Minsk on Sept. 6 the issue of possible parameters of the proposed …
Interfax-Ukraine

RFE/RL: EU to renew Russia sanctions, keep bar on Antonov

BRUSSELS – The European Union will prolong its asset freezes and visa bans on Russian officials and Moscow-backed separatists in Ukraine for another …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Halya Coynash: Tortured and sentenced to 20 years in Russia for being Ukrainian

As of early Sept. 2017, 43-year-old Ukrainian political prisoner Stanislav Klykh is being held in a psychiatric hospital in Russia, with the Russian …
Halya Coynash

EU permanent reps approve prolongation of individual sanctions against Russia for Ukraine

BRUSSELS – The Committee of Permanent Representatives of the European Union (Coreper) without a debate has recommended the Council of the European …
Interfax-Ukraine

Ukrainian ambassador to UN says Kyiv prepares its draft resolution on peacekeepers in Donbas

The resolution drafted by Ukraine on deployment of peacekeepers in Donbas indicates that Russia should be barred from that mission, and that …
Interfax-Ukraine

RFE/RL: Germany welcomes Putin call for UN peacekeepers in eastern Ukraine

Germany has welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s agreement to send UN peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine, saying it heralded “a change in …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Ukrinform: Russia submits to UN draft resolution on peacekeepers in Donbas

Russia has submitted to UN Security Council President Tekeda Alemu and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres a draft resolution on the deployment of …
UkrInform

Johnny Herbst: Should the US arm Ukraine? For the answer, look to the Soviet-Afghan war

In February 2014, Russia seized and annexed Crimea; a few weeks later, Moscow launched its no-longer-covert hybrid war against Ukraine in the Luhansk …
Johnny Herbst

UNIAN: Kyiv reports 32 separatist attacks in last day

Russia-backed separatists attacked Ukrainian army positions in Donbas 32 times in the past 24 hours, according to the press service of the Ukrainian …
UNIAN

Ukrinform: OSCE records over 30 explosions in east Ukraine

The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (OSCE SMM) recorded about 30 explosions in Donetsk region and four in Luhansk region on Sept. 4, …
UkrInform

Brian Whitmore: When spies talk to spies

When spies talk to spies it’s usually pretty interesting. And when the security-service chief on one side of an armed conflict makes a public appeal …
Brian Whitmore

UNIAN: Ukraine’s envoy says Russia’s UN resolution on Donbas has nothing to do with peacekeeping

Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations Volodymyr Yelchenko says that a UN resolution draft presented by Russia on Donbas has …
UNIAN

Halya Coynash: Fears for the life of young Ukrainian abducted by Donbas separatists

There is still no information about the whereabouts of 22-year-old Mykola Petukhov who was seized by armed militants of the so-called ‘Luhansk …
Halya Coynash

Draft bill on Donbas reintegration introduces term ‘operation to defend Ukraine’

The draft bill on Donbas reintegration implies the introduction of the term “operation to defend Ukraine” instead of the ‘antiterrorist operation’, …
Interfax-Ukraine
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