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RFE/RL: Ukraine imposes sanctions on five Russian banks

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has imposed sanctions on five banks with Russian capital functioning in Ukraine. Read more here.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

UNIAN: Four Ukrainian soldiers wounded in Donbas in last day

Russia-backed separatists attacked Ukrainian army positions in Donbas 91 times in the past 24 hours, with four soldiers reported as wounded in action …
UNIAN

Poroshenko: Blockade destroyed Ukraine in Donbas, we had to act decisively

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko believes that the blockade by activists in Donbas territories, uncontrolled by Kyiv, is a very dangerous …
Interfax-Ukraine

New York Times: Ukraine cuts off all trade with separatist regions

The Ukrainian authorities halted all trade with two Russian-controlled separatist enclaves in the country’s east on March 15, using an economic weapon …
New York Times

Halya Coynash: FSB abduct and threaten to bury Crimean Tatar alive to force false testimony

A young Crimean Tatar was effectively abducted on March 15 by Russian FSB officers who took him to a field and threatened to bury him if he refused to …
Halya Coynash

Reuters: Russia’s VTB keeps plans to exit Ukraine after central bank urges sanctions

Russian bank VTB still plans to exit Ukraine, the bank’s chief executive said on March 16, after the Ukrainian central bank said it would impose new …
Reuters

Bloomberg: Ukrainian U-turn imposes full cargo block on separatist-held east

Ukraine vowed to halt all cargo into and out of its rebel-held eastern regions, cementing an economically damaging unofficial blockade that the …
Bloomberg

Nationalists block entrance to Sberbank subsidiary office in Dnipro

Representatives of nationalistic organizations have barred the entrance to a PJSC Sberbank office in the city of Dnipro in Lenin Street on March …
Interfax-Ukraine

Transfer of 15 convicts from occupied Donbas to Ukraine on March 15 fails

The transfer of 15 convicts from occupied areas in Donbas to Ukraine for serving their sentence in Ukrainian-controlled territory did not take place …
Interfax-Ukraine

RFE/RL: UN says nearly 10,000 people killed in eastern Ukraine conflict since 2014

Almost 10,000 people have been killed in eastern Ukraine since a conflict broke out between Ukraine and Russia-backed separatists in mid-April 2014, …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Kyiv calls on Council of Europe, OSCE to counteract human rights violations in Crimea, Donbas

Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the Council of Europe Dmytro Kuleba has called on the OSCE and the Council of Europe to jointly take measures …
Interfax-Ukraine

Reuters: Russia calls on Ukraine to end blockade of rebel-held region

Russia’s foreign ministry called on Ukraine on March 15 to end a transport blockade of rebel-held territory in the east of the country, saying that …
Reuters

OSCE envoy: Dangerous developments in Ukraine must be stopped

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s special representative in the Trilateral Contact Group Martin Sajdik has pointed out to the …
Interfax-Ukraine

Reuters: Ukraine’s Metinvest says separatists have seized assets

Ukraine’s largest steelmaker, Metinvest said on March 15  steel and coke assets in territory controlled by pro-Russian separatists had been seized by …
Reuters

Ukraine bans trade with Russian-occupied territories

Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council on March 15 banned trade with Russian-occupied areas in the Donbas. The council also instructed the …
Oleg Sukhov

Kuchma’s press secretary: Hostages’ release is underway with great difficulties

The work on the issue of releasing hostages within the framework of the humanitarian group of the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) is complicated, Darka …
Interfax-Ukraine

Reuters: Ukraine imposes sanctions on Ukrainian arms of Russian state banks

Ukraine has imposed sanctions on the five Ukrainian subsidiaries of Russian state-owned banks, a senior central bank official said on March 15. Read …
Reuters

Kyiv insists on cancellation of separatists IDs recognition by Russia

The Ukrainian side in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) in Minsk has demanded to repeal the decree of the president of the Russian Federation on the …
Interfax-Ukraine
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