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Saakashvili: Putin was unable to occupy Georgia in 2008 due to Ukrainian air defense

With the help of Ukraine, the Georgian air defense was able to cause great damage to the Russian aviation, and now Russia does not bomb Ukraine, knowing that the country has a powerful air defense system. It was announced by Mikhail Saakashvili, the governor of the Odessa region, at a press conference on the eighth anniversary of the war in South Ossetia. ‘Back in 2006, Putin threatened me with a war, and in 2006 he gave the order to prepare for a war. Naturally, when they were preparing, we were preparing too. And but for the help of Ukraine, the Georgian statehood would not have stood then,’ said Saakashvili. According to Saakashvili, Putin did not only aim at seizing South...

Political Opinion 14.08.16 02:55

«Donbass Civil Initiative»: Enemy in Kiev will be defeated

If Kiev does not want a peaceful resolution of the conflict within the Minsk Agreement, the Republics of Donbass will begin the liberation from the fascist regime not only of all their lands, but also of all the regions of Ukraine. It is declared in a statement of the «Donbass Civil Initiative». ‘Donbass is experiencing a third military summer. It is experiencing it with anxiety and pain. The shelling of our cities by the Ukrainian Army, more frequent in late June, in July has begun again, like at the beginning of the conflict two years ago, to show the features of the system. That very misanthropic, racist and fascist system having two objectives. The first, smaller one, is to...

Political Opinion 03.08.16 01:15

Statement by the head of DPR A.Zakharchenko after a meeting with Alexander Hug

Poroshenko has 3 days left

The head of the DPR People's Council and the head of the DPR delegation at the negotiations in Minsk, Denis Pushilin has issued a statement in which he emphasized that, without the adoption by Kiev of the law on the special status (i.e. the status of the so-called "individual regions of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions" as Kiev calls the Donetsk and Lugansk republics), a political settlement in Donbass is impossible. What is behind this statement? On the eve of a possible vote in the Verkhovnaya Rada for the "Minsk bills" (the law on elections to the DPR and LPR, amnesty, decentralization) Donetsk wants to warn Kiev so that the latter, firstly, not forget to agree with the Republics, as required by the Minsk-2, these same laws, and, secondly, not forget the to pass, within the «Minsk Complex of measures», the law about the special status, as agreed with the DPR and LPR. If there is no such agreement, then Donetsk and Lugansk will never recognize these laws as the way of their...

Political Opinion 14.07.16 19:28

Today Kiev is to show whether it is ready to fulfill Minsk Agreements

According to "Izvestiya", the DPR and LPR doubt that representatives of Ukraine will bring the draft law on local elections to a meeting of the Contact group on the settlement of the conflict in Donbass, which will be held in Minsk today. 'The political subgroup has not yet made progress on any controversial issue, so I doubt that such a project will be brought. Ukraine says a lot, but does little. However, if its representatives mark their position on the paper, it will serve as a pretext for the beginning of the discussion,' commented Denis Pushilin, the DPR envoy at the negotiations in Minsk, on the situation. In his turn, Vladislav Deinego, the LPR envoy in the Contact group, said that if a draft of the election law is not submitted by Kiev for discussion, it will become clear that Ukraine continues to manipulate the Minsk Agreements. 'Mr. Paruby has recently announced that they are preparing a draft law on the local elections in Donbass, which they plan to adopt in...

Political Opinion 14.07.16 19:27

Alexander Zakharchenko: There will be no Minsk-3

‘A possible offensive of Kiev in Donbass will result in the ermination of the Minsk negotiations, there will be no «Minsk-3»,’ said the Head of the Donetsk People's Republic Alexander Zakharchenko. ‘On the one hand, according to our intelligence, on the other side of the front line everything is ready for an attack. On the other hand, in political terms, it will be the undermining of the Minsk process by Kiev. Moreover, Kiev’s offensive will close the Minsk process. However, is it not what Kiev has been seeking since the moment of signing the Complex of measures? Is it not Kiev delaying decisions in accordance with the Complex of measures and, at the same time, stepping up...

Political Opinion 06.08.16 21:53

Russian Foreign Ministry announced threat of new outbreak of war in Donbass

The Russian Foreign Ministry informed of data on the preparation by Ukraine of a new war in Donbass. A corresponding message was spread by the diplomatic institution of the Russian Federation after the meeting with the ambassadors of France and Germany in Moscow. ‘The Russian side said that, in the context of a slip in the negotiation process, Moscow is particularly concerned with a recent build-up in activity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and volunteer battalions on the frontline. The aggravation of the situation is also noted by the OSCE SMM observers. There are all signs that the Ukrainian military are preparing a military operation. Attention of the ambassadors was drawn to the...

Political Opinion 10.07.16 22:17