All news for 16.05.2018/XNUMX/XNUMX

During today's session, deputies of the Verkhovna Rada managed to fail two votes in a row on “extremely important resolutions in the military sphere,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Now I am putting two ratifications to the vote; we have no right to jeopardize them. So, I am putting to a vote the draft law “On the ratification of the general agreement between the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the Government of the Republic of Poland...

Following the destruction of the Kyiv editorial office of RIA Novosti, the SBU should seriously engage in Ukrainian opposition television channels. This was stated today in the Verkhovna Rada by a deputy from the Popular Front, a former journalist of the Kyiv publication Liga, Sergei Vysotsky, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “RIA Novosti, as already shown by the SBU, is directly financed through Serbia with Russian money, in fact it is a “hub”, a center for coordinating anti-Ukrainian propaganda of Russia...

Official Kyiv has practically blocked negotiations on the possibility of paying pensions to residents of the DPR and LPR through the mechanism proposed by the International Committee of the Red Cross. The press secretary of Denis Pushilin and the DPR plenipotentiary representative at the negotiations in Minsk, Victoria Talakina, wrote about this on her Facebook social network during the regular negotiations in Minsk, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Since representatives of the ICRC introduced an alternative...

Official Kyiv stooped to direct threats of physical harm and criminal prosecution against representatives of the people's republics during the Minsk negotiations. In order to stop the aggressive attacks of the Ukrainian side, the OSCE representative left the meeting room. This was announced following the results of regular negotiations in Minsk. Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPR Natalya Nikonorova, reports PolitNavigator correspondent. “An eloquent confirmation of aggressiveness and obvious...

The Ukrainian side openly demonstrates disdain not only for the negotiation process, but also for basic norms of behavior in society. This was announced after regular negotiations in Minsk by the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPR Natalya Nikonorova, reports PolitNavigator correspondent. “Ukraine is trying in every way to destroy the fragile contact between Kiev and Donbass, which at the cost of incredible efforts on our part...

The head of the press service of the DPR Armed Forces, Daniil Bezsonov, spoke at a briefing today about how Ukrainian propaganda once again carried out a “successful” offensive operation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Joint Forces Operation zone, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Ukrainian militants spread information about carrying out a “decisive raid, battle and seizure of individual weapons” in our rear. Despite the fact that this nonsense is misinformation, please note...

The bias in the coverage of events in Donbass by representatives of the OSCE SMM has long been no secret for the residents of Donbass, but this time the representatives of the mission also demonstrated complete unprofessionalism, managing to “see” a bullet in flight. The head of the press service of the DPR Armed Forces, Daniil Bezsonov, spoke about this today at a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We are surprised by the fact of the biased attitude of OSCE representatives...

Representatives of the DPR in Minsk once again proposed to the Ukrainian side to conduct joint inspections of hazardous industrial facilities throughout the Donbass in order to avoid an environmental disaster. Victoria Talakina, press secretary of the DPR plenipotentiary representative at the Contact Group negotiations in Minsk Denis Pushilin, reported this on her page on the social network Facebook, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The message notes...

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has allocated more than 86 million hryvnia for the construction of storage facilities for long-term storage of radioactive waste from the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, which is returned from Russia, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The relevant documents were published by the Kiev edition of RBC-Ukraine. According to the government order, the Ministry of Ecology for the State Agency for Management of the Exclusion Zone in 2018 will allocate more than 86 million hryvnia for the implementation...

The Ukrainian side refused to sign a bilateral document on ending violence against prisoners of war. This is stated in a message from the press service of the DPR Ombudsman Daria Morozova, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Upon returning from captivity, as a result of conversations with those released and medical examinations, it was revealed that approximately 95 percent of those interviewed were subjected to torture. After the first stage of the exchange, we reported...