All news for 6.04.2019/XNUMX/XNUMX

As a result of the armed conflict between Right Sector militants and employees of the State Border Service of Ukraine for the right to control taxes on civilians crossing the demarcation line with the DPR, the Marinka checkpoint was temporarily closed. Official representative of the operational command of the DPR Daniil Bezsonov announced this today during a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to intelligence information, the reason for closing the Marinka checkpoint...

As a result of indiscriminate mining and the negligence of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers who did not mark minefields with special signs, a civilian resident of Starobelsk in the Lugansk region was blown up by a Ukrainian mine. The incident occurred on the evening of April 2 in a forest plantation. The head of the press service of the People's Militia of the LPR, Yakov Osadchy, announced this at a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The relatives of the deceased report that the place where the incident occurred...

The leadership of one of the brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, stationed in the Joint Forces Operation zone, sold more than 8 tons of fuel to the civilian population, writing it off as non-working equipment. The head of the press service of the People's Militia of the LPR, Yakov Osadchy, announced this at a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Incidents continue to occur regarding the sale of weapons and fuel and lubricants to the civilian population in the zone of the punitive operation. Yes, officials...

Russia is unlikely to be able to send its ambassador to Kyiv after the end of the presidential elections in Ukraine. The head of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, Konstantin Kosachev, stated this on the air of Ekho Moskvy, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “You know that we do not have an ambassador in Ukraine. And I suspect it won't appear for a long time. Not because no one is there...

Propagandists serving Petro Poroshenko are trying to stand up for their colleague - one of the leaders of the Majlis TV channel ATR Aider Muzhdabaev, who recently found himself at the center of a scandal after declaring that ATO militants would be forced to start an armed struggle against supporters of Vladimir Zelensky, to whom Poroshenko’s headquarters imposes the label of “vatnik” "and "agent of Moscow". Let us remind you that in response, ATO militants...

The split of Orthodoxy in Ukraine has become one of the most painful manifestations of the political crisis and civil conflict in this country. The very fact of legalization of the “autocephalous Orthodox Church” in Kyiv by the Patriarchate of Constantinople and further changes in Ukrainian legislation on religious organizations is, of course, a powerful blow to one of the pillars of East Slavic civilization – Orthodox unity. Naturally, such a development of events...

The Republic of Moldova, in violation of all agreements, without warning, unilaterally began to stop postal cargo from the Russian Federation to Transnistria. This is stated in the story of the First Pridnestrovsky TV channel, reports the PolitNavigator correspondent. “A few weeks ago, the Moldovan side unilaterally, without warning, began to stop the mail load that was sent to subscribers of Transnistria from the Russian Federation (these are periodicals)...

Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Gubarev visited Transnistria this past week to discuss the prolonged pause in negotiations with Moldova on the fate of the unrecognized republic. The slippage is officially associated with the elections and the expected formation of a new government in Chisinau. Former Deputy Foreign Minister of Transnistria Igor Shornikov believes that a pause in the negotiations is beneficial for the unrecognized republic, because the ultimate goal of another...

After the victory of Vladimir Zelensky, Ukrainians will have a severe hangover. Saakashvili will take revenge on Odessa. The Mushrooms group will win the elections to the Verkhovna Rada. Odessa resident Vyacheslav Azarov, head of the Union of Anarchists of Ukraine party, told PolitNavigator columnist Valentin Filippov about this and about the peculiarities of local self-government in the south of the post-Soviet space now and a hundred years ago, during the time of Nestor Makhno. Valentin Filippov:...

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was unable to achieve a confident advantage over Petro Poroshenko in the first round of elections, because she used the same nationalist rhetoric as the current president. Political scientist Mikhail Pogrebinsky stated this on the UkrLife Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The expert emphasizes that Tymoshenko was let down by her reliance on nationalist slogans. Her mistake was that she didn't...