Новости за 12.09.2015

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CHERSONEUS, Crimea (Reuters) - Russia's President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday it was welcome that fighting had stopped in eastern Ukraine, a change in rhetoric compared to his previous accusations against Ukraine for violating a ceasefire.

Editor’s Note: The Kyiv Post spoke with Swedish Ambassador to Ukraine Andreas von Beckerath on the sidelines of the 12th annual Yalta European Strategy meeting in Kyiv on Sept. 12 on whether Ukraine can meet the challenges it is facing.

Sanctions against Russia will stay in place until truce accords are fully implemented in Ukraine as 'outside aggression is still a great threat to this country,' United States' Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said in Kyiv.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Saturday urged the West not to lift sanctions on Russia for its role in the Ukraine conflict unless the Minsk peace deal is fully implemented.

Ukrainian border guards detained two Russian citizens in the Luhansk region on Saturday, the press service for the Ukrainian Border Guard Service has reported.

GALICH, Russia - When asked if Vladimir Putin is to blame for their economic squeeze, residents of the small town of Galich overwhelmingly say: 'He doesn't know.'

Pussian President Vladimir Putin says there is no path to regulating the crisis in eastern Ukraine other than the existing Minsk agreements.

Russians are set to go to the polls Sunday to vote for candidates as 21 regional heads and as local legislators throughout the country.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko had a phone conversation with United States' Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew.

SEVASTOPOL - The current ceasefire in Donbas is the main achievement in the peace efforts in Ukraine at the present time, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

SEVASTOPOL – There is no alternative to the implementation of the Minsk agreements to settle the conflict in Ukraine, and what counts most now is to start direct dialogue between Kyiv and the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics (DPR and LPR), Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Ukraine requires greater international support, President of The Trump Organization Donald J. Trump said during a satellite television link interview.

Legendary British musician and philanthropist Elton John graced the lunch hour of the Yalta European Strategy forum in Kyiv on Sept. 12, deepening his eight-year relationship with billionaires Victor and Elena Pinchuk in the fight against AIDs and for equal rights.

MOSCOW - Moscow's position on Syria fully complies with international law, says Russia's permanent representative to NATO Alexander Grushko.

Ukraine's representative in the Tripartite Contact Group on the settlement of the Donbas conflict, second president of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, has said the situation in Donbas is getting in for a frozen conflict.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk believes the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada will support the legislation on restructuring Ukraine's sovereign debt and raising social allowances.

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin and former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will continue communication in Crimea on Saturday, and international and bilateral relations are likely to be among the matters they will address, says Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

MOSCOW - Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev expects significant results in settling the crisis in Ukraine from a meeting of the Normandy Quartet leaders in Paris on October 2.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatseniuk has said that Ukraine cherish great hopes for Western partners' help in the form of defense arms supplies to cool Russia's ardour.

MOSCOW - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's proposal that Russia be deprived of a veto right in the United Nations Security Council is legally ignorant and will have no consequences, says Russian Federation Council international affairs committee head Konstantin Kosachyov.

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Secretary General Lamberto Zannier refrains from predicting how stable the ceasefire in Donbas will be, but mentions factors that give hope for the situation to continue to stabilize.

Hungary's prime minister wants the European Union to provide sizeable aid to countries neighboring Syria to help them cope with the influx of refugees.

In an interview published in German newspapers on September 12, Steinmeier said 'a situation must not be created that renders joint action by the international community impossible,' the report says.

Police in the central Russian region of Kostroma say they have confiscated 2 million rubles ($30,000) from an activist of the Open Russia non-governmental organization.