Новости за 03.10.2015

Russia's Air Force has carried out more than 60 flights in Syria in the past 72 hours and significantly reduced the military potential of terrorists there, a senior official in the Russian army told Russian news agencies on Saturday.

Streets are scattered with stones and shell casings.

Ukraine's government forces and pro-Russian rebels say they have begun withdrawing weapons from the line of contact in the east of the country.

DONETSK. Oct 3 (Interfax) - The defense ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) says it would start withdrawing weapons smaller than 100mm in caliber after October 18, on condition that a ceasefire is observed by that date.

Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed rebels are due to begin withdrawing small-caliber weapons from the front lines in the east of the country on October 3.

Ukrainian army and pro-Russian rebels have begun pulling back weapons from a buffer zone in eastern Ukraine following a fresh agreement in Paris.

Ukraine will begin the withdrawal of military equipment and small-caliber weapons from the demarcation line in the Donbas conflict zone in the afternoon on Saturday, presidential administration spokesman for the Anti-Terrorist Operation Colonel Andriy Lysenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Saturday.

Frankfurt takes center-stage for this year's public events while German Unity Day is also being marked around the world.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has stated the need for a further reform of law enforcement agencies.

PARIS - President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has said at a meeting in Paris he, French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed support for the immediate release of Nadiya Savchenko, Oleh Sentsov and other Ukrainians detained in the Russian Federation.

PARIS - Ukraine insists on delivering humanitarian aid to the residents of the occupied territories in the east of the country with the assistance of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), providing the ICRC representatives with access to the hostages and their involvement in a search for missing persons, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has stated.

Ukraine on Saturday started a practical step on the withdrawal of weapons with a caliber of less than 100 mm, speaker of the presidential administration of Ukraine on ATO Andriy Lysenko has reported.

PARIS - All participants in the 'Normandy Four' negotiations have supported the holding of elections in some parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions according to the Ukrainian legislation under the supervision of the OSCE, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has said.

Russia's Air Force has made over 20 flights in Syria in the past 24 hours and targeted nine Islamic State objects, Russian news agencies cited a Defence Ministry official as saying on Saturday.

Pro-Moscow rebels announced on Saturday that they had begun withdrawing tanks from the buffer zone between warring forces in eastern Ukraine a day after key peace talks in Paris.

The leaders of Ukraine, France, Germany and Russia agreed late on Oct. 2 at a meeting in Paris to postpone the implementation of the Feb. 12 Minsk ceasefire deal beyond the end of 2015.

Naftogaz Ukrainy is in talks with European partners on reducing prices for imported gas, Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine Volodymyr Demchyshyn has said in Kyiv.

PARIS - President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has stated the elections in some parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions would take place only after the approval of amendments to the relevant provisions of Ukrainian legislation.

SOCHI - The formal signature of a so-called winter package for supplying Ukraine with natural gas is no longer needed, as the necessary agreements have been reached, and the Ukrainian energy company Naftogaz only has to pay for gas for shipments to be started, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told journalists.

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Francois Hollande have shown satisfaction with how the Mistral helicopter carriers issue was solved.

MOSCOW - The issue of elections in the self-proclaimed people's republics of Donetsk and Luhansk will arouse problems if considered separately from the issue of political reforms in Ukraine, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

MOSCOW - Kyiv has showed readiness for a dialog on issues stemming from the ban for Russian aircraft to fly in the Ukrainian airspace at negotiations in Paris, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

A group of 68 chaplains of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Kyiv Patriarchate, organized into four groups, left Kyiv's central train station on Oct. 2 to travel to the front line. The chaplains will provide moral and psychological support to Ukrainian soldiers manning front-line positions. The chaplains have undergone training in giving medical and psychological assistance in the combat zone.

MOSCOW - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has raised the issue of the fate of Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko after her trial in Russia at the Normandy format leaders meeting in Paris on Friday.

Russia says it has carried out a third day of airstrikes targeting Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant positions over Syria.