Новости за 17.10.2016

A joint operation carried out by Iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga troops has “liberated” a 200 sq km area around Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS), Iraqi Kurdistan President Masoud Barzani said. Barzani made the announcement on Oct. 17, following the launch of a major operation […]

The world of rugby is in shock after the sudden death of Munster head coach and former Irish international Anthony Foley at the age of 42. Foley, who played 62 times for his country, was found dead in the team’s hotel in Paris, ahead of a match in the European Champions Cup against Racing 92. […]

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has enacted the National Security and Defense Council’s decision to apply special economic and other restrictive measures (sanctions) against several Russian individuals. The specific order is published on the Ukrainian president’s website on Oct. 17. Under the document, the National Security and Defense Council’s decision dated Sept. 16 envisages a proposal […]

The cause of the explosion that killed one of the militant leaders, Arseniy Pavlov aka “Motorola” was reportedly an improvised remote-controlled explosive device placed in the elevator shaft, the so-called Interior Ministry of Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) reported. “… An examination was carried out of fragments of the explosive device found at the scene, based […]

The fire on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, including using mortars and infantry fighting vehicles, was opened 18 times in the military operation zone in Donbas throughout the day, the headquarters for the Ukrainian special operation in the east of the country said. “A total of 13 shellings took place in the Mariupol […]

BEIRUT – Russian and Syrian forces will halt hostilities for eight hours in the eastern districts of Aleppo, Russia’s military announced on Oct. 17, a day on which opposition activists said their airstrikes killed at least 36 people, including several children, in and around the divided city. The two militaries will observe a “humanitarian pause” […]

OSCE SMM Principal Deputy Chief Monitor Alexander Hug says the OSCE is not able to confirm the reports about the death of one of the militant leaders, a Russian citizen Arseniy Pavlov aka “Motorola,” according to 112 Ukraine TV channel. “We are aware of these reports. Based on our own observations, we cannot confirm these […]

A total of 110 Ukrainian citizens are currently being held illegally in the certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions (CADLR) of Ukraine, and the process of the captives release is blocked, the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada Deputy Speaker and the Ukrainian representative to the humanitarian subgroup Iryna Gerashchenko said. Gerashchenko drew special attention to […]

Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine have declared three days of mourning for a military commander who was killed on Oct. 16. Arseny Pavlov, a Russian national known as “Motorola”, was blown up in the lift of his block of flats in Donetsk together with his bodyguard – according to rebel authorities. Read more here.

At a press conference in Goa, Russian President Vladimir Putin in Goa press conference said that the introduction of counter-sanctions in the form of restricting imports of food products from Western countries have proven advantageous to Russia. “We did it where it was advantageous to do,” he said, adding that Russia has no plans to […]

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has issued a decree enacting the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) dated Sept. 16, 2016 on the application of special personal economic and other restrictive measures (sanctions). Corresponding decree No. 467/2016 dated 2016 was posted on the website of the Ukrainian president on October […]

The murder of Arseniy Pavlov known as Motorola, the commander of a Donetsk-based unit of Russian-backed mercenaries, made international headlines on Oct. 16. Pavlov was only one of many separatist leaders killed in the east of Ukraine since early 2015. The separatists blamed the Ukrainian army in most of the killings, but some of the killings […]

Ukraine’s central bank will in future sell dollars directly to a limited circle of banks rather than at open auctions, an official said on Oct. 17, in a bid to combat speculative trades against the under-pressure hryvnia more effectively. The central bank has traditionally defended the hryvnia by offering foreign currency at auctions that are […]

A prominent commander of the Russian-backed separatist forces in eastern Ukraine has been killed by a bomb, according to rebel leaders and Russian news reports on Oct. 17. Arsen Pavlov, who went by the nom de guerre Motorola after the brand of walkie-talkie he preferred, was blown up as he rode the elevator in his […]

The European Union intends to allocate 104 million euro to support Ukraine’s state management reform for 2016-2020, and Ukraine will receive the first tranche totaling 10 million euro in early 2017. This was stated at a presentation of the renewed structure to support reforms, which is held in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine with […]

State-funded Russian broadcaster RT complained on Oct. 17 that NatWest had withdrawn its banking services in Britain without explanation, questioning how the move squared with the right to freedom of speech. RT published NatWest’s letter on its web site, saying that the bank, which is part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, had reached the […]

MOSCOW – A notorious warlord has been killed in a bombing in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, separatist officials said. The separatist Donetsk News Agency said that Arsen Pavlov, also known as Motorola, was killed on Oct. 16 in Donetsk when a bomb exploded in an elevator in an apartment building where he was staying. He […]

Representative of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in parliament Artur Herasymov has proposed to the Rada to extend the term of the agreement between Ukraine and the Netherlands involving the International mission on protecting the investigation of causes of the downing of the MH17 flight in June 2014 in the militant-held area of Donetsk region. “Ukraine’s […]

MP Serhiy Taruta (not a member of any parlaimentary faction) has proposed to including the issue of dismissing Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Valeriya Gontareva on the agenda of the Verkhovna Rada’s session this plenary week. “I propose that we include draft resolutions that would be registered today to this week agenda. […]

Bank accounts of Russian state broadcaster Russia Today frozen in UK, network’s chief executive says. Read more

Volunteer aerial reconnaissance team handed over to InformNapalm community new images of a large build-up of weapons and equipment amassed by the Russian occupation forces in Donbas. InformNapalm OSINT investigators analyzed the images and identified all pieces of the weaponry and equipment. Read more

One Ukrainian serviceman was killed and seven suffered injuries in hostile attacks in the anti-terrorist operation zone in eastern Ukraine in the past 24 hours, Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesman Andriy Lysenko said. “One was killed and seven were injured over the past day,” he said at a press briefing in Kyiv on Monday. The hostiles […]

The European Court of Justice has confirmed that Ukraine has lost an appeal on payment of compensation for litigation costs to former president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and his son, Ukrayinska Pravda Internet publication reported with reference to Deutsche Welle. “Judges passed relevant ruling on October 5. However, the specific amount and the procedure for […]

Managers of the Zenit Arena, a giant half-built stadium in St. Petersburg, received an official letter from the Ministry of Emergency Situations last week demanding that they immediately create shelter facilities for wartime. The stadium, under construction for the upcoming World Cup 2018, is located outside of the city boundaries, the letter said, but in […]

Monitors of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in the morning of October 16, registered fire from automatic-grenade-launcher at government-controlled Zolote and Katerynivka (both Luhansk region), as well as machine gun fire near its observation post. “In the morning of October 16, from several positions in both government-controlled Zolote (60km north-west of Luhansk) and government-controlled […]