Новости за 13.08.2017

Donbas militants continue violating the lines of military equipment withdrawal, according to the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission’s report of August 12. “In violation of withdrawal lines in non-government-controlled areas, on 10 August the SMM observed six surface-to-air missile systems (9K35 Strela-10, 120mm) traveling south-west in the south-eastern outskirts of Luhansk city,” reads the report. Read […]

In St. Petersburg in Russia, a few men went after LGBT Pride participants after the event and sprayed pepper gas in their faces. In the group of victims there were journalists, reports Fontanka, the St. Petersburg Internet newspaper. Yesterday, on August 12, in St. Petersburg took place LGBT Pride. Even before the end of the rally, young men began […]

A dead dog in Moscow. A dead dissident in London. Twitter trolls run by the Kremlin’s Internet Research Agency. Denial of service attacks and ransomware deployed across Ukraine. News reports from the DC offices of Sputnik and RT. Spies hidden in the heart of Wall Street. The hacking of John Podesta’s creamy risotto recipe. And a […]

WASHINGTON – Seeking leverage with Russia, the Trump administration has reopened consideration of long-rejected plans to give Ukraine lethal weapons, even if that would plunge the United States deeper into the former Soviet republic’s conflict. The deliberations put pressure on President Donald Trump, who’s fighting perceptions he is soft on the Kremlin amid investigations into […]

On Sunday, August 13, a charity auction will be held in support of Ukrainian political prisoners who are being held in Russia, Krym.Realii reports. According to the organizers, this will be the second attempt to hold the event. Initially, the auction was to be held July 27, but it was postponed due to unfavorable weather […]

Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina wonderfully performed in the semi-final match of the WTA tournament, held in Toronto. The Ukrainian’s competitor was Simona Halep. Svitoina needed two losets to win over Halep for the 9th time in her career. The results of the match are 6-1, 6-1. Read more here

MOSCOW — Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu says the Syrian government has increased the size of the territory under its control by 2 1/2 times in just two months. Shoigu made the comments in an interview with state-owned TV channel Rossiya 24 on Sunday in which he predicted the end of the fight with the […]

Volunteers from Cherkasy and Kyiv developed a drone Marharyta. According to them, even the most advanced surveillance systems don’t see it, and if the GPS signal is blocked, the drone can still come back, Channel 5 reported. It will take a year to work on the project. The drone can record the positions of army, but it can’t be […]

WASHINGTON – Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s son-in-law, Jeffrey Yohai, met with Department of Justice investigators in recent months, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Yohai provided information and documents to federal investigators in New York more than two months ago, according to one of the sources. Read more here

Participants of the Equality March had gathered in the city centre – on Prymorsky Boulevard, but they didn’t start the march, as a 112.UA Channel reporter informs. “Everyone gathered on Prymorsky Boulevard. Up to 100 participants of the Equality March, a lot of police gathered here. Prymorsky Boulevard is surrounded with a fence. I will note, that […]

MINSK, Belarus — Western officials and the news media have for years routinely described President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus as “the last dictator of Europe.” So it may have been jarring for some to hear him expressing deep support for human rights, democracy and the rule of law in an address last month toa large group of United States and […]

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump’s reluctant support for tighter sanctions against Russia and recent comments about Russia have been interpreted in Moscow as a turning point in hopes for improved relations. The tougher line, despite Trump’s apathy toward Kremlin interference in the U.S. election, his dismissal of possible collusion, and flattery of President Vladimir Putin, […]

The general situation in the zone of the Anti-Terrorist Operation remained stable on Saturday, August 12, with no trends toward escalation, with Russia-backed militants breaching the ceasefire agreement 17 times over the past 24 hours, the ATO Headquarters reported on Facebook. Russian-occupation forces failed to fundamentally reduce the number of shellings of our positions, at the […]

The body of Ukraine’s National Guard’s Colonel Oleksandr Boyko was found in the hostilities zone of Luhansk Oblast after months of searches, the spokesman of Interior Ministry Artem Shevchenko said on Twitter on Aug. 12. According to the official, the body was eventually transported to the Ukrainian-controlled city of Severodonetsk. Boyko, who commanded the National Guard’s Special […]

MOSCOW — In a key step to get Russian athletes back into international action Moscow has decreed a new, independent anti-doping lab, reports said on Saturday. Russia was accused in a damaging World Anti-Doping Agency report last year of widespread state-sponsored doping. Read more here

While sunbathers lounged on St. Petersburg’s Field of Mars on a scorching summer day, a different crowd wrapped in rainbow flags gathered at the park for a different reason: to defend their rights. Around one hundred activists waving rainbow flags and banners gathered at midday on Saturday to mark St. Petersburg’s eighth Gay Pride, in […]

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Syrian government troops backed by Russian forces have recaptured huge swathes of territory from opposition forces in the previous two months. Shoigu told Rossia 1 television on August 12 that the amount of territory regained by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since June is twice as large […]

WASHINGTON — In a sign that the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election will remain a continuing distraction for the White House, the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, is in talks with the West Wing about interviewing current and former senior administration officials, including the recently ousted White House chief of staff, Reince […]

The situation in the Donbas conflict zone is characterized as stable and doesn’t tend to escalation, as the Ukrainian Army HQ reported on Facebook. In Mariupol sector, the militants used grenade launchers and heavy machine guns to attack Ukrainian positions near Vodiane. In this confrontation one Ukrainian soldier was killed, another one was wounded. At night the militants […]

A friend of the Russian president, former German Chancellor Schröder has been working for the Russian energy industry since he lost to Chancellor Merkel in 2005. Rosneft has been hit by Western sanctions. A Russian government decree published late on Friday night nominated former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder to join the board of the Russian energy giant […]