Новости за 06.09.2017

UNITED NATIONS – The United States wants the United Nations Security Council to impose an oil embargo on North Korea, ban the country’s exports of textiles and the hiring of North Korean laborers abroad and subject leader Kim Jong Un to an asset freeze and travel ban, according to a draft resolution seen by Reuters […]

Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the UN has officially phrased Kyiv’s view on deploying UN peacekeepers to Donbas, having sent it to the UN Secretary-General, as the mission informs on Twitter. Read more here.  

Ukraine’s justice ministry carried out trial auctions using blockchain technology for the first time on Sept.6, part of an effort to improve transparency in government transactions. Read more here.

Russia has been accused by the head of NATO of blocking the alliance from properly observing next week’s Zapad military exercises, when about 100,000 Russian troops are expected to mobilise on the EU’s eastern borders. Read more here.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is tentatively welcoming a Russian proposal to send UN peacekeepers into eastern Ukraine. Read more here.

The Netherlands has decided the trial of suspects involved in the plane crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which was shot down over Donbas in eastern Ukraine in July 2014, will be held in The Hague, according to the Dutch media. Read more here.

TBILISI – Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia’s ex-president and former governor of Odesa region, is visiting the European Parliament in Brussels, where he is planning to enlist European lawmakers’ support prior to his announced appearance at the Polish-Ukrainian border on September 10. “The Ukrainian oligarchic leadership has the plan to detain and destroy me, but I’m not […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin has held talks with his South Korean counterpart, President Moon Jae-In, about a vision for peace in the Korean peninsula that marginalizes the US. Read more here.

The Moldovan militaries will take part in the international Rapid Trident-2017 military drills in Ukraine despite the decision of the President of Moldova Igor Dodon. Read more here.

MINSK – Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office to the Trilateral Contact Group Martin Sajdik has announced a decrease in the number of ceasefire violations in Donbas. “According to the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission, the number of ceasefire violations from August 25 until today has decreased by 67%, the number of truce breakdowns by 74%,” […]

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has welcomed the decision by EU ambassadors to extend sanctions against Russia. Read more here.

Two alleged Russian intelligence operatives have been named as the main organizers of what authorities say was a coup attempt against Montenegro’s pro-Western government as the trial of 14 suspected coup plotters opened in Podgorica on Sept. 6. Read more here.

Ukraine is taking advantage of a surge in appetite for high-yield debt to make its first return to Eurobond markets since a $15 billion restructuring in 2015. Read more here.

On Sept. 5 Iceland met the Ukraine in the World Cup Qualifiers. Fans of the Ukrainian national football team attempted to smuggle weapons and projectiles into Laugardalsvöllur arena. Several fans were barred entry. During the match the fans made repeated attempts to provoke a confrontation with Icelandic Police. Read more here.

Five people were killed on Sept. 6 after a passenger car collided with a truck in Ukraine’s northwestern Rivne region, said the police authorities. Read more here.

CHISINAU – Moldova’s pro-Russian President Igor Dodon has blocked government plans to send troops to Ukraine to participate in military exercises starting this week and which coincide with Russian drills across the border in Belarus. Read more here.

Over 63,900 motor vehicles brought from abroad have not been legalized by their owners in the territory of Ukraine, the press office of the State Fiscal Service (SFS) said. Read more here.

MINSK – The Contact Group for Ukraine did not discuss at its latest meeting in Minsk on Sept. 6 the issue of possible parameters of the proposed introduction of the UN Blue Helmets into areas along the contact line in Donbas, a source in the group on organizing of the talks told Interfax. “There was no […]

BRUSSELS – The European Union will prolong its asset freezes and visa bans on Russian officials and Moscow-backed separatists in Ukraine for another six months, with Russia’s new ambassador to the United States likely to remain on the list, diplomats said. Read more here.

The Moldovan government has allowed National Army soldiers to take part in the Rapid Trident 2017 military exercises that will be held in Ukraine from Sept. 7 to Sept. 23. Read more here.

Russia-backed separatists attacked Ukrainian army positions in Donbas 32 times in the past 24 hours, according to the press service of the Ukrainian military. Read more here.

The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (OSCE SMM) recorded about 30 explosions in Donetsk region and four in Luhansk region on Sept. 4, according a report published on the official website of the mission. Read more here.

The main contributor to the Azerbaijani Laundromat slush fund was Baktelecom MMC ($1.4 billion), a company directly linked to Azerbaijani first lady and Vice President Mehriban Aliyeva. Read more here.

A top North Korean diplomat on Sept. 5 warned that his country is ready to send “more gift packages” to the United States as world powers struggled for a response to Pyongyang’s latest nuclear weapons test. Read more here.

Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations Volodymyr Yelchenko says that a UN resolution draft presented by Russia on Donbas has nothing to do with peacekeeping, according to 112 Ukraine TV Channel. Read more here.