Новости за 27.10.2017

President Donald Trump alleged Friday that Hillary Clinton colluded with Russia while claiming it’s “commonly agreed” that his associates didn’t work with the Kremlin to tilt the election in his favor. Read more here.

The top editor of the influential Moscow radio station Ekho Moskvy has said that one of his leading producers fled the country out of concern for her safety. Read more here.

Hungary blocked the session of the “Ukraine – North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)” commission in December. This is stated in the message of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary with reference to the words of Hungary’s Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó. Read more here.  

A Ukrainian court has released on bail a self-exiled Azerbaijani opposition journalist, Ukrainian lawmaker Mykola Knyazhytskiy said on his Facebook page. Read more here.

The Russian attorney who met with Donald Trump Jr. and two other top Trump campaign officials during the 2016 presidential race first shared the information she planned to provide the campaign with the Russian government, according to a news report. Read more here.

Coordinator of the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group for the settlement of situation in Donbas Toni Frisch intends to visit occupied areas of Luhansk region to meet with illegally detained persons as early as next week. This was reported by the press secretary of the second president of Ukraine and country’s representative in […]

Facebook on Oct.27 unveiled changes to its advertising platform designed to protect election integrity, as the nation’s top internet companies rush to show they’re taking congressional complaints seriously ahead of a slew of hearings on Russian interference. Read more here.

Ukraine is awaiting a decision by the United States on provision of lethal defensive weapons, Verkhovna Rada speaker Andriy Parubiy said at a meeting with the US Department of State’s Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations Kurt Volker. “Of course, Mr. Volker, we are waiting for a decision on the provision of lethal defensive weapon to […]

Russia increases the level of aggression in Donbas and expands military potential at the border with Ukraine. Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Andry Parubiy claimed this at the meeting with US Special Envoy Kurt Volker broadcasted by 112 Ukraine. Read more here.

WASHINGTON — Under pressure in advance of hearings on Russian election interference, Facebook is moving to increase transparency for everyone who sees and buys political advertising on its site. Read more here.

WASHINGTON — The State Department is warning countries and companies they risk tough US sanctions if they do business with more than three dozen Russian companies, including arms trader Rosoboronexport and Almaz-Antey, a state-owned missile manufacturer. Read more here.  

The Kremlin has criticized Twitter’s decision to ban advertisements from the accounts of state-supported Russian media outlets RT and Sputnik, saying the move was driven by “deep prejudices” against the country’s news sources. Read more here.

One Ukrainian died and three were injured in the result of the car accident in Poland. Head of Department of Consular Support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Vasyl Kyrylych claimed this. Read more here.

MINSK – The number of ceasefire violations in the conflict zone in Ukraine’s east has risen significantly, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s special representative in the Trilateral Contact Group for Ukraine (TCG) said. Early this week, there was a significant rise in the number of ceasefire violations there, Martin Sajdik told journalists […]

The Council of the European Union’s Working Party on Humanitarian Aid and Food Aid (COHAFA) completed its three-day field mission to Ukraine on Oct.25. The aim of the mission was to understand better first-hand the response to humanitarian needs caused by the ongoing conflict in the east of the country. Read more here.

TV anchor and the candidate for the presidency in Russia Ksenia Sobchak claimed that a new independent referendum should take place in annexed Crimea. Read more here.

MINSK, Belarus — Two Crimean Tatar leaders released from prison in the Russia-annexed region have flown to Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv and are vowing to continue their opposition to Russia’s control of the Black Sea peninsula. Read more here.

Ukraine will support the integrity of Spain within its internationally recognized borders, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said. “Ukraine supports the state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Spain within its internationally recognized borders,” Klimkin wrote on Twitter. The Ukrainian prime minister tweeted that Kyiv support steps by the Spanish government on resolving the crisis […]

Tzvi Arieli, a former instructor at Ukraine’s National Guard, on Oct. 27 published alleged photographic evidence of the kidnapping of Geogriy Rubashvili, an associate of ex-Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. Rubashvili, Saakashvili’s former security guard; Saakashvili’s friend David Makishvili, who fought against Russian-separatist troops in the Donbas and trained Ukraine’s National Guard, and Saakashvili’s former driver […]

A first ship with gas coal from the United States has arrived in the Yuzhny port (Odesa region), the press service of DTEK energy holding has reported. “The first bulker has delivered 75,000 tonnes of coal to the Yuzhny port. Before the heating season we bought 150,000 tonnes of gas coal in the United States […]

Two Crimean Tatar activists released from Russian custody this week said on Oct. 27 they would travel back to the annexed peninsula and campaign for the freedom of other political prisoners and the return of Crimea to Ukraine. Read more here.

BRUSSELS—The European Union has a Turkey problem and it isn’t going away. The challenge is that while many EU leaders want to punish Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whom they accuse of eroding democracy, competing priorities get in the way. Read more here.

The OSCE SMM observers confirm that six civilians were injured in Donbas. Read more here.

Ilmi Umerov and Akhtem Chiygoz, the deputy heads of the Crimean representative body the Mejilis, both of whom were jailed as political prisoners by the Russian occupation authorities in Crimea, arrived in Kyiv on Oct. 27 following their release from jail on the peninsula on Oct. 25. They flew to Kyiv’s Boryspil International Airport from […]

President Donald Trump’s administration is paralyzed by the continuing probes of Russia’s role in the 2016 election, limiting the U.S.’s ability to speak with a single voice against Moscow’s meddling abroad and find productive ways to improve ties, NATO’s former chief said. Read more here.