Ukraine has had angered Russia by the neck in the south of the country, not to take away from the Crimean military exercises with missiles. The Russian government called the exercises a 'dangerous precedent' and managed to take warships of the Black Sea Fleet positions. The Russian air defense on the peninsula is armed.
The Kremlin wants to talk again about the crisis in Ukraine in Berlin, Paris and Kiev. They spoke to each other for the first time in this context in Normandy in 2014. The four-party consultation is therefore called Normandy format. Russia turned off in August of this discussion group, because Ukraine would have been guilty of plotting terrorist attacks.
"The Ukrainian government will lay down their weapons as of Thursday, as the pro-Russian separatists who they are fighting in eastern Ukraine, as promised earlier. That offers a glimmer of hope in the stalled peace process, said the German Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Wednesday visit to Kiev."
The Ukrainian government carries provisionally prescribe any powers to the board of the rebel regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, as the Minsk peace agreement. The government in Kiev will not change the Constitution,, as long as the circumstances not to be, '' said President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday.
A Russian journalist has been found dead in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. According to police, Aleksander Sjtsjetinin committed suicide and left a suicide note.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Crimea for a meeting of the Russian Security Council. The visit comes at a time when tensions between Russia and Ukraine about Russia annexed peninsula rise again.
Fighting in eastern Ukraine three soldiers are killed. Six others were injured. This was a spokesman for the president in Kyiv on Thursday.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko want as quickly as possible by telephone consultations with several world leaders on the interstate tension on Russia and Ukraine. The Russian President Vladimir Putin has been invited for an interview.
Ukrainian website said Friday Obozrevatel video showing how two people, a man and a woman, to see that a bomb planted probably working under a car that was used by Pavel Sjeremet.
In the conflict in Ukraine make both sides are guilty of torture and kidnapping, say Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said Thursday in a joint report.
A well-known Russian journalist Wednesday in Kiev died when the car he was exploded. According to Russian media was an attack. Justice in Kiev would have stated. Would have discovered an explosive device in the car.
Two Ukrainian citizens who were imprisoned in Russia, have been released and on the way home. That said Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday in Kiev.
The freed by Russia Ukrainian helicopter pilot Nadezhda Savtsjenko has offered to negotiate with the rebels in the region of Donbass. She said Saturday that she wants to talk among the separatists more about the exchange of prisoners and the consequences of the war.
The Cabinet would discuss the outcome of the referendum on the treaty between the EU and Ukraine later this month with the European leaders. Development minister Bert Koenders (Foreign Affairs) Tuesday informed the Lower House.
Russia agrees with the arrival of additional, optionally also armed, observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to eastern Ukraine. The new monitors should be stationed in places provide the Ukrainian military and pro-Russian separatists heavy blow. The OSCE will also monitor at depots withdrawn heavy weapons, said Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Saturday.
Sixteen people were killed by a fire at a retirement home in Ukraine. One person is still missing, emergency services reported Sunday.
Mikhail Gorbachev is not welcome in Ukraine. The government in Kiev is not allow him to come to the country in the next five years as the former president of the Soviet Union after the annexation of the Crimea by Russia state.
President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday personally to the Russian city of Rostov on Don flown to exchange Nadezhda Savtsjenko. Ukrainian helicopter pilot in March was sentenced by a court in Rostov up to 22 years in prison for the murder of two Russian journalists.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Ukraine have agreed on the reforms needed for the country to become eligible in July for financial support. That left the IMF Wednesday, without bringing out details.
Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savtsjenko convicted of murder by Russia to 22 years in prison, is not exchanged for two Russian prisoners in Ukraine. The Kremlin has a trade with Kiev called off, as the Ministry of Justice has informed Moscow Tuesday.
The Ukrainian government said Tuesday the victims of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, exactly thirty years ago, commemorated with a minute of silence. President Petro Poroshenko traveled with Prime Minister Vladimir Groisman and the mayor of Kiev Vitali Klitsjko flowers at the monument to the heroes of Chernobyl,, '' in the capital. The national anthem sounded and a eregarde fired gun salute.
The Netherlands is one million additional contributions to the storage of nuclear waste from nuclear power stations in Chernobyl. Minister Bert Koenders (Foreign Affairs) said Monday to the amount. 1 million in addition to the 11 million euros that the Netherlands has contributed in recent years to clean up the effects of the nuclear disaster.
The ceasefire in eastern Ukraine since the summer not so often violated as last time.
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk of Ukraine on Sunday announced his resignation. This was announced by the minister on television.
The Dutch people reject closer ties with the European Union and Ukraine, shows exactly how Europe facing the political system in Kiev state. That said Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev of Russia Thursday following the consultative referendum in the Netherlands.
The whole day had Andriy Boytsun, the Flemish-speaking Director-examination of the Centre for Economic Strategy in Kiev followed via Twitter projections by Maurice de Hond. When 'no' against eleven pm Ukrainian time emerged, he sighed: 'This is very disappointing, as the result is true. This may jeopardize the reforms in my country. But it is also convincing 'no' a signal that we as Ukraine more to do our best. '
The armed conflict in eastern Ukraine are threatened and a half million people with famine. The now two-year conflict is an acute food problem for about 300,000 people. This was announced by the World Food Programme (WFP) Tuesday in the Ukrainian capital Kiev.
Ukraine should hold despite the political crisis in Kiev to reform. This is necessary as the country at a critical crossroads,, '' is in, said a spokesman for the European Commission Monday.
The coalition government in Ukraine is going to be changed. That said, the Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk Wednesday. He said he already is in talks with various political parties, including the populist Radicals, to redistribute the portfolios in the government.
The settlement of the Ukrainian crisis must lead to a reconciliation between Russia and the West. Discussions on Ukraine Kiev must create a bridge between East and West, not an outpost in the struggle between the West and East. This does require a new form of thinking. That said former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger sat in an interview for the Russian television.
