Russian banks refuse to help customers who submit a passport of the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, cities in eastern Ukraine. Thus they go against the express orders of President Putin.
The Ukrainian-Russian separatist Valeri Bolotov, possibly had information about the downing of MH17, according to the 'Union of Donbass Volunteers' deceased in Moscow at the age of 46. Bolotov was the first political and military leader of the self-proclaimed independent People's Republic of Lugansk in 2014.
In Ukraine talks in Berlin, according to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko agreed a plan for peace. In addition, there should be an armed police mission in Donbass. That said Porosjenko after a five-hour meeting between the leaders of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine.
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.
The leader of the pro-Russian rebels in the eastern Ukrainian Luhansk province has been hit Saturday morning seriously injured by an explosion in his car. According to the rebels their leader Igor Plotnitsky was the victim of an assassination attempt.
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.
Rebels of the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine begin Wednesday with the withdrawal of heavy weapons. Warriors of the friendly People's Republic of Lugansk reported Tuesday that the withdrawal on their side of the front is completed by the Ukrainian army .
American rock band Limp Bizkit is planning to give concerts in Eastern Ukraine . Singer Fred Durst has shown to the Russian newspaper Izvestia that they will occur in the cities of Donetsk and Lugansk , because the local authorities had therefore requested.
