Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for the Ukrainian Presidential Administration on the military operation in the Donbass, has announced today that two soldiers have been killed and four wounded over the last 24 hours.
Today marks the 71st anniversary of Stalin’s mass deportation of the Crimean Tatar people from their homeland on the Crimean peninsula to closed settlements in Central Asia. More than 200,000 people were rousted from their homes at night to be packed into cattle cars for the trip, in which some 100,000 died of suffocation, exposure […]
Today opposition leader Alexey Navalny faced yet another court proceeding, this time to determine whether a petition from the Federal Corrections Service (FSIN) to send him to serve a five year sentence would be approved, Media Zone reported.
As we reported earlier, President Vladimir Putin has revived a system used in the Soviet era known as the druzhinniki or volunteer auxiliary police. And not surprisingly, given their resurgence, the Kremlin has turned to the Cossacks to fill the ranks of the druzhinniki.
Street patrols which President Vladimir Putin called to renew in his speech to the Interior Ministry in March are now being deployed, Kommersant and Gazeta.ru report.
Ukrainska Pravda reports that Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for the Presidential Administration on the military operation in the south-east, has told reporters at a briefing today that three Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and one wounded over the last 24 hours.
The US State Department has announced that Secretary of State John Kerry is travelling to Sochi to meet with President Vladimir Putin and the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov.
The Donetsk regional branch of the Interior Ministry has announced that a civilian has been killed by shelling in the Ukrainian-held village of Vasilevka, north-east of Donetsk.
The Ukrainian military has announced that five servicemen were wounded over the last 24 hours.
At a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that there was “progress” with the Minsk peace deal in Ukraine:
