The adoption by the Verkhovna Rada bills concerning the occupied part of Donbass will strengthen the position of Ukraine in international negotiations. This is stated in the statement of Petro Poroshenko. The President noted that the documents qualify Russia as the aggressor country, and some regions of Donetsk and Luhansk regions as occupied territories. See also: I am pleased to support the bills Poroshenko on Donbass. As voted by the deputies “We fix the right to self-defence under article 51 […]

Fraction “Samopomich” approved the decision about the exception of Natalia Veselova from the faction. This reports the press service of the faction. It is noted that the reason for the exclusion was to initiate bills, which “deny the occupation, the objections in public statements of the fact of occupation contrary to the position of the faction”. See also: I am pleased to support the bills Poroshenko on Donbass. As voted by the deputies The report said that such actions tarnished […]

The Deputy from “popular front” Andrew Teteruk gave back to his colleague in the Parliament – the representative of “Samopomich” semen Semenchenko. It happened when he ran out of the courtroom with smoke bombs in order to blow it out. As it became known later, it threw the people’s Deputy from “Freedoms” Yury Levchenko. His act he explained that it did not support the vote of other members for reintegration laws concerning Donbass. As you know, “Freedom”, “Batkivschyna” and “Samopomich” […]

The wording of the Ukrainian law on the reintegration of Donbass , neither de jure nor de facto unacceptable. This was stated press Secretary of the Russian President, Dmitry Peskov. “This law – it is how we understand and how have information about this case, yet the bill, he is very declarative. It contains an article where the Russian Federation called the aggressor. And it also doesn’t contain any mention of the Minsk agreements”, — he said to journalists, RIA […]

The special representative of the US State Department in Ukraine Kurt Volker commented on the adoption by the Verkhovna Rada of the bills on the reintegration of Donbass, calling them “the hard steps to peace,” and urged Russia to complete the “conflict”. About this he wrote on his Twitter page. “The extension of special status shows that Ukraine takes the hard steps to peace. I hope from now on, Russia will act, come to the world – it’s time to […]