Giving lie to Vladimir Putin’s claims that Russia isn’t fighting in Ukraine, up to 80 Russian troops were killed in a skirmish there last month, according to information released by an opposition politician.

Analyst: “We expect many headaches imposed by the Russians regarding the Ukraine-EU free trade area in the form of such complaints, as well as punitive and retaliatory measures.”

 

War threatens a community that has survived the Holocaust and the Soviet era…The chief rabbi of Donetsk [seen in photo] now operates from a small office in Kyiv; his wife and children have already left for the United States.

"The situation with the truce in Eastern Ukraine is still unclear," Anastasia Sosnova, analyst at Rossiysky Capital in Moscow, said in a note."According to recent reports by the OSCE, which monitors the situation, there have been some violations of the ceasefire. So there are no reasons for the resumption of growth in the Russian stock market."

 

JKX, which has most of its production assets in Ukraine and Russia, said last month that it would take "operational and financial measures" after Ukraine almost doubled its gas production tax rate to 55 percent between Aug. 1 and the end of the year.

 One of the main points (of the Minsk agreements) is the principle of the ceasefire, followed by the other points. For now, the first point is not being observed. We’re not addressing the other ones yet,” Lysenko said. He added that the withdrawal of Ukrainian units to a certain distance will take place only with the “simultaneous withdrawal of Russian troops.”

 

Speaking in a pre-recorded interview with representatives of major Ukrainian TV channels broadcast by state UT1 on the evening of 21 September, Poroshenko said: “I stress that the war in the city of Donetsk and in the city of Luhansk cannot be won by military means alone.

 

Those boycotting Russian products say they are not trying to destroy Russia’s economy. What concerns them is the thought that (the sale of the products) is helping to fund Russia’s war in Ukraine. They say that those who buy Russian products are automatically becoming sponsors of this war.

 

“Western leaders have imposed sanctions in a way and of a type that have in fact helped Putin continue to terrorize his own population and to prepare for a wider war and they have even refused to call things like invasion and racism by their proper names, thus providing Putin with the opening he seeks to continue to terrorize them and Russians as well.”

 

"Each state is responsible for the security of its air space," Giemulla said in a statement emailed to Reuters. "If it is not able to do so temporarily, it must close its air space. As that did not happen, Ukraine is liable for the damage."

 

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