On May 17, Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland will travel from Vienna, Austria, to Moscow, Russia. She will meet with senior Russian government officials to discuss the situation in eastern Ukraine and next steps to implement ...
Read More »OSCE warns of ‘worrying levels’ of cease-fire violations in eastern Ukraine
The statement by Ertugrul Apakan, head of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, came as four civilians were reported killed in shelling in eastern Ukraine, Radio Liberty reports. At least four civilians were killed April 26 when three ...
Read More »U.S. insists on special status for Donbas, militant amnesty, local election
U.S. Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Nuland, who arrived in Kyiv on Monday, announced these key messages at a meeting with representatives of the Ukrainian parliament’s factions on Tuesday, says representative of the Samopomich’s faction Victoria Voytsitska, who ...
Read More »Ukraine to make welfare payments in occupied territory only after territorial integrity resumed – Vice-Premier
Payments of social assistance and pensions to internally displaced people who live in the territory controlled by, while in the temporarily occupied territories this will become possible only after the full implementation of the Minsk agreements and the resumption of ...
Read More »Minsk peace talks: Trilateral Contact Group agreed to stop military drills in Donbas on March 4
The Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine signed two documents on terms of the normalization of the situation at the contact line in Donbas at its meeting on Wednesday, OSCE Special Envoy Martin Sajdik told reporters, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to ...
Read More »Russian FM Lavrov to attend Ukraine meeting in Paris to discuss Minsk agreements implementation
The Kremlin has confirmed that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will attend a meeting in Paris on March 3 to discuss the implementation a peace plan for Ukraine under the Minsk accords of February 2015, RFE/RL reports. The Minsk peace ...
Read More »Peace talks on Donbas: Trilateral Contact Group held a meeting in Minsk
At the meeting in Minsk the Trilateral Contact Group discussed the issue of the elections in Donbas and the release of the hostages, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to the information posted on Facebook by Darka Olifer, the press secretary of the ...
Read More »The Trilateral Contact Group reached a ceasefire agreement
December 22, in Minsk the Trilateral Contact Group reached a vital ceasefire agreement to come into effect at 00:00 of Wednesday December 23, 2015, Joinfo.ua reports referring to the information posted on Facebook by Darka Olifer, the press secretary of ...
Read More »Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk did not agree to hold elections in Donbas
Trilateral Contact Group held a meeting in Minsk. The parties did not agree to hold elections in Donbas, Joinfo.ua reports. Darka Olifer, the press secretary of Ukraine’s ex-President Leonid Kuchma, the representative of Ukraine in the contact group, wrote on ...
Read More »Trilateral Contact Group proceeded on the hostages exchange, international monitoring
At the meeting in Minsk, the participants of the Trilateral Contact Group agreed the proposal of the working sub-group on security regarding the demining of the specific areas based on their infrastructural and humanitarian significance, as well as a proposal ...
Read More »Political sub-group of the Trilateral Contact Group started negotiations in Minsk
On November 30, negotiations of the Trilateral Contact Group on the settlement of the situation in the eastern Ukraine have resumed in political sub-group in Minsk. The main issue is the elections on the territory of DPR, LPR. The negotiations ...
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