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  • Police had to open fire to stop blockaders A police officer had to make warning shots into the air to stop a convoy of vehicles that was moving at high speed, the Interior Ministry press center reported on 15 March. "At around…
  • Ukraine will not engage in any trade with the businesses seized by the representatives of the Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics (DPR/LPR) on the occupied territories of Donbas…
  • Detained blockaders released unharmed - police The police of Donetsk Region have released all the detained participants in the railway blockade of the occupied territories in Donbas, Donetsk regional police chief Vyacheslav Abroskyn…
  • Ukrainian foreign minister profiles Russian weapons in Donbas The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin says that the Russian Federation has sent up to one thousand artillery systems, over 400 tanks and 200 multiple rocket launch…
  • Akhmetov's holding company not to pay taxes to militants The System Capital Management holding company, owned by Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, has rejected the separatists' demand to re-register their businesses and pay taxes in the…
  • Donbass blockaders pull out of talks with government The organizers of the blockade of the railway lines with the occupied territories said they pull out of the talks with Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman. The blockade headquarters…
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  • Artemenko elaborates on his "peace plan" Verkhovna Rada deputy Andriy Artemenko at a press conference on Monday, 27 February, gave details of his peace plan. According to him, Ukraine has to choose between the Korean-type…
  • Self-Help goes east to back blockade The members of the Self-Help faction in the Verkhovna Rada on Thursday will go to Donbas to join the participants of the blockade railway tracks crossing the frontline. "Today, right…
  • Swedish think tank shows supply of Russian heavy weapons to Donbas Russia supplied militants in the east Ukrainian with tanks, anti-aircraft missiles and anti-tank weapons, says this week's report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute…
  • "Artemenko peace plan" said coordinated with Kremlin The head of the Radical Party Oleh Lyashko says the member of his faction Andriy Artemenko has developed his plan of the normalization of relations with Russia along with Putin's crony…
  • Energy minister: security council did not discuss crackdown on blockade The National Security and Defence Council (NSDC) did not consider an option of a crackdown on the blockade in Donbas in order to have it removed, Energy and Coal Industry Minister…
  • EU urges unblocking of railway lines in Donbas The European Union urges protesters to stop blocking railway lines in Donbas. "The blockade of railway communication between the territories controlled by Ukraine and certain areas…
  • Poroshenko: Donbas coal is Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has suggested that Ukraine should not abandon anthracite coal extracted in the uncontrolled territories. "Ukraine will pursue further diversification of…
  • Minsk group agrees on heavy guns pullout by 20 Feb The trilateral contact group agreed a pullout of troops in Donbas at its meeting on 15 February, the Belta news agency has quoted OSCE special representative Martin Sajdik as saying…
  • Poroshenko: no elections in Donbas at Russia's gunpoint President Petro Poroshenko insists that the elections in Donbas are impossible without the withdrawal of Russian troops. At a joint briefing with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras…