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Daily Ukraine Crisis Updates – August 7, 2014

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(RIA Novosti) Clashes among activists and police broke out on central Kiev's Maidan Square, the flashpoint of the country’s pro-EU uprising in November 2013.
(Interfax Ukraine) The Ukrainian Interior Ministry reported that some members of police and security units were injured in the standoff in Maidan Square, during which 2 people were detained.
(RIA Novosti) Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko suspended the ceasefire he previously declared in the area where a Malaysian Boeing crashed in eastern Ukraine last month.
Oleksandr Borodai resigned as the ‘prime minister’ of the self-proclaimed Donetsk Peole's Republic.
(Interfax Ukraine) A least five people were killed and another 10 injured as a shell exploded near a bus stop in Horlivka.
(Interfax Ukraine) Seven Ukrainian military servicemen were killed and 19 others wounded in the military operation in the eastern part of the country over the past 24 hours.
(RIA Novosti) The head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council Andriy Parubiy said he had tendered his resignation and the country’s president had accepted it.

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(Interfax Ukraine) Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who was visiting Ukraine, discussed joint steps meant for further deepening of the country's cooperation with the alliance.
(ITAR-TASS) NATO has terminated cooperation with Russia, is set to strengthen collective defense of the military alliance’s member states, and will expand its level of cooperation with Ukraine, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in Kyiv.
Russia announced it was imposing a "full embargo" on food imports from the EU, US and some other Western countries, in response to sanctions over Ukraine.
(ITAR-TASS) Relations between Russia and the United States have no prospects in the next two years, State Duma lower house Foreign Affairs committee chief Aleksei Pushkov said.
(Interfax Ukraine) U.S. and EU sanctions against Russia are working, and the United States expects Moscow to take steps to de-escalate the situation in Ukraine, U.S. President Barack Obama said.
(Interfax Ukraine) The chairman of Ukraine’s Security Service alleged that militants were preparing for the invasion of the Russian armed forces into the territory of Ukraine, which was to follow the planned terrorist attack on an airliner in Donetsk region, on July 17-18.

Firestein at Army War College

EWI's David Firestein participated in Army War College's National Security Program in late July.

David Firestein, Perot Fellow and Vice President for the Strategic Trust-Building Initiative and Track 2 Diplomacy at the EastWest Institute, participated in the U.S. Army War College Commandant’s National Security Program on July 21-24, 2014. This program is the capstone event for the graduating class of the Master of Strategic Studies degree and provides an important platform for frank exchanges on opportunities and challenges in national security policy and strategy with policymakers, senior commanders, thought leaders and other experts across various disciplines, sectors and experience levels. It also allows experts to interact with some of the next generation of future senior commanders, while raising students’ awareness of the society they serve, in the context of a dynamic global security environment.

Post written by Strategic Trust-Building Initiative Intern Charissa Lee.

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Daily Ukraine Crisis Updates – August 6, 2014

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(Interfax Ukraine) The Ukrainian military involved in the operation in eastern Ukraine was conducting raids and isolating areas controlled by militants.
(Interfax Ukraine) Eighteen Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and 54 injured in the area of the military operation in eastern Ukraine over the last 24 hours.
(ITAR-TASS) The Netherlands suspended search operations on the MH17 crash site in Donetsk. According to Prime Minister Mark Rutte, "At this stage it is for dangerous international specialists in the region, given the deteriorating situation in the east of Ukraine."
(RIA Novosti) The Malaysian Boeing plane that crashed in eastern Ukraine could have been brought down by an air-to-air missile and a cannon of the Su-25 fighter that had been “shadowing it,” The New Straits Times reported.
(RIA Novosti) The militants who are operating on the east of Ukraine captured three employees of the Red Cross, the National Security and Defense Council reported.

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(Interfax Ukraine) NATO expressed its concern that Russia could use the pretext of a humanitarian or peace-keeping mission as an excuse to send troops into eastern Ukraine, NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said. It went on to say that the Russian Foreign Ministry's proposal on an international humanitarian mission in the Donbas is cynical in view of continued destabilization of the situation in the region by the Russian side.
Russia's sending of peacemaking contingent to Ukraine will be estimated as a direct aggression, First Deputy Head of the Ukrainian Presidential Administration Hennadiy Zubko said.
The European Union's ambassador to Russia said that EU-Russia relations "couldn't be worse."
(ITAR-TASS) About 200 Ukrainian army soldiers who crossed into the neighboring Rostov region in southern Russia’s on August 4 were sent back home.
Russian President Vladimir Putin banned or curbed agricultural imports from countries imposing sanctions on Russia over the crisis in Ukraine.
(ITAR-TASS) Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned against attempts to intentionally hush up events in the south-eastern regions of Ukraine.
(ITAR-TASS) The International Committee of the Red Cross supported Russia’s initiative to deliver humanitarian aid to Ukraine’s south-eastern regions under its auspices, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
(RIA Novosti) Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb said that EU sanctions against Russia could lead to an economic crisis in Finland.
(Interfax Ukraine) The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry demanded that Russia return Ukrainian servicemen.

Daily Ukraine Crisis Updates – August 5, 2014

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Heavy fighting erupted in a suburb of the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, with civilian casualties reported.
(RIA Novosti) Ukraine’s eastern city of Luhansk was facing an environmental catastrophe, as Kyiv's ongoing military operation had halted waste removal from the city and water disinfection, the local authorities reported.
(ITAR-TASS) The Russian Foreign Ministry also said that the situation in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine is on the brink of humanitarian disaster, stating that the United Nations, the International Organization for Migration, and the ICRC have confirmed these concerns.
(ITAR-TASS) The government of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic established a state commission on humanitarian affairs.

Diplomacy News

The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the Ukrainian authorities have been avoiding cooperation in tackling the humanitarian issues of the population in southeast Ukraine, and called this an "absolutely irresponsible" position.
(ITAR-TASS) The United Nations Security Council was set to hold a Russian-initiated emergency meeting on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine. The open meeting was put on its daily agenda on 5 August and was to be opened immediately after a closed-door conference on sanctions against North Korea due to begin at 16:00 New York time (midnight in Moscow). As a rule, such consultations last for about an hour.
(RIA Novosti) Russia will persistently promote the initiative on setting up a humanitarian mission in violence-torn eastern Ukraine, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Ukraine expressed alarm about a new buildup of Russian forces on its border, intensifying a conflict the United Nations agency for refugees says has displaced hundreds of thousands.
(Interfax Ukraine) A total of 33,000 Russian military and 160 tanks were staying on the territory adjacent to the border with Ukraine, according to the NSDC.
A NATO official told CNN that Russia has 20,000 troops stationed close to its border with Ukraine, nearly double the number it had a week ago.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev threatened to retaliate for the grounding of a subsidiary of national airline Aeroflot because of EU sanctions, with one newspaper reporting that European flights to Asia over Siberia could be banned.
(RIA Novosti) Russian President Vladimir Putin said he has told the government to retaliate against Western sanctions.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, senior government officials, and many lawmakers were expected to visit Crimea during the week of August 11, in a defiant show of support for Russia's annexation of the Black Sea region despite tough new Western economic sanctions.
(Interfax Ukraine) Kyiv's Pechersky District Court was considering a petition on the arrest of several Russian citizens, including of businessman Konstantin Malafeyev, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, and State Duma deputies Gennady Zyuganov, Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Sergei Mironov, after which they would be placed on the interstate and international wanted list.
(Interfax Ukraine) In response to the call of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, the Latvian Foreign Ministry is ready to recognize the self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics as terrorist organizations, Latvian Ambassador to Ukraine Argita Daudze said.
(Interfax Ukraine) The Japanese Cabinet of Ministers formally endorsed the sanctions list against Russia in connection with the situation in Ukraine.
(ITAR-TASS) NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen was expected to pay a visit to Kyiv on August 7.

Daily Ukraine Crisis Updates – August 4, 2014

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The Ukrainian military urged residents of Donetsk to evacuate amid reports of increased rebel attacks on civilians and to clear the way for government troops to advance on one of the insurgency’s biggest strongholds.
(Interfax Ukraine) The territory controlled by the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics in southeast Ukraine had contracted by three quarters since the start of the military operation, Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) said.
(Interfax Ukraine) Ukrainian military commanders reminded representatives of the self-proclaimed 'Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics' about the norms of international humanitarian law and suggested establishing humanitarian corridors for civilian population to leave the cities of Luhansk and Donetsk and the town of Horlivka.
(Interfax Ukraine) Over a hundred representatives of the international mission as well as OSCE observers began work at the crash site of the Malaysian Boeing-777-200 in Donetsk.
(RIA Novosti) The OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine came under fire on their way to the crash site.
(Interfax Ukraine) Two people were wounded in an attack on Penal Colony No. 28 in Torez, Donetsk region.
(RIA Novosti) Since the beginning of the Kyiv-led military operation, 523 people have died with more than 3,000 injured in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, the republic’s Moscow representative Andrei Rodkin said.

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(Interfax Ukraine) Russia cannot introduce its peacekeeping troops in Ukraine unilaterally, Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council, said. "The introduction of peacekeepers is the strict prerogative of the UN Security Council.”
(RIA Novosti) 438 Ukrainian military personnel asked Russian border guards to open a humanitarian corridor to Russian territory and requested refugee status.
(Interfax Ukraine) Contact with the Ukrainian troops who asked Russian border guards to open a humanitarian corridor to Russian territory was being maintained through diplomatic channels.
(ITAR-TASS) Settlement of the Ukraine crisis is hardly possible as long as southeastern Ukrainians are considered terrorists and separatists, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
(ITAR-TASS) The Russian Foreign Ministry said that NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen keeps making “far-fetched” accusations against Russia which indicate that NATO is still unable to separate long-term security and stability interests in the Euro-Atlantic region from its own momentary goals.
(RIA Novosti) The Russian Foreign Ministry said that Kyiv-led forces continued to re-deploy short-range ballistic missile systems and multiple-launch rocket systems to the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk in a move that could threaten the lives of hundreds of civilians.
Russia's defense ministry announced it is holding military exercises this week involving 100 aircraft in the west of the country near the Ukraine border.
(ITAR-TASS) The Ukrainian government was preparing draft laws that will restrict entry to the country for certain officials and limit public purchases from Russia.
(RIA Novosti) US President Barack Obama said in an interview with The Economist that he does not regret the “reset” in relations with Russia.

Daily Ukraine Crisis Updates – August 1, 2014

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The Dutch justice ministry said that a team of 70 international experts got to work recovering bodies at the crash site of flight MH17 in war-torn eastern Ukraine.
Alexander Proselkov, deputy foreign minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, was shot and killed while accompanying a motorcade carrying humanitarian cargo.
(Interfax Ukraine) Ukrainian troops freed the urban village of Nov Svit in the Donetsk region.
(Interfax Ukraine) Ten Ukrainian paratroopers were killed, 13 were wounded, and 11 went missing in the fighting near the town of Shakhtarsk, Donetsk region.
(ITAR-TASS) The OSCE announced that another meeting of the international contact group on the peaceful settlement of the crisis in eastern Ukrain, involving representatives from the militias, will be held next week.
(Interfax Ukraine) The contact group at a meeting in Minsk agreed to release 20 persons captured in clashes in the Donbas.
(ITAR-TASS) The city of Luhansk was left without water or electricity in a 30-degree heat as the Ukrainian army continued its security operation. The conflict-torn east Ukrainian city of Luhansk was on the verge of humanitarian catastrophe, the city council press service said.
(Interfax Ukraine) The police head in the town of Dokuchayevsk, Donetsk region and his driver were killed.

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Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika said that the Ukrainian military should be prosecuted for war crimes against civilians.
Russian combat aircraft and helicopters illegally crossed Ukraine's border several times on July 31-August 1, flying up to 10-15 kilometers deep into Ukraine, Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council information and analytical center spokesman Andriy Lysenko said.
(Interfax Ukraine) The Ukrainian government ordered the State Fiscal Service to make lists of companies with Russian capital operating in Ukraine to study the possibility of imposing sanctions on them.
(RIA Novosti) Russian Envoy to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov said that unlike the United States, Moscow is directly interested in settling the Ukrainian crisis.
(RIA Novosti) Chizhov said that Moscow is not breaking diplomatic cooperation with Ukraine, but Kyiv’s tone leaves much to be desired.
(RIA Novosti) Chizov also said that the European Union has demonstrated the first signs of thinking over an “exit strategy” from the current anti-Russian sanctions. He stated that the EU’s sanctions against Russia are “shooting” and will not help stabilize the Ukrainian crisis.
(ITAR-TASS) The EU sanctions on oil equipment are not critical, an official of Russia’s major oil company Rosneft said.

Daily Ukraine Crisis Updates – July 31, 2014

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(Interfax Ukraine) No fighting was reported in the city of Donetsk on the morning of July 31, but the situation remained tense in the city and vehicles carrying armed people dressed in camouflage could be seen on its streets, the city administration said in a press release. Local residents reported overnight salvoes fired from heavy weapons presumably in the area surrounding the city's airport and Tekstylschyk district.
(RIA Novosti) Ukrainian Prime Minster Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that the Kyiv authorities are planning to provide eastern Ukraine with financial assistance if government troops gain control over local cities.
(ITAR-TASS) Eight OSCE observers, along with four Dutch and Australian experts, were able to access the MH17 crash site for the first time in nearly a week. The mission was completed and the team made it back to their base in a safe zone.
(ITAR-TASS) The Ukrainian army suspended its advance in the Malaysian jet crash area to enable the work of international experts.
(ITAR-TASS) Authorities of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic declared a state of siege in the eastern Ukraine city of Donetsk amid continuous shelling by Ukrainian army artillery.
(ITAR-TASS) Three civilians, including a teenager, were killed and another seven wounded in the Ukrainian army’s shelling of Luhansk from July 30-31.

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(ITAR-TASS) Russia hopes for China’s support to an initiative to set up a humanitarian mission for southeast Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a meeting with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.
The trilateral contact group on settling the situation in eastern Ukraine was potentially meeting at the Belarusian government residence Zaslavl in Minsk on July 31.
(RIA Novosti) The European Council gave its final approval for economic sanctions against Russia.
(ITAR-TASS) The G7 called for a ceasefire in Ukraine, said a statement distributed on its behalf by the White House press service.
The Independent alleged that Germany and Russia have been working on a secret plan to broker a peaceful solution to end international tensions over the Ukraine, hinging on two main ambitions: stabilizing the borders of Ukraine and providing the financially troubled country with a strong economic boost, particularly a new energy agreement ensuring security of gas supplies. The plan also supposedly calls for international recognition of Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its independence. Negotiations were purportedly stalled by the downing of MH17.
The Ukrainian presidential administration reported that the documents on the ratification of the Association Agreement with the European Union are currently at the Foreign Ministry and the process is going as scheduled.
(ITAR-TASS) Head of the Russian Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin said Russia’s investigators are subjected to regular aimed fire at the border with Ukraine.
(RIA Novosti) Russia submitted to the United Nations and Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) its data of objective area surveillance over the Malaysian Boeing crash site in Ukraine.
(Interfax Ukraine) Oleg Storchevoi, a deputy chief of the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviation) appointed as a Russian representative to take part in an investigation into the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777's crash in Ukraine, arrived in Kyiv along with a group of advisers.
(Interfax Ukraine) Norway was planning to 'align itself' with the EU sanctions against Russia over Ukraine.
(ITAR-TASS) If Russia decides to focus retaliatory sanctions against the EU on Latvia, they could have a disastrous effect on Latvia’s national economy, Latvian Economics Minister Vyacheslav Dombrovsky said.

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(ITAR-TASS) Ukraine's parliament voted against the resignation of Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk.
(Interfax Ukraine) The Ukrainian parliament supported a proposal of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to introduce a temporary war tax of 1.5% on the wage fund until January 1, 2015.
Ukraine's economic decline accelerated as fighting between the army and pro-Russian separatists in the east took a heavy toll on industry and other economic activity in the last three months. The national statistics office said that the economy contracted by 4.7 percent in the second quarter compared with the same period last year and shrank by 2.3 percent in the three months from April, when the separatist rebellion began, to June.
(Interfax Ukraine) The Verkhovna Rada at a closed emergency meeting ratified the agreements with Australia and the Netherlands on the access of the international police mission to the scene of the Malaysian Boeing 777 crash in Donetsk region and the protection of the crash inquiry.
(Interfax Ukraine) The period of the early parliamentary election campaign in Ukraine could be reduced from 60 to 45 days.

Daily Ukraine Crisis Updates – July 30, 2014

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International observers turned back again after making another attempt to reach the site where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 went down in eastern Ukraine, and a government official said the area near the zone had been mined by pro-Russian separatists who control it.
(ITAR-TASS) Ukraine’s army is not planning to use military force to restore control over the Malaysian Boeing crash area in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, Ukraine’s Vice-Premier Vladimir Groisman said.
The Ukrainian army said it had seized the key town of Avdiivka near the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, as fighting raged in the east.
(Interfax Ukraine) One hundred residents were injured and 27 killed, including four children, in Horlivka, Donetsk region, on July 27 – 29.
(Interfax Ukraine) Ukrainian diplomats were working on the recognition of the self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk "people's republics" as terrorist organizations by international organizations and foreign states.
(Interfax Ukraine) The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has released satellite images that it claims confirm the shelling of Ukrainian settlements with Russian Grad multiple rocket launchers from Ukrainian territory.
(ITAR-TASS) Separatists claimed to have put out of action 125 armored vehicles of the Ukrainian army near the city of Shakhtyorsk in the country’s east.
(Interfax Ukraine) An attempt was made to blow up a bridge in Kharkiv region on July 29.

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(ITAR-TASS) Russia will soon submit to international organizations its proposals to organize a humanitarian mission for Ukraine’s embattled southeast, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. The proposals will be handed to the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
(ITAR-TASS) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Ukraine had plunged into a civil war.
Russia became more isolated than it has been at any time since the end of the Cold War after new, hard-hitting sanctions were announced by the European Union and the United States, U.S. officials said. The EU Council adopted further EU restrictive measures in view of the situation in Ukraine, adding eight persons and three entities to the list of those subject to an asset freeze and a visa ban.
Ukraine welcomed the adoption of new EU and U.S. sanctions against Russia.
(RIA Novosti) EU sanctions against Russia’s energy sector will inevitably lead to a price hike on the European energy market, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Citing Russia's stalled growth rate and a flow of foreign capital out of Moscow, U.S. and European officials hope a new round of sanctions targeting energy and defense entities, as well as major banks, will deepen Russia's economic pain even further and force President Vladimir Putin to end provocations in Ukraine.
(Interfax Ukraine) Russia will face complete isolation if it invades Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said.
(RIA Novosti) Russia will do its utmost to start the negotiations process in Ukraine and end the bloodshed, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
(RIA Novosti) Moscow is concerned by reports that Ukraine’s government troops have used ballistic missiles against “independence supporters” in the country’s east, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
(Interfax Ukraine) Russia is waging an undeclared war on Ukraine, punishing the country for its European choice, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said. "In my opinion, the world faces the biggest threat since the Cuban crisis of 1962," he said.

Daily Ukraine Crisis Updates – July 29, 2014

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An international investigative team, including Dutch and Australian police officers, failed for the third time to access the MH17 crash site in eastern Ukraine, amid heavy fighting between government forces and rebels there.
(RIA Novosti) Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte called on Kyiv authorities to stop the military operation around the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash site. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told Rutte that he would take all measures “to allow investigators access” to the scene.
(ITAR-TASS) The international mission to secure the MH-17 crash site in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region will be allowed to carry and use arms.
(ITAR-TASS) The co-chairman of the self-proclaimed “Republic of Novorossiya People’s Front” alleged that current Ukrainian authorities plan to stage terrorist acts on the territory under their control in largest cities of the country. The co-chairman said that Kyiv needs new “horror stories” for the West to confirm a statement about “Donbass terrorists”.
(Interfax Ukraine) Ten Ukrainian army soldiers were killed and another 55 were injured as a result of fighting in the country's eastern regions in the past 24 hours.
Ukraine said its troops entered the towns of Shakhtarsk and Torez in Donetsk region, and Lutuhyne in Luhansk region. Ten Ukrainian soldiers and 17 civilians were reportedly killed in the last 24 hours.
Illegal armed groups shelled School No. 30 in Donetsk with heavy artillery.
(Interfax Ukraine) Separatists were continuing to fire Grad multiple rocket launchers and mortars at the Luhansk airport.
A group of hackers sympathetic to the rebels said it has disabled the website of the Ukrainian president.

Diplomacy News

US Secretary of State John Kerry said that there is not a "shred of evidence" that Russia wants to end violence in Ukraine. He indicated that the US was preparing new sanctions against Russia.
European Union governments reached a deal to impose economic sanctions against Russia, targeting its oil industry, defence, dual-use goods and sensitive technologies.
(ITAR-TASS) The European Union’s tough economic sanctions against Russia can negatively influence Finland’s economy, a Finnish senior government official said. “We have to choose between what is correct from the moral and security point of view and what would be best for our economic interests in the short term.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry discussed the situation in Ukraine and some aspects of an investigation into the crash of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 in a telephone conversation the U.S. proposed to organize.
(ITAR-TASS) The Russian Foreign Ministry said the Kyiv authorities are hindering an independent international investigation of a recent Boeing air crash in embattled eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Region, and some Western countries are trying to shield them.
The US government said that Russia has violated a key arms control treaty by testing a nuclear cruise missile. Russia tested a ground-launched cruise missile, breaking the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty signed in 1987 during the Cold War, the US said. A senior US official did not provide further details on the alleged breach, but described it as "very serious".
Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said that sanctions on Russian capital markets being considered by European Union member states in response to the Ukraine crisis would have a "far-reaching and immediate effect".
Britain's ambassador to the US called Vladimir Putin "thuggish, dishonest and reckless" as sanctions against Russia are stepped up in the wake of the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.
(RIA Novosti) Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to help in evacuating children, who require urgent medical assistance, from violence-hit eastern Ukraine.
(ITAR-TASS) Two thirds of Russians (63%) are against sending troops to the war-torn southeastern regions of Ukraine, the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Centre said.

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A group of eight observers of the OSCE's permanent mission arrived at the Veselo-Voznesenka border checkpoint.

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