07:31
9.6.2014
This dsnews.ua report suggests that with continued refusal to accept a "road map" in the federal budget for Crimean socio-economic development two months into its planning, the Russian government is showing a change of heart.
07:48
9.6.2014
From Russian media reports:
A Russian crew from Zvezda TV has arrived in Moscow after being released from detention in Ukraine.
Zvezda TV today confirmed the arrival in Moscow of soundman Andrei Sushenkov and cameraman Anton Malyshev, saying the two had been turned over to Russian authorities at the Nekhoteyevka border crossing in the Russian region of Belgorod.
It said the two were airlifted to Moscow by a Russian military plane.
They drove into eastern Ukraine from Russia on June 6, saying they'd cover the inauguration in Kyiv of President Petro Poroshenko.
Contact with them was lost on June 6 after they phoned their producer in Moscow, saying they’d been stopped at a checkpoint near Donetsk.
Zvezda TV -- together with Russia’s Human Rights Council, the Journalists Unions of Russia and Moscow, and the European Commission -- had urged Poroshenko to secure their release.
Zvezda TV today confirmed the arrival in Moscow of soundman Andrei Sushenkov and cameraman Anton Malyshev, saying the two had been turned over to Russian authorities at the Nekhoteyevka border crossing in the Russian region of Belgorod.
It said the two were airlifted to Moscow by a Russian military plane.
They drove into eastern Ukraine from Russia on June 6, saying they'd cover the inauguration in Kyiv of President Petro Poroshenko.
Contact with them was lost on June 6 after they phoned their producer in Moscow, saying they’d been stopped at a checkpoint near Donetsk.
Zvezda TV -- together with Russia’s Human Rights Council, the Journalists Unions of Russia and Moscow, and the European Commission -- had urged Poroshenko to secure their release.
08:04
9.6.2014
08:23
9.6.2014
RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service quotes a source at the Dnipropetrovsk regional hospital saying that the latest soldier arriving yesterday from Donbas fighting puts at 14 the number of those injured during the counterterrorism operation there, including two civilians.
08:54
9.6.2014
In case you missed it, here's the statement from Petro Poroshenko's office which the newly inaugurated Ukrainian president is quoted as saying "We have to stop the shooting this week."
09:14
9.6.2014
09:23
9.6.2014
Worth a listen if you didn't catch the Power Vertical Podcast on Friday.
09:56
9.6.2014
Via Interfax:
Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin doubts the possibility of UN peacekeepers' deployment in Ukraine.
"This question should be raised to see everyone's reaction and to set a political goal. Probably, consent of Kyiv, the Ukrainian government will be necessary. As a rule, such consent is asked for. It is debatable whether they will agree to the presence of the peacekeeping contingent if Kyiv intends to carry on the army operation in the east and they wish to solve this problem by force," Churkin said in an interview with Channel One.
"Hopefully, this attitude will now change," he added.
"This question should be raised to see everyone's reaction and to set a political goal. Probably, consent of Kyiv, the Ukrainian government will be necessary. As a rule, such consent is asked for. It is debatable whether they will agree to the presence of the peacekeeping contingent if Kyiv intends to carry on the army operation in the east and they wish to solve this problem by force," Churkin said in an interview with Channel One.
"Hopefully, this attitude will now change," he added.
12:36
9.6.2014
A video from our Ukrainian Service of two men -- one a former member of the disbanded Berkut riot police force that helped crack down on Maidan activities and the other a Maidan activist -- who now serve in the Ukrainian National Guard and man a checkpoint near the embattled eastern city of Slovyansk.
12:46
9.6.2014