Putin
Holds Talks With Security Chiefs Over 'Deterioration' in Eastern
Ukraine
Russian
President Vladimir Putin has held talks with top security chiefs over
a "deterioration of the situation" in eastern Ukraine after
pro-Russian rebels there accused Kiev of launching a new offensive in
violation of a cease-fire
7
November, 2014
Sporadic
violence has flared since the Sept. 5 truce in a conflict that has
cost more than 4,000 lives; but the cease-fire has looked
particularly fragile this week with separatists and the central
government accusing each other of violations.
Andrei
Purgin, deputy prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's
Republic, said Thursday that the Ukrainian army had launched "all-out
war" on rebel positions, news agency RIA Novosti reported.
Ukrainian
military spokesman Vladyslav Seleznyov denied this, saying the army
remained in agreed positions.
"We
refute these allegations … we're strictly fulfilling the Minsk
memorandum [on a cease-fire]," he said by telephone.
A
Kremlin statement said the presidential Security Council, which
groups key security and defense officials under Putin's chairmanship,
discussed among other things a "deterioration of the situation
in the Donbass due to repeated violations of the cease-fire by the
armed forces of Ukraine."
It
did not say what decisions, if any, had been reached over the
conflict that broke out in the industrialized east after the
overthrow of Ukraine's Moscow-backed leader Viktor Yanukovych in
February and Russia's subsequent annexation of Crimea.
A
witness in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk said there was no sign the
conflict was escalating.
Representatives
of the separatist regions earlier put out a joint statement calling
for a redrafting of the Minsk deal, which established a cease-fire in
exchange for Kiev granting "special status" to eastern
territories.
Rebels
say Ukraine has violated the deal by seeking to revoke a law that
would have granted eastern regions autonomy. Kiev says this was a
consequence of Sunday's separatist leadership elections, which it
says go against the agreement.
The
Ukrainian military said three soldiers had been killed Thursday,
reporting a total of 26 separate artillery clashes with separatists.
Как считают голоса в ОИК №59 (Марьинка, Кратово)
What an election in Ukraine looks like
The
car of the head of Dnepropetrovsk Right Sector and new Ukrainian PM
exploded
7
November, 2014
.
A
car of the head of Dnepropetrovsk branch of the 'Right Sector' Andrey
Denisenko blew up today in Dnepropetrovsk. No injuries were reported.
"I
arrived this morning to my mother's in this car. Half an hour later
there was an explosion", - said Denisenko. "Thank God no
one was hurt, but actually the boys were preparing, as well as
yesterday, to go to the 59th election district in support of
Valentine Manica and against the pushing into the people's deputies
of 'Party of Regions' separatist Goloven."
"Interestingly,
at this very moment, when in Dnepropetrovsk our 'Deo-Lanos' was
burning, a column of 4 BTRs and half a dozen armored vehicles of a
special unit of the Interior Ministry 'Gepard' entered Velikaya
Novoselka. I hope these events are not related in any way," -
wrote Andrey Denisenko on Facebook.
Andrey
Denisenko ran as a single mandate candidate from 'Petro Poroshenko
Block'. Recently he won the election in district 26 and became a
Deputy of the Verkhovnaja Rada.
Dnepropetrovsk
Right Sector office is located in the administration building of the
Kiev-appointed governor of Dnepropetrovsk region, Igor Kolomoisky.
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