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Monday, 22 July 2019, 05:05
The Ukrainian delegation to the OSCE at a meeting of the Forum for Security Cooperation on July 17 raised the issue of the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in the sky over occupied Donbas, noting Russia's responsibility for this war crime, Ukraine's Deputy Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Ihor Lossovsky has told an Ukrinform correspondent.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry strongly condemns new attempts by the Russian authorities to extend the simplified procedure for obtaining Russian passports for Ukrainian citizens living in occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
President of Russia Vladimir Putin has simplified the process of obtaining Russian citizenship for all Ukrainian citizens residing in the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and not only in the occupied areas of Donbas.
Ethnic Ukrainians living abroad may soon have an opportunity of getting the citizenship of Ukraine.
The Cabinet of Ministers has appointed three new members of the Supervisory Board of JSC CB PrivatBank, according to the Finance Ministry’s press service.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has disclosed the details of a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on July 11 during which they also discussed the release of prisoners.
The European Parliament (EP) at a plenary session in Strasbourg on Wednesday determined the composition of delegations in the framework of interparliamentary cooperation with third countries.
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the strategy on promoting Ukrainian language until 2030.
Some 60 observers from the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, including 42 parliamentarians from 20 countries, are deploying to Ukraine this week for the 21 July parliamentary elections.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) sent five trucks carrying humanitarian aid to the temporarily occupied territories of Donbas, according to the press service of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.
A Moscow court's decision to extend the arrest of 24 Ukrainian sailors is another violation of international law and further aggravates the dispute between Russia and Ukraine, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on July 17.
A total of 128 Canadian short-term observers, led by former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada Lloyd Axworthy, have arrived in Ukraine.
The Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) has agreed on a new lasting ceasefire in Donbas from midnight on July 21, according to Darka Olifer, spokesperson for Ukraine's representative in the TCG, Leonid Kuchma.
The armed formations of the Russian Federation violated ceasefire 15 times, using 82mm mortars banned under the Minsk agreements once, in the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) area in Donbas over the past day.