2020/08/29 – 15:36 • INTERNATIONAL, WAR IN THE DONBAS A 30-minute version of The Wrong Place will be presented at 11:30, September 1, 2020 in the Sala Caduti di Nassirya del Senato (Senate of the Italian Republic) in Rome. The Wrong Place is a documentary investigating the death of Italian photographer Andrea Rocchelli and Russian journalist and interpreter Andrei Mironov on May 24,

    Russian paratroopers from the Moscow Airborne Guards Unit are in Belarus, Interfax reports, citing the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry. On Thursday, together with their Belarusian colleagues, they conducted exercises to practice storming a building at the test site near Brest. Russian servicemen parachuted out of the Mi-8 MTV-5 helicopter, stormed, freed the hostages and cleared the

   The U.S. diplomats reflect on and honor those who have sacrificed their lives for the freedom, independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine. The United States on Remembrance Day of Ukraine’s Defenders has called on Russia to end the conflict in Donbas. “On this Day of Remembrance of the Defenders of Ukraine, we reflect on and honor those who have

(Translation) Today John McCain was supposed to be 84 years old. He was a great person, professional, principled politician and a true friend of Ukraine. In 2018, the disease took him away from us. Ukraine, like America, will always lack it. We remember how during the Revolution of Dignity, in minus 26 degrees, he came out to people on the

For the 50th time in a row, residents of Khabarovsk staged an unauthorized rally in support of the former governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Sergei Furgal, who was arrested in connection with the organization of murders and assassination attempts. https://t.me/avtozaklive/7453 According to the Khabarovsk website DVhab.ru, the action began at about noon local time. Its participants marched through the central streets of the

The Belarusian Foreign Ministry has revoked dozens of local journalists working for foreign media outlets from their accreditation, Natalya Vasilyeva, the correspondent of The Daily Telegraph in Moscow , said on Twitter. Journalists from the bureau Reuters, Associated Press, AFP and Deutsche Welle were left without accreditations allowing journalists to work legally in the country, Vasilyeva said. According to her, if they report from the

Those querying the origins and motivations of BLM, including some of the commenters here, might be interested in this extract from westernjournal.com : “Thousand Currents, the California-based charity that manages fundraising operations for the national arm of Black Lives Matter, includes on its board a convicted terrorist whose sentence was commuted by President Bill Clinton on his last day in

   Today, August 29, is the Day of Remembrance of the Defenders of Ukraine who died in the struggle for the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of our state. It was established “in support of public initiatives and with a view to worthily honoring the memory of service people and members of volunteer formations who died fighting for the independence,

   Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba sees no reason to sever diplomatic relations between Ukraine and Belarus. He said this during an online briefing, Ukrainian News Agency reports. “We do not break off relations with Belarus. We pause the preparation and holding of official meetings between our countries, but there is no reason to break off diplomatic relations now, we are

As part of the drills, Ukrainian military worked out the scenario of response to a full-scale invasion. Photo from UNIAN Ukraine’s Armed Forces on Thursday held military exercises in Rivne region, involving landing and take-off of Su-27 fighter jets on the Kyiv-Chop highway. Traffic was temporarily blocked on the relevant part of the highway, TSN reported. The 39th tactical aviation

    President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in a phone conversation with President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has expressed hope that the first tranche of the micro-financial assistance from the EU in the amount of EUR 600 million will be allocated to Ukraine soon without additional conditions. Zelensky noted the importance of the EU’s decision to provide

Research on 90 patients, healthcare workers at London hospital finds that 60% had ‘potent’ antibody response when infected, but it was only maintained in 17% of them 3 months later.    Assumptions of herd immunity to the coronavirus as more people get infected may be wrong, and patients who have suffered one bout of the virus could face reinfection, according