27 de diciembre de 2015, 15:11Kyiv, Dec 27 (Prensa Latina) Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled the Trudovaya Mine settlement in the western suburb of insurgent Donetsk People”s Republic (DPR), reported today that authorities in rebel territory.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Earlier in the day, the Donetsk News Agency reported that an inspection group comprising the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic’s Deputy Defense Minister Eduard Basurin, representatives of OSCE and the Joint Center for Ceasefire Control and Coordination has been shelled near the village of Kominternove near Mariupol, close to the contact line in southern Donbass, and had to return to Donetsk. Later the SMM OSCE confirmed that its observers came under fire.
MOSCOW, December 27. /TASS/. Today’s shelling of a group of Russian journalists and monitors of the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) by Ukrainian troops near the village of Kominternovo in Donbass proves that Kyiv is not committed to its ceasefire liabilities, Russia’s Permanent Representative at the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich said on Sunday.
Is there room in your life for another Nutcracker? If so, make it Clara’s Dream — billed as Edmonton’s Ukrainian Nutcracker — which is closing out the holiday season with a couple of performances. Produced by the Shumka Dancers, with guest artists from Edmonton’s Citie Ballet, Viter Ukrainian Folk Choir, and Ukraine’s Virsky and Kyiv Ballet companies, Clara’s Dream features ballet, folk dance and character dance in a very Edmonton-centric take on Tchaikovsky’s Christmas classic. The creative talent behind this version is formidable, including Kyiv Ballet resident choreographer and longtime Shumka choreographer, Viktor Lytvynov; set and costume designer Maria Levitska of the National Opera of Ukraine (Kyiv Ballet); and Ukrainian composer Yuri Shevchenko.
A Ukrainian soldier and an elderly woman have been killed as government forces and pro-Russian separatists clashed in the first violation of a holiday truce, a Ukraine military spokesman said Sunday.
The quiet village of Ptycha has become an unlikely battleground for the Orthodox faithful in western Ukraine, where the divide between pro- and anti-Moscow factions plays out far from the eastern front of the war-torn country.
Ukraine has adopted an “unrealistic” budget for next year with a deficit totaling 3.7 percent of its GDP. The Ukrainian government hopes that the measure will help it to avoid bankruptcy, the German newspaper Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten reported. (More …)
Pug owners dressed their four-legged friends in santa hats, tinsels and knitted jumpers