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[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Starting from January 2014, EMPR twitter team operates 24/7 to provide in-time Ukraine news, breaking news, analytics, video and photo reports for our readers from all over the World.
Discover Ukraine news for February 17, 2016 with EMPR twitter digest.
The situation in the war zone in eastern Ukraine became tense again …
ATO Press Center reports 60 violations of ceasefire & use of BM-21 "Grad" on the towns of Pervomais'ke & Nevel's'ke pic.twitter.com/RBrwQPkUqT
— EMPR (@EuromaidanPR) February 17, 2016
ATO Staff closes Maryinka control checkpoint across the contact line due to constant militant attacks https://t.co/CGTVNpIXPY |EMPR
— EMPR (@EuromaidanPR) February 17, 2016
#Ukraine #war updates as of February 17,2016: #NSC briefing highlights |
EMPR https://t.co/MeiLlBxTQT pic.twitter.com/RbW1uZZgoZ— EMPR (@EuromaidanPR) February 17, 2016
Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin resigned right to 3-days vacation…
Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin is on vacation since 15Feb. He is said to have resigned earlier, no official claims https://t.co/GHtjYwrQCl
— EMPR (@EuromaidanPR) February 17, 2016
Repressions toward Crimean Tatars in occupied Crimea continue …
Simferopol resident Marsel Alyautdinov went missing on 11Feb in Crimea. Cases w/ Crimean Tatars missing get frequent https://t.co/dRXMkkoMrt
— EMPR (@EuromaidanPR) February 17, 2016
Pro-European democratic coalition in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine might be disband as Yulia Tymoshenko’s fraction left coalition today…
Tymoshenko faction "Motherland" out of the coalition (yes she has a new look) https://t.co/OTXQ4nM0Vn |EMPR pic.twitter.com/H76X82gdUh
— EMPR (@EuromaidanPR) February 17, 2016
Ukraine's Political Turmoil Deepens as Coalition Party Quits https://t.co/r0JnBUANVR via @business @kchoursina |EMPR pic.twitter.com/Inz41Jgg4n
— EMPR (@EuromaidanPR) February 17, 2016
Meanwhile, Russia said it filed a lawsuit against Ukraine in the High Court in London after the government in Kiev defaulted on $3 billion in bonds….
Russia Sues Ukraine in London High Court Over $3 Billion Default https://t.co/2jqqaeeaYT via @markets @AndrianovaAnna @natashadoff |EMPR
— EMPR (@EuromaidanPR) February 17, 2016
Today is one year since Debaltseve bloody battles. Ukraine remembers …
Happening now: @poroshenko at the documentary premiere "#Debaltseve" – bloody volume of #Russia – #Ukraine war pic.twitter.com/L9t5Sas6Gg
— EMPR (@EuromaidanPR) February 17, 2016
A letter to @Poroshenko f #Ukrainian officers–who is responsible for giving up #Debaltseve? https://t.co/eK5qGBknl2 pic.twitter.com/WvZsOkraAa
— EMPR (@EuromaidanPR) February 17, 2016
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