On Thursday the Verkhovna Rada adopted a law allowing deployment to its territory foreign troops for a peacekeeping operation to ensure the speedy normalization of the situation in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. The law specifies that the purpose of the stay of the armed forces of other states on the territory of Ukraine, is the providing Ukraine military assistance at its request.
Deployment to the territory of Ukraine the armed forces of states that have not recognized its independence and territorial integrity, or having territorial claims, and aggression against Ukraine is forbidden.
Speaking in parliament, President Poroshenko stressed that the likelihood of the resumption of large-scale war in the east of Ukraine is very real. He said that in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions there are 14 specialized battalions of Russia with total number of 14,000 people, and a huge amount of military equipment.
Kiev believes that the deterioration of the situation in Donetsk is evidence of the beginning of the next offensive of the Russian troops to capture new territories of Ukraine, in particular Mariupol.-02D-
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A court in the Mangystau region of Kazakhstan has sentenced blogger Azamat Sarsenov to a 10-day detention for filming the crash site of an Embraer 190 passenger plane in Aktau. The ruling was confirmed by the court's press service, according to reports from RBC.
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The families of those killed in the crash of the AZAL passenger plane “Embrayer-190” will be paid compensation in the amount of 40 thousand manats (about 24 thousand dollars).
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On 26 December, Ramzan Kadyrov awarded his nephew Khamzat Kadurov, who holds the post of secretary of the Chechen Security Council, with the medal "For Services to the Chechen Republic".
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The Russian side must apologize for the air defense attack on the Azerbaijani civilian aircraft, said Azerbaijani MP Rasim Musabeyov.
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