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March 2019 - Ukraine Special Weapons News
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- Zelenskiy Leads Poroshenko in First Round of Ukraine's Elections VOA 31 Mar 2019 -- Comedian and political novice Volodymyr Zelensky was the top vote getter, ahead of incumbent president Petro Poroshenko, in Ukraine's first round of presidential elections, according to exit polls Sunday, leading the two candidates into a run-off election.
- Polls Put Comedian Zelenskyy Ahead In Ukrainian Presidential Election RFE/RL 31 Mar 2019 -- Comedian and political novice Volodymyr Zelenskyy secured the most votes in Ukraine's presidential election but fell short of the majority needed to win outright in the first round, exit polls suggested.
- Right Place, Right Time? Watching Ukraine's Election With Its Far-Right Monitors RFE/RL 31 Mar 2019 -- At School No. 14 in the Podil district of Ukraine's capital, Yuriy Petrenko cranes his neck to peer over the shoulder of polling station chief Iryna Podlesna as she unlocks a safe, pulls out a stack of the 83-centimeter-long ballots, and hands it to a colleague.
- All Eyes On Three Front-Runners As Ukraine Presidential Vote Offers Wrinkle On Familiar Challenge RFE/RL 31 Mar 2019 -- Ukrainians are casting their ballots on March 31 to pick a new president from an unprecedentedly broad field whose front-runners offer starkly different resumes.
- Ukraine Reports Escalation Of Attacks On Eve Of Presidential Vote RFE/RL 30 Mar 2019 -- One Ukrainian soldier was killed and four wounded in what the Ukrainian military has called an escalation of attacks by Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, one day before the country votes in the first round of its presidential election.
- Ukraine's Orthodox Church Faces Eviction In Russia-Annexed Crimea RFE/RL 29 Mar 2019 -- Ukraine's independent Orthodox Church is facing eviction in Simferopol, the capital of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, which was seized by Russia in 2014.
- Campaigning Ends In Ukraine Ahead Of Presidential Vote RFE/RL 29 Mar 2019 -- Candidates in Ukraine's presidential election spent one final day campaigning on March 29 ahead of the crucial first round vote this weekend.
- U.S. State Department Condemns Arrests Of Crimean Tatars By Russian Authorities RFE/RL 29 Mar 2019 -- The U.S. State Department has condemned the arrests of 23 Crimean Tatars in Russian-annexed Crimea.
- EU Calls On Russia To Stop Targeting Crimean Tatars RFE/RL 29 Mar 2019 -- The European Union has called on Russian authorities to stop targeting Tatars in Russian-annexed Crimea.
- Ukrainian Presidential Front-Runner Did Not Declare A 15-Room Italian Villa, Journalists Discover RFE/RL 28 Mar 2019 -- Ukrainian journalists have discovered that comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a political novice whose campaign has blurred the lines between the everyman leader he plays on a popular television sitcom and his front-runner position ahead of Ukraine's presidential election, has a 15-room villa in Italy that he failed to disclose in his public asset declaration.
- Ukraine Warned Of Russian Cyberattacks Aimed At Presidential Vote RFE/RL 28 Mar 2019 -- Ukraine is bracing itself for "unprecedented" cyberattacks during the first round of voting in the presidential election on March 31, Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence Service has warned.
- Pompeo Says He Hopes To Set New Measures Soon Against Russia Over Actions In Ukraine RFE/RL 28 Mar 2019 -- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he hopes to be able in the coming days to announce additional measures along with Western allies to counter Russian aggression in Ukraine.
- Last-Minute Lawsuit: Ukraine President Targets Oligarch's TV Channel Ahead Of Tight Election RFE/RL 26 Mar 2019 -- When it comes to distracting from the issues troubling most Ukrainians ahead of this weekend's presidential election, the rough-and-tumble among the leading candidates has rarely disappointed.
- The Comedian, the Miracle Worker, the Incumbent: Ukraine Set to Choose Next President VOA 25 Mar 2019 -- Ukraine is preparing to choose a new president, with the first round of voting in scheduled for Sunday. The leading two candidates then will then face a run off two weeks later.
- G7 Letter Takes Aim At Role Of Violent Extremists In Ukrainian Society, Election RFE/RL 22 Mar 2019 -- As the Ukrainian presidential election nears, the world's leading industrialized nations have some strong words for Ukraine's top cop amid recent far-right violence in Kyiv and other cities.
- Former US Diplomats Slam Response to 2018 Russian Attack on Ukrainian Ships VOA 22 Mar 2019 -- Recent Western-imposed sanctions targeting Russia – spawned by a naval attack on Ukrainian soldiers on the Sea of Azov late last year – are too little, too late, say former top U.S. emissaries to the region.
- Ukrainian MP Demands Evidence of Alleged 'No Prosecute' List VOA 21 Mar 2019 -- A Ukrainian parliamentarian is asking Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko to prove allegations he recently made that Marie Yovanovitch, U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, gave him a list of people who should not be prosecuted – a claim quickly rejected by the United States.
- U.S. Rejects Ukraine Top Prosecutor's 'Don't Prosecute' Accusation RFE/RL 21 Mar 2019 -- The U.S. State Department has denied an explosive claim by Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Yuriy Lutsenko that U.S. Ambassador to Kyiv Marie Yovanovitch gave him "a list of people whom we should not prosecute" during their first in-person meeting.
- Ukraine Imposes Sanctions On Russians Over Kerch Bridge, Seizure Of Naval Vessels RFE/RL 20 Mar 2019 -- Ukraine has imposed economic and other sanctions on hundreds of individuals and entities for their alleged roles in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia over the Crimea region and the war in eastern Ukraine.
- Statement by the North Atlantic Council on Crimea NATO 18 Mar 2019 -- "Five years ago, Russia used force against Ukraine to illegally and illegitimately annex Crimea. This violation of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity is a serious breach of international law and a major challenge to Euro-Atlantic security."
- Leading Ukraine Candidate Fights 'Fakes With Fakes' As Facebook Tests New Political Ad Rules RFE/RL 18 Mar 2019 -- On a recent afternoon inside the digital campaign headquarters of Ukrainian comedian and presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskyy, around a dozen young volunteers sat glued to computer screens. Their task was twofold: to scour social media sites for impostor accounts and "fake news" about their candidate while trying to fend off armies of bots spreading negative comments on official campaign pages.
- Exclusive: Tymoshenko Defends Decision Not To Fight Over Crimea, Attacks Minsk Process RFE/RL 18 Mar 2019 -- Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is a leading candidate in the country's March 31 presidential election, has defended her support for Kyiv's 2014 decision not to use military force to resist Russia's annexation of the Black Sea region of Crimea.
- Canada Expected To Announce Extension Of Ukraine Training Mission RFE/RL 18 Mar 2019 -- Canada is set to announce it will extend its 200-member military training mission in Ukraine, Reuters reports, citing a source directly familiar with the matter.
- Mogherini Slams Russia As EU Marks Fifth Anniversary Of Crimea's 'Illegal Annexation' RFE/RL 17 Mar 2019 -- The European Union's foreign policy chief has marked the fifth anniversary of Russia's seizure and "illegal annexation" of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula with scathing criticism of the Kremlin.
- Putin To Visit Crimea To Mark Five Years Since Peninsula 'Rejoined' Russia RFE/RL 17 Mar 2019 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to travel to Crimea on March 18 to mark the fifth anniversary of what Moscow considers the day Ukraine's Black Sea peninsula became part of Russia.
- Hundreds Gather At Far-Right Rally In Kyiv Amid Military Corruption Scandal RFE/RL 16 Mar 2019 -- Several hundred people have gathered in Kyiv at a protest organized by a far-right group to call for arrests of figures linked to an alleged military corruption scandal.
- U.S., EU Impose New Sanctions On Russia Over Ukraine RFE/RL 15 Mar 2019 -- The United States, together with the European Union and Canada, imposed new sanctions on March 15 on more than a dozen Russian officials and businesses in response to the country's "continued aggression in Ukraine."
- US, Canada Expand Anti-Russia Sanctions Over Ukraine Sputnik 15 Mar 2019 -- The last expansion of anti-Russia sanctions by the US occurred in January 2018, when 21 individuals and 12 entities were added to the sanctions list.
- Treasury Sanctions Russia over Continued Aggression in Ukraine US Treasury 15 Mar 2019 -- Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated six Russian individuals and eight entities in response to Russia's continued and ongoing aggression in Ukraine. Today's action targets individuals and entities playing a role in Russia's unjustified attacks on Ukrainian naval vessels in the Kerch Strait, the purported annexation of Crimea, and backing of illegitimate separatist government elections in eastern Ukraine.
- Foreign Secretary statement on international sanctions in response to Russian aggression in the Black Sea UK FCO 15 Mar 2019 -- The Foreign Secretary welcomes action taken by the EU, Australia, Canada and the US
- Poroshenko Camp In Damage-Control Mode As Ukrainian Election Nears RFE/RL 13 Mar 2019 -- Ukraine's presidential election is less than three weeks away and instead of focusing solely on campaigning, incumbent Petro Poroshenko and his camp are scrambling to put out numerous fires and fend off protesters at campaign rallies.
- Ukraine: Nationalists clash with police at Kiev corruption protest Press TV 10 Mar 2019 -- Supporters of the Ukrainian far-right party National Corps held a protest in Kiev on Saturday, decrying government corruption and calling for the removal of the country's president Petro Poroshenko.
- Ukraine Police: Twenty Officers Hospitalized After Clashes With Far-Right Activists RFE/RL 10 Mar 2019 -- Police in Ukraine say that 22 officers were injured in clashes with far-right protesters who tried to attack a presidential motorcade ahead of this month's election.
- Joint UN, OSCE engagement can address crisis in Ukraine, other 'dark spots of conflict' in Europe UN News 07 Mar 2019 -- What is happening in and around Ukraine is "unacceptable, the Chairperson-in-Office for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday.
- Deputized As Election Monitors, Ukrainian Ultranationalists 'Ready To Punch' Violators RFE/RL 07 Mar 2019 -- They patrol the streets of the Ukrainian capital in matching urban camouflage and march in lockstep through Kyiv with torches.
- NATO-Ukraine Commission discusses situation in Crimea NATO 06 Mar 2019 -- The NATO-Ukraine Commission met at NATO Headquarters on Wednesday (6 March 2019) to discuss the current situation in Crimea, five years after Russia's illegal annexation.
- Weeks Before Ukraine Election, U.S. Envoy Urges Firing Of Top Anticorruption Official RFE/RL 06 Mar 2019 -- The U.S. ambassador to Kyiv has called on Ukrainian authorities to fire the country's special anticorruption prosecutor and tackle its corruption problem.
- EU Ambassadors Approve Sanctions On Eight More Russians Over Kerch Strait Incident RFE/RL 06 Mar 2019 -- EU ambassadors have agreed to impose asset freezes and visa bans on eight Russians involved in the capture and jailing of 24 Ukrainian seamen in an incident near the Kerch Strait in November, according to several sources familiar with the discussions.
- Top U.S. General Calls For More Defenses For Ukraine Against Russia RFE/RL 06 Mar 2019 -- The commander of U.S. forces in Europe called for bolstering Ukraine's defenses against Russian aggression, in eastern Ukraine as well as in the Black Sea.
- US Officials Issue Sanctions Warnings to Europe Over Russian Gas VOA 06 Mar 2019 -- U.S. officials have warned at an energy conference in Brussels that the Trump administration will take punitive action against European companies that are building the Kremlin-favored Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline, which will deliver energy from Russia to Germany while bypassing Ukraine.
- Female Tank Commander 'Defects' For Love, Warns Kyiv Of 'Invasion' Plan RFE/RL 05 Mar 2019 -- KYIV -- It may be a Ukrainian love story as complicated and dubious as the motives behind the simmering war itself: A female separatist commander and star propagandist for Russia-backed separatists defects to Kyiv to be with her Ukrainian spy lover. But she also brings word of Russian plans for a massive invasion. Moreover, she's ready to testify in The Hague to Moscow's role in alleged war crimes.
- US to Provide Enhanced Defensive Capabilities to Ukraine – European Command Sputnik 05 Mar 2019 -- The United States will provide additional defensive capabilities to Ukraine, Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO Allied Command Operations Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti announced during a hearing of the US Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday.
- EU Extends Asset Freeze On Ex-President Yanukovych, 11 Other Ukrainians RFE/RL 04 Mar 2019 -- The European Union has extended asset freezes on former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and 11 other Ukrainians suspected of embezzling state funds.
- Poroshenko Fires Close Ally Amid Smuggling Scandal RFE/RL 04 Mar 2019 -- Ukraine's president has fired his close ally Oleh Hladkovskyy from the post of the first deputy chairman of the National Security and Defense Council amid allegations that Hladkovskyy's son was involved in smuggling spare parts of military equipment from Russia.
- Ukraine Elections Mark Another Stage in Break From Russia VOA 04 Mar 2019 -- The Kremlin had hoped that by fomenting a separatist insurgency in east Ukraine's Donbas region, Ukraine could be snapped back into the Russian orbit, but the strategy appears to have backfired, say analysts.
- Text of a Notice on the Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Ukraine The White House 04 Mar 2019
- Text of a Letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate The White House 04 Mar 2019
- Detained Ukrainian Church Archbishop Released In Crimea, Lawyer Says RFE/RL 03 Mar 2019 -- Authorities in the Russia-annexed Crimean Peninsula have released the head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in the region after briefly detaining him, a Russian lawyer says.
- Rogues' Gallery: Whatever Happened To The First Separatist Leaders In Ukraine? RFE/RL 03 Mar 2019 -- In 2014, Russia-backed separatists made their grab for power in Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula as well as the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, sparking a conflict in the southeast of the country that has left some 13,000 dead, 30,000 wounded, and more than 1 million displaced.
- Investigation Finds Suspicious Donations In Tymoshenko's Presidential Campaign RFE/RL 01 Mar 2019 -- The presidential campaign of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has registered numerous suspicious donations, repeating a pattern that journalists uncovered in her Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party's accounts in 2016.
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