During the shooting on February 20 on Instytutska Street in Kyiv, aimed fire came from the building of the National Bank of Ukraine, said Acting General Prosecutor of Ukraine Oleh Makhnitskiy.
“Now we can say that from the National Bank building, a sniper fired rifle shots. Corresponding traces were found there, as well as the barrels of a sniper rifle… This story has been investigated and it is really confirmed.”
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Friday, March 7, 2014, 08:21
On Thursday, the EU has published the list of Ukrainian officials against whom sanctions were applied and accounts of which are now frozen in banks of Europe. Europe is freezing the accounts of ex-president Viktor Yanukovych, his sons Olexandr and Victor, as well as heads of security agencies, the Cabinet of Ministers and the Presidential Administration.
The reason for the inclusion of all of these former officials to the list is that they are already defendants in the case of embezzling funds from the Ukrainian budget and withdrawing it from the country. Full list of people of Yanukovych’s regime that came under EU sanctions include:
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Friday, March 7, 2014, 08:18
The Ministry of Health reports that the number of dead in the clashes in the center of Kyiv has reached one hundred people from November 30, 2013. These are figures given by the Ministry led by former Maidan doctor Oleh Musiy as of 6 a.m. March 6, 2014.
The Ministry of Health reports a person who had been treated in Kyiv municipal clinical hospital №12 since February 28 died on March 5. The ministry doesn’t specify at this moment the number of dead from the protesters’ side and the number of dead from the law enforcement forces’ side.
Starting from 10 a.m. on February 18, 1075 people sought medical assistance from the First Aid teams and hospitals with emergency rooms in Kyiv; 698 have been hospitalized. In particular, as of 6 a.m. March 6, 36 persons had sought medical assistance from the First Aid teams; 22 have been…
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Friday, March 7, 2014, 08:25
The mission of OSCE military observers is already at the entrance to Crimea, but so far they and cannot get to the peninsula. Interfax-Ukraine reports that this was announced by the Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affair’s information department, Yevhen Perebyinis.
“They are now at the entrance to the Crimea; they were stopped by men in uniform. Now they are negotiating,” he said. Previously, the OSCE said they would send observers to the Crimean referendum if Ukraine requests.
It was reported that the OSCE verification mission will be present in Ukraine from March 5 to 12; it consists of 40 observers from 21 OSCE countries. According to the program for their trip, the mission will visit the military facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Black Sea Fleet in Crimea.
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von Boris Reitschuster, 06.03.2014
Kreml-Kritiker Garri Kasparow fordert gezielte Sanktionen gegen die Männer im Umfeld von Präsident Putin. Der frühere Schach-Weltmeister hält dem Westen Naivität, Feigheit und Wortbruch vor.
Kasparow, Esther Dyson, flickr, cc lizenz
Der Ex-Schachweltmeister Garri Kasparow ist einer der schärfsten Kritiker von Russlands Präsident Wladimir Putin und Mitbegründer der Oppositionsbewegung „Solidarnost“. Der 50-Jährige ist einer der prominentesten Russen, lebt nach Übergriffen und einer kurzen Inhaftierung 2007 aber im Ausland. Vor wenigen Tagen wurde bekannt, dass Kasparow die kroatische Staatsbürgerschaft erhalten hat.
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