MILNEWS.ca #UKR Update as of 172030UTC December 2019

• “Defense Departments of Ukraine and Canada specify main directions of bilateral cooperation development” (UKR MoD, in Ukrainian)
• “The Armed Forces of Ukraine and Canada are not just partners but allies — This was emphasized by Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Lieutenant General Sergey Nayev during a working meeting with the Canadian delegation led by Deputy Minister of National Defense of Canada Peter Hammerschmidt, held at the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine today, December 17 …” (UKR MoD, in Ukrainian)

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• “OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 298/2019 issued on 17 December 2019”
• JFO: МAP – 17.12.2019 (UKR NSDC)
• “Summary as of 07:00 December 17, 2019” (UKR MoD, in Ukrainian)
• “Joint Forces Press Center Evening Briefing 12/17/2019” (UKR MoD, in Ukrainian)
• “Weekly Update from the OSCE Observer Mission at Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk based on information as of 17 December 2019”

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• “One Ukrainian soldier wounded amid five enemy attacks on Dec 16” (UKR media)
• “Kiev forces violate ceasefire once over 24 hours” (pro-RUS rebel info-machine)
• “Day in Donbas, militants twice violated ceasefire” (UKR media)
• “Five attacks against JFO positions yesterday: Ukrainian soldier wounded” (UKR media)

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• “ATO participants may be involved in territorial defense forces – SBU chief — One of the options for the reintegration of people who have gone through the ATO (Ant-Terrorist Operation) into society may be attracting them into the forces of territorial defense, head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Ivan Bakanov said …” (UKR media)

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• “OSCE SMM spots 22 Grad MLR systems in occupied Donbas” (UKR media)
• “Donbas war took 14,000 lives and forced relocation of 1,5 million people, – Ukraine’s MFA” (UKR media)
• “Russia secretly deploys convoy of military hardware to occupied Donbas – Ukraine intel” (UKR media)

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• “Ukraine bans Russian (Defence Ministry) Zvezda TV channel’s correspondents from entering Ukraine for three years” (UKR media)
• “The crew of the Russian television channel Zvezda was banned from entering Ukraine for three years, they have already left the country – SBU” (UKR media, in Ukrainian)
• “Kremlin expects Kiev to change its policy towards Russian media” (RUS state media)

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• “Two Ukrainian Police Hospitalized After Clashes With Protesters Near Parliament” (USA govt funded media)
• “At least three actions held simultaneously in the center of Kyiv. What are protesters standing against?” (pro-UKR media)
• “Clashes outside Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Nationalists poured green on the police, which used tear gas in response” (proUKR media)
• “Two police officers hospitalized amid clashes near Ukraine’s parliament” (UKR media)
• “Clashes near Ukrainian parliament: 17 police officers suffered, 26 people detained” (UKR media)

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• “Team Zelensky explain, which participants of Donbas events not to be pardoned …” (UKR media)

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• “LPR borderline to follow boundary of former Lugansk region – Pasechnik” (pro-RUS rebel info-machine)
• “Pasechnik passes draft law on state border to parliament” (pro-RUS rebel info-machine)
• “The LNR National Assembly will adopt the law on the state border in the near future – L. Pasechnik” (pro-RUS rebel media, in Russian)
• “Donbass to keep integrating with Russia without regard to Zelensky, West – Pasechnik” (pro-RUS rebel info-machine)
• “DPR to continue to integrate with Russia regardless of Kiev’s opinion – Pushilin” (pro-RUS rebel info-machine)
• “Donetsk People’s Republic will carry on integration with Russia — leader” (RUS state media)
• “Ukraine recognized the fact of universal pro-Russian sentiment in the DPR” (pro-RUS rebel media, in Russian)

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• “Kiev must agree Minsk 2 issues with DPR, LPR — Donetsk People’s Republic head” (RUS state media)
• “Parliament speaker Razumkov signs bill on extension of Donbas special status” (UKR media)“
• “Questions concerning the future of Donbass should be agreed with the Republics”: Denis Pushilin and Leonid Pasechnik held a joint briefing in Donetsk” (pro-RUS rebel leader info-machine, in Russian)
• “Speech of the Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin at a joint briefing in Donetsk of the Heads of the People’s Republics of Donbass” (pro-RUS rebel leader info-machine, in Russian)
• “Speech by the Head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik, at a joint briefing in Donetsk of the Heads of the People’s Republics of Donbass” (pro-RUS rebel leader info-machine, in Russian)
• “Pushilin blames Kiev for delaying prisoner exchange” (pro-RUS rebel info-machine)
• “The draft law on amending the Constitution submitted to the Verkhovnaya Rada by Vladimir Zelensky is another substitution of the meaning and essence of the Minsk Agreements which can only distance Kiev from achieving peace in Donbass …” (pro_RUS rebel info-machine)
• “Pasechnik calls for equal rights of Ukraine, Donbass in intl arena” (pro-RUS rebel info-machine)
• “Pasechnik calls upon West to press Kiev into restoring Donbass residents’ rights” (pro-RUS rebel info-machine)
• “Donetsk accuses Kiev of new attempt to distort Paris summit communique” (pro-RUS rebel info-machine)
• “Ukraine wants to falsify the implementation of the Minsk agreements” (pro-RUS site)

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• “Russia expands sanctions against Ukraine” (UKR media)
• “Russia has expanded sanctions against Ukraine” (pro-RUS rebel media, in Russian)
• “Russia expanded sanctions against Ukraine. List includes goods and individuals” (pro-UKR media)
• “Ukraine’s Cabinet plans to expand sanctions against Russian companies” (UKR media)
• “Russia expands list of sanctioned Ukrainians” (RUS state media)

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