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  Sloviansk - ours: Ukrainian flag raised over city council building

  The national flag of Ukraine was raised over the city council in Sloviansk after it was liberated from terrorists on Saturday.

   
  15:23, 05.07.2014

• Poroshenko extends condolences over death of Metropolitan Volodymyr

  KYIV, July 5 /Ukrinform/. President Petro Poroshenko delivered his condolences over the death of the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine Volodymyr, the president's press office reported on Saturday.  

  14:35, 05.07.2014

• Militants' convoy enters Donetsk, witnesses say

  KYIV, July 5 /Ukrinform/. An advanced column of terrorists entered Donetsk with several KamAZ trucks and one armored combat vehicle, locals residing in Kyiv district of Donetsk said, according to the website 62.ua.  

  14:26, 05.07.2014

• Refugees shot down by militants near Sloviansk, media reports say

  KYIV, July 5 /Ukrinform/. Terrorists attacked the Yunist recreation center in the village of Shchurov not far from Sloviansk with several families of refugees. There are victims among them, the Novosti Donbassa online edition reported Saturday.  

  13:50, 05.07.2014

• Yatseniuk: Ukrainians lost wise conductor

  KYIV, July 5 /Ukrinform/. Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk expressed condolences over the death of Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine Volodymyr, the Governmental portal reported.  

  13:31, 05.07.2014
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  Terrorists attack border checkpoint on Azov Sea coast

  Last night terrorists attacked a technical surveillance border checkpoint in Novoazovsk district, Donetsk region. During an hour they fired at border guards with mortars and small arms, the State Border Guard Service said in a statement on Saturday.

   
  13:02, 05.07.2014

• Turchynov condoles over death of Metropolitan Volodymyr

  KYIV, July 5 /Ukrinform/. Verkhovna Rada Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov delivered condolences over the death of the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), Metropolitan Volodymyr, the parliament's press office said in a statement on Saturday.  

  12:35, 05.07.2014

• Militants, criminals heading for Donetsk, Tymchuk says

  KYIV, July 5 /Ukrinform/. Terrorists who fled from Sloviansk to Kramatorsk together with local criminals are preparing to further breakthrough to Donetsk, head of the Center for Military-Political Studies Dmytro Tymchuk wrote on his Facebook page.  

  12:16, 05.07.2014
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  Poroshenko orders to raise Ukrainian flag in Sloviansk

  President Petro Poroshenko ordered Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Viktor Muzhenko to raise a national flag over Sloviansk City Council, the press office of the head of state reported Saturday.

   
  12:00, 05.07.2014
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  Metropolitan Volodymyr dies

  Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine Volodymyr died on Saturday morning, his spokesman Oleksandr Drabynko wrote on his Facebook page.

   
  11:39, 05.07.2014

• Klitschko against gay parade in Kyiv

  KYIV, July 4 /Ukrinform/. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko calls on not to hold a gay pride parade that representatives of non-traditional sexual orientation planned to organize in the capital on Saturday.  

  17:10, 04.07.2014
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  Russia prepares plan of intrusion into Ukraine, sources say

  Russia has developed a plan of intrusion of "peacekeeping forces" into eastern Ukraine. Negotiations are underway on the date of bringing the "peacekeepers" into Ukraine, the bulk of them will consist of Russian troops, a Ukrinform reporter in Moscow learned from a source with the Russian Foreign Ministry.

   
  16:46, 04.07.2014

• Sloviansk, Kramatorsk preparing for evacuation

  KYIV, July 4 /Ukrinform/. The headquarters on the temporary evacuation of displaced persons is planning to organize next week the mass transportation of civilian population from Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, as well as other towns in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.  

  16:35, 04.07.2014
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  EU could introduce new sanctions against Russia on July 16 - Hague

  British Foreign Secretary William Hague has said in a telephone conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart Pavlo Klimkin that the European Union is ready to impose additional sanctions on Russia.

   
  15:56, 04.07.2014

• Sales of new passenger cars nearly halve in six months

  KYIV, July 4 /Ukrinform/. Sales of new passenger cars on Ukraine's domestic market in January through June 2014 shrank by 45% year-on-year, to 57,791, the press service of the Ukrautoprom Ukrainian Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association has reported.  

  15:41, 04.07.2014
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  ICAO says Crimea part of Ukraine - State Aviation Administration

  The position of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) over the belonging of the airspace over the Autonomous Republic of Crimea has remained unchanged: it is controlled by Ukraine.

   
  15:41, 04.07.2014
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  Nine Ukrainian servicemen killed on Friday

  The anti-terrorist operation (ATO) forces have lost nine Ukrainian servicemen as of 14.00 on Friday, and 13 more have been wounded, the ATO press center has reported on its Facebook page.

   
  15:29, 04.07.2014

• Russia preparing for new provocations in Ukraine this autumn - Parubiy

  KYIV, July 4 /Ukrinform/. Russia is planning to make a new attempt to destabilize the situation in Ukraine in September and October.  

  15:17, 04.07.2014
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  Russia threatens Ukraine with direct military aggression - NSDC

  A propaganda campaign on bringing so-called Russian "peacekeepers" to Ukraine, which has recently intensified, can only be regarded as a threat of direct military aggression, Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council (NSDC) Andriy Parubiy told reporters in Kyiv on Friday.

   
  14:52, 04.07.2014

• NBU predicts Ukraine's economic growth next year

  KYIV, July 4 /Ukrinform/. The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) predicts GDP growth in Ukraine next year by 1-2%.  

  14:21, 04.07.2014