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"At the moment we've got 60 wars ongoing in the world, 60 – and none in Europe if I disregard Ukraine, which is not 'European' in the sense of the European Union. I saw that my friend [Ukrainian President] Mr. Poroshenko a few days ago did say: 'Here is Ukraine, it is the European Union, and it is NATO. But for the moment it is neither one nor the other. And I think we do need to bear that in mind," Juncker said at a conference of the EU ambassadors in Brussels on Tuesday, August 29.

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Russia Props Up Ukraine Rebels With Coal Sales From War Zone

By Stepan Kravchenko and Anna Andrianova
29. septembar 2017. 04:00 CEST 29. septembar 2017. 12:55 CEST

Rebels send nearly 1 million tons per month, Nazarov says

Russia is helping Ukrainian rebels sell coal on international markets to raise much-needed cash for pensions and social needs, evading a blockade imposed by the government in Kiev as efforts to implement a peace deal remain stalled.
The separatists are sending nearly 1 million tons of coal per month to Russia across their shared border as of August, boosting income to support the 4 million inhabitants of the breakaway eastern Ukrainian regions, Russian Deputy Economy Minister Sergei Nazarov said. Russia re-exports the coal to third countries via its sea ports, he said in an interview, confirming Ukrainian accusations that it’s fostering trade links for the rebels.

Coal Deliveries

The blockade of rebel areas, started by veterans of the fighting and formalized by Poroshenko in March, has dented Ukraine’s fragile economic recovery and disrupted coal deliveries for power and heat generation. The separatists retaliated by taking over 40 Ukrainian companies in the region, including billionaire Rinat Akhmetov’s steel-making and electricity assets. 
From his office inside a beige-tiled tower opposite Moscow’s zoo, Nazarov, a former coal company director, heads Russia’s commission for humanitarian assistance to the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics in eastern Ukraine. The rebels who once depended entirely on aid from Moscow for survival now earn enough from coal sales and local taxation to pay out 5 billion rubles ($86 million) from the budget each month to residents in the region, he said.

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When we spoke, Volker had just returned the previous week from a face-to-face meeting in Belgrade with a top Putin adviser, Vladislav Surkov. The session was their third, but Volker was blunt about what it accomplished: nothing. The talks, he said, were a “step back,” with Surkov reverting to Russia’s initial proposal in September to deploy United Nations peacekeepers in eastern Ukraine along the line currently separating Ukrainian government forces and the Russia-backed separatists. Surkov told reporters after the meeting that Volker had presented 29 separate paragraphs to the Russians and that Surkov had agreed with just three of them.
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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/27/trumps-russian-schizophrenia-215869

Ukraine's general prosecutor said on Tuesday afternoon that Saakashvili’s activities in the country were funded by an ally of the deposed president Viktor Yanukovych, currently in exile in Russia.

Saakashvili dismissed this as nonsense: “There is no greater enemy of Putin in the post-Soviet space than Mikheil Saakashvili,” he said, insisting it was Poroshenko who was acting to benefit the Russian president.