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Ukraine opens criminal probe of top Russian officials

“The General Prosecutor Office of Ukraine suspects 39 citizens of Russian Federation of committing particularly serious crimes against the national security of Ukraine and public safety, peace and the worldwide rule of law”.

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Since Russia’s annexation of the peninsula, Erdogan, who backed Ukraine in the conflict, had frequently denounced the persecution of the Tatar minority by local authorities.

He added that among suspects are advisor of the Russian President, former representative of the President in Crimean Federal District, Russian Defense Minister and two of his deputies as well as ten high-ranking generals. In 2015, the fighting was reduced by peace accords signed in Minsk, Belarus.

French President Francois Hollande has expressed hope for holding another Normandy Four format meeting on settling the Ukrainian conflict to Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the French presidency said Tuesday.

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“We are concerned about the level of violence escalated in eastern Ukraine”, said the Pentagon spokesman, Jeff Davis. Tensions have spiked after Russian Federation said that it had busted a group of Ukrainian saboteurs in Crimea, a claim Ukraine has denied. 31 of them are members of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. On Friday, one day after staging war games there, President Putin flew into Crimea and voiced his hope that Ukraine would use “common sense” in resolving the diplomatic crisis.

Promised prosperity never arrived in Russian-held Crimea, say locals