Savchenko claims she was kidnapped from Ukraine and brought to Russian Federation.
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“Ukrzaliznytsya is not handling cargo and (rail) cars operated by Russia’s freight railway operator Freight One or its daughter company”, Ukrzaliznytsya said in a statement.
The Ukrainian leader said that Russian Federation abused its position by using its veto to block a resolution on what he described as the “fake referendum” of residents of Crimea which Moscow used to justify the forceful annexation of the territory from Ukraine.
The measure is in response to a decision by the Ukrainian authorities last week that banned the Russian companies Aeroflot and Transaero from flying into the country, also from October 25.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko pulled no punches against Russian President Vladimir Putin in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
“Ukraine stands for the gradual limitation of [its] veto right with its further cancellation,” he said in English.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine (TCG), comprised of the representatives of the Ukrainian government, Russia, and pro-Russia forces in Ukraine’s east reached the agreement under the auspices of the OSCE in the Belarusian capital, Minsk.
What’s happening in Eastern Ukraine now.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko paints the conflict – a brutal battle that has killed almost 8,000 and devastated the strategic rust belt – as Russia’s retribution for the February 2014 ouster of Kiev’s Moscow-backed leadership.
“The external aggression has led to the emergence of the new form of poverty – sudden and unexpected poverty that affects one and a half million of the internally displaced persons”.
Troops captured the two men, both of whom were wounded, in May and interrogated them, broadcasting their alleged confessions in which they said they were active members of a Russian military intelligence unit operating in Ukraine.
“I am a prisoner of war and a hostage who has been abducted”, Savchenko told the court in a dramatic speech, saying separatist rebels captured her in eastern Ukraine and told her they would “sell” her to Russian Federation.
“These days the Russian “men in green” tread on Syrian land”, Poroshenko said.
“I joined the party to have a few of the tools, a few of the power of the ruling party to advance my views,” he said. “How can you urge an anti-terrorist coalition when you inspire terrorism right out your own door?”
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Popular Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and activist Oleksandr Kolchenko are also being held on terrorism-related charges that the U.S. State Department denounced as “a clear miscarriage of justice”. “How can you speak of freedom of nations if you punish your neighbour for this choice?”
