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Dmitry Kiselev: Our relations with the United States are really “hell”. Personally, I don’t recall them being at such a low ebb ever before. This is even worse than the Cold War times, in my opinion. Ambassadors have returned back to their home countries. What’s going to happen next? What is the possible scenario?
Sergey Lavrov: If it depended on us alone, we would gladly resume normal relations. The first possible step towards this, which I regard as obvious, is to zero out the measures restricting the work of Russian diplomats in the United States. It was as a response measure that we restricted the operations of American diplomats in Russia.
Residents of Ukrainian settlements on the conflict line report no widespread sense of panic amidst the Russian military buildup and local escalation of hostilities.
Recent weeks have seen huge numbers of Russian troops close to the border and in Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.
On April 22, Moscow announced it would begin withdrawing its soldiers, but numerous forces and military equipment remains in place.
Sergiy Shapkin, the head of the frontline settlement of Pavlopil near the port city of Mariupol, said that villagers had frequently heard heavy weapons fire in recent weeks.
Ukrainian units are stationed in Pavlopil, as well as one of the four frontline checkpoints in the Donetsk region. But Shapkin said it had been quiet in the village itself since a local ceasefire was agreed in the summer of 2017.
Words can describe actions, they can indicate future actions or they can just be words. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba recently responded to - Rick Rozoff for Antiwar.com Original
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Kiev tries to replace permanent ceasefire in Donbass with provisional truces - DPR
Natalia Nikanorova recalled that the coordination mechanism was part of the additional measures to control the ceasefire dated July 22, 2020, but the operation of such a mechanism has been blocked by the Ukrainian side since last autumn
DONETSK, April 29. /TASS/. The representatives of Kiev in the Contact Group on the settlement in eastern Ukraine are stubbornly trying to replace the fulfillment of obligations to comply with a permanent ceasefire in Donbass with provisional truces, Natalia Nikonorova, the envoy of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and the DPR foreign minister said on Wednesday following the meeting of the Contact Group.