Azeri News Agency
August 20, 2014
Ukrainian MP calls on West to provide military aid to Ukraine
Zumrud Pashayeva
Baku: “This is dangerous not only for Ukraine. it’s a threat to Europe and a new war against NATO”.
Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Alexander Turchynov said this while commenting on the Ukrainian crisis during his meeting with President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė, APA reports quoting ITAR TASS.
Alexander Turchynov called on the West to provide military aid to Ukraine: “We’re in need of modern weapons, aircrafts, and air defense systems”.
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Interfax-Ukraine
August 20, 2014
Over 2,700 policemen dismissed in Donetsk, Luhansk regions – ministry
A total of 2,717 police officers have been dismissed in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and this process will continue, Anton Heraschenko, an advisor to the Ukrainian interior minister, has said.
“In all, 2,717 people have been removed from the police ranks. This is far from being all, this is just the beginning,” Heraschenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday.
In both regions, 1,490 policemen did not fight terrorism and refused to obey orders to redeploy to other cities and continue the fight, he said. Yet another 1,227 officers have quit of their own free will. The two regions have 23,026 police personnel in total.
Also, 40 criminal inquiries have been launched against police staff in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, according to the Interior Ministry.
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