An act of international terrorism: Ukraine reacted harshly to the hostage-taking of OSCE Special Monitoring Mission members / On Monday, October 18, Ukraine’s delegate to the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) on Donbas Settlement, Serhiy Harmash reported that in Horlivka, the town in the area beyond Ukrainian government control, members of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission are being held in a hotel against their will.
Ukrainian court orders Kremlin ally Viktor Medvedchuk to remain under house arrest / On Tuesday, October 12, a Ukrainian court ordered pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk — an MP of the Opposition Platform — For Life party — to remain under house arrest until December, as the prosecution has widened its investigation into his activities and accused the MP of financing separatists in the Donbas, Reuters reports.
Medvedchuk was handed an arrest warrant with alternative of a UAH 1 bln bail / On Monday, October 11, Kremlin-friendly MP Viktor Medvedchuk was handed an arrest warrant with an alternative to post a bail of UAH 1 billion.
Dutch law enforcement arrest politician over suspected plot to murder the Prime Minister / Dutch police have arrested a politician, Mr van Doorn, the leader of The Hague Unity Party, on suspicion of involvement in a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
Bundestag elections: how the seats in the German parliament were distributed / The Bundestag elections vote count showed that there are 735 deputies to sit in Parliament, against the 709 of the last legislature.
Election to the 20th German Bundestag on 26 September 2021: exit polls results / Germany's left-leaning Social Democratic Party (SPD) has won the most seats in the country's federal election, preliminary results show, but it will be some time before the makeup of the new government is known.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy took part in the opening of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly / President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy took part in the opening of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
A Ukrainian couple in Belgium faces life in prison for attempting to return their kidnapped child back home / A Ukrainian couple was arrested by Belgian authorities when they attempted to return their son, who was kidnapped by a biological French father in 2019, back home.
The worst case scenario: Zelensky did not rule out full-scale military aggression in the Donbas / President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that he would like to hold a substantive summit of the leaders of the countries participating in the Normandy format, which would end with concrete results and bring an end to the war in the Donbas and the de-occupation of Ukrainian territories as close as possible.
Last night, the occupiers have violated the ceasefire seven times / Over the past 24 hours, on September 6, seven ceasefire violations by the occupiers were recorded in Donbas.
