2017

The House of Representatives of the US Congress approved a draft law on the "US budget for 2018 for national defense needs," approving the allocation of $350 million to help Ukraine allegedly in the security sphere.

The position of the Russian Federation, as the position of the Republics, on the introduction of the United Nations forces in Donbass remains unchanged and this position is reflected in the resolution of Russia.

The Chief of the Pentagon James Mattis believes that the United Nations granted the United States a permission to conduct warfare in the Syrian territory. "The United Nations stated that we could, in principle, prosecute the “Islamic State” (an organization banned in the DPR – Ed.). And we are there to destroy them," the Minister of Defense of the United States demonstrated his legal literacy.

Chairman of the DPR People's Council, Permanent Representative of the DPR to the talks of the Contact Group in Minsk Denis Pushilin in the programme "Time will show" on the Russian First Channel commented on the Wall Street Journal's information about the plans of the US government to introduce a UN peacekeeping mission to the Donbass.

The Head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory Vladimir Vyatrovich proposed to make changes to the public holidays calendar. March 8 may become a day of struggle for women's rights without the status of holiday. Even more significant changes may affect the celebration of Victory Day – the holiday is planned to be moved from the 9th of May to the 8th, and its name will have a very different meaning.

Despite the fact that the heating season has begun not in all the cities of Ukraine, for example in the city of Slavutich, where there was a dilemma: either to pay wages to public sector workers or to start the heating season, and despite student protests in Dnepropetrovsk, where the heating season has not yet started,

Residents of Mariupol on the Day of Ukrainian writing and language, which was celebrated on November 9 in Ukraine, expressed their attitude to the language mainly in Russian. At this time, Poroshenko was glorifying the 'thousand-year' history of the country, during which the Ukrainian language was being allegedly tempered.

The number of peacekeepers proposed by the United States of America for deployment in Donbass exceeds reasonable necessity and such numbers may prevent the OSCE observers from carrying out their duties. It was reported by the permanent plenipotentiary representative of the DPR in the Contact group at negotiations in Minsk Denis Pushilin to RIA Novosti.

On November 9, at the training ground, in the village of Nizhnaya Krynka in Makeyevka, fighters of the special purpose unit of the Transport Ministry "Vityaz" passed the standards for the right to wear a blue beret. The event dedicated to the 2nd anniversary of the formation of the unit was visited by the Head of the Donetsk People's Republic Alexander Zakharchenko, deputies of the DPR People's Council,

Those in power in Ukraine do not hide their intentions towards the forcible occupation of Donbass. The founder of the National Guard of Ukraine “Azov” (an organization banned in the DPR – Ed.), the Verkhovna Rada deputy Andrey Biletsky stated that airstrikes would be needed to occupy Donbass.