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January 8 – Eleventh "humanitarian aid convoy" has the border with Ukraine from Russia avoiding proper control, – informed NSDC spokesman Andriy Lysenko. They are again transporting weapons to Ukraine and dead bodies to Russia.

January 8 – Up to 7.5 thousand Russian soldiers are located in Donbas at any given moment; they are constantly rotated, – said Ukraine's Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak.

January 8 – The Head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov believes that Mikhail Khodorkovsky (who is Jewish and a Russian opposition member) has declared himself to be an "enemy of all Muslims of the world" and his personal enemy.

January 8 – Donetsk airport and its surroundings were the sites of the most intense fighting within ATO area, – informs ATO press center. The militants opened fire 16 times and shelled Ukrainian positions using mortars and artillery, including "Grad" rocket launchers.

January 8 – Former leader of Donetsk militants Igor Strielkov (Hirkin) has urged Russia not to "bury its head in the sand" and recognize that it is at war with Ukraine.

January 8 – A special monitoring mission of OSCE in a report, published on the evening of January 6 notes the deterioration of the situation in Donbas. According to the information provided by OSCE, during the 24-hour period from January 4 to January 5, there were recoded 69 violations of the cease fire regime. 32 of these were observed to be from the side of the Ukrainian army, whereas 37 were from the side of the separatists. The most intensive fighting took place at Donetsk Airport, at the southern entrance to the village of Pisky and in the village itself. Also shots happened in the region of the residential areas of Nikishyn, Chornukhyne and Debaltse – in the villages of Ridkodub, Kam'ianka, and Horodyshche.

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January 11 – 1 Ukrainian military was killed near the village of Ozeryanivka, 8 were wounded by the Russian terrorists as a result of hostilities in the last 24 hours in the ATO area, – informed NSDC spokesman Andriy Lysenko.

January 11 – 6 wounded Ukrainian military were evacuated from Donetsk airport; ammunition and food was delivered – President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.

January 11 – President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko was invited to participate in the Munich Security Conference, – said the Chairman of the event Wolfgang Ischinger. Two themes will dominate the discussions: Ukrainian crisis and the rise of Islamic extremism. Entire second day of the event will be dedicated to Ukrainian.

January 11 – 175 Ukrainians of Polish origin have been evacuated from the ATO area, – informed Ukraine's Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin. They will spend the following months in Poland.

January 11 – French President Francois Hollande, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel held a brief meeting in Paris before the March of Unity. According to the press service of the French President, politicians discussed current situation in Ukraine.

January 11 – "Today in France, the March of Unity has united all civilized world countries. Ukraine, as no other country understands the pain of France" – President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. He participated in the March of Unity in Paris.

January 11 – 62 times Russian terrorists fired at the positions of Ukrainian troops, – informs ATO press center. For several days in a row, the terrorists have been firing from heavy weapons – tanks, artillery, including "Grad" multiple rocket launchers. Donetsk Airport remains the epicenter of fighting.

January 11 – All who attempt to use money which was stolen by fighters inoccuppied Donbas from the banks which have been captured, will be apprehended as commiters of robbery – stated RNBO Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov. According to him, bank institutions which could not manage to move out of the occuppied territory the full amount of cash held there, ruined them by a special paint which cannot be cleaned off. "Regardless of this, the terrorists started to use the stolen tinted money for their own purposes as well as to settle their accounts with the residents. Stealing and using the stolen as one's own property is a typical method of acting among the Russian terrorist groups, added Turchynov. "We warn the inhabitants, that no Ukrainian bank institution will accept tinted stolen money. All who will try to use this money, stolen by the terrorists, will be apprehended and detained as participants of the crime of robbery,"stated RNBO Secretary.

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January 28 – 3 Ukrainian military were killed and 15 injured in the ATO area in the last 24 hours, – informed NSDC spokesman Andriy Lysenko.

January 28 – The terrorists and Russian Armed Forces have been accumulating forces at Debaltsevo foothold – currently there are approximately 2500 people with military equipment, whereas militants in Horlivka have been instructed to prepare for defense actions.

January 28 – Approximately 40 judges of various courts have refused to endure civil servant screening, – stated Ukrainian Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko: "There are about 40 judges of various courts, whom we are prepared to dismiss, because they refused to go through the screening and provide information about themselves".

January 28 – All international "platforms" continue to discuss the shelling of Mariupol (e.g. UN Security Council, Permanent Council of the OSCE, the Council of Europe, extraordinary meeting of the EU foreign ministers (to be held on January 29th). "We have provided evidence of who committed this act of terrorism. It is beyond the scope of terrorism definition. It is a crime against humanity. We have started to work on getting those who committed this crime to where they belong – namely The Hague, International criminal Court", – said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin. "We will not repeat mistakes made by our friends and partners, especially Georgia, by immediately presenting its case to the International Court of Justice, and it was rejected on formal grounds", – assured the Minister.

January 28 – Russia forced an arrested resident of the Crimea out of his Ukrainian citizenship. Simferepol court refused Oleksandr Kolchenko his request to keep the citizenship of Ukraine.

January 28 – When the residents of Zholobok village, which is occupied by Russian soldiers and militants, were being evacuated, one of the cars detonated near Ukrainian checkpoint. People who were in the car, where the bomb was planted, are currently at the hospital of Lysychansk.

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January 10 – 2 Ukrainian military were killed and 20 wounded in the last 24 hours in the ATO area, – informed NSDC spokesman Andriy Lysenko.

January 10 – Russian terrorists continue to use heavy weapons, and have once fired from "Grad" multiple rocket launcher, – stated NSDC spokesman Andriy Lysenko. According to him, such aggressive actions coincide with recent arrival of goods from 11th Russian "humanitarian aid convoy" at temporarily occupied areas.

January 10 – Canadian ship MSC Eloise carrying humanitarian aid for Ukrainian army has docked in the port of Odesa.

January 10 – In Luhansk region Russian terrorists have kidnaped an Israeli citizen. Sievierodonetsk City Militia Department has received a request (by post) from the Embassy of Israel to assist in tracing and locating a citizen of Israel David Horovaty, who was falsely imprisoned in Ukraine and transported to the city of Perevalsk against his will (the city is controlled by the terrorists) – statement by the Ministry of Interior.

January 10 – In the Donetsk region close to the town of Dokuchaevsk, ATO forces disabled two tanks of the militants, – informs ATO staff.

January 10 – Ukrainian Competition Commission has allowed foreigners to apply for the position of the Head of National Anti-Corruption Bureau.

January 10 – German Chancellor Angela Merkel has stressed the unlawfulness of violating international borders and called for unity of Europe due to a possible threat to its security: "If again we witness such a violation, similar to what Russia has done in Ukraine, we must resist it".

January 10 – Having started at 7 am, illegal armed groups have 34 times opened fire on positions of Ukrainian troops, using mostly heavy weapons – tanks, artillery, including "Grad" multiple rocket launcher, – ATO press center.

January 10 – The Boeing passanger plane of Malaysian Airlines, was shot down by pro-Russian fighters in summer 2014; the shot which led to the catastrophe was fired by a zenith-rocket complex of BUK M1, which was brought from Russian Kursk. This is verified by the results of the investigation carried out by the organization of journalistic investigations CORRECT! V.

According to the data of the journalists, the position from which the Boeing was being fired upon, was delivered by the members of the 53rd zenith-rocket brigade, with the goal of providing protection to the Russian tank divisions, who were fighting on Ukrainian territory without their codes of identification.

The data of the British reconnaissance team Bellingcat.com indicate that on the day of of the Boeing catastrophe – July 17th – the artillery BUK traveled on the Donetsk Route No. 21, leaving Donetsk around 11 in the morning: "It is being transported on a tractor platform with a white cabin – it was reported in the investigation. The Bellingcat reserchers reached the conclusion that the самохідна self-propelling fire addition with the identification numbers 3 * 2, photographed in June amid the armed convoy, heading from Kursk in the direction of the Ukrainian border, was the same BUK which was photographed by Paris Match in Eastern Ukraine.

The photographer of the French magazine Paris Match took pictures of the moving automobile. He was close and caught the side part of the BUK – its identification number and other identity signs carelessly painted over. On the truck platform company with the BUK, there was a telephone number. It belongs to a company in Donetsk which leases automobiles. The owner of the company later informed that his machine was stolen in June by pro-Russian separatists," – it was reported in the investigation.

In answer to the question of who could have launched the rocket of BUK, all the experts, including among them former soldiers of the 53-rd brigade PPO in Kursk, agree that the seperatists were not able to use the BUK. "There is no doubt that the order to shoot at MN 17 was given by a Russian officer," summarize the authors of the investigation.

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